Attrecomet

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by Attrecomet 2y ago
What is the alternative, though? This is an honest question, I really want to know: How would the "this is horrible, how can you deign to work that way?" crowd coordinate thousands of people on a project to create something that i
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
It was a fun evening with the guys from Bavaria in Berlin
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
In actual fact, your proposal is too modest. Why should only electronic messages be so publicized? After all, relevant communication, either for our protectors in law enforcement (and secret services, don't forget their hard work for o
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
That is true, and don't get me wrong, I'm happy if that works for you -- people should make use of that possibility far more often. It's not for possible for everyone, though, and the bar is not "is any IP loss realistic
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
> We all have laptops and can go any where to work. Well, anywhere I can be sure no external person can see what I'm doing on screen. So a cafe will work if I can sit in a corner with my back to a wall. And even then, I'm givi
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
> Other wasteful comments are added by some tools. I hate the one that marks every loop wiht a //for or //try comment. Oh god, that's horrible, what kind of tool does that?!
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
We don't say "Ponzi scheme" here, we say "disrupting traditional markets" and "investment opportunity"
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
>The EU keeps moving the goalposts on what constitutes “safe” transfers (we’re on the 5th round of this) This is a wrong phrasing of the problem: The US is not, and has never been, a safe haven to transfer personal data to. However, it w
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
We very literally do not have the resources to lift up every human on this planet onto US living standards. There is not enough oil, not enough uranium, not enough rare earths that we know how to extract to provide the whole world with the
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
No, you are misreading what I'm saying. GP clearly means the current birth rate when talking about "unsustainable birth rates". I am pointing out that the pronatalist position is the actually unsustainable one. It's not
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
Another disingenuous argument ignoring what was actually said. It seems you know that many pronatalists are deeply racist ("we must secure a future for the white race and out children") and view women's agency over their own
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
And yet, we are discussing a movement that wants to artificially increase birth rates that have fallen too low for their tastes. It seems you don't actually need to force control birth rates, just give women agency over their own lives
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
Pro-natalism however does not care about sustainable world population (the relevant metric for resources in a globalized world), but "grow as fast as you can to outcompete the brown or Muslim people", as many pronatalists comments
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
And now, thanks to increased control over the environment due to technology and science, there are new tools in our repository that our ancestors did not have, like actually sitting down and planning how to avoid an ecological collapse -- a
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
What a petty response to efforts to avert an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe. Maybe you should just give up if that's the best you can do.
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
By "unsustainable growth rates" you mean an ever-expanding population on a planet that cannot realistically offer up the resources for this population to live in moderate wealth, right?
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
Yes, in a museum's deep vault somewhere, since it's one of a kind.
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
>the credit system seems as reasonable as any. It's fraud, pure and simple. I don't know how such a broken system could be "reasonable" for anything. But hey, at least polluters can lie to their customers and claim &q
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
>The proper comparison isn't the author's time versus the readers looking it up, but rather readers encountering a term for the first time having to look it up versus every other reader having to read overly verbose writing tha
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
I think the hate stems from so many people working in environments where either the company has bureaucratized their nominally agile process to the point of absurdity or just having superiors that are in over their head, which makes any kin
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
I think you missed the invisible /s tags to those sentences.
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
Not if the project succeeds because it was important enough for more resources and time to be allotted.
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
>If you tried agile and it failed, it wasn't actually agile. When you show how it was actually agile, you didn't do it right. When you show you did it right - go back to argument 1. It's a really circular no true scotsman
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
Except it very obviously IS a medieval world. Not our Middle Ages, but a world that works very closely like how we understand Middle Ages to work. It's feudal, he understands Anglo-Saxon warfare to an amount surprising in an author of
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
ASOIAF however portrays a very clearly medieval society -- vassalage (badly used in the story, but obviously meant to be quite feudal), the general tech level with castles (not palaces!) and the language used are all meant to evoke a late m
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
In a pre-industrial society, rich agricultural lands and even just this year's produce would count as something worthy to loot. Heck, they might do so now -- I'm sure Russia wouldn't be unhappy to be able to add fertile Ukrai
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
This magnanimity is also something prized in Earth-medieval kingship, too. Many a revolt against a king ended with the king pardoning the vassals that rose up -- only a king very secure in his throne could depose or even execute rebellious
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
Everybody tough with their job-dependent healthcare until they are let go because a chronic illness is too debilitating for the demands of the job and they are left with nothing but monthly medical costs of a few tens of thousands of dollar
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by Attrecomet 2y ago
I would have expected countries like Poland to have a mature enough IT ecosystem that Google could have just moved there directly if they wanted. Why stop over at one of Europe's most expensive places to get talent if that was to goal?
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by Attrecomet 3y ago
Disagree. Architecture problems are different enough from software bugs that it's worth it to keep them separate words.

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