amrocha

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by amrocha 3y ago
And I'm very happy for you, but I'm not arguing whether you can be happy with children or not. I'm arguing about whether having children is above every other kind of happiness.
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by amrocha 3y ago
And I'm very happy for you. However, what I'm arguing is not "having children makes me happy." It's "having children is above every other kind of happiness." Think about that for a second. What does that s
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by amrocha 3y ago
People in their deathbed also regret working so much but nobody's chomping at the bit to quit their job and become a bum.
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by amrocha 3y ago
You can't have an objective opinion after experiencing both sides either. A child is a life long decision. You don't get to say "oh I was wrong" after a couple years.
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by amrocha 3y ago
My issue is not with the fact that some parents are happy with their decision. My issue is the implication that the joy of parenthood is above every other joy. For comparison, you don't see programmers claiming the joy of programming i
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by amrocha 3y ago
I disagree that there's more joy to parenthood. I think that's a lie parents tell themselves to justify their decision. I'm happy for you if you're happy to have children. That doesn't mean people without children a
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by amrocha 3y ago
Hey that's great to hear buddy
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by amrocha 3y ago
The article you linked literally criticizes the Namibia mine for causing ecological damage to the marine ecosystem from repeated trawling. All that for superfluous rocks we can make synthetically. Granted, maybe there are good mines out the
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by amrocha 3y ago
Most people eat meat, asking someone to change their lifestyle is very different from asking them to get a synthetic diamond instead of a natural one. And yeah of course what he thinks matters too. If you're both awful people then you
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by amrocha 3y ago
If you think that just because a mine isn't in Africa that means it's a good place to work then I disagree
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by amrocha 3y ago
Even if it's "clean" relative to worse places, it's still not ethical. Mining is still dangerous work. The workers are still underpaid. The profits are still stolen by companies that are literally the vestiges of Europea
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by amrocha 3y ago
The point of the comment I'm replying to is that if your wife wants a blood diamond you should get her a blood diamond
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by amrocha 3y ago
If she wants a diamond despite knowing all the misery the diamond industry spreads, then you should probably just break up
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by amrocha 3y ago
Close, but the first one should be jail and license revocation. You don't get a second chance after playing with other people's lives.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Why do we use high level programming languages? Just train everyone better to write machine code. Heck, if programmers could read binary we wouldn't need languages at all!!!
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by amrocha 3y ago
The point is that perfect information isn't real. Perfect information is the spherical cow in a vacuum of economics. The incentives are such that vendors that lie and cheat do better than the ones that don't.
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by amrocha 3y ago
The source is that I live here and everyone talks about it. Poop tests are for everyone over 30
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by amrocha 3y ago
In Japan, everyone over 40 gets yearly colonoscopies as part of a general health check up. That should be a really good source of data, someone should take a look at that. But what I was getting at is that it can scale.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Right? Idk where he gets the idea that being an asshole to service workers leads to innovation
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by amrocha 3y ago
You're joking but yes. You get to save on rent, and live close to family for longer than most people forced to move out. If you don't have to pay most people's highest expense, you can have a very comfortable life. And since
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by amrocha 3y ago
No, it really isn't. There's a cultural preference in the white USA for "moving out" of your parents house, but that's not universal. Canada is very multicultural, and a lot of people choose to live with their paren
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by amrocha 3y ago
I disagree, there's plenty of ways of doing that without breaking up companies
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by amrocha 3y ago
All my late 20s accountant friends are buying houses right now. I know a chemical engineer doing the same. Likewise for everyone in tech. And a lot of people live with their parents and will inherit a family house at some point too. Plenty
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by amrocha 3y ago
Ok, then you're just wrong
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by amrocha 3y ago
No, I won't do a bunch of work because a stranger on the internet asked me to, but you can Google it yourself if you want.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Renouncing citizenship is a taxable event. If they don't pay up then arrest them. It's literally that simple.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Right, so Cloudflare makes their money one way or another. If at some point they decide it's not worth it to host free content anymore then you're out of luck. That's what I mean, there is a cost of doing business and someone
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by amrocha 3y ago
Yeah they definitely do exist, but it's the exception. That's why everybody knows about valve and epic. However, if Gabe's family had urgently needed money back in the day, would he have sold? Maybe. That's what I'm
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by amrocha 3y ago
Maybe the reason the majority of founders are like that is because the ones who sell out and go live comfortably for the rest of their lives take themselves out of the pool and you don't hear about them.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Ok well, that's alright but you have to realize that you're in the minority here. And no, they haven't messed everything up, society has failed them

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