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by ath3nd 2y ago
> again a crazy power-hungry dictator appears and wages a war against a weaker country With the risk of being political, I see nothing "defensive" or moral about the military, even in the most advanced nations that are supposed
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> and risks they take protecting us. Considering the risk are bodily harm, there is some similarity to the risks of bodily harm that some sex workers take, and far more frequently, than soldiers. STDs, violent guys, etc etc. > but for
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> HN won't probably like the tone of this one. Oh, I emphatically agree with both the post's content and the post's tone. I think it is a lot about building something you like well. It doesn't have to be unique, it do
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I guess I meant a bit of both. We don't give high social status to killers, thugs, murderers and hired assassins, but when it's institutionalized killing, (which is the military) that's okay? The fact that an "official&q
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> Getting naked and spreading your legs is neither as productive nor difficult as serving your country We have different moral compasses, I guess. To me, obeying military orders (which often result in killing people) is neither producti
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> But my harmful behavior still doesn't make your harmful behavior good, and vice versa In principle I agree. We have a society praising a soldier for killing and risks losing limbs and life (basically selling his body) during milit
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One could argue that it's better to have no inventions than inventing the following: - the Spanish inquisition - jihad/crusades - guns - PFAS - agent orange - iron maiden (not the band, the torture device) - the atomic bomb
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> It is called delusion It's, of course, much better and far less delusional, to go flipping burgers for $30k which barely covers your housing, less alone food. Or to go to the military to lose an arm and a leg, defending a just cau
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> At least with this kind of sex work, all parties to transaction tend to benefit, and all are in it voluntarily Beautifully put! > Sure, prostitution is shameful and sinful and whatnot Only according to some. Imo it's much more
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People working in the mines, or the military, I wonder why that's a socially acceptable way of "selling" their body, but prostitution is not. Even we, behind a computer screen and getting back pain and wrist RSI, we also &quo
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by ath3nd 2y ago
SBF and Elizabeth Holmes would like a word. And hopefully everyone else "successful" having the morals of a greedy chimpanzee follows the same fate as those swindlers. Whatever happened to doing good by people and society (or at l
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> When people say that libertarians are just right-wingers kidding themselves I thought libertarians are right-wingers kidding with us /s > I don't think it's in a "libertarian ethos" to do wildly unethical an
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> housing is unaffordable due to government intervention, plain and simple, since government debased the money housing became a store of wealth Actually, big amount of people think it's due to collusion of the big real estate firms
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> Why did you think that? If you were to believe current establishment economists, the invisible hand of the market fixes everything, from workers salaries, to societal problems like healthcare, public transport, and education. If it doe
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> In 2022, CEOs were paid 344 times as much as a typical worker in contrast to 1965 when they were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2022/ I thought the almig
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> Y'all not getting that genie back in the bottle. Not even wanting to! I totally agree with you.
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One should not be convincing a Product Owner to prioritize technical debt. It's an engineering decision, and the Product Owner has no say in engineering decisions, as they are not qualified to judge correctly. It's like a surgeon
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> It's always been about control And a bit about trust, as managers are often clueless about the true performance of their team. To them, as long as there are easily observable people in chairs, things are working well.
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> They can be onboarded and trained Over a period of 6 years, until they reach 30% of the knowledge/velocity of the people who wrote the original thing. /s Basically the company: - hires a new engineer on the new market rate so
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Wait until you hear about: - "The law of supply and demand" - "Trickle down economics" or, my favorite: - "The invisible hand of the market"
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In this case, I believe he thought the law won't be enforced. His gamble didn't work out. Putin visiting Mongolia when there is an ICC arrest warrant for him is the same type of gamble.
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> twitter should def be charged with the same. I agree, I don't like double standards > why when elon musk seized it he could bring down pedopornography by double digit percentage in a few weeks? I am not sure if I got this right
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> According to the logic in France, since criminals use Windows, the CEO of Microsoft could also be blamed. That's a very bad take. The charges are because of Telegram repeatedly refusing or being too slow to take down illegal conte
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> What is the point of posting a bitter public critique of your former employer? What's the point of not writing a bitter public critique of your former employer, if you believe they went the wrong way? > are now ponderous, burea
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> That blog post is 8 years old and predates things like mastodon What in this blog post that's 8 years old has become obsolete in the meantime? > Nothing has changed in these intervening 8 years? Signal got better, and got bigg
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> Do you have a confirmation for that or this is just your guess The allegations are public, and that's what the allegations state. I can't and don't want to speculate on the "true" motives of the French authorit
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> They want Telegram not him. They actually want him to comply with the French law (a country which he is a citizen of) and timely remove the illegal content that he's been made aware of. If all Telegram chats were e2e encrypted, he
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In my circles as well! I also converted my friends and family. What's very nice for building trust is their transparency report on how funds are spent.
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> Do they have something to hide? That's very misguided of you to say and pure speculation. It's as useful for a discussion as me saying "Durov is Russian-born, and has resisted proper e2e encryption defaults, so the Kreml
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by ath3nd 2y ago
It's just not like Snowden of the past to endorse apps with bad privacy defaults and non encrypted group chats like Telegram. I'd have understood if he had said the same if the CEO of Signal was arrested, but I can't understa

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