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https://www.businessinsider.com/why-damien-hirst-is-controve... > There are nearly 1,400 of Damien Hirst's "spot" paintings in existence. > The artist has only painted around 25 of them himself.
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and how does your worldview work in practice? a protected and empowered US/Western conglomerate is more motivated innovate and outcompete mega corps of Russia/China/latest-boogieman and destroys them because of this? or is th
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To suggest the EU/Europe has done anything close to the bare minimum for Ukraine is absurd and Europeans who think otherwise are as delusional on this as the long term usefulness of the actual EU
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Everyone wants to be the prophet of doom of their own religion.
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> our daughter's school has to ask specific consent if they can make photos and where they can post them The result of this is we don't see anything out daughter does in school because school decides to comply with draconian re
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So many words to say: spaceX clean up your sh*t. It's fair ask. But it's also spreading "concerns" with little justification to do reputational damage to a public figure.
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Most people who think they deserve a significant pay raise probably don't (or maybe not enough relative to others competing for limited promotional budget).
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Hey, speculation <> investment is a spectrum, it's fine to not care about the full spectrum. But let's not pretend (for example) that gold price reflects it's industrial value more than it's speculative value. The
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I personally find it ridiculous that people agree with the sentencing when you compare to sentences for tobacco industry practices, opioid epidemic, etc..
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Can we just admit many jobs either have very crappy parts to it or are entirely crappy and wouldn't it be nice if that could be replaced with technology?
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You may have that right as long as you agree that others have the right to not care about your right when deciding to use "your" stuff however they want.
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Aren't there services/bookmarklets that automatically search/redirect to archives?
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"hey, you were just stuck in an elevator going erratically up and down never opening the door for you to leave or stop. I don't know why you're freaking out about it"
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> Having that data never leave your basement sure can be worth more than $3000 if performance is not a bottleneck I get what you're saying, but there are also regulations (and your own business interest) that expects data redundancy
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My thinking has been that society only pays attention to the mechanisms that favour upward movement while completely neglecting how to push down - from the top. Maybe because of naive concepts like "enlarging the cake for everyone&quot
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> something more complicated where the founder's personality plays a big role Not to pretend that other leveraged funds founder's are equally known as saylor, but how do all other funds differentiate themselves? Is it the same
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I guess that's a human-centered title rather than object-centered one.
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YouTube pays artists much better than Spotify, but artists still look at Spotify success as music career success
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It is available in fdroid on my ungoogled phone. I don't know what you're talking about
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Ahh we are in agreement there then.
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Have you considered bringing attention to fertility, demographics and social cohesion as a collective issue (thus national/corporate/etc) and not just a self-centered cultural issue is precisely the point?
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It's interesting you say this because in my current process to learn to build apps for myself I first try build mermaid diagrams aided by LLM. And when I'm happy, i then ask it to generate the code for me based on these diagrams.
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> who decides Well, any person involved in the process of making something real? And that would include doctors right? Why doesn't doctor/health professionals opinion matters if they are the ones actually executing the request?
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> then maybe we should just die out Have you consider all aspects of social conditioning/pressure existed and exist to lead you to utter those words?
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And you don't think the destruction of the village and sharp decline in birth rate feed of each other? Individuals have outsourced so much to abstract "institutions" that they can't see alternatives whatever precarious a
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One does the best one can. But I guess "intentionally detaching" doesn't convey the best. Even ignoring the extra work for the mother or whoever is actually providing the care, this conscious decision is not cost free for the
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> is it like this for everyone The answer is certainly "no". But does it matter? I guess it does in this age - after decades of social conditioning that parenthood is not much but an individual's lifestyle choice. All this
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Look at Lebanon next door, they have elections, constitutional consensus to power share among sect diverse population. Syrian is just a large Lebanon. Doubt elections are the solution
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Is a 14 years long process (the Syrian civil war) quick? Just Wikipedia the civil war article. Did people forget about ISIS uprising as well? Look at the map: the regime haven't controlled most of the territory since the start of the c
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These large troubled incumbents seems to have infinite lives to linger on towards a slow death path destroying value in their journey. Like Boeing, why does intel hangs around taking up space, opportunities, resources, one failed attempt af

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