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by amrocha 4y ago
Once I had a manager justify his employment at Palantir by saying he helped troops detect and avoid landmines. Well cool, they still murdered people after getting past the minefield though.
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by amrocha 4y ago
Fairness and morality aren't the same thing. Just because something is fair doesn't mean it's moral e.g.: splitting the baby in half, an eye for an eye, etc. Morals are a specifically human societal feature.
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by amrocha 4y ago
They're not. There are ethical options for animal products. You draw the line at any consumption is unethical so you disagree, and that's ok, but you're not gonna convince me by saying it's unethical because I don't
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by amrocha 4y ago
Ok, but it might get long. And again, I'm not looking for an adversarial discussion. 1. Animal Rights Animals don't have rights because rights are a human construct. Absent humans, animal rights don't make any sense. Animals
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by amrocha 4y ago
They're not fallacies, they're fundamental disagreements. 1. No, animals do not have rights. 2. No, animal lives are not morally equal to human lives. 3. No, eating animals is not cruel. If you disagree with these then that's
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by amrocha 4y ago
Everywhere in the US is subject to the same dysfunctional government and awful societal design. Even the best place in the US is worse than Paris
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by amrocha 4y ago
I like it, and especially compared to the US it's a huge upgrade
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by amrocha 4y ago
Yeah, that's consistent with the research. It seems like the body really likes to stay at a given weight, so it adjusts so there's not too much fluctuation. That's why it's really hard to lose weight and keep it off if y
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by amrocha 4y ago
You're not providing citations either. Get off your fat hating high horse. Walking and exercise make a HUGE difference in average weight. Just look at Canada, a place mostly analogous to the US, but with way more walkable cities and be
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by amrocha 4y ago
"Exercise" is a bad way to lose weight because what is traditionally considered as exercise is 30 minutes to 1 hour of high intensity activities. If you live a sedentary life, exercise isn't going to help. Passive exercise, t
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by amrocha 4y ago
The closest hack is living in a walkable city, and biking for personal transportation. There's a reason that obesity is not as big a problem in Europe, and even more so in East Asia.
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by amrocha 4y ago
Brother, weight lifters literally eat sweet potatoes to put on weight
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by amrocha 4y ago
A head of cauliflower is not a meal
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by amrocha 4y ago
There's people that don't do all that and are still fat, and making them "feel bad" about it is counter productive. In fact, the research on losing weight is quite clear: once you've put on weight, losing it and kee
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by amrocha 4y ago
Your theoretical argument against bikes is actually just a practical argument against cars. Most people hate driving, they do it because they have to. Cities ripped apart streets to satisfy a minority of the people.
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by amrocha 4y ago
I can see that, and I think that's a great way to use LLMs right now. But I worry that people will start taking their word at face value and not verify. Not to mention the areas that are difficult to verify.
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by amrocha 4y ago
It really does not seem inevitable at all if you know how the tech works under the hood. The trust problem can't be solved with the current approach.
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by amrocha 4y ago
The point is that you can't trust it because language models are bullshitters. What's the point of a search you have to verify through another search afterwards.
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by amrocha 4y ago
I agree with you about routing. Something so core about building web apps should be treated as a first class citizen of the ecosystem. I don't think jotai adds a lot of complexity though, and like I said most of the time you don't
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by amrocha 4y ago
Well, don't use those. Pure React is enough 95% of the time, and then an additional 4.9% can be handled with jotai in a couple of places. React + GraphQL + jotai is my preferred stack
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by amrocha 4y ago
Every time a housing discussion comes up someone comes in with this argument. If you stopped to think about it you'd realize how silly it is. Renting doesn't need to be handled solely or even at all by the private market.
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by amrocha 4y ago
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. You can't just believe everything you see on the internet.
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by amrocha 4y ago
Doesn't sound like you do if I'm being honest with you. Sounds like you believe the science that agrees with you.
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by amrocha 4y ago
No, that's not science. That's you weaponizing science in your crusade against things you don't like. You don't like vaccines, so you make bullshit claims that are unsubstantiated but hard to disprove, and then eventuall
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by amrocha 4y ago
This study doesn't prove what you're saying. Some vaccinated people had asymptomatic covid != vaccines don't prevent spread If you find a study that takes comparable samples of vaccinated and unvaccinated people, tests all of
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by amrocha 4y ago
Do you not understand how statistics work? She had a lower chance to die, that doesn't mean she's immune.
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by amrocha 4y ago
If that's your burden of proof then you'll never find someone good enough
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by amrocha 4y ago
I don't. Anecdotal evidence can be dismissed with anecdotal evidence.
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by amrocha 4y ago
If you want anecdotal data then I've never had covid and I've been living life normally since November 2021
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by amrocha 4y ago
You probably live in the US, where nobody is boosted and 30% of the population isn't vaccinated. I don't. I know 2 people that caught covid after being vaccinated. I've never caught it. Most people I know never caught it. And

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