voicereasonish

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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Much of Europe has far more boring weather than the UK.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I don't think it is a bad comparison at all. You could say people have a preference for being happy. But being happy every day would be pretty unwise. After a while it would stop being happy and it'd be relentlessly normal. Then y
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
> there are people in the US who hate the lack of a "real" summer (30+) in places like Seattle, London, or Paris. But then they have AC turned up to full so it's freezing in their office! Funny old world...
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I'm talking about UK weather in general. I lived in London for a year, worked there for 4 and remember many thunderstorms. Not so much neighbourly camaraderie though. If you want neighbourly camaraderie live in a village.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I think you can also draw a lot of parallels between weather and emotion also. It'd be amazingly unhealthy to be in a permanent state of "contentedness" for the rest of your life like some drugged up zombie. We need the bad
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Perhaps they detest building snowmen, cuddling up in bed when it's cold, drying off in front of an open fire after walking through the rain, that awesome thunderstorm with cool rain after a boiling hot day, the neighbourly camaraderie
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I agree. I went to uni in London for a year - worst decision ever. It's not somewhere you can just meet up with friends who live somewhere else in London. But then cities are generally like that - very lonely places swarming with stran
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
> This part of England has the same weather throughout most of the year Sorry, but that's just ridiculous. We have seasons over here - clearly defined seasons. At the moment we're enjoying hot sunny days, rainy nights. We'
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I have seen a few crashes involving motorcycles not paying attention or taking unreasonable risks. Overtaking on blind bends etc. I haven't seen anywhere near the same number of crashes involving cars. Is that confirmation bias as well
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Funny. Whenever I see a motorcycle, it's being driven recklessly and dangerously. So from my point of view, if you want to make roads safer, get rid of motorcycles first.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
That's nonsense and you know it.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
software bugs, ability to be hacked, snooped upon by NSA, also go along way. I'll take my chances thanks. Road deaths have been falling for years, despite the number of cars rising. More people die from accidental falls. As a software
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
> Driverless cars means safer cars. Where's the evidence for this? perhaps if everyone on the road was in a driverless car, and they all communicated and prevented crashes. But that's not going to happen.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Lets be clear here. The aim here is to let you sit back, browse the web, and click on Google ads.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
People these days are so busy photographing, videoing, posting crap to twitter to see if people approve of what they're doing... They're missing out on actually enjoying and living life. Look at concerts - a sea of idiots holding
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I very much doubt Uber does enough business to draw any conclusions. Look at another example though - airbnb negative reviews and experiences - you'll find millions of them.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
You're confusing "more efficient" with "deciding to not abide by licensing regulation". Regulation exists to protect consumers. It's like that shady hotel chain that sidestep any regulation - airbnb. Only in th
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Also the big red flag in the reasoning is: > "But take the square root of each side". Sorry, but that's not really something you can do without recognising the fact that there are two square roots.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
> It is after all Google's bread and butter. Is it? How much do Google make from the adsense publisher network vs advertising directly on Google properties?
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Also obviously if Google reduces the pool of adsense publishers, the money is more likely to be spent advertising on Google properties, and Google will take 100% of that, rather than 32%.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Pretty comparable - 26,000 accidental falls, 30,000 car deaths.
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
30,000 deaths a year in a country like the US is nothing. More people die from falling down the stairs. Should we ban stairs next?
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
> 1) Make sure your site complies with the AdSense TOS and then hope Google will restore AdSense eventually? This just doesn't happen. Google couldn't care less. At all. > 2) In the meantime, serve ads from a different ad ne
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I think you have to judge each case on its merits. The sure fire way to beat a bully though is to stand up to them and let them know that what ever they throw at you, you'll throw twice as much back. They will not win. Some bullying st
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
I agree... IMHO, parents should be legally responsible for the behaviour of their children. That is, if their child harasses someone, the parents should be prosecuted for harassment. If their child steals, prosecute the parent. The majority
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Because some people want to pretend that a village idiot is as valuable as an Einstein to society. We are all drastically more wealthy than our parents and grandparents. We have it far better. But for socialists, this is not enough. They de
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
You obviously don't remember the 70s. Do we have rubbish piling up on the streets, dead people piling up not being buried? Do we have rolling power cuts due to strikes? Are we all on a 3 day week? Massive inflation and interest rates?
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
A majority voted the same way as him. The president held the same views. But you're singling him out as homophobic??
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
Incest?
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by voicereasonish 12y ago
> "if you wanted a free trade zone and international cooperations in all sorts of areas between 28 nations." I don't... I don't see any upside to increased centralisation and globalisation.

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