BenchRouter

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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> I think that life extension is dangerous and wrong and therefore people dedicating their lives to it today are unethical people. > I haven't shut down any argument by saying this You're being naive if you think that saying
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> It's a facts based argument and I'm the only one in this discussion so far that is actually using facts. Your facts-based argument is that people in Detroit would move to Canada if the immigration policy was relaxed? I see n
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> why do you believe this? Because why say it otherwise? Facebook could've easily left all of that out and just said "Introducing messenger for kids! We're making sure it's carefully curated and safe for your children
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> which is why Canada has so few hispanic and black people, and why it's nearly 80% white. Er, or it's not bordered by Mexico and doesn't have nearly the extensive history with African slavery that the US does? > Why do
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
I actually agree with you that this is "drug dealer" tactics but for totally different reasons. I think this is a classic "the first hit is free" move. It's a long-term play. I believe FB when they say they won&#x27
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
I mean, I'm not sure what your price range is but this is literally the top result on Craigslist right now: https://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/d/fantastic-1-bdr-apt... Granted it's Craigslist so
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Ehhh not expensive if you go out to, say, Brownsville. Brooklyn is much, much more than just Williamsburg and Park Slope.
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> The problem is the rent control apartments in NYC skew the data and does make it apple to apple Last time I checked, rent controlled apartments make up ~1% of housing units in the city, and that number decreases all the time (because t
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Yeah, I mean it's easy to forget about places in NY with low costs of living like Binghamton. Even in the city, it's easy to forget that most people don't live in Manhattan/the expensive parts of Queens and Brooklyn. A s
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
I'm not sure I buy that attorneys are significantly better educated, especially in some more traditional firms (e.g. MS) where a masters isn't unusual. It's only an additional year of schooling on top of that. Fair point on t
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> My guess is that the popularity of these professions is that they are all relatively low-qualified ones suitable to people working while studying or "filling gaps" before getting a "good job" in IT. Yeah, I mean I d
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Yeah, and I think that's the interesting divide to me: I did receive a formal education, and even a Master's, in CS. Despite that, there's very little difference between myself and another developer who has no formal educatio
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> Most people have way more taxing jobs than IT. I've been in construction for 3 years, and that work is no joke. There's some discussion of this above, but I think it's interesting that the alternative to software develop
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Er, those are both insanely large industries with untold amounts of money flowing through them (well, radio not so much but in its heyday). If FB is an industry on the level of TV or radio, then it's almost certainly not overvalued.
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> It is seriously gross that a tax reform bill that is by basically all accounts enormously, even proudly regressive is being sold to tech nerds with a marginal improvement in stock options accounting. As with all things, worth rememberi
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Here's what's confusing me: Why would this make any sense, at all? From the government's point of view, they were trying to maximize tax revenue, right? And theoretically that occurs when the security price is at a (local) ma
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
It's also worth noting that you can smoke heroin, which probably requires a significantly lower mental barrier to cross. And once you're in the throes of addiction from smoking it, I'm guessing injection seems less and less o
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> Historically it was just cut with OTCs or detritus, which was a problem that could be solved in most cases by simply doing more. Well, until you get a more pure batch and you try to do the same amount you do with the dilute batch.
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
I'd argue that's more the point of the internet in general, these days. It's extremely hard to remove something from the internet. We as rational humans though, can apply context to such situations and realize that teenagers
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Sure, but I don't see how that relates to my intended point that things we say as teenagers probably shouldn't be held against us indefinitely. If you want to say "Zuckerberg is selfish because he refuses to affect Facebook&#
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Wasn't he like 19 when he said this? I sure as hell said some edgy stuff like this when I was 19.
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> It's like comparing a mature company or even industry to one in its early days, when there is chaos, shifting goals day to day, and massive uncertainty. Sort of. The civil rights movement had a pretty clear goal from the start: E
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
That's a goal that could, quite literally, take multiple generations given how supreme court appointments work. Very few movements have so much momentum that they can bide their time for 30 years.
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Not to mention that the American Civil Rights Movement had relatively clear goals and a pretty singular focus: Ending explicit state-approved discrimination against black people. The goals and focus of OWS weren't very clear (to me at
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> If you believe redundancy is irrelevant, we have different opinions on how people perceive communication. I'm starting to gather as such, and so continuing down this road is probably unproductive. I suppose we'll have to agre
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> But to _your perception_, it's politeness That's not at all why Allen's comment is polite, and this is very much what I mean by "kindness requires no effort." It's polite because it isn't actively neg
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> Instead of asking people to be kind (which often means comply to my system of values) we should ask people not to be judgemental and be open minded, which is something that can be learned by everybody You're arguing semantics here
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
It seems as though you just don't like Allen's writing style. You haven't really pointed out anything unnecessarily polite, and his comment would've been just as polite with all of the edits you're suggesting. I don
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
Ah, my apologies!
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by BenchRouter 9y ago
> Allen is placing the "blame" on himself rather than the other party. FWIW I don't see this as placing blame on himself, at all: I see it as Allen just stating a fact. Allen is confused and seeking clarification. Confusio

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