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by papito 5y ago
There is truth to that. We abuse substances without understanding why. Getting to the root cause of that existential angst is not easy. And I say "abuse" to distinguish between that and physiological dependency. I think the word &
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by papito 5y ago
F150 is going electric, so at least men will be able to suggest their penis sizes in a sustainable manner. Still, what a waste of raw natural resources and materials.
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by papito 5y ago
This doesn't even mention Helium-3? Come on.
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by papito 5y ago
This is puzzling to me because all this effort would have been more effective if it were spent on fighting the actual problem - people becoming filthy rich and then essentially leaving our system of government and taxation. Fighting tax loo
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by papito 5y ago
Right, but these dates should be intrinsically motivational, and not induce negative stress.
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by papito 5y ago
This is a combination of management not asking for input, pulling a deadline out of their asses, and engineers chronically low-balling their own estimates (while the managers think it's the opposite). My pet peeve is when a deadline is
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by papito 5y ago
Don't fix it if it ain't broken. The revenue stream, that is.
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by papito 5y ago
This was done half a century ago, and neither of these got even close to the true orbit. A Soviet dog went further - in 1957. At least Elon Musk's SpaceX has practical, monetary benefits to the taxpayer. This is not opening up the drea
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by papito 5y ago
This fetishizing of the rich is exactly the problem. How dare these socialists take this wealth and give it to the unthankful moochers! No one is talking about "punishing" the ultra-rich, but I would like to see them pay around
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by papito 5y ago
"highly vocal", "influential to public opinion". I am sorry, these are just words. Prove that it's influential. Is there an effort by these "loud" individuals to drive a focused disinformation campaign tar
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by papito 5y ago
The garbage fire of 2020 was almost worth it, it seems. First, the reconfiguration for hybrid remote work, but also - helping the "essential employee" class realize they have been taken for suckers. I can imagine it's hard to
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by papito 5y ago
Well, now, let's not paint "authoritarianism" as "lefty". Some Marx-reading student on campus is not exactly a threat, is it? The ultra-left sentiment is, indeed, anti-liberal at its core, but it is still an irrelev
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by papito 5y ago
I should have specified, the New Testament is particularly anti-wealth and pro helping the disadvantaged. The Old Testament is like the internet - you can always find horrible examples to reinforce your beliefs.
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by papito 5y ago
I forgot I was on HN. Before we start discussing white papers on how emotionally gullible consumers of information can be, let's look at the article, shall we? "There are probably 20,000 or 30,000 people who want to do this, but t
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by papito 5y ago
They would not be EU citizens. The taxes are even higher. The article is around specifically renouncing American citizenships. Also, dual-citizenship is useless. If you are, say, in Russia, and you have your Russian passport on you, the A
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by papito 5y ago
According to the Bible, nowhere good.
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by papito 5y ago
They could impose a citizenship "exit tax", if you are worth more than X amount of dollars, I reckon.
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by papito 5y ago
The bar for a fireable offense has been set extremely high in the last few years. That said, the Democratic party is largely still center-left, well-functioning, and with a working moral compass (for a political party), unlike that other au
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by papito 5y ago
Roof-based drone counter-measures. See? An unnecessary, job-creating industry is born.
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by papito 5y ago
This is a recurring theme there. A bunch of employees find something utterly disturbing, sound the alarm bells, and then nothing. Changing the platform in ways that affects the bottom line is a no-go. These problems won't even be surfa
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by papito 5y ago
Having just finished An Ugly Truth, a book that filed me with more incandescent rage with every chapter, I would give this company zero benefit of a doubt. Guilty until proven innocent. Their obliviousness to the horror that is their plat
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by papito 5y ago
Plasma, bitches!
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by papito 5y ago
But all food containers are like that. They are not recyclable. In fact, MOST things that you'd expected to be recyclable are not. Your bottle doesn't have a cap on? It will sink in water and end up in a landfill. Glass other colo
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by papito 5y ago
I don't think that this sort of selfish thinking is dominant. The explanation is much more simple - many in our field see complexity as a virtue, not an enemy.
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by papito 5y ago
"Complexity kills" is an old mantra a lot of us fossils are familiar with, but the new kids still need to learn this lesson the hard way. What makes things worse is the ability to stitch together twenty different AWS services toge
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by papito 5y ago
You interview them as well. You give me dumb, unrelated coding questions - you are out.
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by papito 5y ago
I mean, there are already prototypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWayhNpHr0 It's only a matter of time. A building is planned, the step-by-step orchestration is QA'ed by a qualified engineer, and a set of ro
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by papito 5y ago
But "job creators" are a protected class.
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by papito 5y ago
I by no means suggest that the Chinese system is superior. It's a sort of system that can descend into runaway corruption pretty easily. What I am saying is, given the decay of the western society, which is our fault entirely, our chan
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by papito 5y ago
And how is your example even relevant to a war from a deep pre-Internet era? What about WWII? What about Desert Storm? There is absolutely no guarantee that your adversary does not outplay you in internet cat and mouse games right from the

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