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by ahelwer 3y ago
Time zones and shared language/culture disagree? Or if you think you can get a 90% margin on the competition with the same result, go start a company and see how that works out for you.
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by ahelwer 3y ago
That's just... all of medical care. The procedures are almost all done by residents and, yes, med students under supervision of a full doctor. How do you think we get new doctors? Nobody wants to be the person who is used for teaching
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by ahelwer 3y ago
With each passing year my dread increases that this is all headed toward intensive solar radiation management schemes that will forever rob us of a beautiful blue sky. Anything to avoid real changes.
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Incredible to post this in a year with record numbers of forest fires. When trees burn they release all their sequestered carbon. Climate change makes forest fires more common. Regardless planting trees is still a good thing and I don'
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by ahelwer 3y ago
These things are interlinked. Developing addiction or mental health issues makes you less able to keep an income. If housing is more expensive it's then that much easier to not be able to make rent. And if you're homeless then it&
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by ahelwer 3y ago
The author cites the BNEF energy transition investment trends report a few times, and I encourage everybody to flip through it. It contains many interesting facts, and you certainly have to take an extremely skewed view to arrive at the sam
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by ahelwer 3y ago
This is learned helplessness acquired from the past decade where the internet became five megacorp websites. No different from your siblings or parents saying they aren't good at computers. It isn't a complex system. You are surel
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by ahelwer 3y ago
You have to fix conflicts either way so what's the difference? I suppose when merging you only have to fix the cumulative conflicts, while when rebasing you have to incrementally fix the conflicts introduced by every commit which is an
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Pretty conclusive evidence that human creativity is the source of current "AI" power, no? Many people claim the plagiarism inherent in this product is no different from you paraphrasing & remixing material you've read els
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by ahelwer 3y ago
The first chapter of The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson is a harrowing fictional account of living through one of these. Can't recommend it enough if you're in the mood to add another existential risk to your li
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Personally I'm a fan of the one where in the middle of talking about how smart he is he mixes up Cartesian and Euclidean.
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by ahelwer 3y ago
The truest mark of an ideology is that its adherents don't even think they're being ideological, just reasonable.
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Every good ideology needs a "Big Other" which subsumes all ordinary moral concerns. How could you think about something so trivial as the atrocity you see before your eyes when wealth formation/history itself/divine will
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by ahelwer 3y ago
I know you're asking this question in bad faith because you posted the same thing elsewhere in the thread, but the answer here is because they will be outcompeted by companies that don't offer that policy. In much the same way, bu
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by ahelwer 3y ago
If you aren't careful you'll find yourself making an argument against maternity leave, like you just did.
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by ahelwer 3y ago
I'm happy you've boiled your recharging needs down to a science but none of this compares with long contiguous periods of unstructured time you can choose to use as you wish. Three months off every decade? Really?
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by ahelwer 3y ago
We do have that, it's called the global south under neocolonialism.
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Prolonged periods of time spent without obligation to work for pay is one of the greatest luxuries you can have in this life. People shouldn't have to wait until retirement to enjoy it. Sabbatical, basically, although even sabbatical o
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by ahelwer 3y ago
The will of the majority of people in the military is irrelevant, because they don't call the shots. The military is not a democracy.
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by ahelwer 3y ago
The purpose of the military is not to be an effective fighting force. That is, at most, a happy side effect. The purpose is to shovel as much public money as possible into the private companies comprising the military industrial complex. So
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by ahelwer 3y ago
You fundamentally approach social networks with a producer/consumer mindset. Which is great, for some social networks. Except consuming content isn't very social. People aren't friends with a performer on stage (I believe thi
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Some people are fundamentally product-brained and fail to metabolize the concept of federated social media. That's fine, it's better without them. > You can say "oh what a tragedy", but I'm easily in the top 1% o
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by ahelwer 3y ago
If choosing one of several instances requires too high of activation energy then that legitimately is a "you" problem. You've circumscribed your own abilities to such an extent that it limits you to centralized for-profit soc
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Any indication that those who control the world's wealth won't voluntarily solve this problem implies that direct action, struggle, and hardship are required of us personally if we want a future worth living in. This is not a nice
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by ahelwer 3y ago
Well, here's your more information: https://i.imgur.com/B2QBY6u.png Fossil fuel investment has been climbing year-over-year. Fossil fuel companies aren't replacing existing infrastructure to taper out usage of fos
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by ahelwer 3y ago
As I said, money talks. I'd like to share a chart I saw a couple months ago that stopped me dead in my tracks. It was in the Bloomberg NEF Energy Transition Investment Trends 2023 report, which you can get emailed to you by filling out
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by ahelwer 3y ago
One eye-opening fact I recently learned is that fossil fuel infrastructure being built today is expected to have a three-decade lifespan, after completion of its construction. So every time you hear about a new pipeline, drilling project,
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by ahelwer 3y ago
"Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a HN poster what they think we should do about the homeless in SF, Seattle, and Portland"
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by ahelwer 3y ago
It sounds like all of these problems are completely invented by people who are not Cubans?

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