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by vharuck 6y ago
I take ADHD meds, and I will admit I have a dependency. When I go without my meds, I'm in a really bad mood the first day and get much worse the following days. That said, I don't have an addiction disorder , because it doesn&#
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by vharuck 6y ago
I think it's more the reasons, if they include honest facts, partially justify the means. Of course, this could be because everyone thinks they're to smart to be influenced. In which case, they appreciate the true information but
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by vharuck 6y ago
This idea doesn't grok with falling birthrates in wealthy nations. People don't just live to reproduce. There is a biological drive to reproduce, but it is not unchecked. So the cancer metaphor is apt.
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by vharuck 6y ago
I'm not sure which careers you think have been bailed out. Politicians talk about saving certain professions (e.g. coal miners), but those bailouts end up being for the company. Do you have a different example?
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by vharuck 6y ago
You do this clearly, because if you don't give people a good explanation, they'll find one elsewhere. And the person giving that explanation probably doesn't care about preserving your reputation.
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by vharuck 6y ago
If you believe this, start a competing service. There is no moral or practical rule that forces prices down to cost without external reason. If Fastmail is making big bucks, and customers are happy with the price, that's good for eve
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by vharuck 6y ago
>If it is not effective enough, then we are back to poisoning the water with delta-endotoxins, where we know the consequences on things that are not mosquitos are far more severe. This is a good point, and probably has more harmful actio
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by vharuck 6y ago
Jumping spiders make for great pets. Watching them hunt is fascinating, they'll crawl all over anything you put in the terrarium, and they can go without food for weeks at a time. Very low maintenance. And they're usually comfo
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by vharuck 6y ago
In general, the federal and state governments in the US don't track race because the government is obsessed with it. It's because our society was and still is obsessed with it. It'd be nice if we could ignore these vague an
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by vharuck 6y ago
I may be a less usual case on this forum, but I really like printed references. The walls of my cube at the office had cheat sheets pinned up (boilerplate code I need once a blue moon, lookup tables for codes, a map with county names and F
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by vharuck 6y ago
My home desk already has my desktop computer and my files. I don't want to split the desk space and drawers with work stuff. That's my space.
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by vharuck 6y ago
For Pennsylvanians, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has a nice PDF listing native plants by type of site (sunny/dark, dry/most) and some notes for each plant (preferred soil type, if they're used by polli
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Not having government be a gravy train also seems to help select for people who genuinely want to be civil servants because the people who are just in it for the paycheck don't stick around in challenging environments like that. Th
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by vharuck 6y ago
As a person who has worked a couple low-wage jobs (warehouse, retail), drug tests were the norm. Employers are trying to avoid flaky workers or ones likely to quit.
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by vharuck 6y ago
There are things that can be done, especially if the tumor is small and hasn't spread to adjacent organs. I'm not an expert, but in general, solid tumors are much more easily treated if caught early. Still, "watchful wait
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by vharuck 6y ago
Variant I heard, had a physicist, engineer, and mathematician sharing a room. The first two wastepaper basket fires were taken care of the same ways by the physicist and engineer. Then a third fire appears, but on the curtains. The mathema
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by vharuck 6y ago
Honest question: is there a reason to use this over LaTeX? If I stick to the core formatting also offered by Markdown, LaTeX is not hard to remember. And if I want to go beyond the basics, there's plenty of documentation.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>It's not questionable if you can pardon things that haven't been charged yet. You can. For a specific example, Jimmy Carter pardoned everyone who dodged the draft for Vietnam[1]. This showed that pardons could both apply to a
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by vharuck 6y ago
Human-drawn "deformities" are things like super-long legs, missing noses, or mouths so wide they look like a Muppet. This AI creates tumor-like deformities, where limbs are missing or melded together. As an example, here's a
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Do you realize that numerous times throughout history people have successfully killed the actual president and it didn't end democracy? I'm no historian, so was there ever a time the killing was instigated by a sitting politic
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by vharuck 6y ago
I stopped using Facebook when I was looking around the HTML tags for an image (can't recall why) and noticed it listed keywords for the image. The keywords were lacking context and only mentioned objects and weather, so it was obvious
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by vharuck 6y ago
I don't follow. Facts aren't covered by copyright, so how do copyright laws hinder their spread? >It wasn't until symbols were invented that we got lies. This is probably a loose slogan, but it's not correct. People
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by vharuck 6y ago
>My group gave up on 5e because it (subjective) felt like the PCs were overpowered early on (especially the healing rules). You might just be too good at the game for usually appropriate encounters. My group's having a blast, and w
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by vharuck 6y ago
>This was fine with iOS & play store & AWS until they all simultaneously and independently (wink wink) realized it violated their terms of use. The timing seems more likely due to a major public event than a backroom coordination
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by vharuck 6y ago
I like the memory of watching Seinfeld to learn America's mostly unspoken social norms. Seems like comedies mocking these norms are great for learning about modern cultures. I'd be interested in a list of similar works for other
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by vharuck 6y ago
Possible arrangement for university-level education: have the accrediting organizations administer exams for course credits and award degrees instead of individual universities. The goal would be to open up choices. People could self-study
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by vharuck 6y ago
>makes as much sense as treating the New York Times as a state-directed utility. This just reminded me there are laws, such as changing one's name, which require things to be announced in one or more prominent local papers (which la
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by vharuck 6y ago
You can hope for this, but polls show a large group of Americans listened to the years of obviously false information topped off by the recent months of "election fraud" disinformation, and ended up believing the batshit old guys.
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by vharuck 6y ago
Section 230 protects against civil litigation, not criminal.
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by vharuck 6y ago
Less than a 1000 people stormed the Bastille to kick off the French Revolution. Many bloody revolutions start with small and symbolic conflicts. I would not be at all surprised if many the people who attacked the Capitol believed this to

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