throwaway7312

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by throwaway7312 8y ago
Really what you're saying is "start your own credit card." Hatreon launched as an alternative to Patreon. Know why Hatreon closed down? Visa shut it down. [1] If Visa bans you, no payment processor will work with you. Not Pay
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
> I thought I followed climate change issues but somehow did not know that in most people's lifetimes sea levels will rise multiple feet. I would've thought folks would be more... concerned? According to Sir David King (head U.
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
Our business was on MailChimp years ago. We were on a paid tier. In 2012 we decided to try sending our own email via arpReach + SES. Once we set this up we asked MailChimp how to pause our paid account. We wanted to stop sending email and r
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
Won't the term "person" unnecessarily alienate otherkin[1]? Walter would appear to be safest with "thinking entity's game." Then he has full coverage for men, women, intersex, asexual, androgynous, and non-huma
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
Major General Smedley Butler on war profiteers back in 1935: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
My experience hiring women for our company has been 1.) they often don't want the job, 2.) when they get the job, they often balk at how demanding it is, then 3.) if they do stick around, regardless how much training we give them we en
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
Censured in the U.S., but relevant: http://www.magnitskyact.com/
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
"I have no sympathy for people who want to make a living by making things who then rent space in existing channels to tell users said things are for sale. At this point I'm rooting for anyone making bootstrapping and entrepreneurs
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
This memo? http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/ Hadn't heard of it. Just read it. Interesting stuff. It's very clearly a call-to-arms for business leaders against Marxists/communists. Not the w
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
It's that, + "middle class going broke after being conned by Trump University & the gig economy."
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
Ever notice how Republican presidents are always portrayed by partisan liberals as blithering idiots (Bush II as a religious fundamentalist warmonger dunce; Trump as an narcissistic ADD loose cannon dunce)? And how Democrat presidents are a
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
It sounds more like anti-natalism is your personal philosophy, and you make the same assumption the holders of most philosophical, ideological, and religious positions make: sooner or later, everyone else will realize to be true what I real
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon likely wonder the same thing. It's such a big Earth, yet only a few hundred humans are known to exist. Why are there no other detectable signs of human life, like smoke signals, territory markers, or em
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
>> China is based on communism China is no longer about communism any more than the U.S. is about the Enlightenment. China today is about Gilded Age-type capitalism with a strain of collectivism running through it. Every Chinese toda
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by throwaway7312 8y ago
It's extraordinarily worrying to me that the American Left uses 'science' as a shield for its ideological positions and the adherents of its ideology lap it up and repeat it. I don't care so much about the ideological po
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
As an expatriate who has traveled through dozens of countries and lived long-term in a handful, let me assure you: different national personal characteristics are very real. Put an Englishman, a Norwegian, and an Italian in a room together
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
It would seem like the likeliest scenario for a future dark age is neighboring towns (or tribes, I suppose) tell tales about how everyone who goes into area X eventually dies not long after. Every few generations some brave, ballsy kid shru
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
The simplest way of looking at this is that the more power you divide up among increasingly small segments of your population, the more you divide the house. In China, there is the objective of China, where there is a singular focus on what
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
When I was in business school, we had a case study of a large supermarket chain that carried 18,000 or so different items per store. The management team wanted to save on cost and narrow down to just the essentials the chain's customer
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
There is also the "person lives normal life, found to have almost no brain" phenomenon: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b...
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
US citizen here. Haven't visited the US in years. Myriad reasons why, but the CBP policy is part of it. Just don't like the idea of people demanding I let them go through my stuff, but also don't like the idea of sitting arou
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
Cooper actually says "a people built this", not necessarily insisting it was humans or descendants of humans (though that was my impression too the first couple watch throughs). The other thing to keep in mind is he does not actua
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
Climate change isn't a very good example. Individuals who subscribe to anthropogenic global warming and individuals who are skeptical of it have equal levels of scientific comprehension. [1] It's more accurate to note that either
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
>> Trump and others don’t recognize is that the American university system is a distributed system of factories that manufacture knowledge, innovation and the future. There is another side to this. And that is that the American univer
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
Do we know what it is? You seem quite confident. Americans have 101 guns per 100 citizens. Finns have 34.2 guns per 100 citizens. Icelanders have 30.3 guns per 100 citizens. America has 110x the murder rate than Finland has. America has 13,
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
Here's the thing with marketing: it is its own unique field that encompasses a large skill set. Copywriting, conversions, media buying. Product launches, if you're into that. Social media marketing or SEO/SEM. Guys who are go
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
> The CIA, FBI etc. act on behest of the people Ah, I guess that explains it. As an American, I've wondered for years why we armed, trained, funded, and provided cover for bin Laden and other mujahideen, al'Qaeda, ISIS, and spe
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
If enough users adopt this, the effect will be advertisers flee whatever websites those users frequent. The end result being those websites (due to declines in revenue) cut their staffs, reducing the quantity and quality of their content. A
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
This is just the latest in a string of examples like this. The Christian bakers / gay wedding cakes is one example. But people being booted off services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Patreon are others. We ought to have the righ
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by throwaway7312 9y ago
Ooh! This is fun. The "how someone is just like Hitler game." I know this game. Here's my entry: 5 things Barack Obama did that were very similar to Adolf Hitler: 1. Assumed a populist mantra of taking back government from co

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