TomSwirly

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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Facebook, Google, etc advertise their services to all of us, aggressively. They set up a system where they have crowded out most of the other ways to get the attention of potential customers, so businesses who choose not to use them are gi
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> you really should never ever use a company like Facebook as a vital component of your business. Like Facebook - by which you mean Facebook, Google and Twitter, I suppose? So what are you supposed to do, exactly? Hand out fliers door t
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> I think there are many reasons to want to continue having non-dataclass classes. Even just one would help us evaluation your claim! > Dataclass fits best with record-type data and not with encapsulated data or classes with mostly p
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
And yet if we as individuals prioritize ourselves over our companies, we are called "disloyal".
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Quibble: "uninterest". "Disinterest" means "impartiality". Disinterest is good . I can't quibble with any of the rest of your argument, though.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
And yet almost all the rest of the world has these rules, and we don't see crime waves. To me, you're describing the incompetence of your police forces. > thieves steal a car, ram it into a store, This is really considered a no
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
You: "We are constantly fouling our environment in the most horrible ways, so there's no point in even thinking about it!" > Over a thousand trains derail every year How many of them are filled with toxic chemical substanc
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Man, your priorities are totally inverted. > The train has derailed. Yet balloons may keep coming The balloons may keep coming - the environmental disasters are certain to keep coming.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> Phosgene is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble, I'm a mathematician, not a chemist, but I do know about about phosgene. The memorable thing about phosgene is not that is causes "breathing trouble
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Thank you for a well-reasoned (and well-written) argument. I mean, it's depressing, even devastating, but it's better to know the truth.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Translation: "I'm not going to bother to understand this issue. I'm going to talk down to people instead."
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
It was big news here in Europe when it happened. I was surprised when my American friends didn't know anything about it.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> Do you realize that most of us are the shareholders? [...] Most of our 401ks Only 60 million Americans have a 401k. Also, the idea that an American owning a portfolio of stocks in a 401k means that they are responsible for all the immo
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Now you're asking that question, you might also ask why we saw more news stories days ago about this derailment in the European media than we did in the US.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
So in other words, all the telecoms are systematically lying to the FCC in order to steal money from taxpayers, but there is no actual enforcement nor penalties for doing so, so they continue to do this with impunity. (I remember when Clint
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
You must hang out with some poor quality humans. My meaningful relationships are based on how much I like the people. Sitting within X meters of someone doesn't make me like them particularly. Liking someone is based on how similar w
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
PP phrases it badly, but there is an aspect of scientific truth in there. Your chances of getting PTSD from a traumatic experience is less if you feel as if you are in control. I cannot find the paper I read at the time, I feel I'm mis
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
"Random, smart, opinionated guy with little actual knowledge free-associates about life tips." As other people pointed out, > Meditation comes from Asia, where the culture is that of escape manages to be twice false _and_ offen
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> so left wing culture warriors I generally like this site because it has more mature adults. Perhaps you'd be happier on Reddit?
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Strong cryptography has value, but that was invented in the 70s. The blockchain will have no value. It's almost as old as the smartphone, and we still don't have a killer application for it, or any application at all.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> It's by far the easiest way to make friends But I generally have nothing in common with the people I work with. I'm friends with people who share my world outlook, my moral and philosophical and aesthetic views, and there&#x2
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
I suspect you simply have young friends. I've lived in six countries, and old people everywhere want to keep their joints warm. I have the issue where we love a cold house but my hands don't, at least when I work, so the house is
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> It's unfortunate It's not just "unfortunate": our wildly consumptive and wasteful nature is a crime against future generations. It's not just that our consumption and waste production are at record levels, to t
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Using quotes is sarcasm and mockery. It is not a good look. It costs nothing to be polite. Even if your political beliefs revere rudeness, leave it at home here.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
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It's funny - I only left the United States six years ago and yet this idea is already unimaginably weird to me. Why is this your representative's job? It just baffles me. Why is this guy dealing with some sign? The idea that gov
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> > but that states and Congress have the ability to pass laws to curb excessive partisan gerrymandering. > In other words, it's up to the legislatures to ban gerrymandering first before SCOTUS can rule on it. The gerrymandere
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1. He tried to sell a product 2. This product turns out to be a scam 3. His fault for trying to sell a scam That this crook extracts $100 million for this is a symptom of a broken society.
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Absolutely not. That's morally awful. A society that rewards its very worst people with money and power is a society on the way down.
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> If the employees are not happy with a proposal, then they are happy to go find more generous shareholders. If I didn't think you were serious, I'd laugh at your good joke. I think workers should show up at the owners' ho

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