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by cgrealy 6y ago
Civilisation? Possibly. Humanity? Unlikely. Even in the absolute worst case scenarios, climate change doesn’t wipe out humanity. Life would be very different (and would frankly suck), but some humans would still survive. The question is how
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> Every culture has people who believe they communicate with angels or spirits or people from the sky... FTFY There is zero actual evidence of anyone communicating with any non-human intelligences.
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Because it's frequently connected to technology? It's hard to discuss net neutrality, or content moderation, or even applications of certain technologies (stems cells, for instance) without mentioning politics. And that's not
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> How the rest of the world judges them isn't relevant, and would be the same as someone in the US talking about how things are going in Zimbabwe as they look to us here. Nonsense. Of course, people’s opinion of internal politics is
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> “Only in the US" is only what matters when discussing US politics. And only in the US would someone be so insular as to make such a statement :) The US is still the largest economy in the world. As much as the rest of us would lov
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Sorry, but no. CNN, MSNBC, etc are far from perfect, but let's not pretend that "both sides are as bad as each other". Fox (to say nothing of the absolute swamp that is OANN or Newsmax) are an order of magnitude worse than th
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Most countries have a broadcasting standards authority of some sort. If you claim to be a news channel, then some measure of accuracy is not an unreasonable imposition. That said, given the increasing irrelevance of broadcast TV, I don&#x27
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by cgrealy 6y ago
This is the fundamental problem in the US. There is a large group of people on the right that think that pointing out the objective issues with Trump is being "biased". Sometimes, there just aren't two sides to a story, or mo
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To be fair, I don’t think most people would consider a solution that voids the warranty on an expensive TV valid...
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Not really. You might have a big bonus tied up in a release, but unless you're a self-funded indie dev (typically with single digit employees), you have to pay your staff. People aren't that desparate to work on games.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
The problem with that adage is that it assumes you want only one baby (which, to be fair, most people do, at least initially) :)
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Irrelevant. Employees != company.
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The cases have been decided in the courts. Most have been thrown out. Personally, I'm happy for the cases to be decided in the courts and not by some dumbarse with a youtube channel sputing obviouse nonsense. I'm fine with people
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> say you saw your boss doing something you perceived to be illegal. Keyword being "perceived". But let's examine the premise. Do I have any evidence of this act? Do I have sufficent expertise to determine if what I saw w
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by cgrealy 6y ago
citation very much needed. Just because content on social media is negative towards Trump, doesn't mean the platform itself is. In fact, Twitter has been incredibly lenient with Trump. Much of what he tweets (threats for example) con
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> Youtube is stating that many of those ideas are not allowed Not really, no. People can post all the ideas they want, you just can't make claims without evidence to back them up. Personally, I'd love to see this extended. Forg
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Isn’t step 1 of “modern JavaScript” to install TypeScript? :)
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So, the problem with progress bars is that they are rarely accurate, and the problem with static "processing..." messages is that it's imposible to tell if the app is frozen. How about an indeterminate progress bar, but it ha
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>There are many spheres of life and influence within the world, and politics is but one of them. True, but it is one that permeates all others. You cannot remove politics from any sphere and it is a fallacy to believe you can. And as you
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Atheism isn't a religion, but it is a position on religion. An atheist may not believe in god, but all of them have a position on whether religion belongs in a science class, for instance. You can opt out and say "I don't car
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by cgrealy 6y ago
"Not doing politics" is itself a political position. It is a tacit endorsement of the political status quo.
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> Engineers should be on call Nah... thanks but no thanks. I value my free time and I have 0 desire to allow work to intrude more into it. And no, I don’t want more money for it either. But I might consider time... every week I’m on call
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> You don't fight the free market, its an equation that can't be changed. Nonsense. Of course it can. Buy any leaded petrol lately? Aerosols with CFCs? Landmines? Why? Because nobody wants those things. The companies that made
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Leaving Trump aside for the moment, the last four years have shown up how fundamentally undemocratic the US is. No one ever expected Trump to get more votes than Biden. Even the Republicans were well aware of this. In fact, 7 of the last 8
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> there's nothing that's going to stop climate change except the free market agreeing to pursue sustainability. That is exactly the attitude that got us into this situation in the first place. The free market will NEVER volunta
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> The House made their case and the Senate disagreed. That is ignoring the open partisanship displayed by the Senate. The Republicans openly admitted they would be giving the impeachment process a fair hearing. And to be fair, I doubt th
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Is that because there just isn't the level of verifiably untrue statements from the Democrats?
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It was actually a fairly bipartisan term used to identify trivially disprovable stories. The right wing tended to be more political ("Obama is a muslim communist who wants your guns") while left wing fake news tended to lean more
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Eh... kind of? I guess it depends on your definition of "valid". Let's say we have: class Thing { public: Thing() { cout << "created" << endl; } ~Thing() { cout << "destroyed&q
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Yep and lawyers and doctors are two professions with notoriously awful work/life balance. I have no desire to see that attitude become any further entrenched in software development.

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