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by rosser 8y ago
"I think this is dumb" isn't substantive. Why you think it's dumb — maybe even with links to supporting material? Totally different story.
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by rosser 8y ago
> CARP located and purchased from Texas for about $60,000 a medical debt portfolio worth $14,922,261.76 — paying less than a half-cent on the dollar. [0] [0] https://ripmedicaldebt.org/john-oliver-medical-debt/
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by rosser 8y ago
> If you believe that this is true, why should it stop with just the internet? Why not all of life? It is true of "all of life" but the social dynamics (coupled with bog-standard H. sapiens cognitive foibles) in play when
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by rosser 8y ago
On the one hand, I think your comment, while excellent, is an egregious oversimplification. But it's actually the left-right axis that's the egregious oversimplification, and as long as people insist on reducing political question
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by rosser 8y ago
The counter-argument to that is often something like, "Well, people just won't patronize the segregated establishments, because who would support that?!", and with that, we've demonstrably already lost touch with reality
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by rosser 8y ago
It's not a "cult", it's a religion with some 4-5 million adherents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism But please, continue dismissing millions of people's beliefs as "paranoia".
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by rosser 8y ago
I've also seen slaughterhouse videos depicting the most gruesome, heinous abuses inflicted upon livestock animals (beating them, stabbings, repeated shocking with obviously higher voltages than mere prods — often in front of their peer
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by rosser 8y ago
The all-in costs of whatever you had to burn (literally or not) to produce that kWh? Packets do not have a meaningful marginal cost. Metering is a crap model.
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by rosser 8y ago
Electricity has a real per-kWh cost to produce. Packets have, at best, a nominal per-mbps cost to transmit.
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by rosser 8y ago
I guess I don't find referencing research in response to cultural tropes to be "over-the-top skepticism". Have a good day.
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by rosser 8y ago
They quit tipping through the service, and, if I'm reading correctly, instead zero the tip at checkout, and tip in cash on arrival.
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by rosser 8y ago
Do I read you correctly as saying that the anecdotal evidence of the kinds of abuse you're concerned about (in the form of chain emails, &c ) outweighs the actual, you know, "research" that has been done on these program
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by rosser 8y ago
> It's not fine to act like no luxury good has ever been bought on food stamps, and every recipient is a meticulous steward of taxpayer's largesse, ceaselessly working toward the day when they don't need public assistance
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by rosser 8y ago
I grew up in a flyover state with a history of very creditor-friendly laws and (limited) legal gambling. It's boringly, heartbreakingly common there to see small, multi-tenant commercial buildings where one of the tenants is a payday
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by rosser 8y ago
>> Not the departments at universities but the course of study > Why are you making this distinction? Probably because there's a pretty deeply held belief among a lot of technologists that non-STEM degrees and departments
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by rosser 8y ago
In the general case, yes. In this case, however, I'm responding to the claim that, "nicotine in isolation is really no more harmful than caffeine." (Emphasis added.) Two orders of magnitude greater lethality by dose comport
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by rosser 8y ago
There is some evidence suggesting an association between red meat consumption and colorectal cancers. I don't think the link is well-enough understood to suggest it's a causal one, but I also don't think it's any longer
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by rosser 8y ago
The mean LD50 of caffeine and nicotine in humans are 150-200 and 6.5-13 mg/kg, respectively.
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by rosser 8y ago
That's a re-phrasing of Bertrand Russell's "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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The Truth About Aging in the Tech Industry(medium.com)
15 points by rosser 8y ago|2 comments
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by rosser 8y ago
People just don't know there's another way to make coffee than pod machines? I'm sorry, I just don't accept that premise. What am I missing? People are making a choice — an admittedly consequential one, yes — but they&#x
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by rosser 8y ago
Take that up with the millions of people buying them. I do my own pour-overs in the morning. I just find it endlessly fascinating to watch people extrapolate from their personal preferences, in the face of a demonstrably valuable (in the &q
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by rosser 8y ago
How is it fashion or wealth signaling if you're doing it at home, alone? I'm sure it is for some people, but status signaling is baked into our monkey brains at such a deep level, I find it a bit silly to be something we throw sha
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by rosser 8y ago
And I out-walked (well, tied) the Uber driver who cut me off at a crosswalk, to dropping off his fare across the street from my apartment a few blocks further up the hill, the other night. Contextually constrained anecdata like ours simply
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by rosser 8y ago
For a nontrivial number of people, that's probably about five minutes too many. Are you also factoring in the cleanup of your coffee-making accoutrements ? That's a few minutes, too. Some people just want their cuppa, with absolu
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by rosser 8y ago
That's a little hard to do in a world where this kind of thing is done by National Security Letter.
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by rosser 8y ago
I think you're conflating two different positions, which do admittedly co-occur in many people: 1. The technical, that any such "backdoor" is necessarily a backdoor , with all that implies, and thus to be eschewed on a &quot
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by rosser 8y ago
You'll have to clarify what "by accident" means. The FTC's rules on "unordered merchandise", linked else-thread, seem pretty unambiguous.
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm sure that's quite clever, but it's utterly orthogonal to my point.
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by rosser 8y ago
I wasn't aware I had to propose a better alternative in order to be allowed to offer a critique.

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