adamsea

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931.
by adamsea 8y ago
> They have a higher than average desire to be challenged ... perhaps somebody's ego needs to be challenged ... ;)
932.
by adamsea 8y ago
Baloney. https://www.google.com/search?q=economics+of+clean+energy+ca...
933.
by adamsea 8y ago
Good points. However, Microsoft's Acceptable Use policy may add other restrictions. Context isn't the only important thing but it does matter, and there is a context - both historical and contemporary - around the deleted comments
934.
by adamsea 8y ago
Inciting violence is not free speech, just like yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater is not free speech. The article clearly states that the removed comments incite violence: > "Microsoft received a complaint about specifi
935.
by adamsea 8y ago
IMHO you are confusing data with information with knowledge. And mixing mediums. You can't compare a novel - the plainest of plain-text mediums, with the front page online of a major news organization in 2018 - of course it will be int
936.
by adamsea 8y ago
Yes but also the entire definition of "profitable" vs "unprofitable" work is messed up. Simple example: The real, measurable costs of pollution - illness, polluted drinking water, etc - are externalized and so companies
937.
by adamsea 8y ago
positive != bullshit
938.
by adamsea 8y ago
Those are weird examples (asbestos and lead in paint/gasoline might be better ones) for this particular topic, but, no? Again using asbestos and lead in various products as examples, there are real dangers to public health in new produ
939.
by adamsea 8y ago
Let's not forget a brief mention of the pointlessness of war and the value of international institutions. Which one of the interviewees in the article also alluded to.
940.
by adamsea 8y ago
The OP may not have realized it but “the dignity of animals” is really a parsed reflection of how we treat and see ourselves. In a sense, It’s not about the animals.
941.
by adamsea 8y ago
Well its kinda both, no? Sometimes aggression is constructive or useful in situations like negotiating. Sometimes it is counterproductive and considered harmful. What I took away from the OP is that we cannot blindly act on our emotions - t
942.
by adamsea 8y ago
"My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay." - Alexander
943.
by adamsea 8y ago
Not to knock this comment, which makes a valid point, but I couldn’t help but smile at the implicit comparison of software engineers to astronauts when the article is preaching the value of developers thinking of themselves as the “humble p
944.
by adamsea 8y ago
My two cents is to practice what was described in the post above, and then do a personal postmortem analysis after-the-fact of how you did. Also to try and adopt an observational, almost anthropological attitude when interacting with other
945.
by adamsea 8y ago
Calling out virtue signalling is arguably itself a flavor of virtue signalling, just for (some) other virtues ;)
946.
by adamsea 8y ago
To be fair this is true of any mass media - radio, television, etc. To a degree, books (aka printing press - check out "yellow journalism") as well. Marshall Mcluhan talked about "hot" and "cool" mediums, and I
947.
by adamsea 8y ago
I think the parent's comment was more about the literary tastes of a teenager / young adult verses an adult / older person. That isn't to say your point isn't valid, just that it seems orthogonal to the parent'
948.
by adamsea 8y ago
Pollution including that of the sort which causes birth defects among children at a mass scale?
949.
by adamsea 8y ago
> You'd think it'd be easy to use ritual vivisection, human sacrifice at scale, organized child murder, and cannibalism [1] as an absolutely unambiguous black-and-white line by which to demarcate civilization from barbarian sav
950.
by adamsea 8y ago
The problem is your 100K income is exception not the rule. Many if not most people are struggling. And, history shows pretty conclusively the supremely rich have no problem keeping the peasants from their bread, so to speak. The rich either
951.
by adamsea 8y ago
I think you may have missed a central, if not primary point of the article. From TFA: "It is time, too, that we begin to understand that the great wave of popular resentment sweeping across advanced societies is partly about the way th
952.
by adamsea 8y ago
If higher wages were required by law across the base would that really make those jobs more difficult? And, I challenge you - find an interview with a Foxconn factory worker from a reputable news source, and let’s what they say. I am genuin
953.
by adamsea 8y ago
If you take the time to read real history written by highly educated and thoughtful scholars (as opposed to bs pseudo intellectual history) then yes. Just think about the racist stereotypes held by Americans towards Chinese and Japanese peo
954.
by adamsea 8y ago
Yes and no.
955.
by adamsea 8y ago
Using the same tool for different effects.
956.
by adamsea 8y ago
Valuing a startup and being in a position to receive a meaningful amount of compensation from said startup if/when it IPOs are two very different things. I am not an expert, but between dilution of stock, the high risk involved with an
957.
by adamsea 8y ago
Yes living in dormitories and working sixty hour weeks with no overtime and causing permanent physical damage to yourself because of the repetitive nature of your work and having no choice but to work for a company which breaks the labor la
958.
by adamsea 8y ago
Imho part of it is that responsibility for the choice is distributed. This makes it easy for everyone (including us Kindle buyers) to say to themselves “it’s not my fault and I’m just going along with what is.”
959.
by adamsea 8y ago
Wouldn’t advocating for human rights then also be part of this progression you describe? Sell child -> Work in sweatshop -> Gain basic labor right of 8-hour -> etc ...
960.
by adamsea 8y ago
> We can’t have stolen this wealth as not the smallest fraction of it existed in all the world before the industrial revolution. Ummmm evidence? Is there an article or study or book which backs this idea up? This sounds like one interest

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