rhapsodic

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by rhapsodic 8y ago
Twitter and Facebook have become the de facto public square. The barriers to competition are essentially impenetrable without some sort of government involvement. They should not be allowed to regulate speech in the public square. Perhaps t
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Aspirin Bombs Again for Primary Prevention(medpagetoday.com)
3 points by rhapsodic 8y ago|0 comments
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
Especially when they get the job done quite nicely.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> My point is that, whether you want it or not, the choices we each make have impacts of varying directness on what choices other people can make. Whether you choose to acknowledge them doesn’t change the effect they have. You also see
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> Cool, how can I afford to buy a house in an area of roughly my choice and not work horrible hours? Oh wait I can’t do both. And you’d probably say that’s my choice to forgo living in a nice house in a nice area. Uh, no, I would say t
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> The article raises good points about the need for formal societal taboos against constant work. The ideal (often violated, though) in our modern society of the "40-hour week" as a reasonable amount is one of them. Having reg
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
This article is ridiculous on a number of different levels. Its entire premise -- that everyone is working constantly -- is utter bullshit. Some are, but as I see it, that's entirely their business. This author wants to make it society
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The Chart of the Century(aei.org)
1 points by rhapsodic 8y ago|1 comments
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> but personally, I'm not a fan of the idea that I'm simply less biologically capable than men in any way. That statement speaks volumes, and probably in ways that you did not intend.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> Yes. The federal government isn't going to go after individuals for smoking pot. If you think the only possible negative consequence of that act is federal prosecution, you are astoundingly ignorant of how things work in the Uni
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> Do you think he is going to be arrested by the feds?. No. But I still think it was an egregious error in judgment. Do you disagree?
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> Nobody mentioned the whiskey they were drinking either but that doesn't make a headline. Drinking whiskey is not a federal crime. Smoking pot is. https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/federal-m
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> eh, whatever, it's legal in CA But it's a federal crime in the USA. So maybe it wasn't a smart thing for a CEO of a publicly traded company to do on camera. https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/a
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> Or they will just buy up a bunch of cheap streaming rights to low budget stuff and older movies. They will the Belgian equivalent of "Who's the boss" or something. > Course that doesn't fit the narrative of &quo
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McCarthy leads GOP charge against Silicon Valley(thehill.com)
2 points by rhapsodic 8y ago|1 comments
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>Unfortunately, an extreme fringe position from a few people with decently wide media reach can be sufficient to establish something as "offensive". Once some people have said it's offensive, people who are more concerned
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> I'm rather surprised I'm getting so much pushback on this here, of all places. I thought it would be pretty obvious to most of the English as first language population here. I suspect it's not obvious to the overwhelm
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>Just curious: what are negative connotations of "female"? I'm not a native speaker. I am, and I'm not aware of any. But if there are, they probably grew out of the weird taboos that, in some segments of English-spe
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Y Combinator to Start Doling Out $60M Next Year to Study Universal Basic Income(gizmodo.com)
4 points by rhapsodic 8y ago|2 comments
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
I suggest first, don't work for a tech company. Work in the IT department of a large (e.g. Fortune 500) established company like an insurance company, or perhaps a bank. In that environment, many tech jobs can be low-stress, even devel
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
My understanding is rudimentary compared to yours, but I learned (perhaps incorrectly) long ago that for 3/4 time (waltz time) you can count: ONE two three TWO two three ONE two three TWO two three and that indeed sounds more similar t
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>If a person has high sodium levels, they shouldn't feel attracted to salt. Some people don't listen to their bodies. Do you have a reference that supports any of this? It runs counter to all of my observations.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> “Our communications — which Reitman now claims > constituted sexual harassment — were between two > adults, a gay man and a queer woman, ..." I was under the impression that gay and queer meant basically the same
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> What I meant is that cravings for sugar and salt modulate taste covariantly. Which you seem to get. Uh, yeah, I think a five year old would get that. Things that one craves taste quite good when they finally hit one's taste buds
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>They are eating more than just salt..the fat and carbohydrates in the chips. But yes, people will eat saltier foods more often if they are lacking in salt. There is literally a craving. Well, yeah, I won't argue with that. I&#x27
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>Salt really only tastes good when you need salt. It's satiation depends on the body's current levels/needs. So people who scarf down potato chips by the bag are low on salt?
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Homeless people wearing barcodes to accept cashless payments(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by rhapsodic 8y ago|0 comments
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
And I don't think "vegan" was in common use in 1970 either.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> Oh I have no hopes for the US That sounds like a value judgement. What difference does it make?
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>Jokes aside, it was a data point to illustrate a change that I know takes place also in other countries; that women account for an ever larger fraction of people with higher education. The number of families where the mother makes more

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