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by jariel 6y ago
Hong Kong wants to be 'Chinese' just not PRC.
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There is no moral or legal connection I think, your employer is not responsible if you go into a frenzy and mow peaple down with a car 'because they pay you'. If the US was directly involved in establishing safety procedures, then
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My statement has nothing to do with electricity isolation. It has to do with the fact that systems within a nation are integrated at an economic level, especially those that are socialized. You can dig holes and fill them in your back yard
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Religion is a social organization and embodiment of a Spiritual practice. Technically, not necessary, but that would be like saying, technically, humans do not need 'each other' or need 'education' In reality, we do, imm
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Scientific Materialism posits that you are merely a random bag of particles, bouncing through a random universe. In such a model, there is no intelligence, consciousness, rationality or even reason. In order to even accept the very notion o
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" before throwing it away (I was young ~12 which makes it easier). My objection is to the broken nature of the reasoning and how that tends to corrupt evidence based reasoning elsewhere most of them time " Age 12 is pretty young t
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Not only is BTC not a replacement for anything - there's no real reason for it it use so much energy. It's an absurd idea. There are 1000 ways to print money and give it out. Making people spend effort wasting energy is just an ar
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As soon as public coffers are 'materially circumnavigated' it will be a problem.
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Yes, we do. We regulate all sorts of things, and this would be a smart thing to regulate. Electricity distribution and often production is partly to fully socialized almost everywhere, meaning 'it affects us all'. If you live on a
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Math has nothing to do with Integrity, it's just a tool. Yes, it would be nice to have an objective truth but we don't need that to know that bribing a or shooting a cop is 'bad'.
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The geopolitical consequences of a 'lab accident' are so severe and existential that I'm doubtful that any evidence will come to light as China will do absolutely everything in it's power to suppress this information. &q
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"Even if it was a lab accident, it's not a reason to be outraged with the Chinese government." Oh, yes it is. It would be 'manslaughter' on a mass scale. The largest ever seen. If this were due to their negligence,
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by jariel 6y ago
There's a term for this 'Network Externalizations' and it's very powerful stuff. People are not going to move away from Discored 'because Microsoft' - however, they will move away if MS screws it up.
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#1 is not the issue, or rather, it's the same for any tool or software you buy it has nothing to do with tooling. #2 is a separate issue entirely. #3 If your boss has difficulty wondering why it's good to spend $100/year on s
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"VS code is nowhere near a proper IDE like VS or IDEA" This statement kind of misses the point: it's not that 'VS Code is an IDE', rather it's that the value of an IDE may not be as much as what some think it i
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by jariel 6y ago
"What's in it for me? Right now? In the short term?" is not very civic posture. The 'bigger the corp' the 'bigger the productivity gains' available to the team and customers. A 1% gain would probably be w
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a negative approach - and the opposite of what you would want on your team. The narrow view that some 'productivity gain' will result in 'less work' is almost entirely not true, unless you're doing commodity
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The disconnect I don't think is about protecting their turf. I think it's mostly about 1) not having an instinct for how powerful the tools are and 2) not being able to internalize the value of leverage vs. cost. $1000/year &
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Part 1 yes. Part 2 ... no. 'No Code' generally have a different use case. For every 'software project' there are probably 5x as many 'simpler projects' that require a basic front/backend but not much mater
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by jariel 6y ago
Edit: sorry I meant 'Calvinism' as Germanic, not 'Methodist'.
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No, you're misunderstanding what the term 'integrity' means. The notion goes far beyond narrow views of 'scientific reasoning'. Integrity, far from 'unscalable', is an essential factor in the functioning o
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"for what makes people either join or leave a religion." This is a very American kind of statement. In this world, most people don't 'join' religions - they are born into them, and they are usually a part of the soc
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More likely he wants a world where people act with integrity and don't spout lies in their narrow self interest, and that we probably need systems of integrity - from top to bottom (academia, journalism, families, churches, governance)
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This is a good point, but it's not the point that matters. Thee fact that 99% of Tweet are irrelevant doesn't abnegate the fact that millions of Tweets from 'nobodies' are broadcast daily and do impact the world. Journal
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In the past the channels were controlled by more centralized powers. So it depended more on the integrity and ability of those powers. Often, they were abused. But at the same time, central entities are considerably more knowledgeable than
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This was probably an article written on the basis of a press release by the US forces, which probably accompanies all major exercises. Undoubtedly, it's a 'public signal' (one of many) by US forces to the world. So the trick
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Someone is 'bad at their job' for not understanding the geopolitical inclinations of Vietnam? These statements about Vietnam are out of context entirely. We should be 'confused' that one would think 'the US should c
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It's the other way around: the TPP was supposed to exist precisely because China was 'on the top of the mind' of the Vietnamese, and others.
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"Search results for H&M in the Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app for all of China’s major cities yielded no results on Friday." The state is using their control of the economic system to inflict damage on specific importers, this
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by jariel 6y ago
On HN people are commenting good faith and overwhelmingly are not Trump supporters, and definitely not QAnon. In fact I suggest it's slightly left/anarcho/libertarian for the most part, with some hot-button issues where I fee

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