forestrywat

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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I do. Turns out that's not enough. My house rep very clearly cares about these. My senators too (mostly).
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
So is the US, to be honest.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I think that's possible. Maybe we should limit the ability of capital to exert power somehow.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
The US is clearly on a path to crumbling infrastructure, waste, inefficiency, and corruption. Seeing that other countries seem to be doing some actual thinking about the future is demoralizing when you cannot get your leaders to care.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
We could, like, stop framing it as us vs them to start. We could also elect leaders who want progress and are willing to squeeze the 1% even a little bit to make that progress. China is taking long term views. Transit and rail, solar energy
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
That's a different bar. Probably doesn't work is much easier to meet, and narrower. The person didn't ask for provably works. They are probably comfortable with "might work might not, but at least it's not provably
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Alzheimer's is tricky. The person who is consenting to the procedure may not be the person in the OR. And both parties are vulnerable to scams and snake oil. This procedure needs studies, so there's a clear rate of success we can
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Seems like this treatment is widely reported on and there's interest in running controlled trials to evaluate its actual success rate. It's shown up on HN a lot. And honestly, caution is valuable here. People with Alzheimer's
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Even if you are right, you are using the tone of a conspiracist. You are this close to posting, " They don't want you to know!" Maybe dial it back a bit? You can be firm in your opinions and have more success in convincing o
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Repeat it? It's not removing a tumor. It's adding a path between lymph nodes and blood vessels. You can't just repeat that. After the surgery that path exists. It's a permanent functional change.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Or... perhaps... capital interests are stronger.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I think you need to read up on why the civil rights act was necessary and the things it fought for. Woman's suffrage was fought for a long time ago, but that does not mean it was universally applied. Many many times in US history we&#x
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I care how they made it. Would you accept code made by forced labor? Prison labor? From every country/government? What if the code is stolen? What if the code is plagiarized? What if the author is going online and loudly harassing peop
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
What is the point of setting standards on the way we work? It's an exercise in democratic decision making. Some people dislike ai for entirely legitimate reasons, and they want to see if others in their community agree. (And if so, set
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Fwiw, I perceive no aggression in their post.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Comments like this should result in an IP level ban. Get the fuck out of here.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
No, game dev is not 70 hour weeks most of the time. When it is it's called crunch, and it's increasingly uncommon. Not as rare as it should be, but still, getting less. Agree, there should be profit share and should be ownership a
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Presumably the fact that experimenting on oneself is not considered particularly ethical or repeatable for science?
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
My company, my insurance company, my pharmacy insurance company, the required health startup I have to use, my doctor and I all get to decide whether I can take a commonly prescribed medicine that i need. Theres way way too many parties in
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Or they might signal supporting a fellow human. I preferentially but union made things because in general the workers are getting a bigger cut.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I've worked in the industry and agree with the parent. This person hasn't worked in the industry. AI is a bad for the industry for a few reasons: Players hate it. You think the vitriol over "asset store flips" is bad? AI
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Your analogy is goofy. An analogy is like, "People don't go to other people's kitchens and discuss their thoughts on McDonalds". And yeah, they totally do. The person isn't complaining about grok to grok, they aren&
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Tech has always been political. You think Mitnick and Woz weren't political? You think windows and the powerpc werent political? That social media isn't political? You don't like seeing politics you disagree with. You just do
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
It's not virtue signaling. People are allowed to have morals. And they are allowed to act in ways that align with those moral beliefs. > do you use Apple equipment despite Apple’s use of Chinese slave labor? If someone said they did
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
You ain't disagreeing. Anyone who wants or engages in forced labor is fascist. Sounds like you found an example of that in the US. Yep. Many such cases.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Nonsense. Anyone who wants forced labor camps is a fascist. I don't care what they call themselves. Once you stop caring about wellbeing for everyone you stop being a leftist. (Which is your insinuation.) Also, there is more than one p
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
These big companies have orgs within them that do, e.g., charitable work. Or work on standards or open source. Or accessibility or inclusion or other work to genuinely improve lives. How does your judgement apply to folks who attach their a
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Imagine thinking the right has learned to tolerate different opinions that they find offensive.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
It'd be more honest for a start.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Reread the last sentence in my post. "I've started hiring" is very different from "I'm starting hiring".

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