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by rabidrat 7y ago
Where do we aggregate all these places with great reputations for nice products?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Perhaps there might be a better systemic way of avoiding e.g. water damage without resorting to single-use plastics. Maybe reusable water-proof shipping containers, or requiring postal workers to remove their tear ducts.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
They didn't even give Wave 2 years??
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What 10 years of reforestation can do(bbc.com)
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Individual investors would probably not buy these. It's a lot harder to keep $100m under the proverbial mattress: not FDIC-insurable, literal cash requires guards, etc. And anything else you buy to store the value (gold for instance)
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Light and refrigeration were the earliest uses of electricity. Add simple communication (radio transmission/reception), and that's enough to keep you going for quite awhile.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I wonder if there are any quotes like this from before the Industrial Revolution.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
To be fair, that machine took N people to manufacture (along with upkeep, which I imagine that one farm person is no longer doing on the complicated farm machinery), and another M people to drill/refine/transport the fuel, fertili
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by rabidrat 7y ago
From "Debt, The First 5000 years": L. Frank Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which appeared in 1900, is widely recognized to be a parable for the Populist campaign of William Jennings Bryan, who twice ran for president on t
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Something I've been wondering about...don't jails have cameras? Like, everywhere? How is there not security cam footage of this event?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Yeah, I have 15 years of C++ experience, but not since 2012. So with C++11 and C++17 (and soon C++20) my skills have not aged well, even though I can still write C++03 just fine. It's no wonder 'senior' devs prefer to use p
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> refuse working for an employer who doesn't take sustainability seriously I hear this a lot, and I have to wonder, what's the end-game here? To boycott the business on the employment side, so that they can't do effective
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by rabidrat 7y ago
1. Stop disassociating with everyone whose opinions you disagree with. Include the "wrong and stupid" in your communities, as long as they're not toxic. 2. Learn about how people actually change their minds, instead of tryin
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by rabidrat 7y ago
How many times does your first search query result in a page you want to click on? It usually takes me a couple of tries for anything interesting I'm looking for.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
When the percentage of 'wrong or stupid' people is low enough, say below 1%, I would agree. Maybe even 10%. But the number of people who are wrong or stupid in this way is still quite high; at least 25-30% in the US, possibly mo
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by rabidrat 7y ago
What if the anxiety seems to come from a place of the entire human society being out of balance? I pretty much think if you're not feeling anxious, you're not paying attention.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Gosh, I wonder if our current civilisation has earned its enemies? I mean the internet is cool and all, but our fantastic civilisation can't manage to use it to coordinate a meaningful response to the existential crisis of our era...
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Scarecrow Video in Seattle had a huge selection, more than any other video rental place. A small, independent video store was able to compete in a local market with the giant chain, and they did pretty well for themselves. I wonder how fe
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Interestingly, I wonder how much different the results would be if it were a man making the eye contact and smiling.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I have both done this and advised other people to time their departure like this. I take a few weeks off between jobs and I only had to get screwed the one time before I learned I had to take that into account.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> You can also mark spammy incoming calls as "Spam." That way, if you ever get a call from that number again, it will come with a big red interface reminding you that you've previously pegged the number as suspicious. Spam
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I generally pick a goal for the day, and then work hard towards it. If I've done it right, I don't have the energy to start another big rock mid day. Best I can do is think about what tomorrow's big rock is going to be, and
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Agreed, calling it health 'insurance' is a horrible misnomer. But, I don't think that your solution (stipend + insurance) is good, since there are conditions that increase the frequency of 'routine' care. So, for
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Advertising is understood to be push and broadcast (or at least multicast) communication. If I initiate the communication, that is not advertising. If it is targeted to an audience of one, that is not advertising. The OP was lamenting th
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by rabidrat 7y ago
If I call up a restaurant and ask "do you have fish today" and they say "no, today we have steak" I do not consider that advertising.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Smart dealers don't "advertise". They communicate their available goods to individuals who are already looking and who pass a basic smell test. While on vacation a few years ago, I went out at night to see if I could find s
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by rabidrat 7y ago
The same is true of cocaine. Yet without advertising the people who 'need' cocaine manage to learn about it and acquire it, often at great personal cost.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
You can easily plant 1000 trees to cover some of the people who won't bother, but setting your thermostat 1000 degrees higher in the summer won't do anything more.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
And yet year after year there are 80m+ more people being added. If the rate of change of the rate is slow enough it doesn't matter that it's going down, the population is still increasing at a breathtaking pace, and we'll ha
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> ...we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won&#x2

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