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by sershe 4y ago
This happened to my wife when she was travelling in Utah, she had an ectopic pregnancy at the point where she was already in a decent amount of pain and they wouldn't give her the pill to eliminate it because they wanted to monitor mor
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by sershe 4y ago
I am still working on my never to be finished at this rate dream 4x-god-sim. The mindset to have with projects like that is entertainment. I enjoy the process. I could be reading sci fi or watching TV or tinkering in the shed or playing a s
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by sershe 4y ago
Really digging unions in tech. I for one would love to slack off for a few years as a semi-sabbatical/early-semi-retirement before I leave a job. Or at least to dial down my contributions without fear of being paid less :) Just kidding
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by sershe 4y ago
Thank you for complimenting the above insightful comment! :)
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by sershe 4y ago
By that logic, slavery in the US was a-ok if/because it was supported by the majority. That is why rights not subject to majority exist and should exist.
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by sershe 4y ago
Obligatory: I used to have some respect for them until I read about the union-mafia connections. Now I think mafia is completely irredeemable :) Unions are basically the embodiment of misaligned incentives - combining the worst of medieval
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by sershe 4y ago
Because they mostly have a proven track record of advancing human well-being? As do other corporations from railroads to Amazon. Sure, they are not perfect, but the governments you advocate should kneecap them (to echo your other general co
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by sershe 4y ago
Really? These are irrelevant, invalid, or great examples of misguided govt intervention 1) Ecuadorian govt lost in international courts and us courts. Overall this case is irrelevant to free markets either way, but it's quite believabl
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by sershe 4y ago
Kinda like "Seeing Like a State" sim (but with less grim/more pro-state viewpoint). A god-game/Civ combo that operates on worldwide scale, but you don't get to order people around, like move meeples from farmers to
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by sershe 4y ago
I don't think this is cheating.. if someone asks me how to design a distributed join and I answer because I worked on distributed joins directly, is that cheating? This reminds me of a guy who, on the contrary, probably thinks I wronge
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by sershe 4y ago
I am in my late 30ies and few years ago I started to occasionally "lose" words. Never happened before... like the other day I couldn't remember the word raccoon. "Trash panda! Dumpster bandit! Badger? No. Beaver? No. Def
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by sershe 4y ago
How is this different from mandatory training we all have to do on customer data privacy, compliance, diversity and inclusion, etc.? It's work time. You get paid to do it. I think unions are some of the most evil, corrupt, harmful inst
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by sershe 4y ago
There are two pretty fundamental problems with this: 1) The services are free, one is not paying for a given, well-defined, services, like in the case where contracts are actually binding. 2) Even in the above case (payment+contract), a con
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by sershe 4y ago
Too lazy to look it up in my notes now, but as far as I understand: 1) Vitamin D is low in people with all kinds of bad conditions, including depression but also heart issues/etc. 2) Supplementing vitamin D is usually not found to do a
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by sershe 4y ago
One minor quip that other comments do not seem to address - is that supposed to be a bad thing? I didn't notice what the article describes when I meditated (if anything I got nicer because my failure mode is being impatient/easily
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by sershe 4y ago
That shouldn't always matter for someone arbitraging it though... companies could hire UK-based developers (themselves pretty expensive by European standards as far as I understand) and pay them less than SFBA developers, and that woul
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by sershe 4y ago
I feel like many people don't use the term feudalism quite correctly... working for a powerful person describes many systems, not just feudalism. Manoralism is a key characteristic of feudalism, and is generally the consequence of fail
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by sershe 4y ago
1) 80k/3 is 26.7k, 1.2k*12 = 14.4k. So, yeah, you can save for a downpayment by merely putting away your "comfortable housing spend" income, even before you move to a 1br apartment (1.2k median rent is for all units, even the
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by sershe 5y ago
The premium would be really large though. The difference is only in degree between current zoning and something like "I have a nice view from my window and therefore my neighbors should not be allowed to build up the 2nd floor or plant
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by sershe 5y ago
As a tech worker who grew up in an ex-communist, then essentially 3rd world, country, I find calling $15/hour, 0-skill-required warehouse jobs "oppression" really laughable. American poor are quite a spoiled and entitled bunc
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by sershe 5y ago
If you look at where Mongols succeeded and failed (notably they didn't control Northern Russia directly, rather keeping them as vassals/raiding occasionally - but they also +- failed in Indochina, India, etc.), it's all about
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by sershe 5y ago
I realized around 35-36 (only a few years ago) that the doors are actually closing, especially on physical activity related goals and travel... both as far as health/potential is concerned, and as far as time is concerned. I feel like
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by sershe 5y ago
There's space between "punishing" and "rewarding". In my book, giving someone free housing when they came somewhere to steal as a career, is "rewarding". That is why e.g. immigration systems in Canada and
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by sershe 5y ago
Dozens of homeless die in Seattle per year from ODs, cold, fights, etc. The general morale doesn't appear to be affected very much. On the other hand, it does seem to be affected by crime and 3rd-world conditions on the street... so, o
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by sershe 5y ago
There are Unitarian Universalist churches. I didn't like the vibe, but/because I think it works perfectly to what appears to be the target audience of people who cannot lie to themselves anymore about religion not being BS, but st
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by sershe 5y ago
This is just nitpicking. The wealth differential produces by the ox for 15 years of its useful life requires very little extra labor from me, the ox raiser. That's why they have a category for "capital". If some people build
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by sershe 5y ago
The approach seems to work quite well in many other cities, as close as 5 miles away from Seattle. If you hassle them, they'd go somewhere else. Does it solve THE problem? No. Does it solve A problem? Yes. The hassled people will mostl
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by sershe 5y ago
I think Andre the petty thief being robbed (or freezing to death, or ODing) while sleeping on the street is not ideal, but better than the status quo where we actively support and encourage his activities in the city. Why would we be humane
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by sershe 5y ago
At some point, maybe. Let's say we are subsistence farmers (as close to self sufficient, pure labor as it gets), and I spend extra time on the side to raise an ox. I cannot utilize the ox to its full potential myself, but I can lend it
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by sershe 5y ago
I am in my late 30ies and was recently thinking something like that about my 24 year old self... but sometimes I think, what if 3X-year old me is the one who's the idiot? Your brain has to go downhill at some point... judgment too, pro

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