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by tjic 10y ago
The United States was not set up as a single unified government, but as a compact among co-equal states to share a few limited tasks. In this way it is much like the United Nations. The UN does not pick its secretary general by a popular vo
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by tjic 10y ago
> How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/global-warming-helped-cause-sy... . This is embarrassing.
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by tjic 10y ago
I blame myself for 90% of the bad decision, and Seth Godin and his "The Dip" theory for the other 10%.
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by tjic 10y ago
Running my company for 15 years instead of for 10. After the crash of 2008 it was clear that revenues were plunging and the situation was dire. I could have shut it down right then and there and left on a high note. Instead I slashed my own
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by tjic 10y ago
> People (well, climate science researchers) have been saying that the changes are decades ahead of us, even now, but that we need to take action now and in the past to prevent these changes. Climate researchers have _not_ been implying
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by tjic 10y ago
Crop yields continue to climb. http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/uploads/cereal_yields...
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by tjic 10y ago
> What a sad and pathetic excuse for discrimination based on culture and values Discrimination based on skin color seems self evidently bad, but discrimination based on culture and values seems not just not bad, but actively good! Why sh
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by tjic 10y ago
Agreed. The progressive groupthink (quite different from the community twenty years ago) makes me sad.
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by tjic 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#Events_ge...
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by tjic 10y ago
Trying to make a profit is the most effective way of helping people. I hope that it is NOT sarcasm.
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by tjic 10y ago
> You assume that "freedom to contract" means that both parties enter with equal knowledge and equal bargaining power. No, it doesn't. I'm Hayek-friendly, so I don't think two entities EVER have the same knowled
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by tjic 10y ago
My "argument from ignorance" comment seems pretty rock solid, given that the original comment began with the words "I don't understand why..." That is literally the definition of an argument from ignorance.
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by tjic 10y ago
> I don't understand why there's so many people in the comments defending non-competes. They have literally no value to society, or to individual employees. To go meta for a moment: I think that this sort of statement exposes a
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by tjic 10y ago
> everything you own was produced and transported by using natural resources and energy, True. But natural resources and energy are both effectively infinite. Further, just because an item USED these things does not mean that it WASTED t
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by tjic 10y ago
I absolutely have occasionally wanted to own less. For example, when I last moved houses. :) I own a crazy amount of things because I own a lot of books, I have a well equipped workshop, and I live on a farm (which means that I have two c
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by tjic 10y ago
I appreciate the aesthetic of minimalism, and if it's pragmatic for a particular person, more power to them. There is, however, an underlying (but not specifically articulated) article of faith in the Silicon Valley / news.yc &#x2
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by tjic 10y ago
Not a fake, but a clever improvisation: I bought a large woodturning lathe once ( Powermatic 3520, for those who care). The lathe was shipped inside a heavy duty cardboard box. The box was strapped down to a pallet. When I cut the straps
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by tjic 10y ago
> Probably WW2 era I know. That's why I typed "WWII" (II = 2)
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by tjic 10y ago
This is neat, and I don't want to diminish that, but when I saw the headline "...from scratch", I wasn't expecting that the starting components would include "a full set of keys". I'm reminded of an old Di
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by tjic 10y ago
I remember being in fifth grade science class (in the early 1980s) and hearing first about Kepler's law and that planets further out circle the sun less quickly than those closer in, and then next hearing that we had spiral galaxies. I
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by tjic 10y ago
I've read one or two of his books. I'm tentatively a fan. I need to dig in deeper.
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by tjic 10y ago
Sounds great! We also grow hops and apples.
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by tjic 10y ago
No.
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by tjic 10y ago
Agreed. Photo of making blood pudding https://goo.gl/photos/fUkkcmUxLXmopAQf6 Photo of preparing the heart before marinating it in olive oil and spices, then grilling it. https://goo.gl/photos/T4MQ
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by tjic 10y ago
exactly
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by tjic 10y ago
You don't want the pig to die instantly; you want it unconscious and unable to feel pain... but you want the heart still alive. The heart pumps blood which exsanguinates the animal after you slice it's aorta. This allows you to c
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by tjic 10y ago
FWIW, even though I choose to live an omnivorous life, I have the highest respect for vegetarians. I've met people who say "I enjoy meat, but I could never kill an animal". Fuck you. You kill animals every day by eating meat
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by tjic 10y ago
Oh, no! Im just doing it NEAR the tablesaw. I do it all by hand with knives.
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by tjic 10y ago
Yes. If you see that dive gallon bucket of blood in the photo? I made bood sausage with it.
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by tjic 10y ago
No, I bootstrapped into a farm by being lucky enough to have bought a small house in Arlington, MA just before it hugely gentrified. I sold a 1,500 square foot house on 0.1 acres of land and traded laterally into a 5,000 square foot house o

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