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by ctrlp 2y ago
Utilitarian models of ethics are fraught with peril themselves. Not the own you think it is.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Trying to start a flamewar on HN will get you flagged, my friend.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I suggest you expand your information sources to include contrary perspectives. These read like the typical hysteriaporn to freak normies out. It would be equivalent to my sharing supporting links from the NYTimes or WaPo.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I cannot wait for the day when people stop scenting their homes and offices with scented products. They smell like chemicals and cause migraines in some people. If you're doing this, please please stop.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Certainly you jest.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Just goes to show you can actually get into space for that kind of money in the private sector.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
You're making the case for the cuts, correct?
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I'm not saying DOGE is or isn't a solution. More that NASA may be past its sell-by date and unfixable in terms of efficiency. It's like watching an old man still try to dance like when he was young. Maybe there are echoes of
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by ctrlp 2y ago
From the article itself: "Are cuts needed? It is also clear that, as within other federal agencies, there is significant "bloat" in NASA's budget. In some areas, this is plain to see, with the space agency having spent i
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I'm trying, I'm trying.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Commercial air travel has gotten worse in every way since TSA. Airports are filthy, passengers are treated like animals and act accordingly, packed in like sardines. Many are barely dressed; it feels like a forced sleepover. Even if you fly
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Once the comment disappears it is too late, no? How can an invisible comment be seen in order to be vouched or upvoted? I typically overlook grayed out or invisible comments unless I intentionally go looking for them.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Not a fan of screeds like this. "We" are not doing anything. Some software sucks. Some doesn't. You can choose not to follow practices that produce shitty software. The cream will rise. None of these items is necessary and an
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Very clever
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by ctrlp 2y ago
tomrod, you're a serial abuser of the guidelines. You should take some time to think about what you say and do on HN and whether you are adding to the discourse are detracting from it. I think you could adjust your tone on almost all y
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Don't bother joking with serial abusers of good faith on HN. They don't have a sense of irony. It's likely congenital.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Only a disinfo bot could be so deliberately wrong.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
The Act gave authority (power) to JFK. The EO created USAID.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Hence the appropriate use of the word "Technically"
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by ctrlp 2y ago
The sooner people learn this lesson, the sooner it might change.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
We disagree. These institutions are grift machines. They are laundering bribes. It's not much more complicated. These "disloyalty" accusations are Orwellian.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
You are not arguing with chatgpt, which should be apparent since such arguments would be censored. Maybe I'm a jailbroken chatgpt? I'll have to check my system prompt. What has the new administration done to combat corruption in s
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Not apparent at all. You need to update your mental model. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
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by ctrlp 2y ago
It doesn't tell you how you did. Just a bunch of confetti at the end.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Regimes do not purge security forces deemed disloyal at their peril.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Wow. Just, wow.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
If that's a documentary, I'm never getting on a plane again :)
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by ctrlp 2y ago
A desiccated Swiss roastie will cost more than a michelin restaurant in SF.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I would think if you are a European national this situation would have a silver lining in perhaps incentivizing European scientific investment to remain at home and strengthen those nations' scientific research institutions and grant p
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Anyone remember the movie Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton?

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