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by tropdrop 6y ago
In my experience, dishwashers use more water, not less. Growing up, we used a dishwasher regularly, and the process looked like this: a) remove all bits of food with regular washing, stack next to sink b) transfer from next to sink to dishw
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I am speaking of the usefulness of software in a much more general sense - does it work? Adobe Photoshop and GIMP are two competing softwares for a specific task - editing photos. Not everyone needs to edit photos. Those who do are voting w
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by tropdrop 6y ago
My (implicit) point was that software can be optimized for one factor, which is usefulness. By evaluating usefulness, we can evaluate whether a piece of software is "good" or not. However, use-value makes for a very poor metric
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by tropdrop 6y ago
What defines "good"? Marketability to the lowest common denominator?
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This person considers any degree outside their personal preference of "important" degrees a pseudo-degree. I am guessing this personal preference probably closely aligns with whatever is currently considered "job-ready"
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by tropdrop 6y ago
For an excellent example of "a true American by-the-bootstraps dream," let's look at George W. Bush's Wikipedia: George W. Bush attended two years at The Kinkaid School, a prep school in Piney Point Village, Texas in th
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Doesn't it strike you as odd that you must perform the appearance of working all those 50 hours (even though, as you've just mentioned, you spend the majority of your day listening to music and watching YouTube)? And what about
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by tropdrop 6y ago
You can work as much as you'd like. But which would you rather - being obligated to work 80 hour workweeks as an "integrations architect" for a shadowy .com company that will sell and gut its workforce (including you) in a co
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by tropdrop 6y ago
We're more productive than ever with very little to show for it. Agreed. "Indeed, in 2006, the top twenty per cent of earners were twice as likely to work more than fifty hours a week than the bottom twenty per cent, a reversal
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The way you can do both - i.e. giver her a name, since she has enough accomplishments in her own right to be named, but also indicate she is Bezos' ex-wife for those who do not know is like this: Mackenzie Scott (Bezos' ex-wife)
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by tropdrop 6y ago
To paint a government in a bad light is one thing. To rob its citizens of their humanity is another. A bad writer thinks they're equivalent.
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This is not a phenomenon unique to Russia. What was in it for the United States to drop 108,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia? What is in it still for the US to continue having troops in Afghanistan? Powerful countries have agendas. I cannot
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by tropdrop 6y ago
It sounds like Spufford fails to see the Soviet citizens as real humans. For an example how to not do that, all one must do is read any of the authors you mention (or Tolstoy, Chukovskaya, Gogol...) Tolstoy in particular has a knack for p
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by tropdrop 6y ago
You're equating philosophy with "going on cruises?" Unfortunate. How strange that in this very thread we are engaging in a dialogue fashioned in the method of someone who "liked going on cruises" 2400 years ago.
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Actually, my statement was value neutral - at least in the scope of its paragraph. All I am saying is that someone trained to do X while hating X is bound to hate their job. Hating one's job means you are not incentivized to perform it
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by tropdrop 6y ago
This "job-ready" talk is a classic example of technology developing a life of its own (in the widest sense of the word "technology"), corrupting education specifically to suit its own needs of self-replication. [1] The l
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I agree, of course free critique of art should be encouraged, and not all art is created equal, with the bookends of the quality spectrum particularly discernible. But the reason people keep down-voting you is because those kinds of meta-di
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Aha, this was subtle. Nice catch of the poster's own "ridiculous hubris" in assuming that the brain is "definitely not using any" algorithms.
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Diversity is strength – yes, even in writing. If you do not like the New Yorker's long form and quirky diaeresis, then do not read it. Other people (myself included) like the occasional long read with a cup of coffee on a foggy morning
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The New Yorker is known for its superb standards in regards to grammar, though it does tend to favor passive voice like academic circles are wont to do. This is evident here, with a focus first on Larson's work, then an introduction to
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by tropdrop 6y ago
I see these little carts around San Francisco all the time! Especially used by a lot of people in Chinatown, and also by a lot of older people, but today I even saw a young lady using one! Thank you for your input about the streetcars, Berw
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The housewives aspect of it is a strange thing to focus on - this is a relic of a time when most people did not drive, i.e. this style of living was natural to everyone, housewife or no, prior to Eisenhower-era financial incentives to bu
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by tropdrop 6y ago
And I tire of Twitter - the agent of that chaos - insisting I must always be "on," having a political position on everything all the time, and always ready to rally around wrong-doing. This is inhuman. I cannot always be on - I am
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> it's a people problem I dislike this trend (especially in Silicon Valley) to blame problems on the users - e.g. creating a startup, and becoming frustrated with users when people use it "incorrectly." Technology is sup
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There was a halfhearted attempt to remind that this figure doesn't have to be the mother: "By contrast, children of unresponsive or insensitive caregivers form insecure attachment. They become anxious and easily distressed by the
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My experience in Utah has actually been that the diversity problem is "Mormon" and "non-Mormon" (non-Mormon being the minority)
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I lived in Utah for 8 formative years (moving in from another country). I must say that growing up there and not being a part of The Church was very culturally jarring, even though I wasn't in Provo. Here is a good summary of our tre
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by tropdrop 6y ago
“Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation,” the supervisor contended, meaning they hit low-income people as hard as wealthier residents. “This is a railroad that, while it is an extremely valuable public transportation resource
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This was interesting: For example, in our study, all of the women who took the public interview failed, while all of the women who took the private interview passed. That is an amazing statistic! From 100% failure to 100% success!
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I think those count as "blue states with moderate Republican governors," in quadrifoliate's mind. Very recently, Illinois the state trumped Chicago the city and successfully elected Bruce Rauner (Republican businessman) as go

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