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by p_j_w 3y ago
>That would make some kind of sense except they do in fact have very profitable companies in Europe. What GP suggested they value doesn't preclude this. Not valuing making all the money in the world for yourself personally doesn&#x2
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Members of the public own stock, so the public owns stock. You seem to be equating members of the public with the entirety of the public. You need to get this misunderstanding straightened out to correctly understand the concepts being
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>In America, hospitals cannot refuse emergency care. Can they do this in any developed country? >That's why rural areas are losing hospitals. Maybe a system with only privately run hospitals is a stupid plan.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>He was referring to the use of tear gas in order to disperse crowds (rather than using violence) 1. Tear gas is still violence. 2. He called them uncivilized tribes. That's shitty regardless of context.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Not even the lowest level employee with a security clearance could be blackmailed for smoking weed, but you can bet your ass they would get their clearance revoked for it if they did it.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
What you're saying is that it's childish to believe rich people should be subject to the same treatment as everyone else. If that's the case, then everyone that's not childish is kind of a shitty human being.
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If Tesla really believes it "really will function autonomously" then they shouldn't have a problem assuming liability. Further, if it needs to be supervised, then it's not autonomous, is it? Congratulations on being so a
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Why make the decision for the consumer. How do I go about making the choice to buy a repairable cell phone?
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The people you're trying to embarrass by linking here look pretty reasonable. >there is no iPhone contingent going around calling android people brainless blue bubble sheeple On HN? Maybe not. Out in real life? Yes, there absolutely
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>The real scum are these so called "representatives" who place corporate interests over small businesses and citizens. I don't see why we can't find both to be scum.
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"We just need to wage the war on drugs harder, then it will surely work."
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>Are they going to beat confessions out of "guilty" thoughtcrime "perpetrators" too? Have police across the country NOT been doing this for decades now?
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If it’s anything like SCUBA tanks, then the 800M cu ft is specified at 1 atm at room temperature. It’s a actually an intuitive way to express how much gas you’re getting. Specifying it by N would be borderline incomprehensible to most peopl
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by p_j_w 3y ago
All of those people are you to live somewhere and that is going to require building and gathering raw materials. This is true no matter where they live. Those raw materials are getting used. Given that people in cities live in smaller homes
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I don’t have the answers, but it’s a for profit company. Until they can show otherwise, there’s no reason to believe it’s anything but PR. They currently can’t show anything except transit. Nothing for life support for a human to survive a
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I’ll believe this when they’ve shown that they’re working on solving the problem of life support on Mars rather than a glorified taxi cab to certain death.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
The opportunity cost isn’t space exploration, it’s SpaceX’s bottom line.
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> If they don’t intend to fly to Mars why they are spending immense capital on the Super Heavy? Because they think it’ll be more profitable than what they have now.
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It’s quite simple: they haven’t shown they’re actually serious about it. Musk has made claims about launching manned missions to Mars, but he’s made similar claims about self driving cars and hyperloops, all of which were bullshit. The only
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> thankfully a worst-case scenario Considering that the models predicting the worst cases have tended to be more accurate (eg https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672 ), you may want to hold off on that thankfulne
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> let's abandon Mars The idea that Musk’s plan with SpaceX is to help humanity colonize Mars is nothing but PR hogwash. The sole purpose of that messaging is to get ordinary members of the public to defend them when they break the r
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Not OP, but this seems like a weird gotcha. It did exist to me and I didn't go hungry. Certain luxury items became hard to get for a while, but necessities were never a problem.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Mastodon and Twitter are absolute shit ways to engage in productive conversation with people and ideas that you disagree with. They’re both far worse than formal debate, which is shit in its own ways. If you wanna force people to listen to
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> Even my above comment now has a negative score which sort of proves my point. Tone matters and your tone matches up really well with someone trying to “gotcha” the people around them, which is obnoxious. > i don't deny climate
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> You can get an Asus Vivobook S with an Intel i9 13900H, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, HiDPI 15" OLED screen for $1100 Yes, but then you’re stuck with an Asus. Having been there before, that’s a hard pass. The real comparison for Macbooks are
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” If only…
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Where can I go to get such favorable loan terms from the government? Oh, I can’t? I have to get monumentally wealthy by wrecking the economy and driving our society into its biggest financial crisis in 80 years first?
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Microsoft has over 90% of the desktop OS and Office software markets. It’s impossible to come up with a reasonable definition of monopoly that doesn’t include them in those markets.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> They have either seen a drop in productivity or they haven't. Some of them are claiming that they have, but none have shown anything resembling evidence or numbers, there’s been nothing but hand waving about the value of water coo
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> I do not think you can actually achieve much politically at this point in time, without angering and alienating a lot of the electorate. Maybe if the self righteous pragmatists like yourself had spent as much energy reminding the elect

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