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The fact that you're making a comment about how your Christianity makes you feel outcast probably means you feel compelled to push those beliefs onto others, which is deeply unlike Christ. Remember the first apostles were people who fo
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> If you think of it more in terms of war, you'd never draw such an equivalence: "Well, we've shot down their planes so it's fine that they shoot down ours." People make these equivalencies constantly . Fortunat
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>Due to this group’s zealous handiwork, Wikipedia’s articles on the Holocaust in Poland minimize Polish antisemitism, exaggerate the Poles’ role in saving Jews, insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists t
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None of the incentives changed. We really just need someone egalitarian to make the craigslist of blogs and never be tempted to stab the goose who's laying the golden eggs for quick monetization. The blogging space is too long-term for
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>Patents are still being used to protect smaller companies from much larger corporations. Allowing these large corporations to legally ignore patents will only make things worse for the rest of us. Truly small operations don't have
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>Was the "inability of the produced seeds to be sowed again and turn into a crop" intentionally baked into the seeds sold by these companies, purely for profits? No, it's purely a contractual limitation. Farmers need to si
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Not the original poster, but coreutils are almost given similar design requirements as airplane software. They need to be fast and they need to be perfect. Having a dependency tree which invokes items that (potentially) don't place as
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This sounds exactly like the kind of idea mentioned in the article. It's extremely obvious and sounds really good, so the conclusion that should be drawn is "there is some confounding factor that would only be obvious to domai
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"Sins of the father are sins of the son", basically if you buy a company who did some super sketchy human life harming activity, you are now 100% responsible for that activity. This would also have the interesting knock on effect
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One of the fascinating aspects that allows this to continue is that legal liability for a destructive product is essentially voided when a company is sold (look at the arguments Dow chemical made in Bhopal). This has created a system where
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I personally think stability and having some bureaucrat monitoring hours is good. I don't want my air traffic controllers popping pills and pulling double shifts, or showing up to work drunk because they're worried about getting f
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I'm not sure how many people know this, but one of the first instances of "union busting" ever committed by the US federal govt was against air traffic controllers. The job used to be extremely competitive and prestigious, bu
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If you're using it to the point you need it guaranteed up 24/7, you may be better off not treating it as a SaaS API and instead building up your own model. It seems somewhat likely OpenAI has some pretty insane changes going on wi
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It's more of a choice by the elites which deprioritize the needs of the actual populace. Often they do this by mixing the zoning of cities with surrounding suburban areas who have deeply conflicting interests and lifestyles
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If you live in most American cities, biking is basically a life hazard on par with smoking imo
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Damn, whoever made a comment has probably has never had a job that's genuinely engaged them (and certainly has never been unexpectedly laid off). What a sad reality most people's jobs are :(
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I feel like this is a weird comment. There has basically never been a CEO taking meaningful accountability for a company failing. Taking a reasonable chunk of one's wealth and giving it to fired employees is actually remarkable, even i
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I think in this case it's a complex intermingling of broad pubic sentiment and governmental policy driven by that sentiment (at some point, school boards had to make the explicit choice to deprioritize cursive and wood shop classes, th
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Probably something that can do extensive biomedical testing on very little bio matter. The answer is no, the problems with Theranos weren't technical, they were physical, the box they tried to build was impossible based on fluid dynami
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That sounds pretty cool, maybe the world will do more silly things, like the country with the largest military force electing another game show host to it's highest office
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Community doesn't commodify well because it doesn't scale. You can't hire 100 more workers to produce 1000 more communities every day, so there really is no ability to sell it. It's basically the only thing you legitimat
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I, for one, look forward to the societal collapse that will occur once countries without meaningful social aid suddenly have no work for anyone to be paid to do. It'll be a pretty fun few years while we see all the chaos play out
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Ego of the founders wanting to be "on the ground floor" of the tech they read about in random sci-fi books as teens. Even though in most of those sci-fi books were schlock or allegorical about how technology alienates us.
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I thought city planning was pretty settled that removing cars and only allowing trucks for limited times basically increased all meaningful economic activity. I think most "real" cities (i.e. those in Iceland with high access to f
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I think it's similar to how certain Americans get squirrelly when people talk about racial brutality, like I imagine we'd get a lot of weird people sending cringe messages if they named a release "Justice for Trayvon Martin&q
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I mean, we spend lots of time using the legal system to resolve marital and land issues. Ultimately most legal issues are interpersonal issues, I don't see why the perception of a conflict as silly should preclude a judge from helping
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This man literally is doing the exact same thing the comment above is describing. Incredible.
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It's dubious to guarantee that they'll fall, but it's understandable why people who don't rent would think that because from an economic theory perspective, the reality doesn't really make sense. Most landlords will
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> You wonder how pockets of this survive when top management comes and goes, who sometimes only know the company as just some logo or another corporation to be managed This makes me so sad, all of our traditions which make companies uniq
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It's perfectly fine to be a weird dude who advocates that we need exponential growth of humans and that all climate scientists are chicken little. It makes life more interesting and magical to see people trying to logically defend gett

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