CogitoCogito

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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
> My understanding is that a deal was in place. Have you seen the deal? Or are you just speculating? For all we know, Trump actually told Zelensky the US would provide security guarantees to set up this spectacle. Or maybe in fact the de
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
Trump could have just told Ukraine they weren't going to support them anymore. He didn't need to have a public press conference and publicly act like a petulant child demonstrating how truly pathetic and weak his leadership really
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
You are aware that Trump has _not_ stopped this war right? He has floated certain some possible agreements with Ukraine, but his terms have not been agreeable to the Ukrainians. If Trump actually wants Ukraine to come to an agreement with t
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I couldn't disagree more. My principle is to write systems extremely simply and then distribute portions of it as it becomes necessary. Almost always it never becomes necessary and the rare cases it does, it is entirely straight forwar
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
> Neither of us really know Twitter's financial position, given it's now private. Then why are you making any argument that it was a success? > There was a lot of waste at Twitter. Given that headcount was cut by 80%, and ad
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I would actually agree with you on that in the case of Twitter, but in what sense is that comparable to the current situation? Unless you mean that Musk is succeeding by destroying a bunch of American assets (i.e. the agencies) and then bei
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
What do you mean when you say "it's an effective strategy"? It's hard to say for certain since Twitter is now private, but it certainly seems to have lost value since Musk took over. What would "work in the public s
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
In the Czech Republic at least, Google Maps now shows "Mexický záliv (Americký záliv)". I'm not sure which countries still see the original name other than Mexico.
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
But this isn't a territory dispute this is just an internal US name change. Here in the Czech Republic it now shows up as "Mexický záliv (Americký záliv)". Why are they adding "Americký záliv" in a parenthetical? It
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I honestly don't believe this is the case. I think Americans would largely support increased fines for corporate malfeasance. I think it much more likely that the large fines aren't assessed because those in the position to be fin
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I agree the correct answer is fines, but I disagree that the government should concern itself with whether or not the company decides to take it out on employees who don't deserve it. It's up to the company to decide how it should
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I guess if our goal were to stop this sort of corporate behavior, we would remove the requirement of a crime being intentional for corporations.
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
To add my own anecdote, I've needed to use a lot of spreadsheets the last couple weeks and quickly became annoyed that different cells could have different fonts (which would sometimes happen when I was pasting in data). Of course I qu
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I don't think there are many people who will confuse an in-house load balancing service used at dropbox with a brokerage even if both are called Robinhood. Similarly, I don't think that people will confuse said brokerage with an o
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
You could maybe consider directing these questions to the author of the article? Given the context, I'm sure he'd appreciate the feedback.
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
> There is nothing rational about maliciously misleading someone in a business transaction. Honestly at this point I think you're just being purposefully obtuse. Of course it's rational for customers to but a ticket A -> B -
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
> If skiplagging becomes more common, airlines will ultimately raise prices for everyone to make up for the inefficiency and everyone loses. Screw that noise. How would everyone lose? Bans against skiplagging allow airlines to divorce th
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
Airlines choose these ticketing policies and customers react to them rationally. If the airlines allowed customers to notify them that they won't be taking the final flight without any extra costs, then they wouldn't have to worry
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
Tradeoffs.
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
> was instead a social shaming that cut so deep that the message you wrote is still burned verbatim into their memory after all these years? Maybe that was the point?
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
> Do you think a walkable garden at the top of a cathedral would be respectful of the christian faith or do you think only other religions deserve respect? Personally I find nothing disrespectful about putting a walkable garden on top of
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
So obvious! But _no_ I haven't done this even though I have messed up remote servers where this would have helped. A bit embarrassed I didn't think of it myself, but thanks for the tip nonetheless!
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
For me the value is the intelligent commentary produced by such a story.
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
How so? Swapping parts can still result in people's deaths. That is what concerned you right? Besides it's not like people have only "swapped parts". People have basically entirely rebuilt engines and many other systems
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
Haven't third parties been repairing cars for all automotive history?
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
Almost everyone in Scandinavia during the Viking age were farmers. Only a very few were Viking warriors. So I'm guessing that the vast majority of Scandinavians lived quite similarly to all other farmers of the times at northern latitu
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
I said I was leaving, but maybe I'll just pop back into to clarify that I did _not_ misunderstand you. When I initially responded and later said "live and let live", I definitely included living with "loud, neon-light co
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
People buying THC products doesn't affect me, it affects them. That said, I don't plan on being drawn into this discussion any further. Keep fighting the good fight I guess.
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by CogitoCogito 2y ago
Live and let live? But yeah of course people can also try to get these "unpleasant" things banned, if they don't have anything better to do with themselves.

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