cantankerous

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by cantankerous 5y ago
Mainstream economics reads like a flat earth Facebook group when you see how many times it's failed to predict booms and busts despite being considered acceptable as such.
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by cantankerous 5y ago
I think we spend too much time trying to ascribe an internal consistency to famous people. Finding internal consistency with somebody doesn't change the destructive trajectory of their politics.
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by cantankerous 6y ago
The value of your labor is how much the company is able to leverage it for a return. It has next to nothing to do with where you live. It's on the company to answer this question, not you or some third party to the negotiation between
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by cantankerous 6y ago
Structural impediments keep people poor. Not internal monologues.
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by cantankerous 6y ago
I'd posit that adding a bunch of parking to a city center is also "meddling" in the lives of people who live in the city center.
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by cantankerous 6y ago
Loading zones.
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by cantankerous 6y ago
China is where the west hides its dirty manufacturing.
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by cantankerous 7y ago
Might be the training data?
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by cantankerous 7y ago
Let's be realistic, while you can see denialism of science across the spectrum, there's only one side of it that denies it in the face of extinction-level events. Scientists can't hope to transcend politics (an unrealistic a
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by cantankerous 7y ago
China's population is concentrated in one part of the country. That makes it easier to serve them more efficiently with mass transit. This isn't true for the United States. The population resides on the coasts, which you can se
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by cantankerous 7y ago
The shortcoming with that line of reasoning is that it's still not wholly satisfying. Falsifiability is probably necessary but not sufficient for what most people consider to be science. The problem of induction still stands and fals
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by cantankerous 8y ago
The image aesthetic is emulating the appearance of a dot-matrix printer. It's just a low-tech motif to go with the publication.
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by cantankerous 8y ago
Calling farmers professionals as it relates to the conscious application of dangerous pesticides is a serious stretch. We're approving new pesticides at an unreal rate. These guys have no idea how this stuff works or its impact on th
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by cantankerous 8y ago
FWIW nobody's been a native Latin speaker for a thousand-plus years. You're in the same boat as everybody else! ;-)
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by cantankerous 8y ago
I've lived in Portland OR, Mid MO, and the Kansas City area. In mid-Missouri, the brown recluse is the standard house spider. Pretty much every spider in my house there was a brown recluse. I had a weird bruise-y/necrotic bite
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by cantankerous 8y ago
If you're going to put the time into a research MS degree, you shouldn't be paying for it. Period.
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by cantankerous 9y ago
He's right about one thing. You will die of boredom in Lincoln. There are plenty of other nearby Midwestern cities with character and interesting stuff to do (and people to see). Omaha and Kansas City are a couple. I'd probabl
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by cantankerous 9y ago
If you wear clothes and/or aren't near the equator it's not gonna make a big enough of a difference. Also you're gonna have to balance that with negative sun exposure. Salmon is probably a top vitamin d source, but sup
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by cantankerous 9y ago
If by "the left" you also mean every prominent suburban area in America, then yes! It's right to bring up the military and the trades as viable options, but let's not oversell that stuff. The trades aren't just a s
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by cantankerous 9y ago
FWIW: It's probably easier to become a software engineer than it is to become a master plumber.
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by cantankerous 9y ago
I never experienced the "only option" talk, either. My high school put forth alternative vocational tracks pretty often. Also the military, among other things. This was in the early 2000's. I'm skeptical that educato
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by cantankerous 9y ago
Sweden's population is also a lot older than it was in the 1980's. Drives up costs substantially.
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by cantankerous 9y ago
Yes but in this case the government's own estimation on doing the work itself sets a bar. Also sufficiently bidding out work drives prices down by competition if the contractors aren't conspiring against the public. Big if.
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by cantankerous 9y ago
You aren't going to get R1 research done when you have a 3/3 teaching load with no graduate support, that's just life. Amen. Should also add that the R1 school I did my graduate work at put funded research in front of didac
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by cantankerous 9y ago
Would add that Haskell DSL's can be formed from functionality derived from different kinds of monads and other categorical structures[1]. That sounds highfalutin, but different types of monads and other structures (functors, applicati
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by cantankerous 9y ago
Have you been back to the library as an adult and looked around at what people are doing there? As a child I only ever noticed ragged looking folks at the library, but that's because I was a child. Nowadays I notice all the people on
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by cantankerous 9y ago
The problem you're describing is an effect of today's global capitalism. Workers seeking a dignified income are not able to find that through collective bargaining because free movement of capital allows management to relocate to
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by cantankerous 9y ago
Realistically, it takes 4 years to attempt to get your foot in the door at a medical school unless you have pre-admittance or you're looking at a special case like UMKC's 6-year program. Getting into an MD or a DO program isn&#x2
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by cantankerous 10y ago
Doesn't regular soda fall into these categories, too?
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by cantankerous 10y ago
I wonder if somebody with a bone to pick with a soda tax works in a bureau that has access to this weaponized malware. Seems like the most plausible case to me.

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