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by cmsonger 4y ago
> Blind trust in science is no different from worshipping a religion or cult. Let me translate this: "Blind trust in the best recommended knowledge science has at the current moment in time is no different from worshipping a religio
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by cmsonger 4y ago
> At some point, I went looking for an officially recommended list of OTC drugs for covid. I think COVID is perhaps different than other health and medical topics. The key factor about COVID-19 is that 3 years ago we knew pretty much not
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I don't think the point is "family video." I think the point is "viral tik tok video." And it seems like we've been here before. Monetized entertainment is monetized entertainment. https://www.quora.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I wonder how his health is and what life looks like to 94 year old Tom Lehrer. It's sad that people grow old and die. His must surely have been a fascinating life. I hope he's still having fun.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Kurt Vonnegut and Player Piano has a message for you.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Very similar except: :s/40s/50s/ :s/is a horror show best avoided/is fun/ :$ A 8. Really love what I'm doing.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I thought so too. They did not have to be so generous.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
"Social media isn't inherently bad, if people across the world can learn how to self-curate." Is equivalent to "Social media is bad" IMO. There are always going to be "enough" people who can't self-cu
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Agreed. The US has some weird priorities in my estimation.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I think there are two issues you don't address. Death is final. There's no later exoneration if you've killed someone and it seems pretty clear that this has happened. State and federal governments have executed innocent peop
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Another poster already covered a number of the benefits. I'll add another: Never going to the gas station. If you've got overnight charging, your car is ready to go every morning. My wife and I bought an EV about 5 years ago. I go
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Until Meta gives up on the Metaverse, I don't think we will see a cull that's WFH oriented. Surely if Meta can't find a way to work in the Metaverse, no one ever will. Now other big companies that continue to invest in HQs: I
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I could not agree with this more. It feels like trust fund babies are pretty much everything that the US is not supposed to be about. Whenever I'm in a mood to discuss politics and someone brings up the "death tax" I say some
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Ageism is a thing.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Deleted account years ago when the TOS gave them yet more latitude to share my data. Have never once regretted it. Facebook: doing harm at scale.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Yep. This is exactly me: > This is just lack of auto renew protections. Consumers are wise to this, and they’re not really canceling. I bet if you could turn off auto-renew they wouldn’t cancel. In my mind: "If they are going to bot
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by cmsonger 4y ago
IMO, this is a byproduct of capitalism. Do you own Brother stock? (Don't even know if Brother is public.) If you own Brother stock, then you care about the stock price. I'm guessing Brother executives compensation is related to Br
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by cmsonger 4y ago
This seems right to me, though I will observe that if you joined an Elon Musk company 5 years ago, then you were joining a company whose head presented a very different public persona than he does now. It's an understandable situation
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I have no opinion whether or not it's cheating. Feels like a definitional issue more than anything. I work and interview for one of the FAANG's. I had a candidate tell me just the other day: "Oh, I've done this in anothe
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Assuming for a second that the question was asked with legitimate intent: That's the line of reasoning that gets a lot of innocent people treated very very badly based on their socioeconomic status, color of their skin, religion, you n
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by cmsonger 5y ago
Given your aspirations, the choice is MIT. The connections and pedigree will matter when you go to try to start a company. Also clear that you are entering a field where the cost of eduction is not really going to matter that much. You are
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by cmsonger 5y ago
Count me with the "more healthy" crowd. Work from home has made it much easier to keep a healthy lifestyle. Eating at home with food I cook. No time commuting to work. No temptation to go out to some restaurant for tasty, but horr
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by cmsonger 5y ago
Due to past behavior and FB's justification of that behavior, I quit using the company's services and products years ago. I remain unwilling to be a FB user of any kind. Good. Keep going. Facebook, doing harm at scale.
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by cmsonger 5y ago
> on a VLAN with other white goods, outbound connections to certain domains only ... That probably says what needs to be said about smart appliances. There's a reason that's the right choice. This same reason is the reason smar
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by cmsonger 5y ago
Cool! Next time I'm opening up excel, I'll give it a look.
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by cmsonger 5y ago
Well, I'm not a VBA / excel expert -- but my neophyte view is that VBA is used to add code to excel, which is great -- but it's not the same as every single spread sheet is automatically creating a "this VBA is the equ
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by cmsonger 5y ago
IMO this really asks the question: Why is there not a code view for an excel spreadsheet? I get that some of the basic operations probably create expressions that are too wordy / very "specific data" intensive. That is, if yo
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by cmsonger 5y ago
This is a thoughtful and insightful reply. Thank you.
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by cmsonger 5y ago
100% that's the most important claim in the article. A few times a month I open the browser and see some "world changing battery technology" being talked about. Here we are however many years later and the world has not chang
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by cmsonger 6y ago
> Unfortunately it is also used by all presidents to pardon their buddies. I agree, but that's the boolean. There's probably a reasonable float or int description that allows a more nuanced comparison of exactly how much any pr

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