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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
The whole world has been formed already by our presence and will continue to be. Humans modify our environment, for good and ill, and this is happening in all cultures and at all scales of civilization. Gardening proves microscopically what
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
“This might shock you” Really??? I expect more of HN than snark like this. Argue in good faith and assume good faith, please. > and there are already far more of us than necessary. I think trying to argue how many humans should exist bas
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Wanting to make a biome more habitable is not vanity. Is it vanity to want a park in your city or a river to be clean of pollutants? We are scared of projects like this because the scale betrays our inability to do them or perhaps fully ant
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
See also: chapter one of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
There’s a “live by the sword, die by the sword” reaction that I have to this. I think we expect better of democracies, which is why these kinds of attacks shock us. But it is interesting that we are unsurprised when Lebanon/Hezbollah u
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
I had no idea you were in financial straits and was just using Exercism yesterday to teach myself a new language. I’ve really appreciated the platform and it’s already helped me learn so much. I’m donating today and I wish you the best.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Murder and torture, you mean. If the consciousness possesses a capacity for suffering, torture as you say, the taking of its life is murder. Both are immoral…
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
This is going to come across as inflammatory, but I promise I’m not intending it to be: Can someone give me the argument for and against for why this different than the ethics of abortion? It occurs to me that if anyone concerned about the
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
The irony here being that if you have more free time and more social safety net, having more kids becomes easier, hence you grow your consumer market and labor force. I wonder what a 4-day work week would do to birth rates… Maybe falling fe
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
If you were 3x-5x over the bandwidth limits for your pricing tier for multiple months in a row you were living on borrowed time… Is this on Webflow to continue to allow usage wayyyy out of accord with their pricing or the site owner to moni
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
This may be a naïve reading of this, but I’m pretty sure this is a glowing recommendation for choosing the BEAM VM and the languages which run on it.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
The size of the judgment reflects the magnitude of the harassment. If the NYTimes ran front page articles every day insinuating you were a liar and trying to use your child’s death for some shadowy agenda, or had even faked that child’s dea
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
I find this article extremely ironic and one-dimensional because LA is currently having a record setting year for cold. As someone convinced by the science of climate change, I’m now increasingly skeptical of how the media portrays its nuan
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
The real talent left to form Studio Khara, I think it part because of this kind of mismanagement. Gainax has a long history of financial follies despite having created one of the most successful anime in history.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Read about the right to publicity. It has already been invoked for involuntary pornography and these cases will keep being won. Your autonomy to make images can’t infringe on my autonomy to choose not to be in them. It’s not a matter of com
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
No, you do not have the rights to my “doppelganger” because you were never granted them. This is a bizarre argument as well. When a news reporter is doing man-on-the-street interviews, you have to sign a release that allows them to broadcas
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
This take is naive and bizarre. This is not about ‘making fun of celebrities,’ this is about whether we, as humans, have a right to our likeness and to be protected from it being used in ways we disapprove of. This is an issue of privacy, n
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Industries built to make money from the poorest part of society, particularly in the form of rents, should be scrutinized heavily at the least. But to be honest, I don’t think any society which tolerates profiting from its citizens’ poverty
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Dolstra nailed it: > It is my opinion that it is not for us, as open source software developers, to decide whose views are valid and whose are not, and to allow or disallow project or conference participation as a result. You really shou
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
If you don’t want to build weapons because you don’t like the variety of ways they may be wielded, that’s a valid and reasonable ethical stance. If you don’t want to build anything that could ever potentially be used in the manufacture of t
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Some of the more leftwing NixOS contributors hate that Anduril is using their technology and are trying to keep them from contributing/sponsoring/etc. via code of conduct changes.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Do itttttt :)
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Open source is probably one of the most accessible forums of direct democratic action. If you have the majority and leadership will not cede to your will, you fork the project and break away. If you lack the majority, you have fewer options
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by ordinaryradical 3y ago
A useful heuristic for measuring news quality is to ask yourself, “Am I more informed about what’s happening or about what people are angry about.” Like you, I was a life-long listener and donater. I stopped both during the pandemic when I
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by ordinaryradical 3y ago
Airplanes have changed, but in ways not immediately visible. The Dreamliner is something like 80% composites by volume now, a material profile almost unthinkable 30 years ago. But the visual dynamics of the design changes have been far less
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by ordinaryradical 3y ago
I’m the most calm and happy I’ve been in a long time. I threw away almost all of my social media and news consumption. The more I’ve come to stand outside of it, the sillier and more crazed the culture has seemed. We really need a collectiv
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by ordinaryradical 3y ago
Reads like an ad written by GPT, honestly. But this guy is a professional advice giver, so to be expected? Wouldn’t surprise me if he outsourced his tweeting.
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by ordinaryradical 3y ago
This is a death knell for MMORPGs where botting is already a massive problem which distorts the player economies and degrades everyone's playing experience. The cat-and-mouse game of stopping these goldfarmers just became exponentially
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by ordinaryradical 3y ago
Given that Bevy’s systems scheduler is nondeterministic (for everything not explicitly ordered), do you foresee issues coming from that? Or does this approach sidestep that as an issue?
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by ordinaryradical 3y ago
Yeah, I just read this further down in this topic. Really bummed about it, Elm always seemed so promising, and I thought a healthy fork was what was needed. I just don’t understand the reasoning for this choice.

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