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by 4wsn 5y ago
Unless the company has fundamentally changed I'm not concerned and I'm calling this clickbait. The best case scenario for Microsoft is that they manage to achieve a temporary monopoly via Teams until the inevitable happens. A new
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by 4wsn 5y ago
How does this compare to Russia's Avangard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide_veh... I recall trying to read up on the topic of hypersonic missiles about a year ago but relevant information
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by 4wsn 5y ago
Can you elaborate more on _why_ you decided to have a kid? :) I'm definitely in favor of having kids because I'm not sure what sort of end-game a civilization is aiming for if they decide to stop having kids, but I've yet to
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by 4wsn 5y ago
> Antislavery sentiment was strong and growing in the 1800s - if you lived in that time, could you imagine someone saying "I feel foolish taking stances on what is and isn't abhorrent"? Slavery is abhorrent - period. It&#x
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by 4wsn 5y ago
Like you said, the biggest corporations have become mini-states with enormous power. I don't know what the solution is, but assigning them, however informally, the role of deciding on ethical standards isn't a sustainable solution
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by 4wsn 5y ago
Fair point. I might disagree with your method, because I think boycotts and sanctions would only further entrench the Chinese government. They'll turn around and tell their people "See? The West only wants to keep you down!"
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by 4wsn 5y ago
This isn't the same situation as kicking out a wife beater or a pedophile from your ice cream shop. Your ice cream shop is a purely domestic business, and your customers are obligated to follow domestic laws, which ban pedophilia and d
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by 4wsn 5y ago
While I'm grateful to live in a world without Nazis (in power) or (legal) slavery, my bafflement stems from the newness of the concept of corporations taking up the role of upholding moral standards. Up until now corporations have focu
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by 4wsn 5y ago
I'm legitimately baffled by this sentiment, not just when it's targeted at Apple (see Blizzard). I feel like I missed a memo everyone got but me where we decided to only do business with people we agree with. I'm getting on i
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by 4wsn 5y ago
> It's definitely not too late, this sort of defeatist attitude is not only wrong but dismissive of the dangers. I'm not suggesting _nothing_ be done and we carry on as usual. But there are 7.6 billion people on this planet and
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by 4wsn 5y ago
I don't like to discuss EVs in public because things quickly devolve into an inquisition if one doesn't fully embrace the messaging, but I'll bite. From an enthusiast perspective, I have no issues with an electric powertrain.
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by 4wsn 5y ago
I've been playing online since the 90s and I've yet to see an actually effective method of combating toxic behavior in competitive games. Not censoring it, but preventing it in the first place.
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by 4wsn 5y ago
I don't know, I'm not a rescuer. I assume having someone communicate "49,9842159, 10,1134713" over a staticy radio signal is harder than using something like this.
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by 4wsn 5y ago
It's not ideal, but I'd rather something like this get adopted from the bottom up (actual rescuers taking initiative) rather than the alternative, where an overly complex, expensive, and barely working attempted solution is implem
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by 4wsn 6y ago
Yeah, but it's not really about how effective it is, it's about feeling like you're saving the world. I'm not denying there is some sort of impact, but the main goal with things like this is to get on the bandwagon rathe