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by jmcqk6 7y ago
>Being consistent with terminology is sadly underrated. These are extremely complicated topics, and I doubt if there are two people in the world that understand them exactly in the same way. I understand the desire to have a dependable w
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
not the GP, but the greater symbolism of the fruit tree is very interesting. If you believe the stories, god created everything, including the tree, and the tree is 'behaving' exactly how it was created. For this, god cursed it.
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Is there any more to this analysis than a correlation? I.E. That there was something that happened in the general area some time period ago? I'm talking about things like thermodynamic carrying capacity, total mass of the test, preva
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This is not unique to government. Private Corporations are really, really good at wasting money as well. Is there a realistic approach to this that doesn't require changing a fundamental aspect of humanity?
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The question was literally whether they find them enjoyable.
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>Do some people genuinely find these things really enjoyable? Yes. Why is it difficult to understand that other people can like things that you don't like? Is your ego truly so ingrained you can't even imagine the experiences
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The other way to look at this was pointed out to me in the book 'Being Wrong' by Kathryn Schulz (amazing book, btw). What is your goal? Is your goal to be right, or is your goal to feel right? Because those are not the same thin
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My previous comment literally started with the phrase 'as a straight white man', and it received several up votes. Does this website count as tech? The trick is: don't be an asshole and recognize that other people have diffe
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>In many spaces today, being a straight white man is far more inflammatory than being a non-binary person of color. As a straight white man, this is bullshit. I have many close friends who are part of the LGBT community, so I can see th
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>That is, they consider knowledge gained in one of these applications to be non-transferable to other, similar applications. What evidence do you have for this? Based on my experiences with k-12 tech education in the US, this sounds lik
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>Also, I dispute the idea that simpler societies have lower absolute quality of life in every way. I didn't argue this. I only argued that our ancestors didn't live as long on average as we did. Nor did I argue that the way thi
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Technically we could not do this. This is wildly inaccurate. The massive redistribution of population alone would be totally infeasible. And if everyone is going to make due with what they can grow in their acre, how is famine going to b
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> In absolute terms, our ancestors lived much much simpler lives and somehow managed to survive. The quality of life was radically different, and they didn't live as long. The complexity we see today exists for a reason, or really,
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I have a gvido device, which you seem to be referencing here. If I could return it, I would have, but their return policy is extremely restrictive and basically amounts to no returns. It's waaaayyyy to slow to truly function. It can
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The world is full of examples of companies maximizing profits while screwing over their customers. Is that what was happening here? What's the alternative answer? They just didn't think it through? They rushed because of FOMO?
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>You need an entrepreneurial mindset to tell the difference.. No, you don't. Why would you? You think too little of the average human. If you can communicate the chain of logic that led you to make the change. That should be suf
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The problem is one of accountability. If you're taking public funds, then there should be checks and balances and make sure that it's going to good use. History has clearly shown that humans are not to be trusted otherwise, beca
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Absolutely. It's a very depressing observation for myself, and an uncomfortable truth for the industry.
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I put it this way: There is no floor to how bad code can be and yet still make people money.
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In addition to the other replies, I defer to the great Jon Skeet: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
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You're admitting to speaking in vagaries and then also calling your posts straight-forward, and then basically accusing me of trolling you. Sorry I can't read your mind.
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
Who, exactly, is the 'we' here? Who, exactly, is 'such people' here? You're talking in vagaries, and including me in them, and I don't particularly care for that. Bottom line for me is that if you want to call
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I have no desire to listen to people I consider to be assholes. I have no problem censuring those people in my life. There is no right to be an asshole. If you're going to be shitty towards other people, you should not expect a posi
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2 centuries? You might want to check your math on that. And also language. Illegal is not the same as extinct. So if you're looking for things that have been overlooked, you might start right here.
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Alternatively, perhaps the big players just don't care. They're about making money NOW, not 2 months or 2 years from now.
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Just because something like this has happened in the past does not justify believing in a theory now that is following the same pattern. This is an example of survivorship bias. You have an example where this happened, but there are thous
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
You are, of course, free to live your life this way, but please don't consider this to be reasonable or rational. This isn't critical thinking; it's pure pessimism. These are extremely complicated subjects. It's even m
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You have the writings of people 500 years ago who could write. That was not that common.
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Nearly every society I look at has a widely diverse set of morals present in it. You might get widespread agreement that "rape is bad" but when you start to look closer there is disagreement within that about what constitutes rap
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do you believe there has ever been a morally absolute society?

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