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by rland 7y ago
This is how a therapists' training distinguishes them from a friendly ear. It's very hard to get through the pattern of behavior that you describe, because the combination of empathy and pragmatism required to facilitate growth re
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by rland 7y ago
Games with novel interactions between users are generally the ones with the substantial staying power. The rest are either clones that crest and fall with fad or "movies" that get played once and discarded.
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Pull over to adjust the map. Does anyone really believe that adjusting GPS while in a moving vehicle is safe?
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Not only that. It'd be better to be poor in the 1980s, because since then it has become more difficult to move out of poverty.
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by rland 7y ago
I remember when The_Donald first came around in the very early days in the run up to the '16 election. I actually subscribed and thought it was hilarious, because I think Donald Trump is pathetic (and I thought he was insignificant at
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by rland 7y ago
I have to imagine that there is a market out there for SAFE low-ish budget content created to distract kids. I can imagine a "youtube kids" but where every video has actually been vetted by a responsible adult.
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You could purchase a used car outright for the cost of 1 ambulance ride in the United States.
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Things have changed a lot for many low wage workers since about 08 or so. Schedules are set no more than a few days in advance. They're communicated either by an app or by text message. They can be highly variable and it's expecte
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Every now and then in the grocery store, a thought comes up: this is an exceptional circumstance. I can walk in here and grab as much nutrient content as I can hold, for only a couple hours of labor? That situation is something that only ap
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by rland 7y ago
If we used solar power, AC could be close to carbon neutral, because the peak intensity almost perfectly coincides with temperature. Higher temperatures mitigate the big downside of solar to a greater extent. Compare with heating, which alw
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I think happiness is very orthogonal to economic progress. It's a uniquely American myth to believe that GDP growth is a proxy for the happiness of a nation's people. (We export it all over the place). Social systems which do not
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Easier to teach an engineer how to program than to teach a programmer how to engineer.
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Meme is an absolutely perfect word for it. It sounds like a joke, but this content is purposefully created and disseminated for the purpose of "going viral," so that it can spread itself. It's created by people who either hav
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by rland 7y ago
“Goes beyond what the author intended to convey” — there is no such thing. What the author intended to convey was exactly what was written. Interpretations differ, and hence a literary critic is born.
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by rland 7y ago
Free speech is necessary, but not sufficient. It isn't simply that the speech has to be free; it also must be worth exploring. To use my analogy, the Earth-centered model is free speech, but it isn't worth much, because it is wron
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by rland 7y ago
I have read probably 4 or 5 of these articles, written by professors/teachers, claiming to have been punished for their speech. 2 common threads about them. The first is that they rarely discuss specifics about what positions or what o
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by rland 7y ago
I cannot tell if this is a satirical comment or not.
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by rland 8y ago
Tax for revenue's sake (as opposed as one legislated to change behavior, like a carbon or environment tax) should be 0% on businesses. The rhetoric I see coming from the left is very worrying. "We will pay for this by just taxing
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by rland 8y ago
I really do disagree with this comment. I don't normally voice disagreements out loud, but to my eye this comment is utterly incorrect, even for "culture war" type threads.
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I saw this mechanism occur directly with the game Team Fortress 2, released in 2007/8. At first, you had to use the "server browser" which had a big list of servers. They had various plugins, maps, and customization, and each
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by rland 8y ago
I have a question: It seems to me like the rocket lifted off quite quickly, like the acceleration at first (right at t=0) was very rapid compared to other launches I have seen, especially launches with big rockets. Is this because it's
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by rland 8y ago
I agree with this a lot. 1 ambulance ride = 2 years of daily coffee. 1 minor knee surgery = 5 years of daily coffee. 1 major knee surgery = 10 years of daily coffee. 1 diabetes diagnosis = 3 cups of coffee/day, lifetime. 1 cancer diagn
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by rland 8y ago
I wonder how much money he saves by eating for free. I guess you could check his page, see how many restaurants he's "endorsed," and multiply by 15 bucks. I can't imagine it's more than $1000 total. This would be a
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by rland 8y ago
Don't have a source on hand, but I remember when I looked into this that that extra spending on cash that you mention is dwarfed by the ~2% charged by e-payment processing.
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by rland 8y ago
Just to piggy back on this comment: there is a strong case for mandatory military service. Just going to list bullet points. - Would help people mature before diving into the next stage of life, especially immature people whose upbringing h
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by rland 8y ago
I wonder what's worse, food waste or plastic waste. Food waste: water pollution, pesticides, destruction of biodiversity Plastic waste: fossil fuel consumption, plastic pollution into ecosystems My first thought is that I'd prefer
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My 2 rules for being up and alert at 6am: 1. Get in bed by 10pm every night, no exceptions. 2. If I can't sleep after I'm in bed, it means I haven't exercised enough. So, exercise, then GOTO 1. Downside to this is that it wor
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I have some early memories from when I could barely talk. Back then, the world was composed almost entirely of emotions. They completely dominated the scene. Not only that, but my brain was smaller and less physically developed, so I had re
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Mains voltage is typically 120V here, instead of 240, so it takes a while to boil water with an electric kettle.
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You’re right, of course. I grew up nearby and spent many summers there as a kid, that’s why I have some connection. But the place is not mine. The reason I brought it up in the first place is because only within the last 10 years has it rea

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