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by delegate 9y ago
I wonder why Amazon did this.. Is it because people were taking too many sick days in Germany ? If so, then it means the company thinks that people were taking sick days when they shouldn't have, so they're indirectly calling thei
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by delegate 9y ago
> the ONLY reason you can say this crap is simply because people competed ... and be pretentious and ungrateful about what society have achieved so far. Even though you're grossly exaggerating what I've said in the comment, I&#
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by delegate 9y ago
The message I"m getting is not that I have to prepare for something or change energy sources , it's that "our lifestyle is killing the planet much faster than we thought". CO2 levels is just one of a myriad of indicat
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by delegate 9y ago
Well, in order to prepare for something, people first need to understand what they are preparing for and why . TFA has the why..
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by delegate 9y ago
For any person who is familiar with the soviet mentality this shouldn't be surprising at all. I guess LJ has introduced these changes because otherwise the officials would shut down the whole thing, seize all the servers and arrest th
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by delegate 9y ago
Emotions are flying high in the comments, because the world (including the virtual one) is changing fast(er) and not in the best direction. There is also great disconnect between the tech billionaires and the real problems in the world. The
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by delegate 10y ago
>Anyone who wants to set up an independent media, or carry out any form of independent investigation or reporting can do so. I can't - I don't have the resources or expertise to set up a global media conglomerate. Can you ? I c
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by delegate 10y ago
Ironically (or not), the article is exactly on the kind of website which it describes as 'shit'. But I agree with it. The web is no longer a place to 'share information'. It is a place where 'content' is &#x27
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by delegate 10y ago
If you look deep enough you will find that even life on Earth is meaningless. Our very existence is just a ride on a blue-green rock inside a meat suit. For a more 'down-to-earth' answer, we can look into the past - how did the sp
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by delegate 10y ago
> Free weed and videogames. Yay. Yes, exactly. Keep everyone occupied or they'll start looking for entertainment elsewhere. But it's not as bad as it sounds - computers and weed go very well together, so some of those people w
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by delegate 10y ago
> are you serious about second-hand high? Of course ! I've experienced it myself many times. You won't get a 'real' stoned kind of high, but you're getting a healthy micro dose if you're sitting right next
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by delegate 10y ago
I see many comments here about the health and social effects of smoking marijuana and there's of course a very valid point in each of those discussions - smoking (anything) is not good for your lungs and smoking around unsuspecting non
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by delegate 10y ago
If I charge money for my car repeatedly, it means I'm renting it so I'm running a business. If I do it through an app, now I'm playing by their rules, not mine. These companies are setting the terms, because they make the sof
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by delegate 10y ago
Bad code is boring, because you quickly lose context or get confused by the 'bulldozer' approach that such code usually assumes. So it won't help if you try and read it. To paraphrase Tolstoy's quote about happy familie
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by delegate 10y ago
That's reasonable. I also find it interesting that all the information in our DNA and what our body does with it is a form of 'remembering' what has been transmitted from previous lives, right ? :) What if, in a similar way,
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by delegate 10y ago
My personal philosophy admits the fact that this life might just be a training camp for another life. Hence, all the information learned in this one will be useful at some point in this or another life. Now I don't know what to do with
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by delegate 10y ago
I think the premise of the article is wrong. Most 'intentional' communities didn't fail and are still around after hundreds or thousands of years - they're called 'villages' and 'cities'. Granted, not
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by delegate 10y ago
Just a week ago, in Australia: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89683&src=... Try and geo engineer against 50+ degrees C for weeks. Plants die at these temperatures and we don't have technolog
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by delegate 10y ago
Great, the MacBook Pro that I bought back in 2014 with Bitcoin is now worth over $8,000 ! People bought drugs on SilkRoad back when the price was $2 / bitcoin. Those must have been some of the most expensive drugs in history !
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by delegate 10y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. Social media is not the best nor the only place to share your opinions, political or not. In fact this is the exact danger that these networks pose - people start thinking that it's the only place where we can
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by delegate 10y ago
Delete your 'social media' accounts. I'm talking Facebook, LinkedIn, G+ and so on. I did that and life goes on perfectly - I don't miss them a bit and I don't think anyone noticed. My wife and daughter are right he
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by delegate 10y ago
I was referring to the founders of startups that fail (edited now).
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by delegate 10y ago
Just a decade ago, a 'startup' meant a group of enthusiastic young people wanting to affirm themselves by creating some cool technology which will change the world, trying to convince people with money to 'invest'. Today
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by delegate 10y ago
Obviously whoever designed it didn't get the 'good' acid. Had he gotten the real shit, it would have been a musical instrument... with wheels, which also microwaves... inside and outside... Because that's how you get to
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by delegate 10y ago
> government takes over an industry The coloured glasses that everyone wears these days is costing me karma... to hell with it. Please re-read my post. Open sourcing robot schematics and software has nothing to do with government taking
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by delegate 10y ago
Robots everywhere are a good thing (tm). Why hire people when you can cut costs by 100x and deliver more stuff of higher build quality ? However nobody except the owners benefit from automation (savings are profits), while slowly generating
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by delegate 10y ago
Apart from having a framework/service for funding open source projects, we need about the people who develop the dependencies used in those projects. Project maintainers should have the ability to 'forward' part of the rec
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by delegate 10y ago
I like it and I think this is the general direction that creating applications will look like in the future. But don't throw away text-based programming yet; the wiser move would be to combine the two. Find use-cases were visual Deep
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by delegate 10y ago
We're seeing another "social media revolution" - fuelled by Facebook (et al) on one side and old-school TV stations controlled by local oligarchs on the other. Young, high tech, well-dressed, global 'hipsters' who l
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by delegate 10y ago
Global nuclear war will quickly and reliably stop everything. There are powers which are very unhappy about the way technology is making them irrelevant and they see it as a fight for survival. Civilisation is at a crossroad: continue build

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