unishark

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by unishark 6y ago
These seem like extreme cases that just take more words to translate due to limited overlap of shared experiences. If it never snows in Hawaii, the Hawaiian language may not have a word for it. But snow is a real thing apart from language.
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by unishark 6y ago
I don't see how scale matters to the moral question. Whether they are a giant multinational company, or a little personal blog, the problem is still there. They currently do not have employees who examine this stuff or decide if it nee
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by unishark 6y ago
I liked math in high school and usually saw the underlying meaning of the concepts. Teachers generally aren't idiots (or at least mine weren't), they try to explain it best they can, and start with that explanation. I remember exp
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by unishark 6y ago
> The article says that safety measures at the firmware chip level are disabled. Those are the safety measures protecting the PMIC, not the battery. Is that temperature cutoff even low enough to matter before the battery is on fire? It
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by unishark 6y ago
> Why is reducing suffering ethical? Deep question. Seems like it's usually more of a postulate of ethics than a logical conclusion. Treat others as you'd like to be treated, for example. If you're looking for a scientific
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by unishark 6y ago
I think the key component for this kind of tactic to work is have your target be Gawker. The New York Times has made bigger and more powerful enemies than Peter Thiel, as have many other less-universally-hated media companies.
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by unishark 6y ago
> Their core problem is that their product is a commodity. Even worse, the cheapest comparable alternatives are free. At least commodities can be sold at the market price if you can't differentiate yours enough.
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by unishark 6y ago
A club might go elsewhere for a pool or track, but I don't think it's at all common for a plain old PE class to go off campus except perhaps to use a gym if the school lacks one. And I don't think having your own pool is very
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by unishark 6y ago
Yes, this is bad advice for dealing with people who came to haggle and that think their work starts when you say "no", much less when decline weakly.
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by unishark 6y ago
> Agriculture made humanity a lot more resilient to changes in food supply. Maybe this has negative consequences at the individual level but as a species level it's pretty clear which one is more favorable. Sounds like it would be
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by unishark 6y ago
The US returned to isolationism after the war. I think the powers of the president are the real driver for such intervention. We always have interests on one side more than the other, and they can't resist meddling. FDR flagrantly took
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by unishark 6y ago
Not to pile on here, but you did claim 'everyone'. Apparently people took it more literally than you meant it.
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by unishark 6y ago
Unless they're just losing money on it. An apartment building I once lived in had free candy in the lobby sometimes. I rather doubt it was driven by any measurable profits for them by doing it.
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by unishark 6y ago
DOA is a metaphor too, literally referring to people arriving at the ER too late.
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by unishark 6y ago
> My point is whatever they choose is likely going to be government monitored. And _their_ point, which came first and you came here to argue against, is CCP monitoring is especially bad for particular political reasons.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think you overestimate them. Sometimes 100 percent of government paperwork consists of telling them stuff they should already know.
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by unishark 6y ago
Well presumably he read it because he wanted to. I wouldn't have survived such language myself either, luckily "Max" was there to boil it down for you and I. And I found the review fairly amusing for a while. It cited some co
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by unishark 6y ago
> Plus the article is riddled with sentences like "telos of the clickbait economy is fascist kitsch." That's a quote from the book, which the reviewer does say "...some will find unbearably pretentious"
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by unishark 6y ago
> I'm not sure that 'China is doing it too' has any bearing on the lawfulness of US government action. But that's essentially the basis for the other side of the argument in this case, namely that because China only a
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by unishark 6y ago
Yeah I first read the article wondering if cyber fraud was their business model.
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by unishark 6y ago
I thought he started out as a shark that ripped off his classmates business idea.
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by unishark 6y ago
> ...striking a harsh blow against two popular services used by more than 100 million people in the United States. Seriously? I am so far behind on these things that they come and go before I get a chance to try them. Though I did use We
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by unishark 6y ago
I'm sure they have generators for handling blackouts. Even my local grocery can keep operating in a blackout. Some people can't survive without machines after all. They occasionally get caught by rarer situations like a blackout c
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by unishark 6y ago
Technically sandwiches are often sold at a loss and are just there to sell customers on the high-margin items like drinks and fries. So you're partly right but it doesn't really make for a motivation to increase sandwich size with
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by unishark 6y ago
I started using python and numpy/scipy back then because it was vastly easier to deploy on a server or supercomputer. The matlab compiler meanwhile is clunky and adds new bugs and additional steps. Julia doesn't really match pytho
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by unishark 6y ago
My understanding of the major libertarian groups in the US is that they side with the left on social issues like culture war, abortion, and secularism. They side with the right on economic issues like free markets. They like to make a 2D po
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by unishark 6y ago
This is why it is legal, not necessarily why we must describe is as a state of freedom for the speaker. Suppose you work for the govt and get fired for what you say. No one inflicted harm on you there. The important categorical difference i
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by unishark 6y ago
Technically it remains illegal to bribe politicians. More of them get busted every year. Citizens United was about campaigning for them independently. Something that was already legal for individuals to do. I agree second order effects are
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by unishark 6y ago
This has gone in a funny direction. Telling someone to commit murder, with the knowledge that they will carry out this act, legally fulfills the requirements of mens rea and actus reus for the crime of murder. It isn't a speech crime p
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by unishark 6y ago
A granny flat or mother-in-law suite would be cheating. It's a separate apartment. Your parents are your neighbors not your room-mates anymore. Education in other countries is far more strict and regimented than the US. Especially Asia

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