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by trgv 9y ago
The difference is that - in theory anyway - all of the balls are the same.
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by trgv 9y ago
I agree with you generally...the uproar over twitter bots and fake news stories has struck me as a little silly. At the same time, some Russian activities seem to have risen to the level of espionage. According to the article, Russian agen
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by trgv 9y ago
I don't think we should passively accept aging or death, but I'm not sure if life extension is underfunded, or how you would even demonstrate that. Many different areas of research, such as cancer research, could fit under the umb
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by trgv 9y ago
I feel like you missed my point. I'm not saying this is good or that it should continue. I'm saying that, in the context of the world as it exists today, if I am the mayor of Boston, it will benefit my city to offer Amazon tax br
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by trgv 9y ago
I agree with you that these kinds of transactions are regrettable and they leave a bad taste in my mouth. At the same time, you haven't convinced me that local governments are making a bad decision by playing this game. I think perspe
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by trgv 9y ago
Of course it's not quite that simple. People using phones at a concert affects everyone's experience. This is a godsend for some of us. It absolutely detracts from my experience in theaters, concerts, shows, etc when everyone h
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by trgv 9y ago
I imagine there are "people diagnosed with clinically depression" who could cure their depression by exercising and/or changing their life in some way. However, I know a couple people who do not fall into that bucket. Both o
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by trgv 9y ago
These days it is often assumed that if you don't mention this kind of thing then you are tacitly endorsing it. I don't buy into that, but I don't mind playing along.
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by trgv 9y ago
> That is to say, he writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idio
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by trgv 9y ago
My opinion is that killing and subjugating people is wrong, regardless of your motivation for doing so, unless your motivation is to stop people from killing and subjugating other people. In general, I'm not comfortable speculating a
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by trgv 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Atrocities committed in Soviet Russia/Soviet satellites are different from atrocities committed by the Nazis because one set of atrocities was motivated by racism and the other was motivated b
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by trgv 9y ago
I thought it was conventional wisdom that sexual orientation in males is influenced by birth order. If that's the case then I'd be surprised if there were no other effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frate
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by trgv 9y ago
The article seem to suggest that "white males dominating positions of power" and "males committing sex crimes and getting away with it" are the same issue. Both of these things are problems. The former because it sugges
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by trgv 9y ago
Suggesting that signing up to "protect and serve" reduces the value of your life to 1/10 of someone who didn't is...insane. Generally speaking, the suggestion that a person's profession influences the value of thei
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by trgv 9y ago
> So, being honest paid off for her? The article describes how her openness almost cost her the job offer. In the author's opinion, she made a mistake by being open about her insecurities in a job interview. I've worked with p
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by trgv 9y ago
I would make some distinctions here: a lot of the laws in Saudi Arabia are repressive, but the government (read: the royal family) isn't especially religious. Rather, the government "outsources" some of the lawmaking to the
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by trgv 9y ago
I, for one, will not act like I knew it all along.
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by trgv 9y ago
No, of course not. But I'm still interested in what a court would ultimately decide and whether anyone has actually been taken to court over this.
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by trgv 9y ago
I agree with you, more or less. I don't think the Odyssey is a complicated story. But that doesn't have anything to do with this article though, which I rather liked. > You wanna argue with Tolstoy? Tolstoy famously described
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by trgv 9y ago
Can Oracle/Microsoft actually enforce "no benchmark clauses," as in could they take you to court and win?
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by trgv 9y ago
Something I've noticed are advertisements for ERs. Really. I was a little shocked when I saw one on the way to work. It says: "Trouble breathing? Nausea and fever? Stomach pain? Our ER can help." "What's your bo
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by trgv 9y ago
> It's the only asset that doesn't require me to trust an institution or an individual. It can't be confiscated. It's rules are known. If we really want to take this argument to an extreme, the government can kill you
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by trgv 9y ago
You should take another glance at the article. It's actually quite good (in the topic, not the one you linked, I share your distaste for Thomas Friedman). It doesn't say anything about the situation in Yemen, it's just a sol
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by trgv 9y ago
Is there any reason people can't engage in both kinds of protest? Also, I think the chances of Apple deciding to pay its taxes due to this kind of pressure are at least as high as politicians in X country closing loopholes.
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by trgv 9y ago
Universities are supposed to be morally upright. Even if they can't be prosecuted for this, it's still news that they're cheating. Additionally, I think there's a really important difference between following the law an
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by trgv 9y ago
The idea of a land-value tax has plenty of proponents less controversial than Lenin. Invoking Lenin doesn't really serve any purpose in this debate, it's just one rung above pointing your finger and shrieking about "communism
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by trgv 9y ago
I think "snake oil salesman" only applies if the target of the epithet is knowingly perpetrating a fraud. You could (accurately, in my opinion) describe the things Kurzweil is selling as "snake oil" but I wouldn't d
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by trgv 9y ago
I don't think "snake oil salesman" is apt at all. I don't know the guy, or follow him closely, but I don't think he's dishonest, I just think he's wrong. There's a distinction between a snake oil sal
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by trgv 9y ago
> The human body cannot live on carbs alone for five months Is this true?
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by trgv 9y ago
Sometimes I wish I could compartmentalize my decision-making process like this. I can't though. Actions usually have moral implications totally apart from their legality, and these implications seem at least as important as the legal

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