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by shredprez 11y ago
Fair. I read it as an individual extremely burnt out by politicization, which I relate to. Taking the various problems for granted, I definitely get a "here we go again" feeling when I see another identity-focused scandal show up
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by shredprez 11y ago
Amen. Whenever I see old photos of early coders in dress shirts and ties, I smile.
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by shredprez 11y ago
This constructive noncompliance seems more pragmatic than political, to the point that it feels like a distinct form of disobedience to me. Your examples come to mind exactly because of their tight association with grander social-change mov
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Does it really need a domestic application to be interesting? It might not fit a Western political agenda, but I still enjoyed reading about it. In any case, the information pertained mostly to the interactions between individuals and munic
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by shredprez 11y ago
There may well be similar agencies operating clandestinely in regimes today. It probably wouldn't be hard to methodically push critics (or communities) just enough into the twilight zone to kill their credibility with targeted informat
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by shredprez 11y ago
Fitness and fatness have a subjective relationship with beauty, but there is an objective relationship between extremes in weight (from over- or under-eating) and health. While the exact relationship is a little different for each of us, ea
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by shredprez 12y ago
I've been reading through your responses and agree generally with your perspective on this issue (I say this as someone who has dealt with varying levels of depression behaviorally and chemically, both on my own and with professional a
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by shredprez 12y ago
I experienced something like this during a brief period in my teens when I experimented with lucid dreaming techniques. I would lie completely still on my bed in the evening, meditating until I started to drift off. First I'd feel my b
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That makes sense, especially when it comes to production. I'm curious how the distinction you noted applies to non-physical services? Many services seem to qualify as rent-seeking: you pay a one-time fee to obtain information or a conn
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by shredprez 12y ago
Not a question, just some thoughts: It seems to me that economic rent, far from being an immoral oversight, is the fundamental law of capitalism. In all cases a capitalist seeks to charge more than it cost them to produce an item, or to gai