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by rdancer 11y ago
Heathen!
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by rdancer 11y ago
Fuck off already, fearmongers!
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by rdancer 11y ago
Think it through to the logical conclusion: What is a political party? How did it come to be what it is now? What happens when a political party loses popular support?
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by rdancer 11y ago
Brown people, yes.
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by rdancer 11y ago
This is misleading. The first insulin patent was filed in 1912, and has long since entered the public domain. The drug has been vastly improved over the years, but only the newest version is still patent-protected. The reason why there are
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by rdancer 11y ago
Welcome to Android, hope you'll enjoy the stay.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Two-party systems are the inevitable product of a First-Past-The-Post voting in a democracy[1]. There would be no Democratic and Republican party under a sortition system. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
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by rdancer 11y ago
Learning a language requires a lot of tedious work. Learning a new accent can be done in an afternoon: All you have to do is: (1) learn a few new phonemes, (2) learn how they combine, (3) learn how they map to the accent you already are fam
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by rdancer 11y ago
> requires a lot of immersion and a lot of work In other words, requires one not to be lazy.
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's not that hard. If I can speak standard English (alongside my standard Czech), so can you. Take an acting class already.
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by rdancer 11y ago
> Sending unsolicited email to public addresses in order to sell something is spam. Only if it is sent in bulk.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Let me just remind you that you seem to be rationalizing your depression as coming from your professional prospects, which it is not. Because objectively, opportunity-wise, you are doing all right. You already have one degree, can go anywhe
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by rdancer 11y ago
How quaint. You grew up in the city, right?
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by rdancer 11y ago
It looks more like criminal negligence. Insurance is for things that cannot be foreseen or prevented. This looks more like a case of a missed inspection.
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by rdancer 11y ago
> freak accident No, it wasn't. What is more likely: that the tree became structurally unsound overnight, or that it had been like that for a long time, and an inspection had ever been carried out?
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by rdancer 11y ago
There's the personal aspect of education, which hopefully makes you a better person, and there's the professional aspect of education, which makes you more employable. The problem is that the two get conflated. The right to tertia
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by rdancer 11y ago
I'm talking about creating a job for yourself, i.e. becoming self-employed/starting a business with a friend, not competing with Tesla. You're a noob in your freshman year at the latest. Not after three or four years of class
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by rdancer 11y ago
The degree of concentration, and the presumed impending disappearance of social mobility in and out of the god class.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The scary thing, if you permit me to be frank, is that (1) you count the time it takes to find a job starting from the graduation, as if the years spent at college were not the ideal time to get a job lined up, and (2) that the job is somet
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by rdancer 11y ago
Guarniad is by lefties, for lefties. You are correct.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Are you the fine article's author?
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by rdancer 11y ago
If you cannot analyse the binaries, or, conversely, if the authors cannot obfuscate the source code to the point of being unintelligible, neither of you are worthy as engineers.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Judging by the stark lack of intelligence displayed by these attacks on TTP, it is probably a fine treaty.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Just to add further explanation, it's the same reason we write naïve: to hint it is to be pronounced /na-yeev/, not /neivə/.
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by rdancer 11y ago
I don't understand how you guys don't have a revolution over the manifest injustice of your "justice" system. And I don't mean riots, I mean actual change of government.
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by rdancer 11y ago
They only get fired if you find out. So the rational thing for them to do is spend part of the arbitraged amount on deceiving you. As long as they are spending less on deceiving you than the arbitraged amount, it is rational for them to do
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by rdancer 11y ago
> "thanks to .. for reading drafts of this" What's the Latin for that?
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by rdancer 11y ago
One of the aspects of socialist economies is that unlike in free-market economies, wages are not set by the market. Whether they are set by the CEO or the Central Committee is a distinction without a difference. You can swap the word "
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by rdancer 11y ago
The cost of your inputs has little to do with the price you can charge for your outputs. Those are two supply-demand curves, which have very little to do with each other. Note that there is an infinite number of business models where the in
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by rdancer 11y ago
He sold the mortgage to his company, for stock. The company takes out a mortgage, secured by the house he owns, he gets stock in return. If the company fails to pay, house gets foreclosed on, but he still keeps the stock.

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