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by wwweston 3y ago
10 and 14 kids are outlier numbers by late 20th / 21st century Mormon standards. 4-6 is more common and 2-3 aren't uncommon. There's probably a bit of ag heritage at work here (though the mountain west has definitely been lea
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I'm also of the faith and of course we don't describe it that way in most church discourse because it'd lose one of the most valued functions: framing human experience in a sacred narrative and privileging LDS participation a
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I don't think the idea of an "intellectual elite" in general is very useful, but assuming any reasonable definition of such an elite that would have to include people who influence real policy, the specific idea of one that&#
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Yeah, pets.com misplaces it pretty badly. For better and worse, Reddit is the usenet of the second/social/2.0 wave of the web, perhaps better at some points because of the wider reach of the web, and often worse for the same reaso
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> Why is one a humanitarian tragedy but the other an unnacceptable attack. You're trying to absolve Israel of its role in the killing of 30,000 civilians over 5 months, to the condemnation of the entire world. If you want to argue w
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I honestly don't mind not being able to sue a media streaming/rental service over the service itself. It's a pretty straightforward relationship, I give them ~$10-$20 monthly and they give me access to their library. If the s
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The same way any number of understandable or even reasonable reactions can end up being suboptimal or even counterproductive. See the prisoner's dilemma. Any history of ethnic suffering creates a situation where it's natural to su
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by wwweston 3y ago
It's always been legal not to have insurance (though there was a brief period where externalizing costs that way was taxed). You can pay cash for health care as you like now with any provider who cares to negotiate with you on a cash b
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Israel is an inherently inequitable and therefore likely terminally conflict-ridden ethnostate. Israel is a reasonable reaction to a long and terrible history of ethnic persecution. What's going on in Gaza is an unacceptable humanitari
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Herbert is describing a humanity amplifying phenomenon.
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If you believe the value isn’t in the material, then it should be a simple matter for you to avoid using it, and naturally doing so won’t be an inconvenience for you because there’s no value in it. Not really clear why the means of distribu
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by wwweston 3y ago
As a web dev, I honestly can’t figure out the value here. It makes things considerably less legible from an inspection standpoint. And while yes each div provides a handle by which to independently control some layout property the law of di
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The surprise to me is that it was ever popular. Even before the flavor explosion and gourmet trends of the recent decades I can’t recall people in my acquaintance who would have picked chocolate chip. As a kid it seems mint and chip would d
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by wwweston 3y ago
"Make things you don't want people to do harder" can be a pretty reasonable course of action even when you can't make them impossible. The real problem isn't that you can't make things harder (certainly we coul
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by wwweston 3y ago
Does this mean your garage door doesn't have rolling codes, or does it mean that you know how to make the flipper work with that?
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by wwweston 3y ago
I definitely believe that visual communications is a huge part of good software design. But AFAICT there's a kind of capability rot associated with an awful lot of software where "don't make me think" has been shallo
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by wwweston 3y ago
> Sure, if people would only ever use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment, things could be good. But this almost never happens, instead: ... some lines start with spaces, some with tabs. People using tabs for alignment can happ
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I thought the consensus was tabs for block indentation, spaces for alignment.
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More likely instead of sleeping.
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I have. Sometimes it does its job. The problem with their search is that it’s only their search — no other engine can index it. And then the medium tends to make discussion a ripple in a pond rather than a running discussion.
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That's the well-established expectation for iOS. The web has a pretty different set of expectations, one of the reasons for its success.
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Last time I used Garage Band, it had a traditional notation / sheet music view. There's software I use (Reason) that doesn't have this, and piano roll or even things like Digital Performer's direct midi event list editor
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by wwweston 3y ago
14.3 seems more like "try to degrade gracefully" old rather than "won't support" old...
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I wonder if Channing would be gratified to see the telegraph analogy survived to find new expression in 1970s popular culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivk_irrH1WY which means that there's probably a bunch of Ge
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How does a teenager have access to $500 they haven’t spent and can spend without their parents knowing (especially the kind of parents who’d want tracking on their kids phones)?
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What you're mentioning here is basically about other advantages that accrue to capital vs labor, not copyright. Hence the fact strikes happen across the boundaries of where copyright matters -- auto manufacturing work doesn't ha
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Can confirm that it's possible for at least 1 week, and I've read about cases over a month -- seems to be that under conditions where minerals/electrolytes are balanced, (some?) people can go as long as their fat stores &
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> when it doesn't benefit from the #1 best coordinator of resources on the planet - price Price is arguably #1 in info-symmetric non-urgent elastic demand situations. Which portions of health care function this way is left as an exe
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> culture is a communal property Public domain / communal property is also part of copyright, so it's not as if this is some forgotten concept that needs to be restored to the discourse. Georgism is underconsidered, though. &gt
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Not only that, but industrialized agriculture is a brief experiment on the scale of human history. So along with the way it's made food less scarce and enabled socioeconomic transformation, it's not clear how healthy or sustainabl

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