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901.
by Arainach 2y ago
>It’s okay to not walk everywhere. The cardiovascular health of Americans strongly suggests this is not true.
902.
by Arainach 2y ago
Waiting for 2 minutes, idling an engine pumping hydrocarbons into the air, because you won't walk a few minutes (often a shorter walk in time than the time you're waiting) is absolutely lazy and a waste. People with legitimate han
903.
by Arainach 2y ago
You think that being able to get someone's email address (most likely a business email but let's pretend it's a personal email) has a 1 in 5,000 chance of being turned into enough personal information to track down AND that s
904.
by Arainach 2y ago
Sure, but give some specific values. What potential damages and potential risk multiply to more than $10k?
905.
by Arainach 2y ago
How do you propose to calculate "the downside saved by eliminating the bug" - ideally in general, but I'd be curious to see if you could do it even for the specific bug discussed in this article.
906.
by Arainach 2y ago
Except it's not "legitimate cash" and that's the point. * Are you talking to someone legitimately interested in purchasing and paying you, or is this a sting? * If you're meeting up with someone in person, what is t
907.
by Arainach 2y ago
Consider how many people wait in line or drive a few miles further for "cheaper gas" without ever thinking of the value of their time, or the cost of gas and wear and tear on their vehicles they spend doing so, and that may make t
908.
by Arainach 2y ago
People parking on the public street in front of your house has nothing to do with the enjoyment of it. If you personally find it abhorrent, move outside the city to somewhere with fewer people.
909.
by Arainach 2y ago
....because there's tons of precedent for the Trump Administration, GOP courts, or voters to punish in any way raw corruption or profiteering?
910.
by Arainach 2y ago
That is absolute madness. I assume you also recursively chmod 777 everything on your Linux systems? It's incredibly valuable to not allow anything which runs on your machine to immediately read and write anything, even on a single user
911.
by Arainach 2y ago
Shut down all federal science funding on the off chance a conspiracy theory is true? Talk about an overreaction. Similarly how are you going to reproduce studies by not funding anything? >just run every paper through an LLM and check fo
912.
by Arainach 2y ago
You say "still" as if NTFS hasn't evolved in that time. It still has a far more capable permissions model than any Linux filesystem. Raymond called it 21 years ago: when you change the insides, no one notices. https:/
913.
by Arainach 2y ago
A deficit is not a loan. The USD and the historical strength and faith on the US allowed the US to offer its own securities, not ones pwned by and with terms dictated by external entities.
914.
by Arainach 2y ago
You can show someone how to safely use a chainsaw, but the people who build replacements for or better chainsaws often have worked building, repairing, and using those tools day in and day out. Education involves repeating things others hav
915.
by Arainach 2y ago
This is presented like it's a good thing, but it quite probably implies a local maximum in cultural abilities for a long time. How do experts become experts? Through time and practice. Many great photographers hone their skills or dis
916.
by Arainach 2y ago
That is a ridiculously cynical take. You can build a brand for a lot cheaper than $300 million if that's your goal.
917.
by Arainach 2y ago
Others have called out how silly your comparison is, but Gates and Microsoft have contributed to plenty of local things. Bill and Melinda have given hundreds of millions to local universities [1], tens of millions to local schools [2], mil
918.
by Arainach 2y ago
Did we read the same article? There are repeated examples of cartels colluding to fix prices which aren't being prosecuted because they're using a third party (app) to coordinate the collusion rather than doing it in a board room
919.
by Arainach 2y ago
Why is it always "blame the choice of candidates" and not "blame millions of ignorant voters who despite being told exactly what would happen said "nah, I bet prices for things will drop" or "blame the media bi
920.
by Arainach 2y ago
>wasting time reinventing the wheel for no good reason Nearly all of learning relies on reinventing the wheel. Most personal projects involve reinventing wheels, but improving yourself by doing so.
921.
by Arainach 2y ago
The popular vote does not determine what is right. The US elected an incredibly racist Richard Nixon by a Landslide in 1972, but that doesn't mean society couldn't make progress on making it unacceptable to use racial slurs in pub
922.
by Arainach 2y ago
>The whole "war on hate" thing was a bad idea; you can't forbid hatred You can't forbid it but you can absolutely make it socially unacceptable. "Free speech" doesn't mean letting people spew hate and d
923.
by Arainach 2y ago
>I don't blame some people You should. Just because something is imperfect doesn't make it bad. Should the truck loophole be closed? Yes. Has CAFE improved every other class of vehicle? Yes.
924.
by Arainach 2y ago
>We don't live in a world like in 1905 where an earthquake would lead to a fire that burns down an entire city I'm not convinced that that's true, and even if it is a huge chunk of population (world, US, pick your area, it
925.
by Arainach 2y ago
When issues happen, it is almost never just one person's fault. Just trace the Whys: 1) Why did the bug happen? These lines of code 2) Why wasn't that caught by tests? The test was broken / didn't exist 3) How was the
926.
by Arainach 2y ago
That has nothing to do with audiobook voice actors and everything to do with copyright and who owns the rights to the book (and whether they believe there's any money to be made selling an audiobook version).
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by Arainach 2y ago
>Anyway, aren't CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian... overtly left-leaning For CNN and MSNBC, no. Neither was every truly liberal in the global sense (like the Democratic Party, closer to centrist than anything else) and both have started dri
928.
by Arainach 2y ago
Establishing standards for education and defunding public schools to siphon the funds to churches are not the same thing. Conservatives have been attacking and defunding educational standards and attacking the educated and the concept of ed
929.
by Arainach 2y ago
>Why can't it keep going? Because an educated populace is harder for the ultrarich to control and abuse, because an educated populace with free time can revolt against those in power, and because as a consequence of those two things
930.
by Arainach 2y ago
The alternative of not having a performance review problem involves having all of those problems with even more confusion, less visibility, and people trying to guess what will get them rewarded and usually guessing wrong.

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