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by rland 8y ago
Boomers originally earned the label of "the 'me' generation."
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I agree. It's impossible to fix these type of problems with advice. Deep problems of identity. "Be comfortable with yourself" is advice that is technically true, but to get from here to there, so to speak, requires putting yo
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It seems to me like this is kind of like advertising: it’s a local benefit, but a net loss. Someone, somewhere, is giving a huge amount of money to Amazon. Considering Amazons wealth and power, is this what we should be doing as a society?
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Downtown San Diego is basically for singles only. It's a city mostly full of transients. Once people decide to have a family, they move away or to the suburbs if they are loaded.
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We are at the point where each consumer's spending on Cable TV is now transitioning to "Streaming Services" a.k.a. Cable 2.0. In the end "Cord cutting" will not save money; it will simply mean that instead of paying
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As far as "using it as evidence..." The secret is that your "AI" doesn't actually need to create lost data. All you have to do is qualify yourself as an expert witness in Artificial Intelligence, and then you can sa
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Things are so weird now. We should feel good that everyone is engaged in dialogue about our grand civic project, right? But when you actually stare out onto the landscape of discussion, there isn't a valuable exchange of ideas to obser
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Perhaps it doesn't, for those weird edge cases where they have to bring the unconscious patient in and have him assessed 5 different ways. Situations like that are the domain of insurance agencies. But most medical care (the majority o
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This is what's so strange about the system. There is no "price sheet" because it's all funny money until the consumer gets billed. Perhaps the doctor would not know, but the hospital should have a price sheet for every r
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Well, his position makes perfect sense: he is a co-founder of Venmo, which was acquired in 2012 for 26 million dollars. http://kortina.nyc/work/
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People really don't care. It's not so much a callous -- "I could see this guy die in front of me without batting an eye." It's more that all the stuff you mentioned: injuries, an incident being your fault, court d
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What’s old is new again: there is absolutely no difference between this and a suburban interior built inside of a Hollywood soundstage. Advertising: It’s the same. But different. But still the same.
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> all that will be left is to figure out how to lead fulfilling lives that don't revolve around acquiring yachts. Well, there is the huge problem. Finding meaning is not only a difficult problem on a personal level, but the entire i
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Agreed. The way it works is this: You need to have a construction of someone (or something) to have empathy for it. The way you generate that construction is by shared experience. The experiences that you have are what you use, the building
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I wonder. It's probably mostly children watching these videos, right? It has to be... right?
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It is different not only on a technical level, but culturally as well. I don't think the entire country is rooting for SpaceX as representative of the group. Instead, it's Elon's company. If they get to the moon... good for E
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Dogs are routinely used to bypass the 4th amendment against unlawful search and seizure. They are a "probable cause" machine, since all that needs to happen is that the dog gets excited. Without the dog, it could be argued that th
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I have a friend from Japan. I was attempting to explain to him how racism in the U.S. operates—how it comes in subtle forms, how you can be racist and not even intend to be, how social power can sometimes be so abstract and diffuse that it
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We are totally dependent on others to feel good. It is how we are wired as social creatures. Every single person, without exception, begins their life needy of another's approval and attention. The attention of others is how we const
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This reminded me of another article I read about this company: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-27/wework-ac... Their value is predicated entirely on the perception. Select quote from the CEO:
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It's got quite a bit of university debt, so it's just working on the whole intelligence explosion thing on weekends and evenings (when it's not driving for Uber)
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The way I typically understand this is by Dunbar’s number: that 150 or so persons who are “real” in any given person’s head. Any org larger than ~75 has this type of multipolar dynamic where different sub-units are pulling different ways. I
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And it has the convenient sleight of being somewhat related to work, so it can ocassionally bypass the “this is unproductive B.S.” procrastination filter.
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At least for journalism, this is a hot and increasingly pesky trend. It's the Ira Glass style: "63 year old Barb Waterhouse puts the kettle on" ... sound of boiling water ... "and as I settle into a plush easy chair, i
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Giant multinational corporations are squarely last in the "queue of parties that ought to commit civil disobedience."
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These systems are totally obtainable. It is only liability holding the movement back (since an accidental dose of insulin can kill). Even that is just slowing down the process. The largest difference in quality of life for those with diabe
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On the other hand, it's clear that sucking good teachers, good students, and good parents from public schools into selective charters is a form of "brain drain" that negatively impacts the performance of students at public sc
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The costs you mentioned, though they sound physically imposing, do not approach the 2% gross on all transactions charged by card issuers. In addition, with cash, there is another abstract (collective) benefit. It is anonymous. An entity can
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Having kids is THE prime biological directive, not just for humans but for every form of life on earth. You would need to have potent cultural pressures to interfere with that process. Without culture, it happens almost automatically.
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By that measure, then, the extent to which sick people are covered simply comes down to how much "charity" healthy people are willing to volunteer. Sticker price for my child's medication is $1000 for 4 weeks' supply. I

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