Sangermaine

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by Sangermaine 8y ago
You may be surprised to learn that the Koch Bros. and the Saudis do, in fact, receive enormous amounts of criticism for their behavior. But I think with Musk the answer is that people respond extra harshly to perceive hypocrisy. The Kochs a
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>It's really unfortunate that abiding by local laws and regulations is considered unethical. What a disgusting comment. What is legal and what is ethical are not the same thing at all. I have difficulty believing this was written in
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>The western bias is towards being the first to discover an unknown restaurant with great food that just hasn't had time to build a reputation, but that's not how a typical Chinese person would approach the restaurant problem.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>It is actually good heuristic No it's not. It assumes there's a correlation between quality and customers, or at least that quality is a prime cause of customers. But there's no reason to think that's the case. In fa
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Your response demonstrates your ignorance of psychology if you’re not even aware of how results often vary across cultures. One area to start educating yourself in is looking into the discussion in the last decade or so of how psychological
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>No it doesn't: it depends on whether it's dysfunctional or not. Even if the people involved don't see the dysfunction. “It’s dysfunctional because it’s dysfunctional.” I hope I don’t have to explain why this is, again, be
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
But that just begs the question. What’s classified as a “behavioral dysfunction” is going to depend on your culture. If you come from a more “open” culture, a more reserved one will seem repressed and controlling. If you come from a more re
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
This reply comes across as saying you’re preying on people too desperate or poor to have any choice but to accept your terms, and too inexperienced and naive to be able to evaluate them.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
No, the comparison doesn’t work. Gyms count on going to the gym being something people have to force themselves to do, and so often fail to do so. Seeing movies is different: it’s a fun activity people want to do.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Somehow I doubt that this medical school has already implemented or tried every robust maternity leave, childcare, or other family support policy that would address their concerns about female doctors being forced to choose between quitting
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>They should try to give the books away for free before chucking them out, no? The local library where I grew up tried this. It also doesn't really solve the problem of too many books. They would first put up surplus/old books
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
This is quite a complex question, but the basic answer is that under US law native tribes are "domestic dependent nations". This means that they possess sovereignty as any separate nation would (which flows from Constitutional rec
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>I am skeptical there will be an 'Event', something more like a gradual decline seems more likely (so, more British Empire than Roman). I'm not sure what you mean by this. The (Western) Roman Empire's decline was not
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
It's exactly this sneering "user beware" attitude that fosters abuse of privacy online. It's (probably) well-intentioned and supposed to push people to take privacy and security more seriously, but what it has actually d
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
I have a GV number as my work number on my cards, site, etc. and I still get spam through it, though admittedly less than through my personal number.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Reuters yes. An Op/Ed in Reuters, no. You have to know you’re being disingenuous here.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Podcasts are, for the most part, decentralized No, they aren’t. Of course anyone can put up a podcast, but the successful ones tend to cluster into podcast networks of like shows or join the big podcast groups like Nerdist, Wondery, or
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Elon Musk Defends His Rejected Mini-Sub Plan for Thai Cave https://nyti.ms/2NCzvi6?smid=nytcore-ios-share >He said the expert was Richard Stanton, one of the first two British cave divers to reach the soccer team, and Mr
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
But he didn't do good, except for himself. What he made was apparently useless.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
The cult of Musk on Hacker News really is disturbing. The messiah can never be wrong or commit an error.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Oh okay. We should accept Musk's instruction to disregard Thai officials and instead accept this snippet of an email he provides which still only shows Stanton saying the effort might be useful days ago. I guess The Guardian and ABC ju
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Well they're all out now, thank goodness. Musk at least tried to do something and he did it quickly. Where was say, the US Navy? At the site actually helping the rescue operation: > http://insider.foxnews.com/2018
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Heck, their entire system of government could be called "innovative" - certainly no-one else has ever tried that before. Authoritarian one-party rule with a strongman at the top is nothing new, they just have newer tools to en
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Nonsense. We still read works from centuries or even millennia ago that continue to be lauded and enjoyed.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Nonsense. Other train systems manage exactly that. In Japan being even a minute late isn’t acceptable. This isn’t some impossible fantasy thwarted by human nature. Your comment is exactly what I’m talking about. The MTA has managed to train
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>It really does seem that the social media team calms down a lot of angry people. Great, they've mastered spin. People are angry for good reason. Don't calm them down, fix the damn trains, now. This is just more of the MTA&#x27
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Honest my ass: >“I think people think it’s a lot worse than it is, this catastrophic mess all the time,” she said. “I’ve had to put a moratorium on talking about the trains with my boyfriend. We had to say no talking about the trains. He
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Then the human can fix the awful service and stop feeding us bullshit.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
It's a blank page.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>For the first part, I still think that Chinese culture is quite special with culture that passed on for that long. Of course you do, this myth of the "5,000 years of history" making China both unique and exempt from trends tha

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