lobocinza

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by lobocinza 5mo ago
So you don't believe in black holes or dark matter? Because neither of them, among many other things, have absolute physical proof. How do you even cross a street or go outside if you don't believe and can't have absolute phy
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
Progressive narratives and ideas are much more prevalent in modern society than religious ones. It would be easier to argue that cultural indoctrination makes progressists feel that way.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
I did but I will read it in full later. Summarizing the encyclical was a waste of time. Summarization is good for quickly probing the topic, tone and quality of a work. Here the topic is obvious, the Vatican tone is extremely consistent and
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
Any serious Protestant (mainline and knowledgeable) listen and give weight when the Pope speaks. They would certainly refuse the Pope authority and inerrancy ex Cathedra but not necessarily disagree with him. Theologically there's much
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
> I don't believe. You believe that you don't believe. > But religion is different: if you believe that homosexuality is wrong due to your religion, there is nothing i can argue about. Your priest told you this based on some
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
The Vatican is guilty of being the most charitable organization in the world.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
It's also quite possible that the enlightenment and industrial revolution would've happened anyways, that the world wars would never have happened, that humanity would be living in a fairer society: without the doom and gloom of c
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
All of the examples you gave caused much more tragedy than the system they meant to replace.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
But those wars are typically fought to maintain the US status, to preserve its ability to debase the national currency effectively siphoning wealth from the world economy. Self-preservations comes first. I'm just describing the system.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
Just don't ask it about what happened in 1989.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
You're confounding your subjective personal experience with the whole. Google can eat the cake and have it. They already are profitable, they already have scale, they already have market penetration, Google is already installed in 72%
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
To be fair both are publicly traded and owning shares would give you voting rights.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
Indeed the issue was leverage. The problem is CDBC. The govs plan is to end money fungibility. Once they get that leverage, MasterCard or central bank is just a detail.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
You can move out of country but for that you need to buy tickets but your cards don't work anymore, your bank accounts are frozen, cash isn't acceptable anymore and digital currency isn't fungible.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
The state has the power to cancel a person. If MasterCard denies to service you well at least you can look for a competitor or sue. Anyway digital authoritarianism is inevitable. PIX and this Euro system are steps towards CDBCs.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
It is a common trend for companies to optimize for visible CapEx at the cost of increased but invisible OpEx for consumers.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
You got prompted by your manager.
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
archive.org
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by lobocinza 5mo ago
This is reductive. What you're describing already happened in codebases without AI. LLM's just speed up thing because they are a great calculator and not a replacement for human input.
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by lobocinza 6mo ago
I live in a country with "free and universal" healthcare (Brazil). And guess what? I also pay for private healthcare and both sucks. Even the local private doctors (outside of healthcare) aren't that great and they are expens
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by lobocinza 2y ago
The cost of creativity/innovation.
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by lobocinza 2y ago
Thanks for the conversation. It's fun to talk about different things and explore new ideas even if hypothetically. To clarify, for a Christian the issue wouldn't be that doing A is forbid or that the belief of it being wrong would
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by lobocinza 2y ago
> just try for yourself. More probably the conclusions from the project manager are positive exaggerations because it would directly benefit from the continuation of the project but let's consider the possibility that RV works! This
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by lobocinza 2y ago
"Remote viewing has demonstrated it is of value and has a high rate of success... We do not evaluate our product. All evaluations are done by the professional intelligence analysts who assign the project. Collection of intelligence thr
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by lobocinza 2y ago
I also had similar good experiences buying batteries on Aliexpress. The issue with those typically isn't intrinsic quality as the batteries are most of the time good but lack of quality control. Bad batteries will reach the market and
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by lobocinza 2y ago
Hydreletric have big negative impacts on local environments. Enormous areas are flooded, the course of a river is diverted, during droughts the operator will restrict the flow of water exarcebating the drought and vice-versa during floods.
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by lobocinza 2y ago
I have an induction cooker. It doesn't have the gas issue but magnetic, eletric and eletromagnetic fields are orders of magnitudes above the safety values according to my measures. I don't know how safe that is on the long run (an
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by lobocinza 2y ago
> "As Brazil intensifies its crackdown on companies tied to illegal deforestation, this ruling could help pave the way for future legal action, including against JBS, the world’s largest meat-processing company." This will neve
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by lobocinza 2y ago
Cash is superior to crypto for anonymity and most people have it, know how to use it and accept it. Bitcoin and the majority of other coins will leave a permanent trail which can be easily associated to the person due to KYC policies and on
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by lobocinza 2y ago
I totally agree. This "excellence" ideology preaches unvirtuous self-sacrifice. Putting extra time and effort means that the employee is sacrificing himself to improve a result which will not benefit him but only a select few. I a

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