tsotha

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541.
by tsotha 11y ago
Well, it's kind of problematic if the head of a church doesn't actually belong to it.
542.
by tsotha 11y ago
No, I don't think so. Some people are more intelligent than other people, and it flows through to all their endeavors.
543.
by tsotha 11y ago
Nope. Like I said. You can only get there by ignoring lending standards. EDIT: Did you even read the links you posted, or did you just do a quick Google search and copy links without reading?
544.
by tsotha 11y ago
>Its power source is an internal hermetically sealed capsule containing a mixture of gaseous and liquid ethyl chloride, which expands into an expansion chamber as the temperature rises, compressing a spiral spring; with a fall in tempera
545.
by tsotha 11y ago
You have no way of knowing whether or not this is true. The way people come to the conclusion it's harder for black people to get loans is to throw out all the traditional lending criteria like credit history, income, and assets.
546.
by tsotha 11y ago
I don't see how that's relevant.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Even by itself, "privilege" is a really terrible, loaded word. People like George Bush are privileged -- most white people are not. Yep. It's the apex fallacy.
548.
by tsotha 11y ago
Exactly. I can look at a 7'2" woman and see that she's tall. What do I know about medicine? If my life depended on picking a tall person hidden behind a screen, would I choose a woman or a man? This is what's stupid ab
549.
by tsotha 11y ago
And this means I should accept a statistically inferior doctor to treat my heart attack... why?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Err... 80%.
551.
by tsotha 11y ago
Um, yes. Of course if 80% of the states water goes to farmers and you're 20% below normal, that means farmers have to be part of rationing. But do you really think there would be so much farming if we didn't have 20 million extra
552.
by tsotha 11y ago
The problem it there isn't much to actually do. Every last drop of the Colorado river is spoken for, so it's not like you can bring in more water by adding capacity there. We're taking the most we can take out of the delta,
553.
by tsotha 11y ago
Desal takes enormous amounts of power for not much water. It's not really a practical solution.
554.
by tsotha 11y ago
Agriculture uses about 20% or so. But all those people need to eat, so it's not like you can pretend twenty million people don't add to the demand for agricultural products. Besides, if population was steady urban use would be 5.5
555.
by tsotha 11y ago
The real problem here is runaway population growth. In California we've seen our population double in the last forty years or so, and there just isn't enough water in the American Southwest to accommodate that kind of growth.
556.
by tsotha 11y ago
In this day of Uber and mobile phones it's hard to believe you can't get a cab pretty much anywhere.
557.
by tsotha 11y ago
If a cab driver refuses you service take the next one. Why is that a problem? And the barber example makes my point. When they added licensing for cosmetology in my state existing cosmetologists were grandfathered in. They got licenses b
558.
by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, this is really about stifling competition. You notice whenever they add licensing requirements that kind of stuff is always grandfathered in. If it were really about health and safety existing practitioners would be required to ta
559.
by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not sure it will work in a smaller area. If you just did it in one city poor people from all over the country would move there and bankrupt the program.
560.
by tsotha 11y ago
That's because everything the people of California vote for gets stuck in the courts for decades after it passes.
561.
by tsotha 11y ago
It wouldn't explain why the incidence of autism is increasing, though.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I agree with you on both counts.
563.
by tsotha 11y ago
>The enduring tension of this line of work, in my opinion, is how to balance my desire to take pride in my work with my desire not to be a thankless janitor for the chronically cavalier. That's a good observation. Fortunately I&#x27
564.
by tsotha 11y ago
It's not so much that someone will say "you should've used Oracle". It's that when your application is down for two days they'll say "you should've picked a vendor with 24 hour support and good penet
565.
by tsotha 11y ago
>That and their tendency to break. I'm certainly not sorry to see them go. I was getting tired of being blinded by the car behind me because its owner was too lazy or cheap to fix a headlight that had broken loose.
566.
by tsotha 11y ago
They want to make an example out of her.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Programmer: "But you didn't account for all the edge cases. Your solution seems to work at first glance, but now someone else is going to have to redo what you've done and fix the data problems that resulted from the half-a
568.
by tsotha 11y ago
Except that it's not a continuation of sumptuary laws because there's a huge difference between a law and individual decisions people make.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, I don't see any indication there's a shortage of software developers. There are a lot of 50+ year old software developers out of work, and a whole lot of companies refuse to hire people without a degree.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>That way we can increase our efficiency as a country... How are you measuring efficiency here? If it makes sense to hire someone to do something and instead you go entirely robotic, that's the less efficient way to do something.

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