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by zasz 9y ago
Welllllll, most people are way more pacifistic than you are. I can't think of anyone I personally know who's beaten someone else up. For most people, once they've ruled out violence, they've left themselves with no good
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by zasz 9y ago
Might that not be only possible because it is privately held?
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by zasz 9y ago
Oh come on, just because your union is shit doesn't mean all unions are. Historical unions are why we have 8 hour workdays in America, and Fight for 15 in the present day is doing great work. Don't generalize, that's sloppy a
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by zasz 9y ago
> Poor people, regardless of color, have a remarkably similar experience (with education, the police, the criminal justice system) That's not true. Google "red-lining." Black people face considerable housing discrimination
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by zasz 9y ago
Actually, if you look at the hunter gatherer societies that best resemble the environment humanity evolved in, romantic love plays a big role. Such societies are often lenient about divorce as well. The !Kung San and Hadza are well studied
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by zasz 9y ago
Sure, but something like 40% of all oil in America is used for transportation, and 55% of that is gasoline for cars. Source: http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/fuels.aspx https://www.eia.gov/energyexp
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by zasz 10y ago
The coastal areas of FL are blue, sadly.
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by zasz 10y ago
I'm so sorry but this is hilarious.
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by zasz 10y ago
Plenty of investors are risking other people's money, though. Venture capitalists themselves are prime examples of this.
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by zasz 10y ago
Well, the point is not that you don't, it's that lots of people who like to talk about evolution don't. "Nature red in tooth and claw" and all that.
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by zasz 10y ago
The point of everything I have said is that it would take only a small quantity of methane, relatively speaking, to make a significant contribution to global warming. You don't need to emit as much methane as would match all the warmin
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by zasz 10y ago
Okay, the half-life of methane is 7-9 years. Not the lifetime. The 34x potential I gave is for methane over a hundred years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential It's incredibly potent stuff,
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by zasz 10y ago
Where did you get that? Every link I've ever seen indicates that the half-life is 7-9 years. Regardless of what the half-life is, what you say is true about the concentration of methane. It is so much better at trapping heat than carbo
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by zasz 10y ago
Living an interesting life helps a lot, but being observant is much more important. There are plenty of people with great style who have lived boring lives. Emily Dickinson, Proust, and Wallace Stevens are three of the more obvious examples
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by zasz 10y ago
No, because he's rebuking Tversky and not talking himself up at all.
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by zasz 10y ago
The objective evidence on how well people care for their land shows that your supposition about how incentives should work is not borne out by the facts. I believe that your supposition is false because reality itself disagrees with you.
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by zasz 10y ago
I cannot comment on how poorly the BLM manages land, but private ownership, especially farmland, does an objectively terrible job at managing soil. Half the world's topsoil has eroded away due to farming in the last 150 years. https
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by zasz 10y ago
Depression is also known to cause chronic levels of inflammation, which is certainly hard on the cardiovascular system.
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by zasz 10y ago
I like your point, but Hollywood would be making a lot less money if it took out guns and stuck to people punching each other.
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by zasz 10y ago
Addiction is very much a function of the interplay between a person, their history, and their current environment, in addition to the addictive substance or activity. Many soldiers, while deployed to Vietnam, ended up addicted to cocaine. Y
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by zasz 10y ago
It's not economic reasons. Mostly cultural anxiety. http://www.vox.com/2016/9/19/12933072/far-right-white-riot-t...
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by zasz 10y ago
He meant undergraduate-driven demand for teaching faculty. You don't seem to have read the article.
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by zasz 10y ago
You can't count as 'matter-of-fact' if you're not even bothering to communicate.
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by zasz 10y ago
Warming has actually been increasing since the Industrial Revolution, according to this link: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15874560
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by zasz 10y ago
The other half of how it works is that when demand is high, supply should increase to meet it. The reason supply remains constricted and hence prices high has nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with NIMBYists hostile to newc
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by zasz 10y ago
I'm responding to the part in her email where she said Jake was a great guy who had always treated her right.
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by zasz 10y ago
It's pretty fair. Everything in that summary is a fact.
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by zasz 10y ago
I found this Wired article: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... Basically, multiple women accused Jake Applebaum, a big shot in the Tor community, of sexually assaulting them,
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by zasz 10y ago
It's entirely possible that some of those haters are Caucasian-Americans who don't consider Asian-Americans real Americans.
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by zasz 10y ago
You could be charitable and read OP as making the case that labor in general should capture a greater portion of corporate profits than it does now. I'm sympathetic to your comment, but I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

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