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by abenga 2y ago
Who else has achieved what they have?
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by abenga 2y ago
I get why it might not matter depending on the work you do, but if non-trivial work is required just to keep your code building due to fast non-backward compatible changes in libraries you use, that might introduce hesitation.
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by abenga 2y ago
Do you know how low the highest ranked man Serena could beat (at her prime) was?
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by abenga 2y ago
All issues you have listed solvable by improving bus/train service frequency and coverage, and trolleys/electric assist bikes for the last mile.
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by abenga 2y ago
Didn't a shift away from dirty fuel actually cause a short term increase in global temperatures in 2023 due to a reduction in Sulphur-tainted fuels? So this is being worked on, but with counterintuitive unintended effects.
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by abenga 2y ago
> I wouldn’t want the difference between 12.9 and 7.4 Do you volunteer to be one of the 5.5 in your slice of 100K?
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by abenga 2y ago
> ... trying to magic Rust into existence What do you mean? Rust does not exist? No useful projects have been built in it?
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by abenga 2y ago
Hmmm. Is this serious or facetious? Or could be either, depending on the response? There already is rust code in the Linux kernel (some drivers), afaik.
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by abenga 2y ago
If you didn't choose it, do it, and cannot change it, it's not up to you. Whatever parents n-1 year old you had, or nationality they had, are the same ones n year old you have. If they are abusive, or in war, you are screwed. Buil
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by abenga 2y ago
Like you said, you have a different definition of luck. Others seem to say "factors that you did not choose, and do not have the ability to change" are luck. > Country of residence is not luck based, it's either pre-determ
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by abenga 2y ago
A bit less, definitely, but not zero. The US government has paid billions for use of SpaceX launches since it was founded. One could argue that the spending on NASA has benefited the world much more (e.g. free NOAA climate/weather data
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by abenga 2y ago
The highest NASA's budget has ever been as a percentage of the federal budget is 4.5% during the Apollo program, totalling 650b nominally over the years. Saying anyone here now has paid "plenty" of taxes to nasa sounds … disi
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by abenga 2y ago
Be the change you want to see in the world. Write the rust implementation yourself.
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by abenga 2y ago
The people committing the crime include those who make the decisions. Hiring an assassin makes me guilty of murder.
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by abenga 2y ago
Who should be responsible for a company's crimes if not the people who make decisions in the company? If we want companies to have legal personhood, how about they suffer the same perils of breaking the law (prison time, etc)? Fines ar
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by abenga 2y ago
This just means you passed something intrinsically worthless on to another person in exchange for a useful good. There is a name for this in economic theory, but it's a bit of an insult.
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by abenga 2y ago
If you are in charge of procurement at your company, now go ahead and give your family friend preferential treatment for some contract. If you are a judge, now go ahead and write a ruling that favors them, directly or indirectly.
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by abenga 2y ago
> Who said the choice is between coal and nuclear? If an existing nuclear plant was shuttered while a coal plant was still running, that was the choice.
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by abenga 2y ago
Or, you know, work to reduce suffering in the world. Regardless of whether the people suffering "deserve" help or not. It's what good people do.
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by abenga 2y ago
I've been watching a lot of real estate videos on YouTube, and it boggles my mind that people pay seven, even eight digit figures for houses made of wood. It's obviously rational (or so many people wouldn't do it), but it is
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by abenga 2y ago
Yes, you are hedging against financial loss. Most of the other stuff you describe, e.g. sentimental value of one painting vs another, are irrelevant to insurance. You pay a (relatively) small amount to eliminate the risk or mitigate the eff
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by abenga 2y ago
And that is why the insurance model should not be used for healthcare. For example, why should an insurance company charge you anything less than the cost of treating a chronic illness after diagnosis? Why should the minimum price of giving
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by abenga 2y ago
What if Microsoft is the party I do not trust?
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by abenga 2y ago
My steam library is on another drive (I have multiple O(TBs) large spinning-rust drives on the desktop). The nvme is strictly the base system + apt packages + build tools + /home/.
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by abenga 2y ago
> Google is the air of a teeming metropolis in a developing country. Every breath is polluted with foreign substances that someone else out there. Your capacity suffers as each action is taxed by the aerosolized tar. Is it though? To the
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by abenga 2y ago
I tried Kagi once and never really felt like it was good enough to make me want to pay for it. Search is like air. Very important, but available everywhere for free. Pretty hard for me to justify adding another subscription to the already e
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by abenga 2y ago
Could be big, depending on how much room you give to /. All my Linux life, I have allocated about 50GB to the root partition and it's been adequate, leaving enough room for my data (on a 512GB drive). Now I install one flatpak and
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by abenga 2y ago
> Why do the rich need this dog and pony show? Because alleviating suffering is not the goal. Reputation laundering, giving friends and family cushy sinecures, optimizing tax liability, and placating the masses and governments are the go
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by abenga 2y ago
Do lower house prices in a recession matter if no one has money, and everyone is being laid off from work? I feel like no one, except the very rich, benefits.
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by abenga 2y ago
I'd gladly pay 300 dollars not to drive 1400km. Once or twice a year, I drive 320km, and I think about twice that (to and fro) is the limit of what I am reasonably willing to drive over a couple of days.

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