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by lagadu 7y ago
Human behavior is economic behavior, which is a fancy way of saying "people do things because there's a perceived benefit to doing so". Altruistic behavior usually carries at least a social benefit, besides the "I did go
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I guess I am your boogeyman: I eat meat regularly, have investments, grew up and live in the middle of a western society. By default I'm inclined to stop doing exactly zero of those, and by saying "you're at fault no matter w
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by lagadu 7y ago
How is it a bad thing that he promotes the free exchange and presentation of ideas?
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I'm the opposite, nothing gets me out of the house as a big, extremely windy and wet storm; I adore walking during a storm :)
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by lagadu 7y ago
This is pretty horrid, it's a rant about how meritocracy bad and capitalism bad instead of about the technology. Please get your activism out of my technology, nobody's interested. Thanks.
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> Switzerland would first need to be part of the European Union to be able to be part of the Euro Currency region. That's incorrect, there are non-EU countries using the Euro too like Andorra.
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People observe data points, draw conclusions and then expose them to other people. This is a good thing, this is how we start talking about things, by exposing our conclusions to the outside and refining them based on that. Not liking someo
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by lagadu 7y ago
> Yes, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama would be in the same party in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, etc. You're getting downvoted but I'd like to register that I agree with you: they'd both be social-democrats, sitting on
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by lagadu 7y ago
"Bigger"? You guys have two parties, one of which is right/far-right and the other is just regular center/right. Parties on most countries on our side of the pond generally range between fascist and communist with at lea
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by lagadu 7y ago
That's only a US thing. In the rest of the world (well, I can only speak for a few european countries) discussing politics is normal office chat. Why wouldn't you want to discuss current and thought-provoking issues with your peer
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It boils down to whether they believe that all ideas are worth having, discussing about and of equal value to a "free" society and should therefore be openly discussed or whether only their specific subset of ideas are allowed and
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Furthermore: Ohio is the single strongest predictor of the presidential election winner. Ohio is the only state where the local winner has matched the overall winner since 1960.
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Plus morality is highly subjective and beliefs on what is moral varies by individual.
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This is Boeing we're talking about here, the English version would be more to the tune of "We're not fixing this until multiple planes crash and even then we'll try to weasel our way out of it."
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Yeah, back when I used to take the train to work (about 35m each way) I got so much more reading done than I do nowadays.
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The root cause of the problem is cinema still using 24fps instead of a proper standard in 2019 (with a rare exception here and there).
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Yes, a criminal offense took place but we don't even know whether any of the accused are guilty. Knowing that a crime took place is pointless if you can't figure out who is to blame.
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You said it yourself: you don't know how many and which of the execs are to blame. Presumption of innocence is assuming that all of the accused individually are innocent until proven guilty.
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Your argument was that you'd always want to develop universal apps in order to cater to everyone, not niches. Now you're talking about catering to low end garbage phones specifically. I don't doubt that catering to as large a
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I don't expect you to cater to a minority market, but whoever writes apps that run significantly better than "generic" ones using html or other frameworks (dear electron-based developers: your apps are garbage) will get my mo
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Because the root cause of the problem is very well known and because of that the workaround is considered safe.
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Stereotypes exist whether we like them or not and they're always rooted in a kernel of truth. People form stereotypes based on what they see around them, nobody has the time or patience to figure out whether some dude gesturing in the
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by lagadu 7y ago
Isn't that what we call vegetarianism?
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The problem with vegans is that there is a small but extremely vocal minority that absolutely, positively just HAS to incessantly preach about it and try to belittle everyone else. As a consequence whenever someone who has heard about milit
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Vegetarianism and veganism are two very different things: one is a diet and the other a lifestyle.
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Oh I completely agree with you. Most are "nice-to-haves" but in no way necessary.
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You seem to be operating under the impression that we as a society have the same expectations of people and of corporations. Let me be very clear: we do not. Corporations are allowed to operate at the pleasure of the people; I was going to
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by lagadu 7y ago
I can't see why not. At the end of the day "Astronaut" is a set of skills and employment.
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Mine[0] did the vast majority of them. [0] https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/en/CUR_GERAL.CUR_PLANOS_ESTUDOS_V...
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Well, I'd say I knew the vast majority of it when I graduated (in software engineering). Most of the topics listed there had dedicated classes to them which I had to pass. After 1 year of working about 90% of that was already gone fore

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