sfRattan

23 ms·

241.
by sfRattan 8y ago
> The the cold war's end, which started out like a truce between equals... Maybe it was taught that way in Russian schools, but I don't know anyone in any part of the West who considers the end of the Cold War to have been a &q
242.
by sfRattan 8y ago
https://old.reddit.com should solve your problem. It does not make use of infinite scroll.
243.
by sfRattan 8y ago
As a native speaker of English and a speaker of German, I find that some things are more concise in one language and other things are more concise in the other. I don't know if this inconsistency is due to limits in my own knowledge or
244.
by sfRattan 8y ago
The most obvious success (of the sort you describe) that I can think of is the Polish _CD Projekt Red_, the studio behind the Witcher series of games and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077. They also operate the GOG.com (good old games) store&#x2F
245.
by sfRattan 8y ago
Both are arguably forms of rent-seeking.
246.
by sfRattan 8y ago
Well, then they're both right-of-center bird flips... My point remains the same: anyone is right to get pissed of about these fees, but tipping less punishes the server and not the owner who instituted the fees. A better solution is
247.
by sfRattan 8y ago
I suspect the practices you describe are politically motivated advertising of prices (and related to price discrimination). To add on a living wage fee is to imply that a lower price available at other restaurants does not pay a living wa
248.
by sfRattan 8y ago
> As for standards, you seem to have a rather naive idea of how government makes standards. Usually it will heavily involve industry. It is not like government just dreams up arbitrary shit. I'm not sure how you draw 'naive ide
249.
by sfRattan 8y ago
> This is what the free market fundamentalists wont accept: that their precious private enterprise is often terribly bloated and inefficient. > The most free market oriented I’ve experienced was the American one and it was by far the
250.
by sfRattan 8y ago
The article reminds me of Van Halen's M&M contract rider, though the Orange Juice Test in somewhat more fickle and hostile. From Wikipedia: > The band's demands were not limited to technical issues; their now-infamous rider
251.
by sfRattan 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. A more thorough investigation of Chinese history, philosophy, and literature is on my list of long term reading goals. From what I understand already, we have lost a large amount of literature from the same pe
252.
by sfRattan 8y ago
I've looked into Buddhism generally and come to the conclusion that, while it provides about as useful a framework for living well as Stoicism, it's a more complete religious system than I'm interested in. I don't want t
253.
by sfRattan 8y ago
No kidding. Dealt with pitches for 'mindfulness' as a practicing stoic for years. "Dude, you should check out mindfulness. You'd really be into it." Nope. As best I could ever tell, mindfulness was a pop-psych pasti
254.
by sfRattan 8y ago
Culture is tremendously important. And it's not a contradiction for libertarians to advocate for a particular kind of culture which they (and I) might believe is more conducive to a free society (or to advocate against a particular kin
255.
by sfRattan 8y ago
You're missing that the Student Activities Fee or equivalent at most American universities is not voluntary. Students pay it (often several hundred dollars or more) on top of tuition and other fees, and have only limited or indirect co
256.
by sfRattan 9y ago
Has anyone else noticed that, on Purism's website[1], you can only select "Don't Include" for the TPM dialog box if you have also selected the "English (UK)" keyboard layout option? Or is this some bug in my pa
257.
by sfRattan 9y ago
It was somewhat more complicated before the advent of smartphones, and I had Google Voice before I had my first smartphone. The user experience on flip-phones was also not quite user friendly to the person with Google Voice, but it was comp
258.
by sfRattan 9y ago
I give it two years before Google tries something else. Honestly, as soon as Google Voice (and its integration with the languishing Hangouts app) support breaks, which I fully expect to eventually happen, I'm jumping off the last of th
259.
by sfRattan 9y ago
Nothing special about a Republic. If it has a large police force whose allotments of funds come on the basis of superficial law enforcement activity which can be tracked and used by politicians for campaign talking points, the fundamental
260.
by sfRattan 9y ago
Eh. I've always believed power and wealth interact with human nature at a lower level than ideology (to use a bit of a software metaphor). Relating Sinclair's observation to a particular contemporary political group or hot-button
261.
by sfRattan 9y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair That's about it really. There are a whole lot of people across the world whose salaries depend on
262.
by sfRattan 9y ago
I have a friend who works at a battery/electronics chain, and replacing phone batteries (and screens) has become a substantial part of their business. I couldn't say what percentage of the population knows it's possible but,
263.
by sfRattan 9y ago
Is there any part of our leviathan government left which does not indulge special interest groups and rent seekers, or mire citizens in mystifying, stultifying bureaucracy? I've personally interacted somewhat deeply with the SSA/H
264.
by sfRattan 9y ago
I think DuckDuckGo is unfairly singled out here. They do more than most companies to protect privacy, and most of their users are specifically trying to deprive Google of more feed for its data silo. Of course they can't protect you fr
265.
by sfRattan 9y ago
The most vocal, notice I don't say majority, only seem to pay that ideal the barest minimum of lip service. The most vocal only want to help the worker if the worker is Unionized, woke, and maybe even only if they are the right minorit
266.
by sfRattan 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day For something more 'reputable' than wikipedia, check the footnotes of the article, specifically: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages&#
267.
by sfRattan 9y ago
Chess in the 19th century is my go to example when trying to deprogram someone from anxious preoccupation with whatever moral panic is currently fashionable. I use the word 'deprogram' in the sense of helping someone recover from
268.
by sfRattan 9y ago
It's interesting to look at how BioWare---back when it was BioWare---used radial menus to great effect in multiple games. In addition to Neverwinter Nights, the radial conversation menus in the original Mass Effect trilogy come to mind
269.
by sfRattan 9y ago
Not literature per se, but two episodes of Black Mirror come to mind: "Hated in the Nation." Online mobs lead to death in real life because of a scifi twist involving artificial swarms/hives of bees. I won't get into det
270.
by sfRattan 9y ago
Having lived in New England, I wouldn't keep the car in a garage there, but my comment is about salt, not snow. Having also lived in Wisconsin, where the government uses literally mountains of salt each winter on the roads, I'll a

More ›