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by mrangle 3y ago
It is nihilism, as explained. I did address the question. One can't make the case that "everything arguably is bad", unless you are relativistic and reductionist to the point that any "arguable" negative consequence
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by mrangle 3y ago
I wasn't aware that Waze was "alternative" vs "traditional", nor do I know the difference. I suspect that almost no one does, if the categories exist. I am specifically responding to a post that details that Google
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by mrangle 3y ago
Imagine launching a campaign aimed at reducing brand dominance. My n=1 experience is that when shopping for "hook and loop" strips online, I make sure that they are actual Velcro. Beyond useless, I think that the attempt is misgui
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by mrangle 3y ago
This past summer Waze routed me through one of the most dangerous areas in the US, for 30 minutes. To save maybe a few minutes. Tight side streets with "obstacles", at 10-15 mph. I was on the highway when the re-route happened, an
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by mrangle 3y ago
The mistake in this logic is the one that assumes that they represent anyone, instead of thinking of themselves as a seperate caste whose interest is in maintaining the interests of the caste. Across the board. This adjusted view, in part,
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by mrangle 3y ago
You labor under the delusion that protests are not state level intimidation and excuse to ram through what they want to, against a small obstacle that isn't with the program: popular opinion (seemingly most common), an institution, or
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by mrangle 3y ago
Lol this Warlord trying to impart their Martian philosophy. Respectfully, you can't "but" a statement as an effective rebuttal when the statement addresses the exact "but" that you claim. I can make that statement b
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by mrangle 3y ago
There wasn't a 9/11 justification to invade Iraq without the WMD excuse. Which is why they used it. I know why they invaded Iraq. It has nothing to do with 9/11 PTSD nor oil except as a secondary or tertiary benefit. Whether
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by mrangle 3y ago
There's no lack of newer examples. There's only a lack of apology and scale of consequence. That scale being the only reason why the NYT was compelled to apologize. The WMD lie shouldn't be the "well, it was twenty years
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by mrangle 3y ago
That type of information landscape isn't a threat when it is lies to various degrees, in total. Polls indicate that most Americans don't see the Press as free (trustworthy). They now view it more akin to how people do in authorita
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by mrangle 3y ago
It's perfectly valid to make that statement without a requirement for relativism. War is bad, absolutely. Our enemies may be worse than war, but that doesn't change the fact.
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by mrangle 3y ago
Stating that I'm "confidently wrong" is rank nonsense, when predicated on an appeal to authority of government-funded low level employees. "Clearly" their "bother" to develop simulations and conclusions is
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by mrangle 3y ago
He won't be released. He'll be tortured and restrained with pharmacy, with no end. In fact, his autism should preclude him from a sentence in prison or a mental institution. As both of these settings will be much more stressful th
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by mrangle 3y ago
This is medieval and shameful, and needs to be overturned with the help of human rights groups and media exposure. Neither autism nor cyber crime of this type are a life sentence to anywhere. Autism is not a condition that is treatable by m
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by mrangle 3y ago
I get space. What I'm saying is that, assuming we can even hit it, any such rock is moving with too much momentum to be able to change its course. Given any tech that we have. It's easy to underestimate the energy represented by a
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by mrangle 3y ago
Virtually the entire economy is predicated on cheap money. Upending that norm means major changes in lifestyle for most of the population. I don't just mean doing more with less. I mean that a good portion of white collar workers will
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by mrangle 3y ago
The more surviveable option is probably to consider asteroid impacts to be an unstoppable larger part of the evolutionary cycle, however terrifying. Rather than risk destroying ourselves via mishandling low-probability countermeasures. Spra
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by mrangle 3y ago
Good point, especially when referenced to he low chance of the strategy working.
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Heaven forbid their calculations aren't confident given that large distance, and the theoretical nudge instead generates a hit.
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by mrangle 3y ago
Given the speed of the rock, it's difficult to conceive of how this theoretical action would even marginally change the course of an asteroid large enough to be worried about. It'd be like blowing on a hypersonic missile that is l
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by mrangle 3y ago
Reeling from the all-emotional argument that is in defense of logic.
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by mrangle 3y ago
They mean to say that there were few billion dollar weather disasters in 1935?
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by mrangle 3y ago
Maybe. At the risk of being argumentative: This top-down alarmism now has been going on for decades. Electric vehicles have close to zero market share, all considered (commercial and commuter unit of mass travelled). It could go away tonmor
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by mrangle 3y ago
Find whomever regularly can beat you, be thankful, and play them as often as possible until they can't. Players are very lucky if they can irl find people that can beat them. The goal should always be to play someone who is better when
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by mrangle 3y ago
Great scene. The theme is repeated both when Monica reveals her shameful secret of having passed on Slack, and when Erlich turns down the ferret / pig startup: "I'm not passing, exactly, I'm just not saying yes" (pa
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by mrangle 3y ago
No, because you have no leverage.
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by mrangle 3y ago
>We just need to sell them on this: keep your ICE if you want, we don't care as long as you get this cheap electrical econo-box. Magnanimous Sarcasm aside, keep in mind that cheap isn't cheap. Even "cheap" cars are of
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by mrangle 3y ago
Now apply this logic to Germany, through a geopolitical lens, and there will be more insight on Germany's retreat from EV subsidies.
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Essentially, the market forced you onto the track that it wanted you to be in. Which, as you found out, is a good thing (and the only possibility). As the best time for VC investment is generally at the inflection point of the exponential g
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by mrangle 3y ago
The show Silicon Valley well parodied this phenomenon. It implied that the evasive "no" is commonly because VCs don't want to be known for passing on an investment, outright, that then later takes off. Which would reflect neg

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