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by fiblye 8y ago
That’s true in a society where drug use is a major problem. It’s not true in a society where, statistically speaking, nobody cares about drug use. Make something widely available and legal to a society that doesn’t have experience with it a
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by fiblye 8y ago
Because software engineers how much they have to bullshit their work because management says so, and probably more than a few are knowingly working for "opt-out" products that forget the "out" and claim it's a bug w
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by fiblye 8y ago
Wait, what logic says we should give up everything just because China planted some trees?
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by fiblye 8y ago
Bought my iMac 7 years ago with 8GB as the default memory option and a 1TB fusion drive. And here we are, nearly a decade later. Still 8 GB in the newest models. Still 1 TB fusion drives. GPUs haven't even seemed to take a jump over la
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by fiblye 8y ago
Fish farming generally uses ocean fish as feed. In terms of CO2, chicken is about as environmentally friendly as animal proteins get. Chickens also don’t really require any special diet and grow quickly. Dealing with chicken waste is a prob
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by fiblye 8y ago
And if ever you visit Japan, you’ll see a significant number of people pull down their masks to unleash their coughs and sneezes completely uncovered in a crowded area. Covering coughs and sneezes isn’t really a concept here, and when it’s
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by fiblye 8y ago
You realize their big argument is that they’re speaking “truth” and are thus being censored, right? When little bits of what they say slip through the cracks and people know that it’s supposed to be censored, you realize you’re validating t
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by fiblye 8y ago
It’s strange to ask that on HN of all places, because it’s known that loads of people here are for all 3 points. Plenty of people here are against copyright and patents entirely, even.
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by fiblye 8y ago
They're behind Ireland in that aspect. And frankly, countries like Switzerland and Norway can't even really grow their GDP. They're essentially maxed out since most people have a standard of life beyond even upper class peopl
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Hours worked is inversely correlated with GDP per capita. China needs to step down if they want to try to be competitive.
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by fiblye 8y ago
As an outsider, I have absolutely no way to verify what you're saying is true. I'd like to think that they're not spying on me, but I have no evidence about anything they do because Apple is not transparent about anything the
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by fiblye 8y ago
I work on the automation for some car lines. The robotics are fine. The problem is, in the off chance that an error happens, the results are absolutely disastrous. The biggest problem being that there are too many potential things that can
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by fiblye 8y ago
I grew up in rural America, and you're obviously not. :) I'm very used to people around me gathering up acres of leaves to burn. Your argument is exactly the same as what's used by climate change deniers. America has forests,
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by fiblye 8y ago
Have you ever looked at any sort of public grounds? Because your home isn’t the only place on earth with leaves and I don’t know where you got the idea. Public parks, office perimeters, college campuses, busy roadsides, and yes, home lawns
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by fiblye 8y ago
You and billions of others are doing it. Yet people act surprised when articles about insect and worm population collapse come up.
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by fiblye 8y ago
Keep in mind that not everyone wants others to experience their country. If everybody went to Bhutan, it’d lose everything that makes it unique. If a country imposed a visa policy on other countries, most of the time, they do it based on so
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by fiblye 8y ago
>there should be no visa at all And why is that?
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by fiblye 8y ago
I was specifically replying to the comment about falling birth rates.
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Not a day goes by without western media conglomerates publishing an article about how the Japanese are going extinct and need mass immigration now. I see some local news talking about some minor labor shortages with convenience stores and w
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by fiblye 8y ago
I think anyone who hires purely for race or appearance or physical diversity is absolutely incompetent. Having a fully conscious bias that intentionally hiring people physically different from you just because they’re physically different i
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by fiblye 8y ago
I’ve met many incompetent people who don’t belong at their job. Race and gender isn’t related.
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by fiblye 8y ago
That is the very definition of trickle down economics. Spoilers: it's been thoroughly debunked. It factually does not work.
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by fiblye 8y ago
Unless it's LSD. I enjoy LSD as much as anyone here, but it's globally illegal. And it's pretty unlikely that anyone is posting on HN from the international space station, so it's safe to say that LSD is definitely illic
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by fiblye 8y ago
How’s it an excuse? Hey, Afghanis and Sudanese people out there, want to fix your country? Just quit being poor. Pay money that you don’t have. It’s what the two largest, most powerful, wealthiest countries in the world do, so why can’t you
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by fiblye 8y ago
Taiwan is also an absolutely tiny economy compared to China. That money has to come from somewhere. In the case of many countries, it means paying most workers peanuts while paying someone else 10x as much. Some on HN are okay with massive
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by fiblye 8y ago
It’s really not that programmers are more “valued” and everyone who isn’t paying them enough money to buy a new house yearly isn’t properly appreciating them. It’s that one country can afford to pay more, and it’s partly enabled by a massiv
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He can definitely get paid more in Seattle if he wants to. That's true. He will also have a cost of living that's pretty much double what it would be in Japan. And true, it's an issue of supply and demand. He demanded too muc
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by fiblye 8y ago
Sometimes I think the HN community is vastly out of touch with normal everyday humans, and comments like this validate it. If you're making 7 million yen a year, you're making really fucking good money . If you're making 10
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by fiblye 8y ago
Americans hating Americans is part of our culture. There were people who didn't want to leave England. 100 years later, half the country up and split off and both sides went and killed each other trying to decide who was right. Then 10
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by fiblye 8y ago
Yes, and everyone thinks they're a great judge of character and integrity and they won't get backstabbed. Just the unenlightened and unwashed masses around them who don't know how to really look at a person and determine ho

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