plaidturtle

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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Yet here we are.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
"Tipping is why the most important thing in restaurant service is to be sexually attractive to your customers." This isn't true. You tip for their service not sexual attraction. It's hard to calculate the service they pr
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
From my previous conversations with Lyft drivers, if I recall correctly they get a sum weekly/biweekly and don't see who tipped. I used to live in a country where tipping wasn't a thing. But having lived in the US for a while
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
1. I don't think the drivers can see how much you tip. 2. In case of restaurants in the US, generally servers make very little without tip. When you pay you are paying the restaurant and not the person who serve you food. I know it&#x2
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
More than the typos, I was more put off by the structure and sentence flow which made me feel like it was haphazardly put together, but didn't know he is ESL. Thanks for pointing that out. My apology to the author.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
"politicizing attempts". Sexual harassment is politicizing?
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Poorly written (probably because it was written in a hurry to piggy back on Susan's article). This doesn't contribute anything new to the conversation.
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Cold Fusion Lives?(scientificamerican.com)
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Law itself has very little power without change in social norm. Look into Foucault's modern philosophy of power.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
I see this kind of reasoning frequently, but I remember reading a study that showed that most of the Trump supporters were actually not victims of job-outsourcing and had good economic standing. Not sure if it was a non-partisan, credible s
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Check out this video series by 3Blue1Brown: https://youtube.com/#/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVF...
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
I agree that talent is not be-all and end-all. I did not mean that with my comment.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
It is my fault for not being clear. I was making fun of the bumper-sticker, oversimplified statement. I have no quarrel with the idea that everyone has something unique to bring to the table. Also I was upset by the fact that it seemed to p
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
If you read my second sentence "I just wanted to make a point that such statement places all the burden on the individual, without acknolwedging the systems at play in fostering and developing talent", you would know that we hold
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
What good is talent if you can't exercise it? Also you clearly do not get the point of my rebuttal. Also why so hostile?
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Having no talent and not being worthy of being in the gene pool are not the same thing.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
You raise a good point, and CA is the reason why trading with other nations is a good idea (econ101). I should have made my point clearer. I'm not trying to take the glass is half empty positon. I wanted to point out that such statemen
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
The word used was "everyone". All I have to do is point to a bum on the street and the original statement is false. I just wanted to make a point that such statement places all the burden on the individual, without acknolwedging t
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Definitely not true. That is such a feel-good, sweeping generalization with no evidence that says nothing and helps no one.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
With friends who live close by, we don't interact online. Instead we schedule dinner or make plans for weekends. With friends who don't live nearby, I don't talk to them as often. I still have my FB account but I don't f
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
I couldn't agree more with the points you raised. Social media services have their place and they can be a valuable tool. By the way, I'd never heard of the term "self media" but I think it is perfect. I'm going to
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
early 20 something here. My friends and I went "offline" and we are much closer and happier. Social media is overrated. I think we will look back at this time in the future like how we look back at cigarette smoking in the 50s. It
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
While Android is a smartphone OS, it is questionable whether android devices are being used as smartphones by majority of the users who have android devices.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
I'm not familiar with medieval Indian philosophy but that sounds more like a set of principle derived from a religion than a philosophy, much like zen buddhism. Again, that's my observation solely based on your short description.
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
I've only taken three philosophy classes in college so I'm by no means an expert. However, the distinction I see between philosophy as a study and philosophy as a way of life is that the latter is a consumer version of the previou
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Personal anecdote: C was the first language I learned while I was in middle school. I taught myself. I admit that I have gained a deeper understanding of C after I recently took Computer Architecture class, but I don't think learning a
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
Loved the humor in the intro video :D
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
People don't necessarily have to be "on" Facebook for Facebook to collect data about their user. Many apps connect to Facebook. So they can collect data even when people are not using Facebook. The more people use Facebook co
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by plaidturtle 10y ago
As a person close to the "teen" demographic, I can tell you that teens still use Facebook. Thinking of social media as a zero sum game is a common mistake; each has its own use case. For instance, Facebook is usually used when cha