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by dwaltrip 5y ago
I’m guessing by that the threat of less aid money was probably more important than the president’s frustration level… But I agree the overall story is complex and we can’t blame things entirely on singular policy comments, even those from
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
They probably get upset as they assume you are implying some moral judgment against having kids. Most people want kids, just like those before us for untold hundreds of thousands of years.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
And the low birth rates found in countries not in the west?
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
For many things, you are right (or close enough for most purposes). For many, many other things, including the some of the things we care about most, the "true reality" is not so easy to discern.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
There is a ton of exposed iron on mountain surfaces.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
I would find it very inspiring to see the Hubble up close at a museum once it can no longer carry out its mission.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Good for you, but it doesn't seem realistic to expect large numbers of landlords to do this.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
You want to hear all of the facts? Well, sit down and get comfy, we are going to be here for a while…
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Far more scientists were talking about global warming in the 70s than a new ice age. Source: https://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/131047.pdf I learned of this from Vertasium's video on global warming myths:
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Huh, me too. Not ideal. I’m not defending them, but I at least was able to make it go away by opening it and then clicking “decline”.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
This is a sexy half-truth.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
This seems like a pretty good take to me. As an American who cares a lot about having compelling reasons for my beliefs and opinions, it's so fucking exhausting. Lately, I've been getting more comfortable with just saying "I
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
> The animal rights argument is entirely subjective (…). What that means is, the opposite position has as much validity, it's also subjective. The subjective aspects of a difficult question doesn’t mean all takes are equally valid.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
If I’m understanding correctly, languages like rust avoid that problem by throwing a compile error when a match statement doesn’t cover all possible cases. Of course, a catch-all would then somewhat reintroduce the problem.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
To be clear, even this would be an unprecedented catastrophe. Civilization would go on in some form, but hundreds of millions, maybe billions of people, would suffer immensely and many would die from famine, war, disease, etc.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
The human effort saved by using a less compute-efficient but easier-to-work-with programming language could be redirected to attacking climate change from another angle. We'd have to look at the details to see which one is more effecti
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Let's say the software solves some problem, call it P. We want to know the total energy cost for humanity to solve P. The people who are designing the software are using energy while they work on solving P. We need to include that ener
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Bingo. It’s important to practice appreciating the meaningfulness of the mundane. That’s where most of the real action of life is. There are also plenty of interesting ways to make improvements here. And we can still keep some time for dayd
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Look, I hear you. I think you might be 95% right. But there absolutely are people at companies who choose not to do bad things, or to even stop doing something bad the company was already doing, that cost the company some immediate profit,
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
The law and profit motive aren’t the only things guiding company behavior. Those factors are very dominant, but I don’t think that is the whole story. Companies are composed of individuals, and individuals have complex reasons for their b
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
How much force is exerted on the rocket / payload when it is released from the vacuum chamber — traveling at full operating speed for an orbital mission — and smacks into the atmosphere?
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Come on… If you know JavaScript and HTML you are 95% of the way to being fluent in JSX. It’s basically just JavaScript expressions.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
I visited SF a few weeks ago. I went to a Safeway and the entire aisle where the toothbrushes were located was behind locked see-through panels. Other aisles weren’t as bad. It was rather disorienting. Another patron and I had to be esco
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
You are skeptical of the general concept of someone getting hired and then being marginalized by the same people who hired them?
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
You yourself gave the answer. “Tend to” means it is likely, not that it will always happen.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Climate change is a market failure. Market-based solutions exists, but they require directly affecting market dynamics through policy.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Yeah! Fuck the future generations. Perhaps we should murder and eat our grandchildren. Sounds pretty tasty. Oh I misspoke. Let’s eat the kids from the developing nations. Far more civilized.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
I never understood what people could possibly be envisioning with HATEOAS and smart clients. If some code needs to use an external service to achieve its goals, then it must have the knowledge of exactly how to use that service.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
Please link to a reputable source explaining how Colin Powell didn’t die of Covid-19 complications. Thanks.
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by dwaltrip 5y ago
In a feee society, it is healthy to question new restrictions. However, the majority of society has decided the vaccines are a very safe and valuable tool to help end the second worst global pandemic in the past 100 years [1]. If you disagr

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