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by drcube 7y ago
I can sleep at Burning Man with ear splitting sound camps blaring mere feet from my tent. It's called earplugs, they work well and they're very cheap. I've used them to equal success at home on the Fourth of July, too. It sim
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by drcube 7y ago
I've had a couple employers offer to transfer my personal number to my work-provided cell phone. I said no thanks, and carried two phones around instead. But it was a surprisingly popular option among my coworkers. They'd rather l
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by drcube 7y ago
And yet, kids still drink and smoke. Yes, age restrictions are foolish and invalid, century of public policy notwithstanding. Not every policy that has existed should continue to exist.
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by drcube 7y ago
That's no different from showing yourself to your theater seat replacing ushers, or throwing your hamburger trash away replacing busboys. Pumping your own gas. Or bagging your own groceries at some grocery stores. This is a very old tr
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by drcube 8y ago
>The number of sexual partners adults have has been steadily rising Got a cite for that? I was under the impression the opposite was true. And even if it is the case, see the book "More Sex is Safer Sex" by Steven Landsburg: &q
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by drcube 8y ago
Why would you expect more people to miss books? Books didn't go anywhere. Anyone who wants them can easily buy them or borrow them. You know what I miss? Dead tree user manuals that used to come with hardware and software. That's
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by drcube 8y ago
The main answer is "minorities". Look at the American South during the Jim Crow era. Minorities need protection from majorities in democracies. And not just racial, religious or ethnic minorities. Everyone is a minority in multi
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by drcube 8y ago
Democracy is not a synonym for "good". Whether something is democratic or not tells you very little about whether it is worth keeping. Most things are not democratic, nor should they be.
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by drcube 8y ago
If a homeless person was living in your home, even if you invited him there in the first place, you still have every right to kick him out of your home if you decide you don't want him there anymore. Even if it's winter, and he&#x
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by drcube 8y ago
Farm living shows it isn't a paradox. 1) Animals on family farms are actually treated pretty well. "Torture" is absolutely not the word for it, though it probably does apply to varieties of factory farming, in effect if not i
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by drcube 8y ago
If a fish were living inside your body, you'd have the right to expel it, too. That has nothing to do with the treatment fish deserve or don't deserve, and everything to do with human bodily autonomy.
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by drcube 8y ago
What if it prevents one accident today, but causes two accidents tomorrow?
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by drcube 9y ago
This is a "feature" I actively avoid. Why in the world would anyone want to buy something online without a chance to review their purchase? Other web pages don't even let you leave the page without asking "are you sure?&
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by drcube 9y ago
Consider the question of why humans evolved to make art in the first place, and you'll probably conclude that it was sexual selection. In other words, artists get laid. Though it may be that artists get respect in general, which improv
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by drcube 9y ago
I'm not trying to weasel out of anything. Of course they're monopolies. My point is simply that a monopoly isn't some sort of God-emperor who can do anything without consequence. Even monopolies have to bow to customer pressu
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by drcube 9y ago
There's always a choice. Suppose your ISP started charging you $10,000 per month for the service you have now? Would you pay it? Could you? No, you'd probably just go without home service, or rely on your cellular data plan, or
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by drcube 10y ago
Then why doesn't society pay for it?
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by drcube 10y ago
I've been drinking things in grocery stores before buying them since I was a baby. When did this become "shoplifting"? After all, we eat in restaurants before paying too, and nobody considers that a crime.
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by drcube 10y ago
My guess is they're just hedging their bets with regard to wording. Presumably, there will be some crimes that entail losing your basic income, and it's probably up in the air whether the basic income will apply in whole or in par
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by drcube 10y ago
Don't the cops already have her fingerprints? This is partly why biometric authentication is useless. You're supposed to change passwords frequently. How do you change your fingerprints? Who chooses a password the cops already kno
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by drcube 10y ago
Why don't more people just ignore the gag orders? I would. I understand most people won't, but there certainly should be more than one guy who illegally revealed his NSL in the 15 years or so since they began.
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by drcube 10y ago
And here's what their "about" page says: "Our mission is to help protect you, your children, your communities, and your businesses from the most dangerous threats facing our nation—from international and domestic terrori
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by drcube 10y ago
And good luck getting the locals to agree to compete with unpaid forced laborers.
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by drcube 11y ago
Is "Federal Bureau of Investigation" really that hard to write out once in awhile? We know what POTUS and FBI mean. Google the acronyms, if you don't.
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by drcube 11y ago
You can create wealth out of thin air. The economy is not a zero sum game.
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by drcube 11y ago
You're not going to be a very successful entrepreneur if your customers are broke.
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by drcube 11y ago
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only disease that you can get yelled at for having. "Dammit Otto, you're an alcoholic!" vs. "Dammit Otto, you have lupus!"
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by drcube 11y ago
That's "per device". For an $800 iphone, that's equivalent to banning their sale in NY.
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by drcube 11y ago
Yeah, it's called "buy two smaller ones or take advantage of the free refills".
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by drcube 11y ago
I don't understand why this is restricted to Facebook. If the telco is providing no-cost data to poor consumers, why does it matter which websites they go to? That's the suspicious thing about this, not the simple fact that Facebo

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