Timon3

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by Timon3 5mo ago
Are we supposed to conveniently ignore the mountains of money currently being shoveled into building new data centers as quickly as possible without any regard for negative externalities?
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by Timon3 5mo ago
Every time I've seen such taxes proposed or implemented, it seems to be followed by waves of misinformation washing through most media outlets. Even verifiable lies keep being repeated, and are slowly picked up by broad strokes of the
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by Timon3 5mo ago
It undoubtedly is! I'd much rather learn 10,000 different names that follow a clear naming scheme and stay consistent between different projects and teams, than 1,000 different names that aren't guaranteed to have clear names or a
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by Timon3 5mo ago
It actually makes me very skeptical of your thesis - broadly discussed facts don't usually need to be wrapped in "nobody wants to talk about this, but everyone knows it's true".
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by Timon3 5mo ago
I've been reading this same comment non-stop for the last five years.
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by Timon3 5mo ago
I believe the solution is fairly simple: military robots to keep the masses in check. Just look at how utterly evil and despicable the rich and powerful have been acting over the last years. Do you really think that people who are investing
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by Timon3 5mo ago
While I agree with you that the system itself inevitably causes these issues, I don't see how this absolves those who use anti-social investment strategies etc. of selfishness. On an individual scale they're still making morally b
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by Timon3 5mo ago
Unfortunately it seems like the winds are blowing in the opposite direction - the German government for example is trying to move us to a 48-hour-week instead.
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by Timon3 5mo ago
It's even simpler to do zero things than to do one thing, so we should expect them not to introduce any ads, right? "Simplicity" isn't a relevant factor.
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by Timon3 5mo ago
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the specifics. Can you link clear proof that unions were preventing necessary downsizing, and that this downsizing would have saved the company?
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by Timon3 5mo ago
Unions don't prevent downsizing when it is actually necessary. What they do prevent is downsizing to goose the stock price, and that is good for the customer.
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by Timon3 5mo ago
First, I'm pretty sure you know what I'm upset about considering your first comment ignored the donation, even though that's the primary critique levied against him. Second, it's your subjective view that this "is s
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by Timon3 6mo ago
Thanks, with that argument I can better understand where you're coming from. But I would counter: compromise on a social level doesn't require all individuals to compromise too. Boycotts etc. have always been a tool for individual
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by Timon3 6mo ago
But why? You haven't given an argument. In our capitalist societies, I have two avenues of influencing public life: my vote and my wallet. Rich people like Brendan Eich have a much more impactful vote due to their capital, so the only
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by Timon3 6mo ago
Sorry, but if you think that the issue is that Brendan Eich "voted differently than" me, you're either not understanding or willfully misrepresenting what this discussion is about.
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by Timon3 6mo ago
I'm not working on a project together with Brendan Eich, I'm choosing not to use a product from which he directly profits. I sincerely hope that we both agree that this is a completely normal and rational choice.
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by Timon3 6mo ago
And the non-technical factors are what my friends and loved ones have to experience due to Brendan Eich's choices. So again, why should I ignore them? I'm more than a user of software.
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by Timon3 6mo ago
What exactly is a "technical difference", and why is only that relevant? I am more than my interactions with software and companies, just like every other human. Why should I focus on an arbitrary subset of factors when making dec
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by Timon3 6mo ago
Why should they have to vet everyone? If I learn that the people who deliver my packages, manufacture my phones, or grow my food support practices that I deem fundamentally harmful to society, I change my behavior accordingly. Where does th
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by Timon3 6mo ago
Brendan Eich didn't personally write the code, and he doesn't benefit from Firefox using it. If anything this hurts him, since Firefox is catching up to an advantage of Brave without investing their own development resources. No m
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by Timon3 6mo ago
I'm not sure if you thought this would come across as clever, or whatever else - but feel free to try again with an actual response to my point.
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by Timon3 6mo ago
But that still means you have a couple of years with a higher concentration of methane, and given the higher impact this is obviously very relevant, no?
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by Timon3 6mo ago
Of course this is inside human control - we are directly responsible for what's happening! Unless you're one of the people who are willingly putting their head in the sand, I don't understand how it makes sense to act like
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by Timon3 6mo ago
The AI can also only ever predict that you might die. So how should these predictions be weighed? Say there's a group of five children - the car predicts a 90% chance of death for them, vs. 50% for you if the car avoids them. Accordi
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by Timon3 6mo ago
> No. There is NO demand for transit from people living in the city. None. The demand is from _companies_ that force people to work in/near dense city cores. Am I missing an obvious joke here? Because I've lived in multiple cit
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by Timon3 6mo ago
When there's a rule with a condition that meant the rule hasn't applied for decades, and then the condition is removed so that the rule always applies, it's no longer the same rule.
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by Timon3 6mo ago
The rule was literally changed in January. No, it didn't exist all the way back to the beginnings of the cold war!
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Seems like you've answered your own question.
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by Timon3 6mo ago
Plenty of people in Germany (on all social/political levels) still talk about climate change, and have done so without pause before, during and since Ukraine. If you think that everything "seems to be fine after all", you&#x2
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by Timon3 6mo ago
> Even if Trump's approach is worse than Biden's, which I'm not sure of, that still does not mean it is bad for the country. But the discussion isn't about whether it's bad, but whether it's in the countries

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