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by thesagan 5y ago
There’s so much to protest and so many are crushed that many Americans have resigned hope for change.
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by thesagan 5y ago
"Fast" may also be used as an adverb. See: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fast
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by thesagan 5y ago
Yep, that's exactly what I was hinting at.
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by thesagan 5y ago
Although you're being downvoted, this is a growing sentiment among researchers and others near the field. There are calls to improve measurements of a society's wealth, as well as individual. Current headlines use the broad statis
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by thesagan 5y ago
That seems a bit simplistic.
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by thesagan 5y ago
With Comcast maintaining pipes that carry traffic to Google, I wonder how a Google vs. Comcast event would look.
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by thesagan 6y ago
Don't many hunter gatherers have easier lives? See: "According to Sahlins, ethnographic data indicated that hunter-gatherers worked far fewer hours and enjoyed more leisure than typical members of industrial society, and they stil
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by thesagan 6y ago
I think the confusion stems from the fact that most people speak through or on private property—both digital and physical. But they're taught in school that there is a general "freedom of speech" which doesn't really exi
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by thesagan 6y ago
Seems like we’re removing lanes from the “information highway.” A once optimistic future to waste. Like radio and tv. Less participation is better now; as in the famous statement of an “excess of democracy.” How quick we change our values.
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by thesagan 6y ago
I happen to think the opposite. I know it's unpopular. Downvoted posts are distinct markers that shape our experience. But we're warned to not discuss it; the very thing that controls how we see and what we see (or not see). Appar
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by thesagan 6y ago
I think it's different for everyone. Myself, two decades ago, I was happier. I'm still happy now, but I was much more exuberant, in general, back then. The zest and passion of youth sort of stuff. I'd rather live through COVI
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by thesagan 6y ago
I think the concern stems from differing contexts. When typing on the phone, you're looking at the phone. You're usually (hopefully) not driving. Driving, on the other hand, is demanding on the senses; on at least three of them. T
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by thesagan 6y ago
Like grocery stores or many types of restaurants, for example. They usually can't compete against the Walmarts and Paneras, which suck up consumer mindshare. Similar with soft drinks. Coke and Pepsi build as much mindshare as possible.
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by thesagan 6y ago
That's what popped in my head, "oh, pivoting!" I guess there's an element of readiness to the idea.
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by thesagan 6y ago
It's a problem. Been one since the Spanish-American war. Some of the biggest source of advertising revenues for news media organizations comes from defense companies. The New York Times pushed for the Iraq war, for example. They fired
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by thesagan 6y ago
I agree. Most of these tombs are better in the ground, unknown and undiscovered. I understand we can build knowledge from these artifacts, but there may be some unforeseen value in abiding by the benign wishes of ancient peoples. I don&#x27
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by thesagan 6y ago
Actually, I think this is now normal in the U.S. and should be expected going forward. From both duopoly parties. Power grabbing is the game.
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by thesagan 6y ago
I'm not sure this is an age thing, but a personality thing. I've worked with several people in their 20s and 30s who have had one or more of these traits, as well as older folks who had few or none. I'm stopping short of maki
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by thesagan 6y ago
Great Recession! /s
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by thesagan 6y ago
People read the headline. The small words beneath it are there for the headline to rest upon. Sometimes a picture also rests on the small text. That small text is pretty useful. When I worked at a newspaper a lot of work went into headlines
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by thesagan 6y ago
I think you're in very good company, myself included.
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by thesagan 6y ago
Fallacy of relative privation. It's still a dark place.
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by thesagan 6y ago
Interestingly enough, I forget which author, claimed Titanic even began heading for Newfoundland before stopping, after the flooding worsened (perhaps due to the movement, there are conflicting testimonies about how the early pumping perfor
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by thesagan 6y ago
I likely wouldn't survive. I would've been confident in the ship, and the crew's countenance. The ship sank very slowly at first. No reason for panic, if things are just still. I would've known about watertight doors, an
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by thesagan 6y ago
When there's competition to foster. Unfortunately, the pendulum has been swinging towards market concentration, duopolies, and even monopolies. See: Health insurance industry Also see: Internet service providers Also also see: Publishi
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by thesagan 7y ago
Thank you for this post. I'm better than I was a year and a half ago when I was doing full time web development at an agency for large corps. I just burned out one too many times and got sick of development and tech, in general. So, no
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by thesagan 7y ago
I've seen this pattern in academic settings myself. There's simply a lot of tunnel vision. Although, as a parent comment pointed out (a bit rudely) there's acknowledgement of various shortcomings of measures such as CPI, ther
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by thesagan 7y ago
Like politicians, smart economists wait to make predictions—growth or recession—until two quarters later. As a group they miss acute macro moves, altogether.
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by thesagan 7y ago
There's a lot of exuberance lately in areas that benefit from low interest rates; housing (again), corporate debt (this one is huge), and sovereign debt (another big one). Over the last few decades, we seem to have a boom-bust debt cyc
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by thesagan 7y ago
But if the number of players on the bench keep increasing while those on the field keep decreasing, you might start to wonder if there's a problem, or if the Warriors will be back to play next season.

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