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by moolcool 1y ago
I don't know how things are in the US, but in Canada we're dying to have more people in the trades. Skilled trades are quite lucrative here, there's tons of incentives and subsidies to study them as well.
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by moolcool 1y ago
> Google Is Catching Up to Samsung DeX Does anyone use DeX?
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by moolcool 1y ago
I don't think that's contradictory to OP though. You can find enrichment and fulfillment in work, while also maintaining balance with the other aspects of life.
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by moolcool 1y ago
Modern medicine saved my life as well. It seems like splitting hairs, but changing _who_ one is is different from changing _that_ one is. My point is that technology isn't going to do anything to alter the core human experience: envy,
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by moolcool 1y ago
I think Facebook's core product is inherently evil in a way that other FAANG's core products may not be.
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by moolcool 1y ago
> It is obviously true that technology allows us to modify nature to an ever greater extent I would dispute the relative significance or meaning of those changes though. We can build dams and tall buildings. We can cure diseases and deve
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by moolcool 1y ago
I think you could go the other way with Occam's Razor here. If you observe an extremely Russia-friendly administration coming in and meticulously dismantling American soft power around the world, I think to say that there's no con
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by moolcool 1y ago
Worth mentioning though, that BestBuy's website also has the same garbage "marketplace" problem as Amazon
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by moolcool 1y ago
Is there any hope that Proton might eventually work on MacOS?
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by moolcool 1y ago
> Advertising is a tax on the rich. Even if advertisers make more money from the rich (citation needed), the poor are still disproportionately negatively effected. I would argue that it's less ethical to persuade someone with $100 t
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by moolcool 1y ago
In the case of Canada I think it has more to do with the tariffs, and the open hostility to our sovereignty.
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by moolcool 1y ago
Canadian airlines are cutting routes to the US due to low demand, but adding new routes to places like Europe and Mexico.
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by moolcool 1y ago
But the relationships are what affords that change though, isn't it?
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by moolcool 2y ago
> Your argument is that someone, somewhere, said something terrible I think you're being a bit obtuse here. In the specific case we're discussing, the "someone, somewhere" isn't just a random internet troll. It&#
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by moolcool 2y ago
When he actually hits you, it makes sense to flinch when he flails his limbs. He did cause the stock market to tank literally yesterday.
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by moolcool 2y ago
OK, but then we need a common standard. If Facebook is allowed to use libgen, I should also be allowed.
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by moolcool 2y ago
Why even say it then? What's the point of countering "Well, the definition has expanded so much", when the thing you're talking about conforms to the old definition?
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by moolcool 2y ago
And I'd like to highlight this, since it's one of the cleanest cases of everyone in a situation knowing what's being said, and then a rationalist coming along and thinking everyone is misunderstanding it except for him. Ratio
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by moolcool 2y ago
This reminds me of the joke about how republicans will defend criminal conspiracy by saying "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now".
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by moolcool 2y ago
You do not have to look very far to find prominent voices on the right who are apologetically anti-democracy.
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by moolcool 2y ago
I don't know if you're a news buff, but they're actually actively saying "women can't do that".
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by moolcool 2y ago
My favourite genre of this is when the crypto community rediscovers centuries of economic lessons from first-principles.
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by moolcool 2y ago
> Just like in math, the rational is a subset of the real I just want to highlight this, since it's the cleanest way I've seen this expressed. This is a fantastic hackernews comment.
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by moolcool 2y ago
Even definitions there are extremely hazy. "The most good for the most people". Define "good". Happiness? Economic prosperity? Community? And over what time span? Define "most". Percentage of people served? Num
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by moolcool 2y ago
> Partly because women's rights have become so politicised. That's a hand-wavy way of saying that a core pillar of one of your parties is to take away the rights of an entire gender. Imagine describing 1940s Germany and saying
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by moolcool 2y ago
It always falls down because the end-goal of ones "rationalism" always has to be determined by a set of values. If you want to form a political ideology based on rationality, your very first step will stick you right in the middle
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by moolcool 2y ago
> I’m pretty sure that they weren’t voting for those candidates for the express purpose of stripping away those rights and there were other policies and values that they were voting for I don't know, man. If they're really your
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by moolcool 2y ago
TL;DR: He doesn't discuss politics with his friends because he thinks he's more rational than them.
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by moolcool 2y ago
They have a few other use cases listed on their website.
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by moolcool 2y ago
They're going to end up with a candidate they deserve

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