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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
Just because I'm buying something for someone other then myself it doesn't follow that I don't care how the money is spent. If my tax dollars are wasted it's no comfort to tell myself that the money would have been spen
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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
I don't think sovereignty works that way.
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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
decade+ is not really that long, is it? Say you're correct in that time frame. If you put money in now to a venture that seems uncertain then in 5 years it's going to seem much less uncertain - and so the investment will be wort
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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
How does this get them a government contract?
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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
Jesus. I had a colonoscopy. Don't tell me about drinking 2 gallons of water. I won't even get started on an ice cream cone a day.
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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
Someone upthread mentioned that arguments can be about convincing the person you're arguing with or convincing the audience which is absolutely true. I'd suggest that arguments are frequently not about convincing anyone of anythin
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
I can't find it but my favorite Robin Hood comic strip was one where Robin Hood robs from someone rich and gives it to someone poor. I'm rich! shouts the poor person. You're what? says Robin Hood.
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
Nice pull.
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
That last line, "children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why." fills me with dread.
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
Yeah but more bright is more safe ... for me driving around with the light of a thousand suns coming out of the front of my care at night it seems pretty safe, "good luck everybody else".
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
For the down votes I would have gone with the "Shocker that Jacobian finds something bad and puts the root cause to Capitalism" comment.
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
Isn't "data centers are using all the electricity" the same as "we're not pricing electricity correctly"? Instead of a ban just make sure they pay what's needed to keep capacity where it needs to be.
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
Nah, there'll be a lot of people who think they know what happened and there'll be one person someone at BO who really knows what happened they just don't know they know it yet. In the course of the analysis that person will
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
I hear what you're saying but ... clearly SpaceX has made some broad technical decisions - I'm think of using metholox or making starship out of steel or falcon first stage re-usability - that seem to have been the correct choic
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
No one looks at money that way. If it were I'd find a million dollars under the seat cushions of the couch that Bill Gate's owns. No one is so flaked out they don't know that a 100 grand is a nice chunk of change or what the
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
I wouldn't say all the benefits. I mean if I get a cheaper ride from the airport I'm benefiting at least a little bit from this, right?
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by hackeraccount 4mo ago
"Why are slaves doing work for their masters?" Maybe drop that one from the list.
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
They'll go to Florida.
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
I worked with a guy who had an internship studying the effects of some drug on rats. He said he didn't have much of a problem killing the rats but also claimed that he knew his dog realized what he was up to at work. It made me think
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
Is regulation the word you're looking for? It seems like you just need to get pricing right not regulation.
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
Any mention of typesetting should work to include Mark Twain's quote about his relationship with the inventor James Paige, who worked on a never quite working as well as could be wished typesetting machine that Twain invested heavily i
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
It's probably impossible but bring back the judicial filibuster. If a judge knows that get confirmed in the Senate they'll have to have bipartisan support then you'll end up with a group of judges desperate to appeal to ever
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
yeah. I was waiting for something to get at the consistency of what I was clicking i.e. if I think A is better then B and B is better then C why do I think C is better then A.
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
Let's give up a lot of things for a protocol that seems more backwards compatible (but realistically isn't).
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
Looking at smoking rates for people in the US - it peaks for men in the 1950's. I'm not saying studies and taxes and PSA's did nothing but on some level I think most people had a pretty good idea that smoking was no good lon
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
This is my take (speaking of political preferences) but gender reassignment surgery is going to look like giving people lobotomies. I don't know when but I think attitudes abut sex/gender in future will be really different - not y
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
The other stuff the parent mentioned I don't know about but this one I can totally see. Legalized gambling is going to see like a weird mania of this time in the future.
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
I remember visiting a friend in California which I think was the first place to ban smoking in bars. Anyhow we want to some jazz club and no one was smoking. So weird. And I didn't and don't smoke. If you had asked me I would h
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
Am I the only person who's a bit disturbed by that (new?) trend of chefs always wearing black latex gloves? As a person who dislikes having sticky hands I can appreciate the appeal but something about it seems a bit off.
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by hackeraccount 5mo ago
By this logic how could you ever work in Healthcare? If you're a Doctor why are you taking a day off to - of all things - go to the beach? Do you really just not care? Take this day off, knowing you may be denying someone critical

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