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by atlantic 3y ago
Interesting perspective. How about the fact that money is owed across time - by present generations to future ones? Viewed in that sense, debt surely remains impactful, even if considered on a global scale.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Why have a feeling of success at all? That seems like a very Protestant point of view. Some people are content just to exist, and perhaps make themselves useful.
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by atlantic 3y ago
If you're seriously considering suicide, why would you bother going in to work, and then commit suicide in your place of work (your company's HQ, no less), if not to make a statement of some sort?
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by atlantic 3y ago
That's token opposition - it doesn't contain anything remotely threatening. Now start talking about Burisma, the son's laptop, the daughter's diaries. That would get you shut down, around the time of the last election.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Start with Assange and Snowden.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I don't like a lot of the features in modern cars. That doesn't mean the world should be legislatively changed to suit my personal tastes. Because maybe I'm in the minority. But neither will I buy stuff I don't like; ple
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by atlantic 3y ago
If you don't like it, just don't buy cars whose performance is artificially limited. Let the market decide the issue.
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by atlantic 3y ago
The US and China are not that different in terms of censorship. They just censor different things. I'm sure you can think of half a dozen comments that would get you thrown off this forum, and a couple of others that would earn you a v
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by atlantic 3y ago
It's not that commerce is easier: currency exchange is pretty frictionless nowadays. It's that the value of inputs and outputs, which are critical to running a company doing part of its business abroad, or buing inputs from abroad
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by atlantic 3y ago
You can only experience the external world through your consciousness. Certain contents of consciousness we assume to have an external correlate, others not, but there is no way to bypass our minds and check directly. Any given civilization
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by atlantic 3y ago
Why is it misleading? The article agrees with your contention that proptech has made sfr at scale feasible. But it highlights the downsides of that system for tenants. And "Homeowners are increasingly incapable?" What does that ev
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by atlantic 3y ago
> So, if you do not shoplift, why don't you? Have you hears of ethics?
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by atlantic 3y ago
> Another person simply doesn’t care about shipping code with bugs, and maybe even tries to. They get to shirk actual development duties by fixing their own broken code instead, and the fixes are celebrated. In one of the companies where
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by atlantic 3y ago
I talked to a guy who manages a chess club, and he said it was a combination of Queen's Gambit and Covid lockdowns that boosted interest over the past three years.
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by atlantic 3y ago
> Food is thrown away because grocery stores want to sell uniform looking produce with no blemishes, and consumers came to expect that. In Europe, it's not the stores, and it's not the public either, it's EU regulations. I
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by atlantic 3y ago
The priority should be on protecting the biosphere, not on reaching arbitrary quantitative goals. The planet has adapted to much bigger temperature changes in the past, and will do so again, as long as humans stay out of the way. Staying ou
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by atlantic 3y ago
If you weren't sentient, you couldn't believe or disbelieve anything. Or perform any other mental action. Read Descartes.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Leery
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by atlantic 3y ago
Which supports the broader point that thermal expansion of water does not contribute to rising sea levels.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Not necessarily. The density of water peaks around 4ºC. So as oceans warm between 0º and 4º, they actually contract in volume.
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by atlantic 4y ago
Watching this play out from abroad, it looks like a political prosecution. Not a good look for the US.
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by atlantic 4y ago
Generally speaking, in southern Europe, electric cars are very expensive (prices start at 2-3 times an annual salary), electricity is expensive, and refuelling is complicated. There are no pre-charged electric cars anywhere; electric mopeds
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by atlantic 4y ago
Politicians are sent to Brussels as a reward, not as a form of exile. Those who are most compliant, lacking in initiative, devoid of original ideas, are sent there, after a career in national politics. They're not unwanted, and they&#x
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by atlantic 4y ago
BTW, that was a comment on the first set of pictures. The selection on the website is much more complete. It's perfect. But it might be worth inserting additional (AI-generated?) individuals on a few of them.
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by atlantic 4y ago
The individual himself looks good - a bit of a PUA, but good. One picture with a blurred background is fine (for example, the golfing one) - but all of them is suspicious. And it's important to have at least one picture including other
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by atlantic 4y ago
Great idea, and it may really work. The price point looks right for corporate clients, although a lower price point for a small number of photos for private individuals would be nice. Nobody cares if the photo looks a bit retouched. It&#x27
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by atlantic 4y ago
I have an old license for Office 2007. It works fine, even on Windows 11. It has all the features I need. I've never had cause to replace it with a more recent version.
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by atlantic 4y ago
You've set up a false dichotomy. "Human brain is magic." <> "Human brain is not simulatable by Turing machines." There are other possibilities. I'm sure you can think of a few.
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by atlantic 4y ago
Good point. Well illustrated in Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, when Hal's memory modules are removed one by one, and his speech patterns revert to increasingly infantilized forms.
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by atlantic 4y ago
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