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by Vegenoid 2y ago
This is incorrect. There are few physical resources that we have reached the limit of, such that one entity’s gain is necessarily another’s loss. There are also a great many things of value that aren’t simply raw resources, for which the pi
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
And yet, we have a system where the less fortunate could, simply by choosing to, make the government use some of the wealthy people’s money to make things better for themselves. This has been done in the past in the US, during the years tha
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Who is pushing to raise the wages and power of labor? It sure isn’t the party that is pushing tariffs and the return of factories.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Why? Who is looking at the societies of countries where manufacturing is happening and saying “we want that”? Manufacturing used to be great for the US because other places couldn’t do it, either because they hadn’t developed enough or they
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I'm not on board with accepting AI-written articles. This is an article with little to no human input, farming clicks for ad revenue, that doesn't even link to the forum post, which is far more interesting and has pictures: https
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
The trouble comes when the elected officials also want to replace non-political career officials with political allies who behave similarly to themselves, which seems to be what we are currently seeing.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Based on the context, I believe insurance prices
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Do you seriously think that dental and health experts don’t rail against those things? They do, and they consider those things far more important than fluoridated water. Their opinions on fluoride are being shared because there is notable n
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Local governments are prohibited from adding fluoride to their drinking water, even if their community wants it.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think this is the biggest thing - anything will be much more enjoyable when you can choose how much to engage in, and you do not depend on its completion for income or survival. Of course farming and carpentry will be more fun to a softwa
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
These videos are edutainment at best, which is generally not a good way to learn something well enough to be able to actually work with it. A lot of them are pretty much straight up entertainment, where the entertainment value comes from dr
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> "FOSS sites damaged by extreme incompetence and unaccountability." Given this info, the natural next question is “who is doing the harm?” The answer is “AI companies”. Most people would now view the situation as having a lot
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
At this point, why even use bitcoin, or crypto at all. Just use a crypto that is better suited to micropayments.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
On the flip side, the effect of “we already know how to do it this way, have good practices and tooling and educational materials for it” is often underweighted when considering the merits of a novel system. The more established something i
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
We have lived in a stable system long enough for people to forget the horrors of instability. It is a certainty that a reminder is coming - what is uncertain is how far away it is.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> Are you sure it's true that the pandemic increased economic inequality? Yes, the wide majority of economic data suggests this.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Unfortunately, I don't believe there are any adblockers on Safari that are very effective. I'd love to be proven wrong.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> it’s probably just easier to assume actual malice The easiest assumption to make is greed and foolishness.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Non-text files go into a subdirectory of the top-level "vault" directory, and are then linked like: ![some description](media/something.pdf) The whole vault is in my iCloud drive, so the files are available on my phone.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> But reliable car mechanics don't get paid a lot. I honestly don't know: do they not? The reliable mechanics in my city seem to do tons of business and charge significantly higher prices than the competition. I can think of a
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
The heads of departments are people appointed by elected representatives.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
This is why I like Obsidian (or some other linked-documents wiki type of system), because it makes linking things easy, so you can take multiple routes to find a thing. I have a health note and a finances note. Which one does health insuran
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> If power stays in the same hands, the system can be very stable - and not in a good way. I don't think it actually can be that stable. I think I see what people are getting at when they say this, but it seems to me that authoritar
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don't see the point you are making? It isn't politicians that are getting elected to be White House Liaisons, they will almost certainly be appointed.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> The disincentives that have always prevented the executive from blatantly violating the law are still in force and unchanged. They have been functional through 250 years of Presidents testing the limits of their authority. Can you elab
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think it depends on what you mean by “easier”. Dispersing knowledge through people is more intuitive, and tends to happen organically.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> And I also do not want another maintainer. If you want to make Linux impossible to maintain due to a cross-language codebase do that in your driver so that you have to do it instead of spreading this cancer to core subsystems. (where
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
In my opinion, calling the well-intentioned hard work of others "cancer" is undeniably hyperbolic and dismissive. It is clear that Hellwig used it in this way. To interpret it differently requires bending the mind. Most people wou
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Now you've opened the "comparison to previous technologies" can, not me. For chemical and nuclear weapons, it makes more sense that they are restricted, because they are explicitly weapons. They have no benefit. The technolog
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
It is not about not caring if the statement is true or false. The statement neither absolutely true nor absolutely false, because there is no absolute definition of when software engineering started, or what "a lifetime" is. It is

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