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by sisu2019 7y ago
Conservatives think liberals are wrong. Liberals think conservatives are evil. Jonathan Haidt is illuminating: ___ [...]liberals answered the Care and Fairness questions while pretending to be conservatives. When faced with questions such a
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by sisu2019 7y ago
A stronger case would be "it must be more profitable than the alternatives with the same risk" but you skipped a step and went right to "appreciate faster" which is not the only way it could be profitable. In fact "
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Arguing with economic laws makes as much sense as arguing with gravity. The only reason you get as far as you do is that the level of econ education approaches zero in the general population. What you said is not even wrong, it's not w
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by sisu2019 7y ago
okay, you first.
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by sisu2019 7y ago
I am super anti sugar. I don't eat it except in fruit and I don't give it to my child. I still don't want the government messing with nutrition. It's track record with that is just awful and there is no reason to think i
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by sisu2019 7y ago
it's a fun game: define poverty in terms of wealth inequality and presto if inequality goes up, poverty does too. But here is the thing that we forgot in the west because we essentialy abolished it: poverty is about material depreviati
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by sisu2019 7y ago
wealth inequality doesn't mean more poor people. I know it's a lot to ask nowadays but please be informed enough about economics to at least know the very basics if you are going to bring it up. The idea that the food availabe to
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Literally the opposite is true. What is it about IQ that makes people straight up hallucinate the opposite of reality.
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by sisu2019 7y ago
it's fine when they are gay or trans to please their parents but god forbid they go to bible study.
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by sisu2019 7y ago
sounds great, sounds smart, is more true than not but the problem is, you don't have any solutions while the dumb-ass christians do.
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by sisu2019 7y ago
> marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all. It so obviously isn't it's painful to imagine this is a widespread belief. Marriage exists to reign in men, monogamous marriage doubly so. Progressives have no idea what the
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by sisu2019 7y ago
> start to counter it Please do try. I don't think what you are saying is true at all and it certainly isn't any thing like a universally accepted scientific truth.
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by sisu2019 7y ago
sure, after all you have the world writing for you. The best minds out of hundreds of million put their stuff online faster than you could consume it all. However, if that wasn't the case and we were neighbors I might be one of the few
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by sisu2019 7y ago
I think the author makes an important point. ----- By contrast, membership in groups of necessity cultivate a rather different set of habits and expectations, certain virtues are inculcated because the group of necessity requires them to fu
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by sisu2019 7y ago
IQ predicts future income even if the subjects environement is controlled for. It's a very good meassure, probably the best we have in the social sciences. What it tells us is not nice, sure, but denying reality is not going to help an
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Where I live in the south of Germany nearly every residential area has these artificially narrowed roads and it works a lot better than putting up a incongruent signs ie 30 on a 50 looking road. It also can look pretty nice when they use fl
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Games usually let you control if and which buffering to use so for an OS to be stuborn about it and waste Carmacks time over a simple toggle is pretty maddening
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by sisu2019 7y ago
well we certaintly aren't moving towards that in Germany so I wonder where they actually are and what that looks like in reality. If everyone else is also just going to burn more coal than ever before all of this is nothing but a very
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by sisu2019 7y ago
and how are these PV users going to cover their baseload?
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by sisu2019 7y ago
billions and billions down the drain for symbolism. Mostly private individuals like me payed that via crass energy taxes. It's nice that you get enjoyment out of seeing solar and wind farms but in the end they'll do nothing but se
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by sisu2019 7y ago
> And who defines what "the right thing" is? Your human nature. Eat well, be outside, have friends, move you body, have children and strive towards something that is important to you. > entrepreneur who made his dream come t
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Happiness is a feeling. It's purpose is to reward you for doing the right thing. What that is can be pretty flexible but it's ultimately informed by our biological and genetic imperatives. It follows that you can not expect to be
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by sisu2019 7y ago
This is what I wanted all my life! I wonder what kind of dark magic makes this go and how this will come back to bite me if I use it?
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by sisu2019 7y ago
the main feature of this allows you to transparently use structured data as types in your code like type providers in .net. I love kotlin but it can't do anything remotely like that.
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by sisu2019 7y ago
It's only an embarrassment if you have a deep seated anti-commercial bias. Sure, your adjectives are quite invocative but let's contrast your prose with reality: > smuggling Taking something personal in the space assigned for p
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Question for the pro-censorship crowd: If the results of this study hold up, does this justify censoring media like "13 Reasons why"? Why / Why not?
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by sisu2019 7y ago
I actually think that for her not letting go of English is the biggest obstacle. You won't be properly immersed if any significant part of your live still happens in your native tongue. In my student exchange year this was very noticea
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Normally I have no issues getting things to work but I bounced off trying to get modern Jenkins to build a github gradle project three times now. I even used to have one, way back, that built maven projects from SVN and deployed into artifa
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by sisu2019 7y ago
Boeing was capitalist from the start. Why fail now in such a stupid way?
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by sisu2019 7y ago
okay let's back up and remember that you can't compete with a plane that crashes all the time. So the reason is clearly not profit, in fact they will lose a big chunk of money from this and that wasn't hard to predict at all.

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