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by kaibee 5y ago
I would also have OP consider that yes, maybe having corporations like Nestle, CocaCola, etc that prioritize profit above all else is, in fact, also bad. Like, lets be real here, if the CEO of Coke had a button that could double the consum
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by kaibee 5y ago
The vast majority (95%+ afaik?) of deaths at this point is among the unvaccinated. Any reason to not get the vaccine is a 'conspiracy theory' unless you were literally directed not to by your doctor. You can literally measure th
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by kaibee 5y ago
Considering that the first cellphone was in 1973, predicting the ubiquity of mobile phones in the 1980s is like predicting that the internet is gonna be a big deal in 2010.
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> and then the companies learn their lesson. * analysts consider whether the cost > profit, if not then continue doing the same thing as before.
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by kaibee 5y ago
This really varies a lot with where you live. I'm almost an hour out of philly, very solidly middle-class office-y medical/pharma area and yeah, the sushi place I go to (not a chain, local place) just lays out the stuff on the co
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by kaibee 5y ago
So what? If instead of building the world's biggest yacht, they paid them to dig and refill holes, from the perspective of someone 100 years from now, both would be pretty much equally wasteful. Otoh, investing that into research, wo
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by kaibee 5y ago
There's a pretty compelling case to be made that obesity is caused by some environmental factor that is making people hungrier. https://slimemoldtimemold.com/
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by kaibee 5y ago
> I'm imaging some poor software engineer in 2065, having to maintain an enterprise legacy stack... levels of FORTRAN/COBOL->C->C++->ZIG->RUST->PERL->PYTHON.... all the way up....JS..etc.. I have good news and
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> Can you provide the legislative history that supports this? No, I'm not a lawyer/historian. > According to wikipedia airlines, cell phone companies, cruise ships, and shipping companies operate as common carriers, even tho
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> Was that because they got big, or was it because they were granted a government monopoly? The first one. Natural monopolies exist. This libertarian talking point of "there wouldn't be monopolies without government intervent
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Airplanes also have 2 pilots and nothing to crash into.
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> Those dastardly centrists, always waiting for conclusive information before jumping to conclusions! While it is appealing to believe that moderates/centrists really did look at all available data and came to a principled conclusio
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by kaibee 5y ago
> This will not work well for people with multiple kids. Ah, fortunately they planned for that way ahead of time.
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> - Unity forces you to use ugly non-idiomatic C#. Can you elaborate on this?
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by kaibee 5y ago
It makes it very easy for people to lie about. Both to themselves, ("well i was a little sick around month X, so that was probably covid, so i don't need a vaccine") and to others.
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> I suggest you take a look at Geometric Deep Learning, but the gist here is that convolutions can be thought of as translation equivariant functions, and pooling operations as permutation invariant combinations, all operating on a graph
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by kaibee 5y ago
> That's a rather polarized position... what facts or experienced led you to this conclusion you stated? Specifically "the unvaccinated are screwing over the rest of us who are doing the right thing". The fact that the unv
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by kaibee 5y ago
> they predicted that masks and social distancing would flatten the curve. This worked perfectly basically anywhere people actually complied.
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Fusion uses the extreme heat generated by the fusion reaction to... boil some water and run it through a turbine.
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> SpaceX didn’t start from scratch. The goal for Falcon 1 was to be as conventional a design as possible and save money via vertical integration. This is still starting from scratch. The design may be conventional, but you're benef
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There's a pretty massive 0-1 difference in weekly WFH.
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So design it like a CPU socket? Laptops usually don't have socketed CPUs because they also need to mount a heatsink, but RAM doesn't have that issue.
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by kaibee 5y ago
The fact that MS Teams includes this as one of the only 5 reactions you can send to a message is... frustrating. It isn't the only issue with Teams by far but, please, MS, Discord already did it right.
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by kaibee 5y ago
> since everyone gets equal benefit from the army, the courts, schools, etc. So they should pay equally. This isn't true. Bezos benefits a lot more than I do from all of those things. As an example, the court system will enforce h
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by kaibee 5y ago
> "But you didn't spend a significant chunk of your revenue to build [out the same kind of solutions I'm used to seeing in cases like this]? Negligence!" Is there any evidence that this happens? I feel like there&#x2
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by kaibee 5y ago
> Privacy is trendy, but imagine if everyone had access to salary data. Already true in Norway. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239
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by kaibee 5y ago
> That is until the well-connected lobby carbon tax loopholes into the implementation This is a fully general counter-argument against doing anything. iirc Canada has a carbon-tax and its working fine?
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So like, in theory, yes, but in practice, now everyone has to take Adderall just to be able to keep up with their coworkers.
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> and to most republicans and libertarians believe none of those things are a proper role for government nor should be provided by the government So then they are wrong.
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> I move to a cheap, small town. I embed myself in the community and help build it up over decades. And then, at the peak popularity, in part due to my presence, I am forced out, because someone who has never been here says that they wou

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