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by tjic 14y ago
Read the letter, specifically this bit: Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Seems to me he's saying "I've made mistakes and learned from them".
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Perhaps those who "confuse" these two terms do so because they've taken an economics course and realize that there are no superior definitions of "worth" than "what someone values an item at". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics)
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> ... and there you go doing it again. No, there YOU go doing it again. That comment was in a long thread of context, and you willfully ignored that. The comment was also non-actionable and was clearly political hyperbole. > There
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> My hackles go up whenever I see someone write "probably." I'd rather have someone put error bars on their knowledge with "probably" than emit a shorter, more confident sounding (but more wrong) sentence that omits the "probably".
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In fact, primates like the intersection of trees and grasslands - open fields provide visibility, trees provide safety. ...not just for the primates, but for all sorts of smaller critters, which go by the name "food".
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People with money prefer to live in places that are nice. This is a new insight?
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Agreed!
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Three. One I walk dogs with daily.
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An electrician explaining electricity is like a cop explaining the law. They're hired to follow an instruction book. That doesn't mean that they have the least idea of the whys and wherefores of what's in the book. Look at any of 1,000 vid
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> Another problem springs up. At present, some appliance manufacturers INTENTIONALLY connect the outside of their metal products to one of the power wires. This must be stopped. I disagree with this. If one side is tied to ground (and i
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> If you threaten a US senator Absolutely agreed. If some nut case puts up a website with the home address of someone, rants about a bounty on their head, etc., by all means, have an investigation and perhaps charges. ...but there's a d
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> In the UK even small villages often have an Indian take out. Amazing how a minor thing like running India as a colony for 400+ years can have that effect! Similarly, I imagine that Tex-Mex is a bit more common here than in Wales...
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> It's only when you get into strip-mall-landia where things start appearing incredibly boring and monocultural A famous economist / foodie has written an entire book about how you've got it EXACTLY backwards: http://www.amazon.com/An-
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Don't judge the US by our government workers, please. We can't stand them either.
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It can happen here. I made a joke over Twitter and the cops seized a $15k firearm collection and I racked up $15k in legal bills. No warrants, no charges, no actual investigation. Lots of tricks, lies to my lawyer, backtracking, etc. I'd l
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> WhosUpMyAss are also trademark infringements? No, actually, that one is free. Show us what you can do with it! ;-)
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> seriously, "regularly" turning down offers for work at a rate of over $400/hr? Yeah, that line stuck out like a store thumb.
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> Cryptoanarchist is a term much more likely to be used as a self-description than a political slur. Indeed. I not only call myself that, I'm in the process of writing an entire science fiction novel from that political perspective. ht
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> Are we going to call the Euro "the complete and utter morons answer to cash"? Actually...
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Why is a gender gap considered "depressing" ? Women have a bellcurve of capabilities, inclinations and skills. So do men. So do people born inside Route 128. So do left-handed people. Ideally any given person with skill set X should be allo
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> This is what happens whenever I debate "libertarians". I mention overarching tendencies, only to get replies about fine logic minutiae. Restated: "I hate debating smart people, because I spout over-generalized bullshit, and they call
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The day a believer in government realizes that he's voting in an elaborate charade where the Coke and Pepsi parties both deliver pretty much identical taxing, spending, and war making, and the ones who win every election are the politicians
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> incredibly impoverished in his personal world view Translation: I think X is important, he thinks Y is important, therefore it's not merely a matter of having different priorities, but "he is wrong" and - worse than that - "his worldv
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Today I baked four loaves of sourdough bread, forged a drawknife from an old leaf spring off my trucks, and replaced the capacitors in a guitar effects pedal. Why do I care about this website?
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There's no such thing as a non-lethal weapon: there are only less lethal weapons. Even a fist can be lethal, either by design or bad luck. When you start using weapons, you start risking deaths. That's not to say that all use of weapons is
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A further thought: PG talks about Blub languages and Blub programmers (in both cases, those at level X can look down at level X-3 and see what it's missing, but those at level X-3 look up at level X and just thing "WT*?"). I think that ther
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I was thinking the other day "if I wanted to market myself as a 40 year old RoR contractor, what's my one paragraph description / resume / pitch". It boiled down to: After 20 years of experience at startups, my key skill is simple : I GOD D
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> Does that actually work? Is it enforceable? Yes, it's legal and enforceable. Your signature is on the contract that you sign, not on some mythical un-marked-up copy. In fact, this is often a good negotiating tactic: someone hands you
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> Taking it public like this comes across as really petty and childish. I'm sure that everyone who would screw an engineer out of $10k agrees with this.
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> You may want to consider putting the $10K towards a good cause (if Miso eventually steps up), to show it was never about the money. Why wouldn't it be about the money? Why is this guy under any obligation to give away money he EARNED

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