thucydidesofusa

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by thucydidesofusa 7y ago
Sadly, hybrids make sense to the degree that batteries don't. Although an electric motor and its rudimentary cooling system are trivial compared to a combustion engine and it's attendant systems, it starts to make sense when you c
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by thucydidesofusa 7y ago
It seems ill-fitting to say the Washington Post, NYT, and Huffington Post are 'conservative', perhaps it'd be more accurate to say that they're entrenched in the status quo? You can see that pretty clearly when there new
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
Heh, now assume the creator makes $80k/yr and lives in California. Marginal tax rate - ~38%? $5 subscription. 30% to Apple: $1.5 30% to Facebook: $1.05 (of the remaining $3.50) 38% to the Government: $.93 (of the remaining $2.45) Leavi
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
No country has ever solved their junky problem even with those things. To some degree, we have to get used to junkies existing in jurisdictions that aren't inclined to lock them up. However, we can't spend our way out of the probl
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
You missed an operative word "business specific". Most conservatives / right wingers / free marketers disdain business specific tax incentives - the common criticisms is that it opens up government to cronyism and allows
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
It matters when profession A and profession B are as related as data science / data engineering / software engineering. I'm not arguing that there's no distinction between the fields, just that people who excel in one ca
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
If art is important to building empathy, our problems might stem from art's recent pivot to shock over beauty and virtue signaling over the cultivation of virtue.
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
I'd wager that most people's wake up call would be weather that's more extreme than climate change will likely produce. I imagine climate change to be worrying when plants don't grow around me and that probably will neve
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
This isn't the right solution for every place, but it's the right solution for Minneapolis. There's no shortage of land and quasi-affordable housing in the suburbs / exurbs - people who want that can move out and get the
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
This is kind of off topic, but is anyone surprised/confused by people's reaction to this? The Saudis have been bombing Yemen for the last ~3 years and nothing really happened. Then they assassinate a journalist and all hell breaks
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
I'm a Tesla shareholder and I'm extremely hopeful, an independent chairperson could really cut down on the nonsense that makes the company off-putting to some investors. Just as Google needed an adult in the form of Eric Schmidt,
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
But his Chinese nationality doesn't preclude him from being a good steward of the land. Or is there some rule about who can tend to what land beyond the legal issues of permission and authority?
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
It's because anti-trust laws aren't well-equipped to deal with modern monopolies. the US's legal framework for anti-trust come from the Sherman anti-trust act of 1890 and the Clayton anti-trust act of 1914 (note the dates). T
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
This article seems too focused on the idea that even if you're not passionate about something today, you can be more passionate about it tomorrow and it's easier to become passionate if you don't have a fixed mindset (imagine
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
I view the police as dangerous but recognize their danger as a necessary cost for effectiveness. I'm afraid of the police, but I'm more afraid of no police.
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
It's standard procedure but also a transgression against this woman if a man does it and isn't sufficiently attractive.
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
Not yet. But there's clearly some trend towards making smaller and smaller transgressions into #metoo issues. I'd hate to find out that I rolled the dice on ostracism (or worse) just to be friendly to someone who doesn't care
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
A sizable fraction of restraining orders are granted on women's feelings. And look at conversations around the social relations of men and women - women have rights and men have responsibilities. Women get to abort fetuses and unilater
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
It's funny how that works. I heard one man say to a woman that he didn't schedule a meeting for a particular time because he saw that she had a conflicting meeting. Later that same woman described (to another woman) that the man h
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by thucydidesofusa 8y ago
>Invest in social events: It can take a lot of time to set up opportunities for your team to hang out , but casual socializing is awesome for the extroverts on your team and crucial for retention... and go out of your way to include ever