tbrownaw

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by tbrownaw 5d ago
> As a benign example, eating food with your hands rather than utensils. In some cultures this is rarely ever tolerated, in others it depends on the food item, and in others still you might always eat with your hands. I know there are
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by tbrownaw 5d ago
I thought that was only the top <very few>, and most just made pocket change?
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by tbrownaw 5d ago
Well, the enforcement mechanism for manners.
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by tbrownaw 5d ago
> For billionaires shame makes no sense. They will never have to confront the people that they abuse. This sounds like you're agreeing with the article about consequentialism / "optimization culture" being the cause
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by tbrownaw 5d ago
> What you experience is a cultural difference. In that not all cultures recognize causing negative externalities as a bad thing?
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by tbrownaw 14d ago
Well at least they need it until they get back a success response from the bank/payment processor/whoever.
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by tbrownaw 16d ago
I do not see the term "euphemism treadmill" in this anywhere. This is talking about the same thing, so I'd think the common term for it would at least be mentioned.
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by tbrownaw 16d ago
I'd think copper would mean ferric chloride, which isn't that bad.
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by tbrownaw 22d ago
> want to be coddled and always want to feel like they are the king of the world. Greeters at Walmart, cashiers not being allowed to sit but have to stand for "respect", I thought the greeters were an anti-shoplifting techniq
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by tbrownaw 23d ago
> What I’m particularly curious about is what the “endgame” of this looks like. A higher fraction of money going into the system is lost to navigating adversarial processes. And probably the occasional person getting in legal trouble f
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by tbrownaw 25d ago
> what the desirable alternative is here Limits on how much parents can spend other people's resources on their kids. Which goes with civil office being a job rather than a special privilege.
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by tbrownaw 25d ago
I use an xrdp quite a lot. It works fine.
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by tbrownaw 26d ago
Yes. They'd probably have kept the device for a while, but he wouldn't be in legal trouble.
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by tbrownaw 29d ago
... And motivation is what lets you stay disciplined when random life things try to get in the way.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
Limits are what give consistency when your pod gets scheduled on nodes with different amounts of load.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
27000 + 20% is 32400 not 47000, so not sure what's up with that sentence. Also, define "success". Even if it's just about being exceptional in economic terms, AIUI a bog-standard swdev salary is enough to be in the top 1
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
Several states have already had this for a while now.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
Sure, but that looks like a page footer. If I go to the site home it's the same, so it's probably the last time the site was a whole was updated.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
The usual argument I see is that group differences in outcome exist, therefore there necessarily must be discrimination somewhere causing those differences. That this discrimination can't be found is proof of how inventive the people d
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
At least some were the result of court cases, so maybe not that trivial to reverse.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> a) "just legislate that being racist/sexist to people is illegal, then have judges interpret" (which is what seems to be simply necessary to actually make progress against the endlessly inventive evil of racism/sex
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
I don't see a publish date on this? As I understand it, there have been recent shifts away from what's described and towards the relevant government agencies wanting more direct evidence of individuals being treated differently.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> open source nature is something of a technicality No, but maybe this highlights that it's never accurate to conflate "open source" or "free (as in speech) software" with end-users having power over the people
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
Probably clergy?
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> In the numbers it's almost more boring than the industrial revolution. Being almost more boring than the thing that caused Malthus to become wrong is quite an accomplishment.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> That law is so board - "public morals"? Should every porn site be taken down? The age-gate / anti-anonymity laws popping up everywhere are because there are enough people who would answer "yes" to that.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> can't taste much of a difference between "good" coffee and "bad" coffee. I found a 5+ year old half-full bag in the back of the pantry once; that was quite noticeably bad even though I usually can't tell
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> greatest communication techonlogy 1. Snail-mail 2. Public cork-boards 3. E-mail
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> Is this new term broader than the old term of CP or is it the same? Why did we even switch? The purpose of the new term was to emphasize that producing it involves the actual abuse of an actual child. And then somehow it got applied
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
I do not see how the second sentence follows from the first. I would think the claim in the second sentence would only be relevant in case of the inverse of the claim in the first sentence.

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