tsotha

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by tsotha 11y ago
>Even now, increasingly autonomous drones are killing people in the middle east. Increasingly? No, they're the same amount autonomous as they've ever been.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm surprised the didn't warn you about going cold turkey. I've never been prescribed something from that class without being warned about the effects of sudden withdrawal.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'd rather not get that specific about my medical problems. Sorry.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I agree opiods should be a last resort for long term pain. But they should be available if needed. It wasn't just people in long term pain, though. It was people who'd just had operations. It was people in hospice , for Pete&#
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's the rub, though. People do mix them with alcohol. Isn't that what killed Whitney Houston?
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by tsotha 11y ago
My fear is the same thing that happened with opiods will happen with benzodiazepines. There was a moral panic and the government started cracking down. The government can't do anything with finesse, though, so for awhile people who w
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by tsotha 11y ago
For a great many people (myself included) benzodiazepines are lifesavers. I would really hate to see these kinds of articles prompt yet another moral panic which has doctors reluctant to prescribe drugs to people who need them.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I don't know why this is surprising, since it's purely an outgrowth government policies. The state mandates hospitals provide certain kinds of care without providing funds under EMTALA. That money has to come from somewhere, so
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by tsotha 11y ago
To be fair to the professors, they wouldn't be teaching intro to whatever if they weren't genuinely enthusiastic about the subject. Also, while the ROI on some majors is terribly negative over a large population, that choice has l
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by tsotha 11y ago
These kinds of op ed pieces are always shocking in the way they drip with entitlement. He quit his job as a shoe salesman, where he would be a district manager if he stayed he'll have you know, because he was just too good for that ki
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by tsotha 11y ago
I think there's a lot of truth to this. Adding flexibility on one dimension almost invariably makes other kinds of changes more difficult, so you come out far ahead if you can correctly anticipate the direction in which your applicati
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by tsotha 11y ago
A great many people (rightly or wrongly) think the unions have done a lot of damage to US heavy industry (auto and steel, mostly) by demanding unreasonably high wages and benefits. Labor-management relations in the US seem to be more conten
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by tsotha 11y ago
C or any compiled language, you mean.
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by tsotha 11y ago
You don't always have that choice. There was a European country (I forget which one. Norway?) that was using applets for access to government services.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Honestly, I don't understand how this can work as a practical matter. For companies and their customers to have a chance of surviving criminal hacking attempts they have to be as secure as they can be. If it's easy for the FBI to
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by tsotha 11y ago
I see. So anyone we ever dealt with in any capacity was "propped up". Gotcha.
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by tsotha 11y ago
No, I'm pointing out the stupidity of your position. Just because the US "propped up" a handful of dictators out of the hundreds in the world doesn't mean what he's saying isn't paranoid nonsense.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Never? No, not never. Do we prop them all up like he implies?
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by tsotha 11y ago
There isn't a single sentence in that paragraph that isn't blatantly false or at least grossly exaggerated.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Maybe I should start by asking which doesn't seem like paranoid nonsense to you?
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by tsotha 11y ago
How would he know if he's "bothering" them without asking? Not everyone in the world is reflexively atheist.
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by tsotha 11y ago
This is just paranoid nonsense.
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by tsotha 11y ago
There's nothing wrong with negotiating in secret. I'm not convinced it could be done any other way. At some point, though, it needs to be ratified in some democratic manner, without secret clauses or gentleman's agreement
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by tsotha 11y ago
You're just proving my point here. Wickard was a bad ruling which should have resulted some sort of correction (either impeachment or a change in the law) I know how laws are made, that's why I want to make sure information g
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by tsotha 11y ago
Right. Which puts you comfortably into middle age before you retire your student loan debt. Which is absolutely crazy.
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by tsotha 11y ago
While what he says is true, if you're taking on a lot of debt you have to consider whether you're going to be able to pay it off and how long that will take. "How much can I expect to make after graduation" was somethi
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by tsotha 11y ago
For some reason I'll never be able to understand, a large percentage of the population considers relative wealth to be more important than absolute wealth.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I'd personally like to understand the doublethink and mental laziness that led sedachv to make that passive-aggressive rhetorical crack about yummyfajitas hating all the poor souls who choose not to work. I'm still trying to w
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The religious right may not love Rand Paul but they hate Hillary Clinton. In light of the recent revelations regarding CGI I don't see how anyone , Republican or Democrat, could vote for Hillary Clinton. It'll be disastrous
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Because when you print money you don't pay interest to anyone so instead of borrowing you could just jump the middleman and just print he is printing anyways. >Because when you print money you don't pay interest to anyone s

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