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901.
by magduf 7y ago
Generally, complete stupidity plus being told falsehoods by people who stand to benefit. It's the exact same with anti-vaxxers.
902.
by magduf 7y ago
It won't solve it, but it certainly won't make it worse. I fail to see how immortality would cause any problems at all, instead of actually making things better, though it won't be the cure-all that some people seem to think
903.
by magduf 7y ago
This can be easily and trivially fixed with some simple taxation to transfer wealth from the ultra-rich to everyone else. If that isn't happening, it's most likely a failure of the voters to demand such laws.
904.
by magduf 7y ago
I still have my H320, though I haven't powered it on in years. I even replaced the battery (with an iPod battery, with the wires swapped on the connector), and I replaced the hard drive with a 30GB model. I also got some accessories
905.
by magduf 7y ago
Calling it "extremely revisionist" is absurdly generous even. Calling it "one of the first" programming languages is just flat-out wrong. Lots of other languages were around for many years or even decades before: COBOL
906.
by magduf 7y ago
This is completely false. Water does a pretty good job of preserving shipwrecks, even from thousands of years ago. We're still finding ancient Greek ships now, preserved by the oxygen-free water in the depths. Many wrecks have been
907.
by magduf 7y ago
On the plus side, the land is generally flat, and not all that useful for any other purpose (without a lot of irrigation), and is generally considered "wasteland". So instead of locating millions of people on land that's bet
908.
by magduf 7y ago
I don't think digital technology needs to apply here at all. Before there were phones, were authorities able to stop you and look through your personal papers or briefcase or other personal effects you were carrying, without probably
909.
by magduf 7y ago
It doesn't matter if it's "unreasonable". The key is that it's possible . It's not possible at all on Apple devices, so Android is superior in this regard.
910.
by magduf 7y ago
>If there's robust competition and a shortage of people, the salaries will be high. Yes, but if some software corp builds a campus in the middle of nowhere, there won't be robust competition, obviously. So the salaries are goi
911.
by magduf 7y ago
Sorry, your idea is lunacy, and here's why: >Employees could take home more of their salaries. That's not how it works. These companies would pay much lower salaries, with the justification that "the cost of living is muc
912.
by magduf 7y ago
>I don't see how it will end. Well, historically speaking, societies always tend to collapse when they can't figure out how to sustain themselves. So I think it's a safe assumption that our society will also collapse even
913.
by magduf 7y ago
Is having two different control center applications part of that "polish"? The last thing I'd call Windows is "polished"; instead, it looks like a great example of software built by strict evolution.
914.
by magduf 7y ago
>Seems to me that free software community is lacking UI/UX Designers and so looks and feels considerably less "cool" than commercial counterparts. I keep reading this argument here. Does no one here use Windows 10? What
915.
by magduf 7y ago
>I think free software has caught up on the prettiness score. Free software surpassed proprietary software the day that Microsoft released Windows 8.
916.
by magduf 7y ago
No, it's not. It's not perfect, nor is it trivially easy, but it is possible to side-load apps on an Android phone.
917.
by magduf 7y ago
>A minority of people with power support the regime. Most people hate it but are powerless to change it. Exactly why is this minority more powerful than "most people"? That doesn't even make any sense. Most people aren&#
918.
by magduf 7y ago
No, they won't have to abide by California's law if the federal government jumps in and preempts them, the way Trump is doing with California's emissions laws.
919.
by magduf 7y ago
I can give you one hint. I don't really work with databases, so I'm not well-versed on them, but I can easily name all the major RDBMSes (PG, MySQL, Oracle, etc.), and some of the NoSQL ones. I've done a little work at home
920.
by magduf 7y ago
>It is humbling to think that these organisms may outlive you by a thousand years. They'll probably outlive the tall trees in the Amazon, since Brazil is happily razing the forest as fast as they can.
921.
by magduf 7y ago
Well, they're going to have bloodshed anyway, so wouldn't it be better to minimize it? The IRA isn't going to stand for going back to the way things were before the GF agreement.
922.
by magduf 7y ago
They do, just like every nation does. The North Korean government persists, and does what it does, because it has the support of a majority of its people. No government, no matter how autocratic, can continue without popular support (or a
923.
by magduf 7y ago
Lots of NKs are not starving. The military has literally millions of people in it, and they're well-fed. Do you think the regime would continue if this were not the case?
924.
by magduf 7y ago
Ok, then why don't you explain how exactly a non-democratic system is able to persist if no one in the country supports that regime?
925.
by magduf 7y ago
Nope, it's true for every country (except for outright invasion and occupation, I'll give a country a pass on that). Short of an occupying force, every country has the ability to choose its own leaders. Non-democratic systems on
926.
by magduf 7y ago
No, I would say that's the one exception. It doesn't happen that often, though, in the big picture.
927.
by magduf 7y ago
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
928.
by magduf 7y ago
They have to trash the Good Friday agreement because it requires a customs-free border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. This isn't possible with Brexit: having a customs-free border means anyone can just import anything into or o
929.
by magduf 7y ago
>I guess they'll have contributed to their personal wealth instead and will just come for the public services / safety offered. Safety? I'm quite sure Singapore is a much safer country than Germany. The US, not so much..
930.
by magduf 7y ago
So are they ready to trash the Good Friday agreement and go back to The Troubles? Because that's the alternative.

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