shaftoe

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by shaftoe 5y ago
Southern US here. It's not Worchestersher sauce?
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by shaftoe 5y ago
Maybe, but I have rarely experienced wide advertisement (that was intended to include me) and don't know where to begin. I agree that this is off-putting advice. Many social activities assume you're showing up with friends. If y
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by shaftoe 5y ago
These are strings containing JSON
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by shaftoe 5y ago
Do you notice that you've defined your own viewpoint as rational and supported by data and the viewpoint of others as "probably focused around emotions"?
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by shaftoe 6y ago
Churches absolutely solve loneliness: it's a ready-made community complete with social events and opportunities that, with small exceptions and discounting odd-ball churches, anyone can join. Yes, they have a morality on right and wro
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by shaftoe 6y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of arguments about first amendment protections instead of censorship?
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by shaftoe 6y ago
In your free country, am I free to not pay for all your good ideas? What happens to me if I refuse to contribute to your ideas?
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by shaftoe 6y ago
It can be.
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by shaftoe 6y ago
Pre-COVID and WFH becoming normal, I had a short commute. Only 6 miles. Many places, walking to work is a joke.
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by shaftoe 6y ago
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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by shaftoe 6y ago
That's a fun blurb for a comedy routine, but ammunition is trivially easy to manufacture. People do it in their basement as a hobby.
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by shaftoe 6y ago
Probably their "cloud" unit. Because renting time on a mainframe is the same thing, right?
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by shaftoe 6y ago
None of that is going to happen, for the same reason China can put an entire people into death camps and Russia can just take land from Ukraine. Power comes from the barrel of a gun.
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by shaftoe 6y ago
"Most people are effectively powerless to make an impact on much outside their immediate lives." Isn't this a good thing? Doesn't it mean that they can't harm others?
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by shaftoe 6y ago
Expired tires!! This is hilarious!
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by shaftoe 6y ago
Certain basic values like freedom of speech?
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by shaftoe 6y ago
The idea that restrictions in human liberty are subject to when "a national community agrees on something" is laughable at best and evil at worst.
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by shaftoe 6y ago
They do. It's called finding another job.
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by shaftoe 7y ago
You don't see much evil to handicapping the entire human race?
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by shaftoe 7y ago
"Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?" --Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Gra
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by shaftoe 7y ago
I get their point about stigma, but as someone who has never injected drugs, I'm having a hard time caring about getting screened for this. How do they intend to actually roll out a massive testing operation (everyone under 80) when li
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by shaftoe 7y ago
This is the Secretary Problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
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by shaftoe 7y ago
Great link. "Quantities matter [in China] and getting only dozen or couple of hundred orders per month doesn't really help. That said, the Librems are heavily overpriced but that is because Purism seemingly never tried to get bett
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by shaftoe 7y ago
These aren't people fleeing genocide. These are people leaving Mexico. And they're being put in hotels and buses. It's easy to pretend you're fellow Americans are monsters, but they're not.
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by shaftoe 7y ago
There's a gray area that makes defining what is political complex when it comes to subjects that become politicized.
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by shaftoe 7y ago
It's reasonable to assume all entities act out of rational self-interest. To be angry with someone when they simply defend their own interests is to either hate the person/entity or to be angry with nature itself. That was my onl
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by shaftoe 7y ago
Curse them for not wanting to pay extra money for no gain. How dare they act out of a rational self interest.
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by shaftoe 7y ago
As someone who lost critical business functionality yesterday when my appengine instances returned only 502s for 5 hours, I find the idea it was "a ridiculous time to nitpick" hilarious. My customers don't care that the netwo
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by shaftoe 7y ago
There death penalty isn't about deterrent: bad people rarely consider punishment when making the decision to commit a crime. The death penalty exists so the decent don't have to suffer the truly evil to live. This is why arguments
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by shaftoe 7y ago
I abandoned about halfway through when I realized it wasn't going to get to a discussion of backpack design and I had no idea what the actual point was. You're not alone.

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