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That's a sociopathic way to think about someone who has made one mistake and developed a lifelong chemical dependence.

Punishing the people who are suffering from addiction with a tax isn't ideal. I think we might be better off with a national tax that goes towards funding the healthcare necessary …

What if your PC did not need cooling, because it generated no heat? How much more potent could computers be?

Capitalism was always headed here, computers or not. Computers just stepped on the accelerator.

Interestingly it's not the only growth out of Feudalism. Miskin argues, for instance, that France and England had very different post-feudal trajectories, but England's move into C…

Yeah, it seems like (to me, a naive layperson) to be similar to how a prince rupert's drop exerts strong forces thanks to the mechanism of its cooling/shape. The copper somehow for…

You've misunderstood the source. While temperatures locally will drop by 5C, the global average will not. That chart shows global averages, ie, the whole world was 5C colder. NY mi…

The instructions they provide in the paper seem fairly straightforward and reproducible, I'd expect that if this is in fact legit, there will be many attempts to replicate the resu…

Does "double click anywhere" mean "double click anywhere within these N cities"? I couldn't initially tell if they were examples or limits.

Having a critique of a thing is orthogonal to being interested in the thing. There are plenty of topics I find fun to engage in dialog about, despite having no interest in the topi…

> It was my opinion but it is also correct You are clearly unable to have a discussion in any sort of good faith. You cannot just assert things are true and then say, "Well, they w…

> 99.9% of humanity is on my side on this. Citation very much needed. > I told you how things are You very much did not. You shared your opinion, just like you did with the 99.9% "…

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It's not lying. Am I lying to my kid when I say I "work with computers"? No, it's an abstraction. My 8 year old doesn't need to understand what a datacenter is, but just because I …

>If that doesn't make sense to you, I suggest taking off the ideological glasses. You might want to check and see who is wearing the ideological glasses. You are the one who has th…

You can abstract it. My mommy is a dancer, or my mommy is an actor and she does shows for one grownup at a time. It's really not difficult to find a true statement that is also not…

Someday I had to tell my kid that people have two mommies and some people have two daddies, and you know what? It was fine. You can abstract it for a kid until they are old enough …

Why, why would you say that? Parent leaves for work, parent comes home from work with income. Is it because sex work is dangerous? So is fishing, and pizza delivery, and constructi…

I've got an ebike that takes me anywhere within ~10 miles easily, including picking up/drop off kids), and I'm a remote worker (though I could bike to the office easily.)

Property tax is not land value tax. Property tax is a tax on both the improvements and the base value of the land. Land value taxes are only taxes on the value of the land. A land …

Of course. Most thieves break in use the time honored "brick + window" method. But I was refuting the specific idea that house locks are a tamper evident seal. They are trivially e…

Agreed. It's surprising how often we are great at post mortem analysis in engineering contexts (asking "why" five times), but we find it uncomfortable to do the same in social cont…

Raking house locks is a) not difficult and b) not expensive. You don't need to be a professional to do that. But also, bricks through windows are equally not difficult and not expe…

Neat! I definitely read the name as "Peeing" and was confused. (Most people parse words using the first few letters and last few letters when they scan.) The blurb on the site was …