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Gifford
Joined 11 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
A slave master is highly motivated to invest in a slave's skills, because the master extracts the profit of that investment.
Comment · 11 years ago
That's called a fried apple pie in the USA.
Comment · 11 years ago
Two of the A endpoints are the same,so don't need to be encoded twice.
Comment · 11 years ago
With good lighting control, you could set up he checkerboard illusion in the real world. That's part of he point.
Comment · 11 years ago
The point of ACA was to make not being insured more hassle than being insured, to motivate you get insurance, not complain about the hassle of being uninsured. Maybe you philosophically oppose insurance, but it isn't ineffective at its stated goal
Comment · 11 years ago
You may be confusing "isn't interested in disucssing it with you" with "isn't up for discussion at all". Maybe you bring less to the conversation than you think you do, in some cases.
Comment · 11 years ago
On some topics of debate, as it goes, they say, "the Devil has enough advocates already".
Comment · 11 years ago
But computer programmers are logical by training and profession, so we can trust that our own analyses are always correct.
Comment · 11 years ago
Try putting as much effort into correcting your own mistakes as you do into correcting others. Being correct but in a biased way is practically equivalent to being wrong.
Comment · 11 years ago
There aren't enough free ranges to product the eggs people want. Does everyone want tl pay $1 per egg? The answer is to be less greedy about animal produce.
Comment · 11 years ago
Ultimately all you can do is gently guide the world toward secular humanism, as people raised under the irrational tribalism of
any
religion struggle to writhe out of the pit they were born in. Calling out the faults of one flavor of religion is silly.
Comment · 11 years ago
Not really. SV employees pay 40-50+% income in tax. The founders, maybe, are at threat.
Comment · 11 years ago
The easy way fight this is Schindlers List style: just fail to deliver quality when you work overtime. They won't fire you, because a priori they can't find anyone better.
Comment · 11 years ago
Full time "benefits" (vs part-time hours) didn't exist in 19th Century USA wen Kellog practice changed.
Comment · 11 years ago
After you slept, did you remember what you had previously forgotten, or was it a loss?