aisengard

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by aisengard 4y ago
Ah, so you want to talk about democracy, do you? Neither the north nor the south can really be considered democratic institutions by modern standards - less than half of their population could vote at the time of the civil war (women's
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by aisengard 4y ago
This is getting pretty close to the "War Of Northern Aggression" nonsense that's peddled throughout the United States South.
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by aisengard 4y ago
Probably should focus on implementing strong labor protections and encouraging union participation (which would blunt the effect this sort of weapon has), instead of eliminating them.
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by aisengard 5y ago
Right, I'm not sure there's one unifying theory that you could bundle it under, not sure what the right term is for a general concept rather than a hard testable theory. But that just further proves the need to stop calling it one
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by aisengard 5y ago
I mean, until we actually prove that dark matter is "something", we need to stop calling it that. All it is, is some constant that we apply to make sense of the motion of galactic-scale objects. And we use "dark energy"
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by aisengard 5y ago
Nothing completely prevents infection, but vaccines are the best way to mitigate it.
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by aisengard 5y ago
How is this different than your typical wall street trader in the 80s and 90s? The only thing that's different now is that access to these markets isn't gated behind class and privilege, anyone can participate. Maybe that's t
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by aisengard 5y ago
Bats are extremely far down the list of things we have to worry about, when we continue to have millions of infected people who proudly and angrily spew virus-infested air particles uncontrolled into their communities because they think the
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by aisengard 5y ago
It is indeed unlikely, because it's much easier to detect an outbreak in a controlled setting like a lab before it infects a critical mass of the population. Indeed, lab leaks have happened before and were contained before it reached m
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by aisengard 5y ago
The coronavirus lab is in Wuhan because it's a big city in a region where historically a lot of coronoviruses originate, so it makes sense that they'd be researching them there.
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by aisengard 5y ago
These aren't prices we haven't seen before. Electronics, sure, but there's a pretty good non-general-inflationary explanation for that. This (still) ain't the 70s.
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by aisengard 5y ago
Everyone's entitled to an opinion, no matter what the situation. That's called freedom, too. What you are also entitled to is a vote, and you can feel free to vote for politicians who will enact your agenda, which seems to be hold
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by aisengard 5y ago
It's pretty easy not to judge people for buying stuff with money that they have. It's called freedom, you know? The root of the problem is with the judger, for thinking that money from the government is somehow less worthy than mo
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by aisengard 5y ago
It's actually much more effective than expending energy obsessing about how much carbon you're emitting on a daily basis. Use that energy instead to vote/support/campaign for Democrats, because the marginal utility of ha
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by aisengard 5y ago
You're missing the point. Humans/citizens generally don't need to change their behavior, the world needs to change how it meets the demands of humans. There may be some environmentalists out there who say we need degrowth, or
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by aisengard 5y ago
Those people generally aren't the ones trying to shame people into making mostly useless actions that don't move the needle. They know full well that the solution involves change at the highest levels. Individual action isn't
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by aisengard 5y ago
Their part to fix the problem would be to make sure they're able to do the maximum to affect things at a macro level. That means not bothering to obsess about individual acts of emitting carbon, or putting finite resources into guilt-m
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by aisengard 5y ago
Whereas if we did not vote for Democrats, we'd have many policies that make things even worse. Remember, Republicans have agency too, and they use it to make everything much, much worse. Voting for Democrats, even if it's just to
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by aisengard 5y ago
"It's okay to cancel" You can just stop right there! Either it's okay to cancel, or it isn't. "It's okay to cancel those that I don't like, but not cancel those I do like" is infantile reasoning
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by aisengard 5y ago
Okay, but people clearly do want to listen to the mob. Is the suggestion to cancel those people? It's hilarious that the pure libertarian approach is literally "do nothing".
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by aisengard 5y ago
You mean why didn't they go back in time and do it when it could have made a difference? Masks are ubiquitous now, and have been entirely politicized by the GOP. The abject refusal to assign blame to the most malicious administration i
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by aisengard 5y ago
The USPS had a plan in place to do just that. The Trump White House stopped it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/09/18/usps-covid-... Could argue the Trump administration is directly respo
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by aisengard 5y ago
YouTube pulled the TidePod-eating challenge videos because they endangered public health. This is no different.
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by aisengard 5y ago
Every time someone brings up the GIL and performance, the answer is pretty much always "use a different language for the places you need especially high performance". All this sturm and drang about Python not being performant enou
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by aisengard 5y ago
It's because they're trying to give people breaks on what they owe. The more money you make (and the more ways in which you make it), the more exemptions and breaks you tend to be eligible for, so the more complicated your taxes t
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by aisengard 5y ago
But the surge in revenue from doubling subscribers would (way) more than cover any costs in infrastructure spending. This would not drive any increase in subscription cost, which is purely governed by the competition and content acquisition
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by aisengard 6y ago
This kind of response is pretty monstrous. The logical next step would be to tell people to, well, stop living. Complete and total nihilism.
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by aisengard 6y ago
There's nothing about the way Bitcoin is created (via massive energy draw) that makes it especially useful as an alternative form of currency. It was just there first.
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by aisengard 6y ago
If a consultant is being brought in to do a job you think you should be doing yourself, then who really has the bullshit job in this instance?
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by aisengard 6y ago
There will always be jobs with offices. There just may be fewer of them, which is a good thing, because it means there are more jobs that allow for flexibility of location, which benefits those who are disadvantaged in where they happen to

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