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by lovecg 4y ago
SimCity definitely reflects the values of its creators. After being brainwashed by SimCity as a kid it took me a while to realize that things like for example zoning are not some law of nature governing how cities are organized and the real
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by lovecg 4y ago
It’s the classic “do you lie or do you cause a stampede” dilemma. Similar to the masks shortage debacle in the early pandemic.
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by lovecg 5y ago
The problem is generally in the contract you sign when agreeing to the membership in the first place. There’s a lot of fine print stipulating how cancellation will work exactly.
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by lovecg 5y ago
If we elect a president who does this we already lost as a country.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Fine, fine - it’s a hyperbole. But you have to agree that’s a step above simply protesting - on par with vandalism maybe?
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by lovecg 5y ago
If we’re arguing technicalities, a gun is not strictly speaking required. If it’s you against 20 cops they can just physically subdue you and throw you in jail. At no point they even need to threaten to shoot you. So a threat of physical fo
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by lovecg 5y ago
And of course that would fail because these people represent a tiny fraction of truckers, nowhere near a quarter. That’s why they’re throwing a temper tantrum.
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by lovecg 5y ago
So, a strike? That was always allowed. Given they’re not supported by the actual unions and are a pretty small fraction of truckers anyway, good luck to them.
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by lovecg 5y ago
A strike is a bunch of people refusing to work, not a bunch of people blocking access to unrelated essential services. They do things like overwhelm the 911 service with spurious calls and circling their trucks around schools. This is not a
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by lovecg 5y ago
You’re right of course - religion and tradition feed on each other. I’m imagining it as a dynamic system with feedback loops, etc. where organized religion plays the role of the mechanism that slows down change and provides stasis. We’re on
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by lovecg 5y ago
> In fact, the source of morals among atheists seems to be a permanent puzzle for many people with religious background, simply claiming them as religion-based misses the point completely. I don’t have a religious background and it’s sti
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by lovecg 5y ago
I actually like the Linkedin vibe. It’s like an alternate reality where everyone is always congratulating everyone else on their accomplishments! And shipping stuff! And investing in their careers! Seriously though, for some reason all this
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by lovecg 5y ago
Here’s the thing though. I remember when the iPhone came out. The web browser experience was a horrible low resolution experience; it was slow, clunky, and you had to charge it every day. Yet none of it mattered - almost overnight everyone
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by lovecg 5y ago
The image is a mosaic of many observations and the “puzzles pieces” line up so to speak. It’s not a single snapshot.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I’m not sure how the discussion got to this place. Please allow me a reset. My point is only that ideally people in charge of policy should be upfront that they’re making decisions based on imperfect information, and it should not require p
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by lovecg 5y ago
Because then nothing would ever get done. We would debate endlessly whether declaring the war on Germany was a good idea, or whether going to the Moon is a stupid goal, etc. etc. There’s certainly no shortage of arguments against any decisi
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by lovecg 5y ago
I think we got there by mixing up science and policy. In an emergency (like a pandemic) you can’t have an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty in decision making - someone have to make the tough calls and stand by them. Unfortunately we don’
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by lovecg 5y ago
I thought pre-registration is a thing? Though I don’t really know how (or how well) any of this works in detail.
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by lovecg 5y ago
What’s more insidious is sites that do include a date, but silently edit the old content over time anyway. NYTimes is famous for this, but I’m sure others do it too. We’re retreating from a world of hard record keeping back to a sort of an
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by lovecg 5y ago
Huh. I wonder where this data is from: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-popula... “The population density in Europe is 34 per Km^2” Edit: duh. They included all of Russia as “Europe”. I stand corre
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by lovecg 5y ago
US is more dense though (going by www.worldometers.info). I think these explanations “why we can’t have good things” are too simplistic. Ignore rail and fiber for a second, and look at commuter air travel for example: European market is muc
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by lovecg 5y ago
Or, pessimistically, we’ll do the geo-engineering step without ever reigning in the new emissions and call it done.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Even if we stop all emissions right now, the CO2 already in the air will stay there for a while. We need some way to recapture it if we want to return to pre-industrial levels.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I remember reading that in many cases total market cap goes up post-split.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Assuming that’s true, why is that bad? It’s great for people who own these assets and neutral for people who don’t.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I read somewhere that the soil is the problem, not just the local climate. And soil takes a long time to accumulate the good stuff. So in short, places with good soil will become less farmable and places with now better climate won’t have g
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by lovecg 5y ago
Just for context, that’s after vesting a few billions already.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I wouldn’t be so sure. He also benefitted greatly from selling it to Facebook in the first place, and stayed on for a few years.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Exactly. A guild for software engineers could be a good thing, with rules around ethics, code quality, security - all the things companies love to underinvest in.
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by lovecg 5y ago
10 minutes to get it, anywhere from 0 days to a week to get over the side effects. Source: personal experience. If the calculation changes from “one and done” to “do this every few months on a schedule”, I’m leaning towards taking my chance

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