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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Kind of makes you wonder what percentage of software devs are actually working the famed "bullshit jobs"?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Odds are pretty much zero there. If you expect me to take my eyes off the terrorists (foreign and domestic), the Russians, North Koreans and so on, to entertain your fever dream of, I don't know, Barak Obama or whatever being a threat,
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Just where do all those young soldiers, sailors and pilots come from I wonder?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
People are fundamentally good. No. A person is fundamentally good. People are responsible for most of the bad things that happen in human society. Including war.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, the ideal male aesthetic for black americans for instance included athletes like basketball players and the great boxers. Most of whom were hairless. Joe Frazier only had a smattering of chest hair that hardly even registered. Others
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
* But how did something that seems as intrinsic as physical attractiveness could change in a generation (and so drastically)* Influx of people with different genetics. Even within the US in the 70's, there were subcultures where chest
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Yep. No one cares about the details. (Heck, I'd be willing to wager good money that the politicians and most of their staffers don't even understand the details). In the end, it's just one more reason that Chinese models will
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Yes, but it's OK for the top 0.1% to shoulder a greater than 0.1% of the burden. Why? Because that enormously expensive army we're maintaining is protecting mostly their stuff. Setting aside the fact that, say, poor people, have
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I think they are saying the data is misleading in the extreme. And it is. It's clear the middle class earners are shouldering the burden here. I hope you're just confused about what everyone is saying, and not being intentionally
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
when the top 10% pay almost 3/4 of the income taxes. Because the top 10% are not rich. Only the top ~0.5% are rich. The reality is that the vast majority of that 3/4 of taxes is paid by the middle class. Put another way, the top
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
the example of goths is to highlight an actual counterculture that is not determined by NYU think tanks, and that they are the example you should look to for how your society treats actual freethinking. Think about what you just said ther
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
In fairness, California is pretty big as well. Bigger by population actually. But yeah, Texas is definitely laid out in an enormous fashion. States outside of California are just not good comparisons.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
So, yeah. Never. If the answer is “they have to make less money”, it’s just very unlikely to happen. Most sports, but especially the global behemoths that are basketball and football (soccer), have made more money over time just because o
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
You're misinformed. "US Air Force fighters intercepting an unknown aircraft near the Whitehouse" don't request anything from anyone outside their chain of command. That's not how anyone gets orders sir. NMCC is in
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Just prohibiting landings on runway 33 simultaneous with helicopter traffic underneath the approach path .. Additionally, require military traffic to have ADS-B I'm thinking you're not quite understanding the nature of the missi
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
why should this thing? 'Cuz "National Security". End of discussion. /s You may laugh, but that's historically the argument in support of these practices. No one wants to go on record as questioning the practice. M
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is the thing people don't understand. Certain military and government aircraft can pull this kind of crap even when it doesn't seem necessary . (At least not to me as an outsider). Now it's easy to say, "Well, Bilb
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, except for VIP helos. Basically certain military and government aircraft can do things other pilots can't. I can guarantee you, if I were flying the helo, the transcript between myself and ATC would be significantly different. Wh
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I see what you did there. Touché.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
That's playing with fire. You could find yourself standing in front of a courtroom if something goes wrong, or God Forbid, if someone dies, trying to convince a judge and jury with nothing but, "I didn't need government permi
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I guess that's true. All the Buyer's Remorse isn't gonna accomplish a thing. Just gotta hope for the best for the next four years. I don't know? Maybe we get some better choices next time around? Probably not, but maybe?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Just being a pedant, but technically , Taiwan is not China. Having said that, yeah, it's not too hard to see a future where asian nations begin to see a lot more possibilities in cooperation than they see in competition with each othe
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Just the low brow, chum bucket stuff I think, as software devs, we sometimes kid ourselves with respect to how many of us are working on low brow, chum bucket stuff . Most of us are not working on GPU based real time physics engines. Wha
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
the margins in software companies/industry is large. Margins , are never large enough for a certain class of owners. That's the unfortunate reality. No one at an average board meeting is gonna say, "Hey guys, let's st
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This. It's not software engineers per se. It's any labor component that is expensive and "automate"-able. Companies are always trying to optimize labor costs. The theoretical Holy Grail is a company that requires 0 labor
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'm thinking in 50 years humans will be so much less capable than bots, that using a human as a servant or a soldier or what have you instead of using a bot would be laughable. Some of us look at AI, and Neuralink, and robot tech and s
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is an underrated comment. And the key point in this news that punctuates the ridiculous farce that is the nature of this offer.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'm not sure? I think it's even deeper than confusing cause and effect. I mean, maybe I'm missing some information, but the comment says: a study showing that people who carry a certain gene variant and experienced childhood
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The Nation of Islam are Muslims. They would be considered theologically descended from the Abrahamic line of religions. They would certainly not be considered a "tribe". And they take their creation mythology from the Koran. I thi
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
It’s a four year term. I wouldn’t count on mid-terms saving you. Vast majority of the seats up for election at midterm will be in safe districts. (Yayyy gerrymandering!) No sense in buyer’s remorse at this point. We just have to find some w

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