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Comment #36451310
I can take a wild guess about some traits she never selected.
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Comment #36450823
I didn't say anything about communists. I am arguing that people's complaints about meat or not unique and apply to most other economic goods.
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Comment #36448654
It sounds like your issue is with our resources allocation system and meat is just a proxy for it that you don't care for.
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Comment #36448539
So you agree that if I pay the cost it's not a problem? You just disagree about what that price is? In other words, a plant based diet is primarily about your budget?
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Comment #36448141
Every activity and product has a cost and contributes to waste. If I enjoy that food and pay for the cost then whats the problem? Are we suggesting it's virtuous for its own sake t…
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Comment #36448108
> We also shouldn't let the lowest common denominator have a say in the direction of society. Interesting. Do you see this as defending democracy?
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Comment #36433841
> I doubt it’s particularly illuminating. Everytime I do a foundational activity like this it does turn out to be illuminating. Why do you doubt you'll learn something?
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Comment #36432957
That's besides the point. Some people also do not like laptops and prefer desktops. The phone is not the final destination for personal computing.
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Comment #36428376
This is incredibly hindsight biased. The watch itself is already a phone substitute for many people and continuing to grow. Isn't wearing a small thing on the wrist better than a b…
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Comment #36405227
Yes. Well all those positions are just employees as well, not owners.
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Comment #36391825
> mathematicians I see that differently. Mathemticians often come into a field that's complex and filled with fudge factors and layers of engineering and make it clear and simple. …
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Comment #36386897
Activities can be very useful and not psychologically satisfying.
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Comment #36386889
> Even PG does not post on this forum According to recent analysis, he does under pseudonyms. Also PG Twitter is probably 90% marketing his investments, so he is complicit in this …
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Comment #36386881
It's actually an easy problem to avoid Buy a Knuth book or other core science/math text and read that instead.
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Comment #36386858
This. Just wait until you meet someone familiar with everything you know much deeper and it's not even their main thing.
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Comment #36386843
This is cool and authentic content though. Got any recs for me?
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Comment #36380877
Boomers have to spend their final portions wealth on incredible health care services to extend their life by a few months to years.
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Comment #36380836
Would you pay a large amount for another speculative technology development (say Tesla auto pilot)? Personally I would only do that if I know and care about the topic, in which cas…
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Comment #36367875
Yes. I know very few people who hold "work is everything" or even work more than 40 hours.
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Comment #36362857
> 10 years Wow thats usually the amount of time it would take to become an expert in a completely new field.
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Comment #36362807
The teachers don't know how it's used either. Math teaching selects for study habits and that's about it.
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Comment #36330780
Agreed. It's much harder to be a manager of people smarter than you doing stuff you don't understand, but also absolutely necessary.
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Comment #36294254
Swift is a safer and simpler C++. The only thing it shares with objective C is some compatibility.
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Comment #36294156
Perfect example. A state the size of a European country probably with more diversity and lifestyle than one too, but you imagine you will be persecuted?
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