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by sershe 4y ago
Is it only me (I am in MSFT) or does it force some people into board-game resources mindset instead? I have a bunch of accumulated vacation that will now be paid out, cause I would let it accumulate before when I didn't need it - it ju
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"I'm getting rained on from the front, either driving OR a long walk OR waiting for a bus are better". And I live in a city with no real winter
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I was not asking about the letter of the law, that's obvious from TFA. I was asking about how it is fair in any way. It's kinda like a user comes into my store and I say "I can give you a haircut bundled with you giving me $3
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Also, overall, with the lively debate on buying gas from a guy cosplaying Sudetenland while working to dismantle nuclear, tantrums thrown over suggestions by the US that one should fund one's own defense, pillaging of foreign tech comp
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"The decision would still allow Meta to use non-personal data (such as the content of a story) to personalize ads or to ask users for consent to ads via a 'yes/no' option. Users must be able to withdraw consent at any ti
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1) Healthcare and college tuition are a much bigger problem in the USA than e.g. in Europe, and yet birth rates have fallen more in Europe. 2) Citation needed for housing vs wages for the "last few decades". Price-to-income ratios
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by sershe 4y ago
Beside maintaining physical health - sleep, exercise, hydration, nutrition, not too much alcohol, etc.; as well as conditions with clear etiology like schizophrenia; I strongly suspect most of the "mental health" stuff is BS, and
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It's like you didn't read my comment. Why would Barcelona be different? I've lived in Vancouver where I had (priorities at that time) like 5 sushi restaurants within 5min walk and a number of bars and nightclubs within 5-10,
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1) Chris Moriarty. Spin State - relatively-hard sci-fi with decent non sci-fi elements (i.e. characters and stuff), which I think is rare. 2) Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man. I really enjoyed the writing, among other things, and how he capture
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Some people like this kind of book. In fact, I sometimes wonder if explicitly "bad writing" is good for hard sci-fi, at least some authors. My personal favorite example is Greg Egan. In Permutation City/etc., characters are c
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by sershe 4y ago
Heh, +1 on Blindsight and also on the sequel not being as good :) I think Watts had remarked something like, people complained there was not enough action, so he added more action. But based on the comments I keep seeing (and Amazon stars)
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Bellevue WA downtown in particular is not ideal, but walkable. The only place I couldn't walk to was climbing gym, and also there's a big transit hub in the middle. Moscow is very walkable, even in most outer "apartment block
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by sershe 4y ago
Heh, I was on the fence here but you single-handedly convinced me that this startup is good and justified, and should continue. Naomi Klein is all but openly using climate to advance her unrelated political agenda. She and the likes of her
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by sershe 4y ago
Since most comments are personal stories, here's mine as usual. Until I was 29 I didn't know how to drive, and walked/bike/took transit everywhere, living in Moscow Russia, downtown Vancouver BC, Bellevue WA. I also deri
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by sershe 4y ago
(As someone, unfortunately, living in Seattle) Why wouldn't they, really? I mean, there's a reason the problem is not symmetrical - Seattle PD could do the same with Bothell to balance it out and make it a MAD type of thing, but t
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Not in PNW. All but the most popular and shortest trails have scree, slippery rock and stream crossings/water on trail except for 1-3 months of a given year. Snow too except 3-4 months of the year. I usually wear approach shoes (sneak
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by sershe 4y ago
Twin studies exist; the major component of heredity is, unsurprisingly enough, genetic. For intelligence, it's anywhere between 50 and 80%. Given a strong political opposition to such conclusions, I'd expect it's actually und
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Children can express desires at 3, maybe earlier. At least single-noun desires, such as wanting all the candy, followed by a tantrum. Should there be some intervention, or should a 2-3 year old be allowed to have all the candy? In any case,
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by sershe 4y ago
Why does the order matter in "has (or hasn't) reached self agency"? Brain is an organ - you seem to agree that child's brain is under-developed and may lack sufficient "self agency". Adult's can be destroy
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I went on a somewhat difficult conditioning hike (4000ft elevation gain) long time ago with a group of random people. Usually people tend to have poles, bring food, and look like hikers, etc on these kind of trips, but one guy shows up in j
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by sershe 4y ago
The main difference here precisely "not your keys not your coins". Replacing govt-influenced/controlled banks with some rando pseudo-bank is only a net positive for a really terrible govt... And because of the complexity, I d
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by sershe 4y ago
If you generalize from drugs example, crypto (may) help you do things governments do not want you to do. Drugs are just one widespread restriction; and you may view Western governments as generally competent and benevolent (to be clear, I
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Many people would think it's ethical, if anything morally positive. Do your part in demonstrating to the govt that if it plays stupid games (in this case, seeing if Prohibition would work better the 2nd time around), it would win stupi
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What would you do if you had 193k Argentinian pesos? Probably convert them to USD, too. Is it because you believe it's not money?
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Where does Amazon accept cash on delivery? Also, by this logic Amazon accepts electronic cash that can be "bought" with crypto, right? Maybe dollars are just gift cards for bitcoin :P
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This (minus the bulletproof glass) is how most stores worked in Soviet union. Most of the wares were behind the counter and you asked for what you wanted and the counter person would give it to you. I guess robbery was not a big risk but th
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"What a disgusting thing to say" What a disgusting thing to say Also: but is it true?
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You clearly know absolutely nothing about poverty. You can just compare monetary numbers - median incomes in many countries are smaller than poverty line in the US. But even by objective standards. I actually feel it for working poor, espec
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This narrative is so full of lies I cannot imagine incompetence, it has to be malice. So, I won't bother getting links, you can look them up. For others... Paragraph by paragraph. 1) Housing price-to-income ratio in the US is low by t
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Of course, if we are talking about alternatives, although you describe "modern capitalism" incorrectly - before the time where supposed "most" would work to make others rich or starve, "almost everyone" would w

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