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by lores 11mo ago
Because it's pleasant. I don't know why people drive if they don't absolutely have to when it's so dangerous, I don't know why people live in cities when the pollution causes so many health problems, I don't kn
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by lores 11mo ago
Pft! Soulless console with a keyboard! ST forever!
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by lores 11mo ago
And in addition to proprioception, we can sense hunger, thirst, tiredness, time, temperature, balance, our own movements, pain, pressure, and maybe even itching. It's just that "we have discovered a seventeenth sense" has les
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by lores 11mo ago
A company the size of Facebook has far more than enough resources to know that different ads have different requirements, if only legal ones, because moral ones seem hopelessly quaint. I, a know-nothing engineer not working in HR or adverti
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by lores 11mo ago
It's not important on its own, it just slowly erodes the feeling we live in a society, the reminding that everyone plays a role, even a little one. It lets one get out of their social bubble ever so little, and appreciate that the worl
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Numb at Burning Man(samkriss.substack.com)
28 points by lores 1y ago|2 comments
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by lores 1y ago
The claim was that "Somehow [Europe] are morally and financially responsible of every failed society". Which is demonstrably false, since Europe has fewer refugees than African, South American or Middle Eastern countries, in absol
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by lores 1y ago
Countries housing the most refugees: Iran 3.5 million Türkiye 2.9 million Colombia 2.8 million Germany 2.7 million Uganda 1.8 million Pakistan 1.6 million Chad 1.3 million Poland 1 million Ethiopia 1 million Bangladesh 1 million Source: UNC
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by lores 1y ago
Was it a Green and a Nazi?
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by lores 1y ago
Come to Europe, friends, the pubs are cosy and the beer is fine indeed.
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by lores 1y ago
1/ There is no "distribute a limited amount of funds". There is even less a "distribute a limited amount of funds after shareholder profit and massive executive paychecks". Customers have bought coverage; if the com
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by lores 1y ago
If a mafia boss orders a hit, he is no less guilty than the one who pulls the trigger. If a CEO orders vital funds to be withheld from those who are entitled to them, knowing many will die, he is similarly guilty of murder. The mafia boss c
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by lores 1y ago
I am very skeptical of this report, not because I think the numbers are wrong, but because their presentation seems as skewed as it can be. 4% of cancers are attributable to alcohol [1]. That's borderline negligible in the grand scheme
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by lores 1y ago
But that's great for capitalism and competition, isn't it? Ethical startups popping up left and right to take over from big evil incumbent. What a market to seize.
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by lores 1y ago
Everyone should. The only way to balance corporate power is collective action by individuals, and sharing information is a requirement for that. Corporations can't get away with quite as much brazen sociopathy if their actions are tran
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by lores 1y ago
While HN comments don't tend to be blindly pro-Israel, it is a fact that posts about Gaza _always_ get flagged, while other posts of general interest about vinyl records, Sudan or CIA training don't. With the known sophistication
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by lores 1y ago
Until the time all orders become wurst and sauerkraut.
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by lores 1y ago
Just like in football, buying all the best players pretty much guarantees failure as egos and personal styles clash and take precedence over team achievement. The only reasons one would do that are fear, vanity, and stupidity, and those hav
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by lores 1y ago
The pettiness of bribes has always surprised me. 3K, 5K, that kind of money. A few thousand dollars is all it takes to buy a senator, and they are largely already multi-millionaires. Raising their salary won't help, because, just like
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by lores 1y ago
What's the actual reason you created an account to only make crassly ignorant and genocidal comments?
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by lores 1y ago
Life isn't a zero-sum game, and individually profit-maximising actions may not be in even the profit maximiser's interest long-term, let alone society's. In the European Antiquity and Middle-Ages, at least, there were laws ag
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by lores 1y ago
Oh, no! Anyways. /Congress, probably
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by lores 1y ago
Then you're double-whamming childless people who did not take any public resources for their children and likely paid more taxes throughout their life, declaring infertile people a disposable class, incentivising child abuse and a glut
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by lores 1y ago
Has any rabbi ever put together the amount of calamities that befell the Jews with constantly trying to pull fast ones on God?
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by lores 1y ago
That's a weird, thoroughly unempathic - not to use the word sociopathic - take. A queue in front of a phone box means everyone thinks the other ones are out of order. The large majority of the time, the phones will indeed be thoroughly
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by lores 1y ago
As opposed to a LLM trained on all the Sh1tL0rd69 of the web?
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by lores 1y ago
Recognised newspapers will curate by hiring smart, knowledgeable reporters and funding them to get reliable information. Recognised books will be written by a reliably informed author, and reviewed by other reliably informed people. There a
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by lores 1y ago
It's not hard to replicate downloading a zip archive from the official location and find someone knowledgeable to look at it if you aren't yourself. A non-software-engineer did just that.
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by lores 1y ago
Heh, optics have been important since the dawn of man, and probably even before. Ziggurats are all about optics, and so are mating displays. A cynic might say "more important", but that's hard to ascertain.
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by lores 1y ago
I really hope you're right, but I think we're more likely to see the case swept under the rug in exchange for totally voluntary donations from Apple to various organisations with 'Trump' in their name.

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