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by a_shovel 5y ago
Saying I'm "literally incorrect" just makes me wonder what "figuratively incorrect" would mean in this situation. You've made multiple comments under this article about how "defund" can only possibly
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Defund means "withdraw funding for", not "withdraw all funding for".
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by a_shovel 5y ago
"Defund the police" is not a slogan. It's a policy demand. It's not designed to appeal to Midwestern life-long democrats. It's designed to fix a problem. The activists promoting the demand are out of touch with hu
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Wow , the first article is just awful. He's not even saying that to-do lists don't help. He's saying that if they do help you, you're broken. Congratulations on having never forgotten something important, I guess?
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by a_shovel 5y ago
It's not a warning not to build a compiler, it's more of a story about how feature bloat might cause one to inadvertantly build a compiler without realizing that's what they were doing. The last line reveals it by telling u
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> One extremely common phenomenon when discussing issues surrounding blockchain-based technologies is that proponents will often switch between discussing the theoretical implementations of these ecosystems and discussing the ecosystems
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by a_shovel 5y ago
It looks like the whole length of the Chattahoochee River is labeled Apalachicola River, which only starts at Lake Seminole. Click the squiggly part of the Georgia-Alabama border to check.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Most people don't see the benefit of being able to send $100,000,000 for $2 because most people will never need, or be able, to send $100,000,000 to anyone. Or $1,000,000, or even $10,000.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
When the internet became fast enough for streaming services to be a practical alternative to cable, the surge of people dropping cable and landlines to keep only internet service were called "cord-cutters." It turned out, despite
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Why would you make ten bike trips back and forth to the grocery store that you pass every day on your way home from work?
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Well, that's kind of the point. Sci-fi authors will talk about how Super-AIs or aliens might think completely differently from us, but then impose lots of implicit similarities that would make that implausible. Sure, non-sapient fungus
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by a_shovel 5y ago
The sci-fi trope that aliens or superintelligent AIs will have thought processes completely different and incomprehensible to humans is probably not true. If the aliens live in our universe, evolved on a planet with limited resources, need
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by a_shovel 5y ago
None of these are what I would call "societal problems". 2 and 4 are problems with individuals, not a society. That 1 and 3 are, in your words, "dumb", really does affect their validity. These are things you can live wit
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Are you genuinely asking why people have a problem with necessities becoming unaffordably expensive? There is no societal problem for which "just move away" is a solution.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Of course it was made by an anti-climate change group. It spends 75% of the article railing against the policy.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
The author lists some proposed socialist solutions that he has heard of, and then dismisses them with a simple, unexplained "I just can’t see those processes going well". If he won't tell us his problems with those explanat
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Excellent and illuminating article. We've all seen this script before.