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by lasfter 4y ago
What choice is there for consumers but to demand oil? If cities create suburban sprawl and inadequate public transportation, it's the consumer's fault for using a car? If every industry whose products I require to participate in s
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by lasfter 4y ago
> Why would you ask fossil fuel companies about the cost/benefit to begin with? Indeed, tell that to the politicians who made their energy policy decisions based on conversations with oil lobbies. I feel no catharsis from commentin
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by lasfter 4y ago
I agree, but plenty of people seem to think this excuses immoral behavior by corporations. You can even see a couple in this thread. We can't really get effective legislation passed until we can agree that it is indeed bad for a corpor
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by lasfter 4y ago
I don't know what argument you are trying to respond to. I'm saying it is an evil act to supply a product while withholding the knowledge that it will cause massive long-term harm to the entire world. How are consumers complicit?
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by lasfter 4y ago
I'm not vilifying fossil fuels. I'm vilifying fossil fuel companies. > recognize their benefits and costs and decide collectively via policy what tradeoffs we’re willing to make How can we do that when fossil fuel companies lie
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by lasfter 4y ago
Are you saying Exxon is justified because people get to use oil? It's not about burning fossil fuels, it's about misinforming the public about the long-term dangers of your product. If I sell you a delicious candy while secretly k
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by lasfter 4y ago
Just because it's in your best interest to fuck over the world doesn't mean it's morally justifiable. The fact is that the people profiting from Big Oil would have still been plenty rich enough if they did campaign against
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by lasfter 4y ago
I think of the transition from capitalism to socialism as similar to the transition from feudalism to capitalism. If you offered someone with a basic education and a decent job the opportunity to take a land tenancy as a serf under you, the
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by lasfter 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what anarchy is supposed to look like. How does one capitalize in an anarchist society divorced from capitalism? As in, what does capital mean? What does it mean to profit? How can one "outcompete&q
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by lasfter 4y ago
This is an argument against democracy itself. If you don't think democracy would work for you, then I can't convince you a union would either.
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by lasfter 4y ago
> There may be consequences to quitting, perhaps disproportionately felt between you and the company This is why unions are so important, even in a field like software engineering. If you quit on your own, the company may not care. But u
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by lasfter 4y ago
Presumably if there's a problem within the US, Starlink would be compromised.
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by lasfter 4y ago
I took this as a cue and searched some loaded terms. "vaccines" and "covid 19" had decent results, mostly people's blogs and some sites trying to prevent misinformation. "abortions" mostly gave statistics,
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by lasfter 4y ago
I think OP is saying the people who can write compilers or tensor algebra frameworks and gradient based optimizers get snapped up by big companies, not that every one who works in big companies is so capable.
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by lasfter 4y ago
It's because American media exports are mostly produced by a small group of people in California, one of the more socially progressive parts of the country. A significant portion of the country's 330 million people are indeed prud
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by lasfter 4y ago
With no prior knowledge of these aliens, neither. Why is 0 more special than 1 in your head?
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by lasfter 4y ago
It is well documented since before the smartphone age that adolescence comes with changes to circadian rhythm (e.g., [0]) which makes teens want to stay up late at night. It is certainly stronger evidence than personal anecdotes about &quot
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by lasfter 4y ago
The one I bought doesn't seem to be available any more (and the reviews are gone... strange). But I saw several other ones at similar pricepoints and with similar reviews. To be frank though, I do not expect this battery to last 10 yea
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by lasfter 4y ago
Awesome! My main laptop is still a 2011 Thinkpad X201. It's a beast, been all over the world and dropped countless times but it still works perfectly fine. It's missing a couple function keys (which I never use) and I finally repl
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by lasfter 5y ago
I took a wood shop class in high school and did not learn any of those things, I learned how to make spoons, boxes, and cabinets.
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by lasfter 5y ago
Exactly! I figure you can't actually fail in making a terrarium. You're just growing mold instead of whatever you originally intended :)
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by lasfter 5y ago
In fact, capitalism is the cause of that culture. People (men and women) bemoan being "unproductive", dread it, and apologize for it, because modern society bombards you with conflations of productivity and self-worth. This thinki
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Scientists find 16 ‘ultra-black’ fish species that absorb 99.9% of light(bigthink.com)
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by lasfter 5y ago
Professors depend on grant money and they need to push out papers to be competitive in grant applications. The vast, vast majority of work in research is done by grad students. Without students, professors would have to do everything themse
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by lasfter 5y ago
All of the social links they have are dead. Their twitter account doesn't exist. There are no other pages on the site. Not a promising start to the proceedings.
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by lasfter 5y ago
Like you mention, I invent names, though not quite arbitrarily. '⊙' looks like an 'oh-dot' to me, and '⊗' is just 'cross'. Algebra classes are full of such operators, and usually my instructors were k
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by lasfter 5y ago
I find it interesting that the photos of the men often showed them enjoying themselves while the photos of the women often showed them working, and there were no photos with the roles reversed. I hope that isn't reflective of how their
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by lasfter 5y ago
What poeron is getting at is there can be two meanings of "X for Y". While "X for kids" doesn't imply adults can't watch, "X for adults" implies kids can't watch.
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by lasfter 5y ago
Even if powered by green energy, AC increases overall temperatures in a city (the heat has to go somewhere). Not global warming, but definitely makes it more miserable.
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by lasfter 5y ago
The phrase "global warming" doesn't appear anywhere in this article. You're moving the goalposts. Both unusually cold winters and hot summers can be attributed to climate change. Things aren't so simple as "the

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