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> I had 50 employees, and I had to think about them and the money they would make from this sale. You know if you just scale up the numbers above, Mark could justify what he's doin…

Absolutely. It's incredibly innocuous.

> ...sadly lost in today's culture - we're in a post-chivalric era alas. But these are the values I grew up with Exactly this. It can be tough but you pick up your load and move va…

That Kipling poem is flawless. Injecting virtue signalling dilutes its beauty. They don't even go together. This is personal for me because it is the most profound thing I've ever …

No, you're alright.

This is what I have a problem with; one cannot even share a simple poem without it degenerating into a virtue signalling debate. Now you're forced to defend something that you had …

Exactly, this is why behavior modification should also be emphasized.

> If you deal with Alcoholism, there's no "final" cure. This is precisely it. You fight it continuously and always assume you are going to mess things up even when you think you're…

Not sure if you've tried this but it helps me when things get out of hand; check out /r/stopdrinking Just talking about it with other people going through the same thing helps a lo…

I've done the same but for a proxy I needed to circumvent geofencing restrictions. I got a local(non-US) VPS provider and installed squid on it. I found it more affordable than the…

Anytime you get an opportunity to reduce the overreaching powers of the state, that's a good thing! Today, we on the right have Trump, tomorrow there'll be someone on the left as p…

care_enough_to_explain_the_weird_underscores?

What's your opinion on the Gawker case? Did they deserve what happened?

> I would point to the Chinese persecution of their Uyghur population currently. TIL about this. Thanks.

> Most people in the world are decent This Rousseauian vantage point on the general nature of people is something that's debatable to me. I think that under specific conditions thi…

> You’re American until you travel to Iran then you’re subhuman? That's obviously very ill informed (I'd like a link to this or a pointer to such incidents if you don't mind). Howe…

> Even people fleeing from countries like Iraq, because their lives were in danger due to helping the US. Well obviously this isn't very useful and may need to be rethought if true…

> Trump starts rounding up “illegals” and shooting them if they refuse to leave our country I'd say that that's a valid I'd concern even as a Trump supporter. All governments are c…

> I don't think it's fair that you're getting down votes here without replies. Why, thank you! > Currently there are over 30,000 gun deaths in the US every year. Interesting stat. …

Wayland has been a nightmare for me since upgrading to ubuntu 18.04 I had to disable it because videos would not play for long without freezing either on the browser or vlc. Only a…

> Reasonable people could certainly debate what sort of standards those would be Sounds reasonable to me. I would however, also ask you to consider that excessive control leading t…

> This was a lightbulb moment I knew it from the get go. I also know most people here are left leaning but that people haven't really thought about why they take the positions they…

Exactly. Going on a tangent here but this is exactly what I tell gun control proponents. Deal with the root cause of the problem and leave gun owners be.