bratbag

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by bratbag 3y ago
Communities used to naturally form in third spaces, when people were bored. We have an unhealthy deficit of both third spaces and boredom.
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by bratbag 3y ago
In this case? Because I want there to still be fish to eat in 20 years and enforced public view will make illegal overfishing harder.
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by bratbag 3y ago
And yet, success is higher when others support and reinforce. So don't use statistics as an excuse to be a dick.
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by bratbag 3y ago
I'm ok with a degree of unreliability when experimenting with new ideas. That's a tradeoff I already make when using relativly new third party libraries/services to accelerate experimentation.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Most engineers have probably been bitten in the ass by versioned dependencies conflicting with each other.
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by bratbag 3y ago
I hope this is satire.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Do you, or are you just failing to understand their humour?
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by bratbag 3y ago
Their interest is to convince themselves that it won't be needed in their lifetime, and to hell with anyone else after they are dead.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Most things in life involve risk and most safety regulation doesn't seek perfect safety, just safe enough that its realistic to produce something that most people can afford with tolerable risks. Discussion about that line is to be exp
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by bratbag 3y ago
Maybe not as many people feel this as you think.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Should and do, are two different things. They consistently happen at greater frequency with proximity. Three years of wfh with terrible results before we started returning to the office one day a week, has shown me that proximity is a deal
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by bratbag 3y ago
Or are you just more likely to notice the overlap?
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by bratbag 3y ago
That's more performative arguing then constructive arguing, no? Within the context of applying an argument constructively, I think it's a good list.
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by bratbag 3y ago
If every discussion has to have people singing his praise? Then yes, every discussion should also have that being questioned.
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by bratbag 3y ago
There is a growing body of evidence that high levels of engagement with social media is linked with an increase in risks for multiple types of psychological ailments. Singling out Facebook is a tad unfair and causality still needs proving,
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by bratbag 3y ago
Its infinite from the perspective of our side of the curve. It's another application of advanced technology appearing to be magic, but imagine transitioning into it in a matter of hours, then with that advanced tech transitioning furth
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by bratbag 3y ago
Does it make them less happy, or just appear to be less happy when compared to people who keep the same irritations inside?
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by bratbag 3y ago
So stepping back from the unreliable narrator of a person living through this with ptsd: -person is suffering mental health issues due to strain of job. -persons performance drops rapidly without warning as a result. -boss takes workload of
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by bratbag 3y ago
If you consider protecting women's rights and opposing homophobia/transphobia as fascism, then yeah sure. Sitting here in europe looking in, its fairly obvious that 'Both sides' is just an excuse to explain away persecut
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by bratbag 3y ago
Not really comparable, is it? This is more akin to not liking sharp rocks, but choosing to throw yourself off a cliff. It's not like the sharp rocks at the bottom of that cliff are waiting for you as you live your life frolicking acros
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by bratbag 3y ago
Being linguistically poor reduces your options for sourcing solutions to your problems, or understanding how to stop them being problems in the first place. There may be methods of accessing clean water that are totally outside their tradit
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by bratbag 3y ago
Boredom is a common motivation for action. Action is required to overcome depression, even if its just action to seek help. Easy access to anything that can alleviate bordom (including TV) is going to increase the chances that someone is st
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by bratbag 3y ago
3 is not required. Multiple steps with no negatives is sufficient.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Customers being oblivious to dark patterns in charging, is why regulation is needed.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Can you put that in precise terms, rather than a silly analogy designed to play on peoples emotions? What exactly and precisely, with specifics, is in OpenAI's ideas of humanities best interests that you think are a net negative for ou
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by bratbag 3y ago
Yes you are. The question you are asking is defined by the context of what you are replying to. Selectively choosing to only reply to one part of that, in an effort to change the context, in fact changes nothing. In this case 'deserves
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by bratbag 3y ago
No, you are asking why people should be allowed to seek happiness without a state or corporate entity using that as a method of control.
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by bratbag 3y ago
Don't run your healthcare as a for-profit system.
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by bratbag 3y ago
My personal experience of this is that you can have direct, hard evidence of someone commiting fraud, and they will still jump on social media screaming that they are being persecuted.
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by bratbag 3y ago
"Trust me bro" is not evidence.

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