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by spangry 10y ago
I wonder if Apple perceive some kind of systemic global risk (either economic and/or strategic). Maybe this is a 'flight to safety'. Or maybe they think the next 'industrial revolution' is near, so they're posi
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I'm half-chinese, so occasionly will experience things on 'both sides of the street'. I agree that quite a bit of it is a case of 'tradition is tradition' (similar to Christmas for many non-practicing or non-religio
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by spangry 10y ago
That's probably something a software developer / tech inclined person would know. Then again, they might assume the app is clever enough to roughly geo-locate you via IP address, and it would kinda make sense as even just knowing
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by spangry 10y ago
I actually thought those buttons would result in additional results, rather than narrowing down his/her later choices. Either that or they'd do nothing, since that's what the other button of that type that they encountered
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by spangry 10y ago
I really regret reading some of the replies to those tweets. There's something I need to know: the people going on about Snowden being a traitor, helping 'the Russians' etc... On the 'average American' to 'vill
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by spangry 10y ago
Yep, long lost brothers :)
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by spangry 10y ago
Thanks! That is really helpful, practical advice. I definitely get tripped up by the stopping thing; it's like this weird politeness reflex or something. Your point about 'training' others to talk over me is quite insightful.
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by spangry 10y ago
It sounds like we have nearly identical personalities. Long lost brothers maybe :) Yeah I figured out the confrontational thing a couple of years ago... after not realising it was an issue for about the first three years of my career. When
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by spangry 10y ago
Wow, that's a lot of complexity! I remember the various state sales taxes when I visited the US a few years ago (that weren't built into the menu prices). Between that and tipping, I swear Americans must be absolute guns when it c
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by spangry 10y ago
Does the US have a employer withholding system (i.e. if you get paid $1000 in a week, your employer withholds and remits whatever the pro rata amount is for $52,000 annual income to the Tax Office)? We have that in Australia, and it definit
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by spangry 10y ago
That's not what I meant to say. Sorry, reading back on what I wrote I can see my wording was a bit ambiguous. They are definitely positively correlated. The chart shows that from about 2010 onward, manufacturing output has been growing
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I hear what you're saying, although I think I do make this effort. But after the 5th of 6th time I'm interrupted halfway through a sentence, usually by the same person who's been essentially thinking out loud for 80% of the m
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by spangry 10y ago
I've yet to encounter an office culture that makes accommodations for shy people. I think that in the absence of conscious effort to elicit or 'make space' for less extroverted people to express opinions and make observations
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by spangry 10y ago
I certainly wouldn't count America out. However, looking at the numbers in terms of growth, there's been a pretty steady downward trend since (an unusually high) 2010 Q3: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=d
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by spangry 10y ago
At worst, current IoT devices can be used to remotely murder someone. Or to indiscriminately massacre anybody using one of these devices unlucky enough to come within range of a rouge transmitter: https://www.theregister.co.uk&#x
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by spangry 10y ago
One of us might be misunderstanding the GP here. In my case, I'm also overlaying my own personal experience on what has been said, so grain of salt and all that. I want to kill myself. I've wanted to end my wretched life for a lon
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by spangry 10y ago
Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah that's my main thrust: we need to be taking urgent and concrete action if we're to avoid catastrophe (if it's not already too late). I think that's why some of the replys to the original co
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by spangry 10y ago
Even if this were true, that levying something like a $50 tax per tonne would result in greater incentive to pollute (because we've replaced a powerful social disincentive with a less powerful financial one), it would still very like
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by spangry 10y ago
Well then I guess I'm a bit lost. What exactly is being suggested here? We seem to have established that, for 'many', there's no relationship between material wealth and spirituality (although the people replying to you
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by spangry 10y ago
If this is indeed the case, does that mean you feel pity for those born into well-off families, and feel happy for those born into abject poverty? The latter, of course, being more likely to live a spiritually fulfilled life?
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by spangry 10y ago
Although it's fashionable to denigrate 'economists' nowadays, I see this as a consequence of sovereigns not thinking like economists. At the macro level, it's a classic collective action problem - the tragedy of the comm
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by spangry 10y ago
Holy crap: "In October 2013 the Government agreed a deal with the French state-owned energy giant to guarantee it a price of £92.50, index-linked to inflation, for every megawatt-hour of electricity the £18bn nuclear plant would produc
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by spangry 10y ago
Thanks for this, I will most definitely have a read (and, if their criticisms are valid and consequent, will shut up about the BI Paper).
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by spangry 10y ago
No problemo. And yeah, that's how I read it, bearing in mind the usual caveats like: all costs (mining to site remediation) being accounted for, technological and price changes over the past 3 years etc. etc. I think 'cost avoided
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by spangry 10y ago
Sadly, I think you're right. When you get down to it, wars are usually just one group trying take another group's stuff. The common precursor to large-scale war appears to be 'resource scarcity'. I'm almost beginnin
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It depends. How expensive is tea in China at the moment?
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Or you can internalise costs that normally get externalised. For instance, the government could make people pay a fixed-fee (i.e. a tax) for every tonne of co2 they emit. You then just set the fee at a level commensurate with the total dama
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by spangry 10y ago
Even better, kangaroos (I know, I know, poor skippy...). Their digestive systems don't produce methane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo#Absence_of_digestive_... And I'm less sure of this, but I've
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by spangry 10y ago
I suspect many emotivists aren't even aware of the concept's existence. So, as a practical matter, I suppose the onus is on those who are aware of it to modify their approach if they wish to persuade such people. I've noticed
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by spangry 10y ago
You're right, it would help. Unfortunately, probably the most effective method [0] of achieving population control (short of actively killing people) is accelerating economic and social development in poorer countries. At the moment, e

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