throwaway_4253

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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
Aw, come on, way to miss the point. Even African American Grandmas were glued to their televisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They lived through the Vietnam protests, the 70's oil shock, Nixon's resignation and stagflation
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
Hmm, I think there's a difference between heavily fictionalized external personal drama and the diffuse, anxiety-provoking miasma of social media and mainstream news headlines feeds. Even if there isn't a huge difference, I feel l
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
There are conflicting stories, but I've heard a few different arguments (I'm not sure how accurate any of them are, though): * The vaccine is stronger than a low-viral-dose infection; you wind up with more antibodies and more
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
> * Right now, not doing so is a strong social signal that you’re a special kind of belligerent asshole that probably hasn’t been vaccinated, and wants to pick a fight... * Man, I'm sorry, but you read like the belligerent one here,
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
I think this depends a lot on what the task is. If your goal is explicitly to build a factory or a real estate empire, then you're probably right. You're not going to get very far without a bunch of capital to start. However, if y
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
Ironically, it could be argued that it's easier when Facebook is the only player in town; otherwise the argument might be "But my competition does it! It's a race to the bottom - I can't compete if I act ethically!"
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss medicine; we all just witnessed mRNA paying off its research tab, so it would seem. CRISPR is at the beginning of its journey, but monoclonal antibodies are practically miraculous to people with a lot
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
Just for clarity, how are you defining "Wealth" here? I tend to think of knowledge and skills as a form of Wealth, but it's reasonable for that to be debated; especially if all you're measuring is relative positions in a
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
Maybe this is a bit out of the spirit of the question, but I think of a lot of "domestic" skills this way, like cooking, cleaning and home maintenance, and knowing specialized dressing and hygiene. This stuff requires considerabl
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
Wait, I'm confused reading this. It's really hard to make out which of the abusive behaviors here are Google's, and which are Modis'. I don't really understand the relationship between those two institutions. (I&#x2
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
Yeah, I guess that's one way of looking at it; I guess on my first read of the comments I saw it as a related rates problem where "the act of climbing the stairs adds a velocity away from the Sun", but yeah, the second commen
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by throwaway_4253 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I think the GP was commenting specifically about time of day? At idealized midnight the vector between you and the sun goes through the center of the Earth, indicating that increasing altitude takes you away from the
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by throwaway_4253 6y ago
> Look back 50 years, not 100 years. This observation is often trotted out, but I'm not sure it's fair. 50 years ago was no picnic, either. We were mired in the Cold War (Vietnam, no less). Nixon was in the White House. There
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by throwaway_4253 6y ago
I wonder if you're unfairly conflating the term "social capital" with the general caustic meanness of economic "capitalism". Putnam is a political scientist, not an economist. I honestly think that most of the relen
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by throwaway_4253 6y ago
Hmm... I think it's a good idea to discuss the inequities in our economy for sure, and nuanced discussions about the impact of mega-billionaires would be really healthy. But this article doesn't really seem to be in good faith. It
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by throwaway_4253 6y ago
I think it's inconvenient in a number of cases - if you have an injury on your face that the mask irritates, if you're trying to eat or drink while walking, or if you're wearing glasses which fog up. The glasses thing is actu