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by moate 3y ago
Commenting on the propensity of a comment to generate downvotes is also a great way to guarantee downvotes, especially if you're not providing much else to the discourse but a verbal upvote. Discourse on rhetoric.
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by moate 3y ago
In the grand scheme of things at a cosmic scale, every human endeavor is a hunt to know which of Ahab's legs was missing. When the last echoes of humanity have been silenced and all trace of us gone from memory, nobody can care if you
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by moate 3y ago
Counterpoint for anyone out there trying to decide if they should read it: Don't. Life is short, do things in a way you think makes sense, not because some dude on the internet said it <(Irony lives here). Fuck the classics. No seri
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by moate 3y ago
So everyone posing this question just gets "The mob voted China, so China it must be" and that's all well and good. Here's a better question: Why take on the challenge of organizing the awards/con in China if you op
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by moate 3y ago
"Dead" in the "nonliving organic material" sense. It seems much easier for mycelium to survive in something incapable of an immune response vs. living tissue. And yes, largely besides the point indeed.
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by moate 3y ago
Mushroom growing out of living skin tissue vs dead hair is absolutely weirder.
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by moate 3y ago
I’m firmly of the opinion that the best outcome for the radical left would be a second Trump presidency as it would likely aid in recruitment and disillusionment with the current paradigm. Let your enemy show how truly debased and unhinged
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by moate 3y ago
Corporate personhood is a way for a “corporation” to take responsibility for the actual humans that comprise is. It’s a passing of responsibility from the real to the unreal. All founders/CEOs should be responsible for their creations.
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by moate 3y ago
Don’t foget Starbucks and Trader Joe’s!
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by moate 3y ago
The future sure does look more and more radical, going to be interesting to see what flavor wins out (reds or browns).
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by moate 3y ago
It was a compromise to help move away from the old way of dealing with labor disputes, which involved murders on both sides. The local cops were almost always in the pockets of the wealthy (which has of course changed in the intervening cen
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by moate 3y ago
>> Regardless of that we all should have cameras running everywhere all the time I would like to opt out of this nightmarish safety hellscape. I never use the phrase Orwellian because it’s so often misused, but yikes is this some 1984
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by moate 3y ago
Why would it be that way and not "we will charge you more for the privilege of not tracking anything about you as a consumer since that data can be sold to aggregator companies"? Both feel equally reasonable to me.
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by moate 3y ago
So just slip them a little personal data and they’ll knock a few bucks off. Feels…dystopian.
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by moate 3y ago
As someone who worked in pricing for a SAAS company I often explained what I called the “greed-charity” scale with 0 being “full greed, take in money but provide nothing” and 10 being “full charity, provide everything for free” and ask “wha
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by moate 3y ago
Government: creates a byzantine tax code to allow the richest/most competent avoiders keep their wealth while consistently over-targeting lower-income groups for audits For profit tax-co’s: do back door deals with the government to
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by moate 3y ago
Did we read the same article? I saw no mentions of volatile aromatics(aka the flavor and aroma compounds) and how they isolated them in different strains. I saw no mention of what genetic markers are tied to specific flavor profiles. I did
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by moate 3y ago
Terroir. That’s it, that’s the post.
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by moate 3y ago
It feels like you’re simply stating the predators and outside influences that are affecting AI’s evolution. Humans killed the dodo, maybe we kill the AI next
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by moate 3y ago
SO sorry that it took me so long to respond to this, but your math felt wrong, so I looked into it. [1]Mississippi PER CAPITA income: 29K [2]Worst German State PER CAPITA income: 34K I have no idea what All About Berln is, and when I looked
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by moate 3y ago
I was hired as a remote worker (as were the other people on my team). During the hiring process I asked, repeatedly "This is a remote job, correct? I'm fine coming in once a month for a team meeting or important events, but I expe
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by moate 3y ago
The funniest part: for several hours the video itself had comments enabled(before any outside media picked it up). The employees this was directed at felt very similarly to most of the comments on HN.
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by moate 3y ago
Hi. I'll just come out and say that I work for this company, and NOBODY, not a single one of us, not even managers, thought this was a good idea. My boss described it as an "extremely cringe threatening video" in our team mee
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by moate 3y ago
I’m sure the corpos that it hurt are grateful, but who cares from the consumer or artists side? Piracy is a costing problem and Spotify’s solution is “keep costs to the consumer low and money in our pockets by keeping it out of the artists’
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by moate 3y ago
“Innovation” is tech-man speak for “figuring out how to privatize/shift profits to our company” in the press. Sort of like how “the economy” can usually just be translated to mean “rich people’s yacht money”
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by moate 3y ago
What are you on about? Seems like a reasonable question to ask, seemed like a funny way to answer. Some advice from Mr Costa: Six cups of eggnog Makes my nose rosy red And it get me in the Christmas mood
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by moate 3y ago
Ahh yes, introduce a human, known worldwide for their flawlessness reasoning, especially under pressure and high volume, to the system. That will fix it.
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by moate 3y ago
The better allegory (and actual advice that might be useful): If you want to avoid a toxic workplace, work by yourself. Now, that said I’m being specifically pedantic: these are steps to AVOID toxic environments. To COMBAT toxicity is a who
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by moate 3y ago
Tons of creatures with only evergreen/deciduous abilities would probably be super easy to template for something to parse, as would most lands. 80% feels “right” as someone who’s done some game design in the tabletop space.
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by moate 3y ago
If you want to avoid toxic behavior in your game, don’t allow multiplayer. Some people will always be shitty, some people will want to play your game, and some number of people will meet both those criteria. The only way to fix it is after

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