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by underlipton 20d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582188 That's at least one sector of the Christian world that ignores that line. I don't think they're alone. You also have other etymological canaries like "fortun
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by underlipton 20d ago
Even if those statistics are correct, I do think you're ignoring that smartphone apps are specifically engineered to be low-friction and highly-addictive, and pushed specifically to the people who are anxious about spending money on ot
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by underlipton 21d ago
Is it? Wealth is used as a proxy for virtue, and has been for a long time. "Nobility" has two meanings, after all. Why the same word, if not the same root sentiment? Unless one definition was originally meant sarcastically.
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by underlipton 21d ago
As always, it is good to be aware that many people are too anxious about more existential issues to comfortably an consistently expend effort on intellectually-taxing tasks that aren't perceived as directly related to their survival. I
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by underlipton 21d ago
Believe it or not, Djiboutian. The tenacity of the Djiboutian is little-known, generally, but highly regarded amongst those who do.
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by underlipton 26d ago
What do you even talk about on a phone call like this? I have both intense social anxiety and FOMO. Knowing that this thing exists for a week and then no more is torture.
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by underlipton 26d ago
Related: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Neutron_Jammer_Canceller I wonder how often *teleports behind you* shows up in space operas.
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by underlipton 27d ago
This goes for almost every institution you can think of, save higher education and the field of climate science - and, even then, you can make an argument for lax funding and marketing on their part, in terms of overwhelming politicians and
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by underlipton 28d ago
I don't understand what was unclear.
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by underlipton 29d ago
They definitely use three exclamation points instead of that last question mark.
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by underlipton 29d ago
Trying to open the website turned my gaming laptop into a 747. This has got to stop.
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by underlipton 1mo ago
"Nothing would fundamentally change." And he meant it.
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by underlipton 1mo ago
Buried lede is that this is someone's chance to coin a new term for "something that feels like jury nullification but isn't because it's a grand jury and the internet lawyers are being pedantic because they really don&#x
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by underlipton 1mo ago
>we have to remember that they're fighting a battle against SEO and spam We have to remember that they decided to side with the SEOmongers rather than crush them, because it was better for Google's bottom line.
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by underlipton 1mo ago
One wonders what the lowered stress vis a vis healthcare concerns that a reformed system would take care of would do for our ability, as an electorate, to make better decisions in other arenas.
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by underlipton 1mo ago
It's complicated. If you actually look at the citations, they were looking at - and kind of necessarily so, if you think about it - a cohort of wrestlers who were born more than a century ago, and not later than mid-century; so, not th
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Employees from lower class backgrounds face backlash when they negotiate(hbr.org)
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by underlipton 1mo ago
IIRC, the farther you are from an "ideal" 19th century Frenchman, the less BMI says about you.
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by underlipton 1mo ago
>Getting all the way to the obese BMI range while having healthy body fat is only happening for people with an extreme dedication to body building and diet And sumo wrestlers. The line seems to be drawn at (effortful) activity level more
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by underlipton 1mo ago
That sounds more like an issue with the update policies.
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by underlipton 2mo ago
These are both ways of saying that the problem isn't the commons (shared ownership), it's an issue of accountability (where "abandon something broken and find another" is a way of exercising accountability).
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by underlipton 2mo ago
She showed that the commons wasn't the common element in systems that weren't sustainable. If the "tragedy" is that every commonly-held asset is doomed to destruction, and you have common, predictable examples of ones th
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by underlipton 2mo ago
That's not a "tragedy of the commons," then. It's a "tragedy of ineffective governance." And governance doesn't have to be top-down.
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by underlipton 2mo ago
The point is that the issue isn't the commons (lack of direct ownership), it's culture and accountability for actions (the existence or lack of responsibility). TTOTC rides on the idea that systems, as a rule, fall into chaos and
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by underlipton 2mo ago
I'll read the article once I can get past the paywall, but something important to note in the meantime: "The tragedy of the commons" was debunked years ago: https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-comm
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by underlipton 2mo ago
Someone is going to chime in about the tone of this post, with the ramifications of a decade-and-a-half of rejection on one's outlook flying right over their head. If the underemployed and NEETs got half the consideration that extrover
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by underlipton 2mo ago
Survivorship bias. You know what's as bad as a criminal record for your career prospects, in America? Being a black man. Having autism. Being over 50. Being a single mother. Being an immigrant without local credentials. Having a long e
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by underlipton 2mo ago
The g-word has, unfortunately, led to some changes that have impacted the system's aesthetics over the past few years. Lighting was brightened and switched to white LEDs in many stations, ruining the ambiance. This was echoed on the ne
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by underlipton 2mo ago
You don't get to unbundle the technology that was achieved by bundling and call it okay because the components are benign. The best you can say is that dynamite was a safer alternative to preceding technology, and that its danger only
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by underlipton 2mo ago
I didn't say anything about ingesting.

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