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by seneca 5y ago
> Freedom is great when people aren't using their freedom to infringe on other people's freedom. Other people driving up the price on something you want is not "[infringing] on other people's freedom". It's
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by seneca 5y ago
Less of this, please.
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Or it's basic misdirection.
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by seneca 5y ago
> Anytime you hear a company say they "cant find enough workers" you need to add to the end of that sentence the phrase "at the price I'm willing to pay." Or add "... who are able to generate more value than
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by seneca 5y ago
> Did those "diverse range of cultures" arise separately, or did humans originate in one location and spread their culture from there? If you define cultural influence as broadly as pre-historic shared origins, I fear you'
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by seneca 5y ago
> It's more like we have three "sex groups": all women, normal men and extreme outlier men. For the sake of conversation, I think it's worth pointing out that we could actually break out yet another group: the extreme
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by seneca 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. It seems incredibly selfish to have children and then hand them over to strangers to raise. It's wildly unfair to the child, and as you said, unhealthy for the planet. I don't have a coherent thesis, but
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by seneca 6y ago
The most important bit: > Texas will gain two seats in the House of Representatives, five states will gain one seat each (Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon), seven states will lose one seat each (California, Illinois
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by seneca 6y ago
This article is a little light. If you're actually interested in scholarship around the topic, Jonathan Haidt has a lot of great writing around how deep seated "gut" feelings like disgust drive our moral judgements. I would h
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by seneca 6y ago
> The biggest problem seems to be the huge amount of resistance from police to any change at all. A huge problem is the massive, and influential, police union. Police resisting change at an individual or local level is one thing, but the
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by seneca 6y ago
> do those who work in compiled languages make more heavy use of debuggers? I work in both quite a bit. I actually think I end up using a debugger more in e.g. Python because I'm more often asking questions like "what is the ty
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by seneca 6y ago
> some guy turned to me and angrily said, “You ask alot of fucking questions!” That sounds like someone who was very defensive or uncomfortable talking about themself, or just in a bad mood. Who knows? People are unpredictable some times
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by seneca 6y ago
> HTWFAIP tells you what to say Yes, I think that's very accurate. My problem was often that I didn't know what to say, or that I thought people wouldn't be interested in what I said, so it worked well for me. I'll ne
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by seneca 6y ago
I read a few of them. Most weren't very good, honestly, but they managed to convey a mindset that worked for me. Of the ones I read, the only one I would recommend is a massive cliche but I do think it's actually quite good: How t
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by seneca 6y ago
Talking to strangers is wonderful once you learn to do it. I am naturally quite introverted and was very nervous speaking with people until young adulthood. I eventually realized how limiting it was and put effort into reading books about i
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by seneca 6y ago
Words have meaning, and the meaning of "slavery" is not "a bad situation". Slavery is alive and well in the world, but this story has nothing to do with it.
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by seneca 6y ago
> What reason did HR give for you not being able to fire him? I don't want to ignore the question, but it's a sensitive topic and I'm not sure bringing it up would add to the conversation. > Also, I'm not sure if y
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by seneca 6y ago
Having a severely unperforming, and sometimes belligerent, employee that couldn't be fired because of HR reasons. His work was horrible, and his responses to feedback was to become hostile. Not only was he dead weight, he destroyed the
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by seneca 6y ago
I think they are about as neutral as you will find. The wider environment has just become hyper partisan. It has certainly influenced both organizations (which I read daily), and I would agree they're not as neutral as they were once l
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by seneca 6y ago
I used to read Reuters religiously, but have drifted away from them as I've felt their neutrality falter a bit. They're still one of the better organization, and I'm sad to see them go behind a pay wall as it leaves fewer out
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by seneca 6y ago
> If a corporation is a legal person with inalienable rights (as the SCOTUS seems to have decided on) Please stop repeating this nonsense. Corporate Personhood is a legal idea, and does not mean a "corporation is a legal person&quot
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by seneca 6y ago
> Polish culture is quite conservative and suffers from a lot of toxic masculinity. I would see this mostly as simply a manifestation of that. It's so weird and sad that "dying for your country" is still viewed as some kin
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by seneca 6y ago
> I searched for anything that would support the claims of “bigotry”, “hate”, and “intolerance”, and didn’t see it. Indeed. These words have just become the "heretic" of the endless neo-puritan witch hunt. They don't mean
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by seneca 6y ago
> In my experience, most managers don't bother reading books... Usually they get their position through knowing people or being slavishly obedient... That's odd. I've spent much of my career in engineering leadership, and
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by seneca 6y ago
This article is extremely sensationalist. Facebook pretty blatantly advertises based on interest. If a job ad for nurses were placed in a nursing magazine, it would be seen largely by women. That's because nurses are largely women, not
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by seneca 6y ago
Why would America First not continue with any American president? Any nations' leader not acting first and foremost in the interest of their own country ought to be removed from office.
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by seneca 6y ago
Thanks for the further info.
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by seneca 6y ago
I suppose you must be right. I'm just wondering if there's some method they use to tell the difference between "this was left here 105k years ago" and "someone dug a hole here 50k years ago and buried them". Is
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by seneca 6y ago
Yes, I read the article. It specifically says the sediment was dated. I'm just curious how they're certain the placement of the crystals dates to the same time.
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by seneca 6y ago
They found a buried crystal cache. The sediment they were in dates to 105k years ago. I don't have access to the journal the actual paper is published in. Does anyone know how they establish that they were gathered at that time and not

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