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by imgabe 4y ago
Countries that compromise their own national security so that people can have some sort of warm fuzzy feelings about how nice and good they are don't get to continue existing as countries for very long.
842.
by imgabe 4y ago
It’s called the US protecting its own interests. Yes, the US prioritizes itself over other countries, as every country does.
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by imgabe 4y ago
So is your office right in Beijing or somewhere else? > Its not even 20 years after the tale of nonexistent Iraqi WMDS. You people still buy what is sold to you unquestioningly and ironically assert that you have 'free speech'.
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by imgabe 4y ago
You’re free to submit stories and say whatever you want. It should be pretty clear why nobody is talking about Twitter on a completely unrelated thread.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Please stop pretending that Twitter or Facebook censoring people is the same thing as China. Tech companies are not running concentration camps and don’t have nuclear weapons. They want to sell ads, not dominate the world.
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by imgabe 4y ago
The key part of the “fake it til you make it” strategy, and this is what Holmes missed, is that you do eventually have to make it.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I draw a distinction between a particular charitable organization being effective, i.e. the amount spent on overhead vs going to cause they claim to support and a particular charitable cause itself being effective (mosquito nets vs. communi
848.
by imgabe 4y ago
By all means speculate all you like about your own actions and act accordingly. The original comment was about how effective altruism is intentionally looking down on others (as they are implicitly ineffective) and holding themselves up a
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by imgabe 4y ago
But lots of people did jump off of things with various contraptions and we did eventually develop the ability to fly that way.
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by imgabe 4y ago
The idea that you can precisely plan out the exact optimal path is arrogant and fundamentally wrong. What if the friendships made at a community theater help a troubled kid through a rough patch and instead of committing suicide they go on
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by imgabe 4y ago
> Education is the process through which the body of knowledge and culture that we have been accumulating for thousands of years passes from our generation to the next one. In aggregate, yes. But no one person gets the entire body of kno
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by imgabe 4y ago
That isn’t the case here. Anyway, people get defrauded through banks all the time with advance fee fraud, 419, and other scams and banks don’t reverse those.
853.
by imgabe 4y ago
There is the same undo button that exists for every other financial institution that commits fraud: lawsuits.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Almost always, the louder people are about the good they do, the worse they really are.
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by imgabe 4y ago
What stops screen readers from treating the <i> tag the same way they treat the <em> tag? If <em> functionally ends up doing the same thing that <i> did, what's the point?
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by imgabe 4y ago
I'm pretty sure Scott's Cheap Flights[1] makes a good deal more. It's going to be hard to have a big enough audience if you limit yourself to only one city. [1] https://scottscheapflights.com/
857.
by imgabe 4y ago
That is one way to interpret it, another is “it won’t be hard to do this”. You do not have to leap to the conclusion that something is a personal attack.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I’m also a little put off by this article, but in all those examples you could remove the word just and still have the same meaning. It’s not really adding anything.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I had to take an ethics course as part of an engineering degree. This was before mobile apps really existed so it didn't include an example like this. Don't most schools require an ethics course?
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by imgabe 4y ago
Twitter in particular seems to reward snark and negativity more than anything else.
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by imgabe 4y ago
You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Isn't the goal of a nursing school to provide the best possible nurses to the healthcare industry? If we assume that: Whatever merit based metrics the school uses to determine admission are predictive of eventual performance and that m
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by imgabe 4y ago
I keep hearing about people getting information from Telegram, but when I open it, it's just a list of chats with my contacts. I don't see any way to follow or otherwise see posts from people I don't already know that are jus
864.
by imgabe 4y ago
Why would business accomplishments not make someone a genius? Business requires creativity and intelligence just as much as any other field of human endeavor. Tesla (the company) didn't invent electric cars, but they were the first to
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by imgabe 4y ago
I mean, if you were actually curious you could have spent 5 minutes reading Wikipedia or any number of other sources for what people attribute to him. It's not like the information is hard to find. Like, the guy builds one company that
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by imgabe 4y ago
> exhibits mastery of a subject at a very early age or with little experience He wrote and sold a computer game at 12 years old after teaching himself to program at 10. > significant and particularly novel contributions to a field or
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by imgabe 4y ago
Lots of people have rich fathers. Almost none of them found multiple multi-billion dollar companies and become the wealthiest person in the world. Do you think there's not anything different? If "having a rich father" is the
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by imgabe 4y ago
I don’t understand. Are you saying that they repost something that got someone banned, they don’t get banned, and then they complain that it’s inconsistent? Why not ban the reposters?
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by imgabe 4y ago
ah, that is lovely. Thank you.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Is there any way to get MacOS to stop nagging you about zsh?

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