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by viridian 4y ago
This entire discussion makes a good case for why the general populace would benefit from being taught the basics of philosophy. In this case the topic of value is the often fraught relationship between empiricism and rationalism , and th
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by viridian 4y ago
Viscerally understand the sentiment as someone who handles vague technical feedback here and there, but I've also seen this attitude kill off project enthusiasm almost completely, specifically with D&D/pathfinder character she
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by viridian 4y ago
Sounds on brand for most of the Mao flavored anarkiddies I've had the displeasure of running into on reddit. Struggle sessioning other leftists with whom you share 99.9% of doctrine is as much a socialist past time as it is a protestan
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by viridian 4y ago
Unfortunately not true, and your article outlines why. Going after the rich requires not only highly trained and specialized agents, but state attorneys to enforce judgement, and those aren't being hired or trained up. They may be goin
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by viridian 4y ago
To be honest, having read through this entire thread, you are the only user that sticks out as having some below-the-surface agenda and hiding behind a new account. People in glass houses really shouldn't throw stones.
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by viridian 4y ago
Functionally won't happen because we have a near infinite demand for petroleum products. We may see a world where no one drives a gasoline vehicle, but plastics, resins, rubber, kerosine have certain applications where people would be
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by viridian 4y ago
Not all pastoral land is able to yield crops though. There's a reason that Wyoming is home so many ranches, while San Joaquin valley is overwhelmingly money crops like grapes, almonds, and pistachios. Some fertility problems (hardening
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by viridian 4y ago
Demand is a slope, not a point. Price increases left shift demand, prices decreases right shift demand. This is because more people are willing to buy a good at a cheaper price than a more expensive one. In this context demand is the total
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by viridian 4y ago
Wait, are you Eurasiantiger from reddit?
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by viridian 4y ago
Ironically, I find your interpretation of the parent comment uncharitable, because I never would have framed the core argument the way you did. I don't think the behavior and results of airplane hijackings pre 9/11 fall into commo
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by viridian 4y ago
This is exactly how a price shift in the supply demand curve works in basic macroeconomics. If you price shift a good upwards and the demand remains static, yield per good increases and then supply should increase as suppliers willing to su
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by viridian 4y ago
The amount of required metadata to maintain federation is very small. Some matrix instances operate in this minimalist or near minimalist domain, but in my experience, getting folks to share their custom forks of matrix requires some social
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by viridian 4y ago
I think your grapefruit comparison is inaccurate unless you are referring to just the head. The Mayo Clinic's guide to pregnancy lists a baby's head at 24 weeks, just the head alone, at 8.7 inches (circ), but total length heel to
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by viridian 4y ago
I just don't get why people think this is unique to crypto. Crypto is maybe 4% of my total net worth, but literally every asset aside from my home has been deep in the red for weeks now. Hell, my high volatility ETFs are way worse off
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by viridian 4y ago
Yeah, this thread reads as very weird to me, it's liking I'm watching the SV tech bubble manufacture consent in real time. In reality, crypto has been tracking the market almost 1:1 for like 6 months now.
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by viridian 5y ago
If you would like, I can pull upvoted comments from the subreddit where people are bathing in the catharsis of their dead political enemies.
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by viridian 5y ago
It's true, and and an awful shame to see. I've donated to both the ACLU and been a member of the NRA in the past, and it's very obvious as someone who has received donor requests that both organizations have become captured b
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by viridian 5y ago
I used tildes for the better part of a year, unfortunately for me the cliquish nature and the fact that there are 12-15 power users with half the posts, who also congregate on the offsite discord, really ruined the website for me. I respect
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by viridian 6y ago
Why should we consider it a tragedy that people were occupying this building? I certainly don't see any reason to, just like I didn't see any reason to consider the occupation of the two police stations (and destruction of one) a
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by viridian 6y ago
A lot of Nintendo's business decisions in 2019 and 2020 seem like the exact types of decisions empty suits make though, and their glassdoor reads very similarly to one of the big banks. Nintendo has, with the exception of the switch h
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by viridian 6y ago
We are in bad shape if the best defense one can give of the current media is to call it a more efficient version of the worst period in modern journalistic history.
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by viridian 6y ago
How is diversity of thought poison? I wouldn't want to be a part of an online forum or friend group where everyone thought the same way.
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by viridian 6y ago
Murder rate is a per capita statistic. Larger populations have more of all types of crime, almost by definition.
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by viridian 6y ago
I'm not defending what's going on here, but CHAZ/CHOP had a higher murder rate than Somalia because of unelected volunteer "private security". Not sure how you see that as peaceful.
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by viridian 6y ago
This is an example of why I personally don't trust fact checkers any more. This gets a "mixture" rating, in spite of being: a) quite literally factual - she said those exact words b) semantically similar in and out of context
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by viridian 6y ago
The bill has been passed. It was added into the omnibus bill as a part of negotiating between the Dems and the GOP.
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by viridian 6y ago
I agree in principle, but you wouldn't expect court documents in particular to exist for a new piece of legislation though. In this case we would want the proposed revision to the federal code.
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by viridian 6y ago
The fundamental problem is that people will treat upvotes as agreement, even in communities who set out to make sure this isn't the case. I stopped posting at tildes.net recently, which has this exact problem with upvotes in spite of t
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by viridian 6y ago
Aren't you then arguing that is explicitly the media's job to manufacture consent among the public, according to the interests of their shareholders? If so, I would agree that that is frequently the role of a journalist.
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by viridian 6y ago
Mailing lists were a little after my time, by and large. I was subscribed to one for a now dead open source project called PCGen, and the thing mostly seemed to be inscrutable for a new, not-so-confident user.

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