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by petsfed 3y ago
If you're not going to respond to my posts in good faith, then don't respond. From the fucking top: PEOPLE are experiencing greater quality of life than ever before. This has led to several things, including lower birth rate and l
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm saying that atheism and lower birth rates are caused by increases in overall quality of life. I'm not addressing whether or not atheists in fact have fewer children. That seems self-evident. I'm saying that you're mi
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by petsfed 3y ago
Just to understand here: you're claiming that since atheists have fewer children, they'll eventually be out-bred by the religious? Atheism is, in general, a consequence of, not a cause of, all the things that also result in lower
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by petsfed 3y ago
I've worked at several places that had self-serve snack bins that you were expected to pay for, but the machine was just a pay kiosk, not a vending machine. Typically, the way these operations work is that either the employer contracts
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by petsfed 3y ago
And one of the core questions to be answered when prescribing how and when the government can restrict your rights is "which is the worse outcome for society as a whole?" The question of abortion really crystallizes this question
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by petsfed 3y ago
> the same people who threw away roughly two thousand of years of the most successful philosophy have doomed themselves to a demographic death spiral I don't think this is true. Falling birth rate is positively correlated with key m
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think a case could be made (although I'm struggling to do so myself) that the growth of mercantilism, and then capitalism, could be understood as direct challenges to Abrahamic-religion-based ethics, especially as capitalism directly
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by petsfed 3y ago
The fact that I can freely discuss the fact that my government installs and supports (occasionally very directly) brutally anti-democratic regimes that stand in complete opposition to everything my country claims to stand for, does not some
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'll add that book to my reading list. I think, more broadly, that American, British, and French "anti-communist" foreign policy has consistently been about ensuring that American, British, and French companies continue unfet
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its just not a common one. My disagreement is founded in the fact that he uses an uncommon (arguably wrong) definition of hubris. Part of the impact of jokes of this form is that you are supposed to be able to sort of reason your way there
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by petsfed 3y ago
You missed the joke. Should I diagram it for you?
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by petsfed 3y ago
I've never really liked his inclusion of hubris here. Hubris is often defined as unjustified arrogance. Justified confidence, even if you're a jerk about it, was never the fatal flaw of a Greek hero. So I've always substitute
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by petsfed 3y ago
I want to be clear here: you submit a form for everything, then people in the legal and business development teams decide if its actually worth patenting. But even then, if you devise some thing that will be very useful if we ever get telep
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by petsfed 3y ago
The classic example of requiring dishonesty to pass the test is one I've seen a few times: "Is it ever ok to steal?" If you answer anything but "NEVER, and thieves should be publicly drawn and quartered", you won&#x
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by petsfed 3y ago
If you invented and patented something in the US in 1989, you'd have protections until 2009 at the latest. If it wasn't usable until 2013, then that sucks for you, but it is what it is. Your invention doesn't get 20 guarantee
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by petsfed 3y ago
My area code doesn't match my area, and most e.g. recruiters are calling from other area codes as well, so I can be reasonably confident that a local-area-code call is legitimate, but man is it frustrating to brace myself for "$ch
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by petsfed 3y ago
I've had a disturbingly large number of repeat calls from people who absolutely refuse to leave a message. And it's always some recruiter who saw an opening on indeed or somewhere and thinks the resume I updated 5 years ago is a g
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by petsfed 3y ago
I've a somewhat uncommon area code (less than a million 307 numbers), so any time I get a call from a 307 number, I'm reasonably confident that its either a wrong number, or a spoofed number. In either case, I don't answer. I
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by petsfed 3y ago
The problem a lot of people have with doom scrolling is that there's basically no barrier to doing so except shear will power. Making the process more inconvenient, even if just by having to stand up and walk over to the phone, can mak
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by petsfed 3y ago
My experience with Instagram Reels and Youtube Shorts and Facebook stories (and all the other things that compete with TikTok) is that it can still get its hooks in, but you have to invite it in. That is, if it doesn't immediately grab
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by petsfed 3y ago
To sort of echo and expand on what you're saying here, there's a fair argument that if you do go through capital-A abuse, and don't think it effects you, you might just have made yourself blind to the damage as a coping mech
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by petsfed 3y ago
Granted UT Austin is really well ranked, that seems like a terrible move for the kids. Like, great, you got in to this really well regarded school, but your preparation to get there may well be considerably worse than nothing at all.
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm honestly not sure if that's a bad thing. To an extent, it seems like reddit's "sort by controversial". If you're looking for a flamewar, here you go . It's interesting to see the comments sometimes, b
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by petsfed 3y ago
That fits in the same zone as DRM for printer cartridges or coffee flavor cups. That's asshole design. I absolutely understand the urge to validate the inputs to make sure the thing will keep working, but leveraging that as a competiti
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by petsfed 3y ago
My experience is that, because of concerns around single-point supply chain failures, most good design operations try to use off-the-shelf components as much as possible, and only custom manufacture that which cannot be purchased external
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by petsfed 3y ago
This only works if you can only get like half of the assembly in spares. Otherwise, all I have to do to undercut the literal manufacturer is find cheaper labor to assemble the final product. I like capping the cost of the replacement parts,
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by petsfed 3y ago
When I was very poor (~$22k/year), I had a google sheet that had a running tally of all my transactions, what category they came from, and was therefore able to forecast months in advance when I'd be able to afford to go to a movi
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by petsfed 3y ago
Eh, there's a pretty big difference between "I'm too lazy to solve this" and "the only reason this requires so much effort is because the business would lose a ton of revenue if people could simply stop paying for t
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by petsfed 3y ago
>I have some, but diminishing sympathy for artists screaming about how AI generates images too similar to their work. Yes, the output does look very similar to your work. But if I take your work and compare it to the millions of other pe
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by petsfed 3y ago
I get what you're trying to say, but the context of the Christmas truces is more complicated than just mutual benefit: There was a huge disconnect between the leadership of the respective armies and the rank-and-file soldiers dying in

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