ectoplasm

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by ectoplasm 11y ago
"TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION" pretty clearly applies to the package accompanied by the license. I looked at the Wikipedia page and this wasn't raised as one of the objections. Do you have
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Read the last line.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Your mind (the rational part) is just a collection of ideas. One of them is called oil.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Maybe he thought your comment was under the WTFPL? Hooray Anarchy!
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I think screaming at people and all sorts of other stuff (16-hour days?) is just an unfortunate reality of the restaurant business. It's not like your experience is unique. I feel like most of the problems could be resolved with more
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
One aspect of the difference is that the physical force and violence with white collar crime are indirect / externalized, because the crimes involve manipulation of intangibles.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
"If you're serious you cannot reason" is such a great projection.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
There's a nice table with $5 and $.5 words here: https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/style/pompous_words.html First time encountering the expression for me. It's not about jargon, as far as I can tell.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
There are quite a few massive cities in wealthy countries where a significant number of people choose not to drive even though they can afford it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
My 3% came from this article (which I linked, but which is fine to have ignored): http://www.japan-guide.com/topic/0011.html The LGBT stat came from Wikipedia. For controversial stuff like that in the US, WP is pretty
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Alright, so I missed the "half of". But you missed that there are 9 8-hour blocks of leisure in a week, not 7. So it's half of 5/9, or simply 5/18. Which doesn't sound that bad compared to 2.5/18 which
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
It's not 5/7ths, you're awake for 16 hours: 8 work, 8 leisure. This means on 5 out of 7 days, half of your leisure time is gone. So if you burn 4 commuting then you've given up 20 hours out of 40 + 2 * 16 on the weeken
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I didn't link to the wrong thing. If you read that article the top cities excluding Nara are all in greater Tokyo. The max time for Kanagawa is not reported, the average time for Kanagawa is 90 minutes (for men with kids under 6). Yo
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
But even just assigning someone to jaywalking duty is already selective enforcement. Even if the entire police force was on jaywalking duty, you couldn't catch all the jaywalkers in the city.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Yeah, me neither... but I don't think blaming commuters like ryandrake for advocating their lifestyle is the answer. Different people have different priorities. You wouldn't sneer at OP for working 60-hour weeks (it's glori
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Yeah, ok, fair enough. First, I was conflating Tokyo with Japan. Second, by normal I meant "culturally accepted" so maybe I shoulda just said that. But you know, normal kinda also means "within 3 sigma" as well as &qu
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Everyone is tearing you apart, but this is normal in Japan.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I also agree that you have a point about the arbitrary distinction. Presumably you agree that accidental / criminal / insane / unnecessary shootings are a problem. What do you propose as a solution? The four things I can th
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
We stopped buying raw sugar as well as things with added sugar at the grocery store. We also stopped buying juice and obvious junk food like potato chips. We still buy whole milk and bacon and cheese and pasta. It was hard at first, but w
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Yes, I agree, if you're optimizing for "success" you should optimize for "net worth", since for a lot of people those terms mean the same thing, no argument that this is the mainstream interpretation. Personally I b
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Presumably money. There's a discussion on the correlation between wealth and intelligence at LW with lots of links. Summary, from a quick read: being smart contributes to being rich, but it isn't necessary or sufficient. http:&
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
As long as you pay them back, the mob won't give you a hard time. If you just want the money to get a job, and you're not using it for drugs, you'll be fine. But, mostly this was just me refuting your claim that I don't
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I was speaking from personal experience. Borrowing from illegal sources is not out of the question. For example, one of my friends is always borrowing money from the mob so he can buy more coke. He's currently about $20K in debt. A
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
It was an honest question. GP did say "his house". The fact that not everyone conforms to "tend to" stereotypes is exactly why it's worth asking these questions. Plenty of poor people in America have buckets of d
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
He's unable to borrow money from friends / family / bank / mortagage / credit card to pay the child support?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Communities function better if people work and live in the same place.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I looked it up and the truth is in between. You get "ferritizing" annealing starting at 1300F. Microscopic amounts of that will happen at 500F but nothing significant. Thank you, now I will stop wasting my time with this piece
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
If you comment out b , and it segfaults, the segfault is caused by some code in a . Otherwise, the segfault is caused by some code in b . The root cause of the segfault in b may be found in a , but even looking at the stack trace fr
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
There are many reasons why a cast iron skillet inexplicably cracks. Poor quality control in manufacturing, natural crystalline formation defects, excessive impacts in handling, extreme thermal stresses, etc. Cast iron, being a non-ductile m
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
There's no reason the government can't level the playing field by subsidizing the fixed overhead portion of meeting the regulations. They don't, and it's stupid - ever tried to buy or sell farm fresh eggs? - but there&#

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