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by beebmam 5y ago
65% of China's energy production is from coal. They're probably even less likely to have the political ability to meet these goals, given how much of the country's infrastructure relies on coal for basic functioning (like eve
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by beebmam 5y ago
It's impossible to prove that something is culturally impossible, though. So my point stands: premise #1 in the comment above, when interpreted as "culturally impossible", is a statement without support. When interpreted as &
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by beebmam 5y ago
It's certainly possible to find a way to refer to people without gender; plenty of other languages do it! Conceptually, it's a very simple idea, and one programmers certainly can grasp due to our familiarity with typed references&
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by beebmam 5y ago
Citations needed for basically every sentence in this comment please
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by beebmam 5y ago
In 1st year econ, students learn about market externalities and the usefulness of government intervention in addressing them. So this statement from you is not based in economic science, but rather ideology.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Don't worry, these fusion weapons are so inherently clean, they'll clean entire peoples off continents. What a disgrace that so many scientists and engineers have dedicated their lives to building and perfecting nuclear weapons, w
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by beebmam 5y ago
Hey this looks pretty awesome. More early treatment options for COVID-19 is going to save many lives!
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by beebmam 5y ago
The sooner people realize this, the better off we'll all be. When companies use slack or other chat-like tools, instead of email, total organizational disaster inevitably ensues.
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by beebmam 5y ago
With discussions around evolution, I try to keep in mind that the main pressure for evolution is from natural selection, and natural selection works on death. Plenty of species have been "naturally selected" for total exterminatio
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by beebmam 5y ago
The ACLU was founded by Hellen Keller, who was a lifelong socialist, among others.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Like quantum physics, memory ordering is deeply unintuitive (on platforms like ARM). Unlike quantum physics, which is an unfortunate immutable fact of the universe, we got ourselves into this mess and we have no one to blame but ourselves f
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by beebmam 5y ago
It's not popular here on Hacker News due to its libertarian bent, but I'm of the opinion that we should even more brutal to illegal drug production, trafficking, and selling than what we currently are. I've lost 2 friends to
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by beebmam 5y ago
I'd like to think that congress is looking at regulating Facebook (and social media in general) and not only thinking about antitrust law.
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by beebmam 5y ago
I miss people being decent to each other. I'd be good with experimenting with removing anonymity in certain contexts to see how different online spaces can be. I genuinely think it would lead to some interesting (and unexpected) result
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by beebmam 5y ago
Didn't Process Explorer start as a third party tool which Microsoft acquired?
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by beebmam 5y ago
That rate is going to vary widely as more people get vaccinated. In a country with 100% of its citizens vaccinated, 100% of those hospitalized will be vaccinated. And likewise for 0%/0%. So keep we must always be looking at the whole
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by beebmam 5y ago
War would lead to much worse than supply chain issues. Mass global death is what war between any powerful nation means now. Which is why it should be unthinkable, and why every nation that is serious about a future for humanity should take
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by beebmam 5y ago
Does fish still not have reverse search? I have a hard time taking a shell seriously if you can't perform an operation at least as good as this. Even Powershell supports reverse search!
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by beebmam 5y ago
You're making an even more extreme argument than Liu is making: that there's no obvious answer to virtually any ethically questionable act. This is such a perfect example of how delusional one's ideology can make them.
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by beebmam 5y ago
This source makes that quote even more damning. The same logic Liu uses here is the same argument slave societies used to justify themselves; that: "If China were to transform into a democracy, it would be hell on earth," is exact
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by beebmam 5y ago
Photons don't, for counterexample
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by beebmam 5y ago
I think some people are upset about the irony/sarcasm here, and many people don't appreciate ironic/sarcastic posts (but I do!)
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by beebmam 5y ago
What if there isn't? Isn't just the belief in a God going to affect the way you think and act? We know for a fact that particles can come into existence spontaneously from a vacuum; it is happening literally all the time.
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by beebmam 5y ago
My point is: it seems to me that it is possible that labor unions in Europe are less effective at bargaining than individuals in the US, but I'd like to see research. I didn't intend to imply the US software industry is unionized;
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by beebmam 5y ago
It seems to me that risk taking is probably deeply cultural, and is also likely effected by both policy and economic status (collective and individual status). It's probably hard to know how to quantify all of these different effects,
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by beebmam 5y ago
Why are these numbers so massively different across the world? Do European companies generate that much less revenue? Or are labor unions in Europe just that much less effective at bargaining? Or is productivity that much lower in Europe? (
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by beebmam 5y ago
For my work PC, I use Ubuntu, period. Too many third party apps just don't work very well outside of the Ubuntu ecosystem, apps which I need in order to function in my workplace. I'd probably use something like Arch or rolling my
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by beebmam 5y ago
This is a good example of what someone posts when they're deep into some kind of ideology. Isiq I sincerely hope you reflect on this post and question exactly what you mean by some of the terms you use here: "serfdom", "
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by beebmam 5y ago
There's a whole fraud economy that has emerged in the last decade or so. Its existence has done deep harm to social trust, in my opinion. It extends far beyond just fake reviews of course; it reaches deep into the corrupt business prac
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by beebmam 5y ago
Metaphors/analogies aren't an argument, and if you find them persuasive that's your problem

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