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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
The current crop of big influential companies is old and super bureaucratic, possibly with the exception of Apple which from the outside seems to have less bureaucracy. I’ve been wondering whether 2006 Google, Amazon, Facebook would be acti
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
I’m going to start referring to exhaling as “venting gas”. Thank you.
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
Was this definitely not accounting trickery? Like even the way money is created is intentionally convoluted and approximately 1% of the population even attempts to understand it. Can we really trust the accounting of bank bailouts which sto
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
I’m also an atheist, but just looking at the huge amount of anthropological information we have, from hunter gatherer bands to large scale civilizations, I am quite sure that a perception of god-like and spirit-like entities is built into t
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
N = 1 though. > With money borrowed from his boss Genius in field works for wealthy man in field, gets special treatment at a young age. News at 11.
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
Google search keeps switching me to Spanish. One day recently I went on Reddit and it said “null” after every username. Google Sheets had a weird rendering bug that was worse then I’ve ever seen in google’s office clone products. Anecdotall
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
Ah I had assumed you presented yourself as a convert and what you were faking was honest belief in the stories. If you were faking already being a Christian, I can see how that could end with you having a bad time. I’m curious why you didn’
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
Don’t tell them? I’m pretty sure quite a few people who bring children to church don’t literally believe in the stuff themselves and just think the social elements and the morality are good for their children. Were you trying to meet friend
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
What happens when there’s an outage though? Just hope the LLM can fix it? Who is on the hook if it can’t? Do you have people frantically trying to reverse engineer a basically unfamiliar-to-them code base at 2am while bleeding cash?
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
I can’t tell if you are serious. Are you serious?
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
SF housing dropped relative to other high demand locales during COVID. I wonder if this is just a recovery after Austin et al didn’t pan out as alternatives?
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
It might help to not have much in the way of environmental, safety or labor regulations. Whether or not you feel like those are good overall (I do), they do actually also slow things down.
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Okay let’s be clear on what we’re talking about. I have seen lots of discussions about headlines along the lines of “<state or local government> bans <book X>”. Or just referring to book X as “a banned book in <state or local
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
This kind of thing happens commonly with language development over time. If a word or phrase picks up a strong connotation, then the word or phrase stops being used generically. This used to happen so slowly that nobody really noticed it ha
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
*gene level
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
It’s such a tiny hop from there to “has a friend at Google who used it once as a favor”. I hadn’t even considered that people would do such a thing!
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
> everyone would lose their own money if the banks just disappear tomorrow Sure, but only because banks are legally allowed to lie to customers about how much money they have.
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
> not because they have bad societal consequences when the reader is not mature enough, but because they don't like the content for ideological reasons “Bad societal consequences” is entirely subjective, though. This is the crux of
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
By that definition everywhere throughout all time is authoritarian. Everywhere throughout all time is obviously not authoritarian, so the definition fails. Sorry, you are wrong.
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Whenever the topic of “banned books” comes up, a bunch of people argue about whether they should be called “banned”. What I haven’t seen mentioned in these discussions is where the mental association of “banned books” comes from. In America
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
My entire point in this thread has been that nobody actually cares about birthright citizenship itself and it is a vector to oppose demographic change, which itself is not an allowed discussion topic. So, for me to hold the views of an Amer
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Sure of course, I was too vague. I’m not referring to our descendants having different values from us or myself. We do have some control over that, but not complete control, and exerting whatever control is available in the modern day risks
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Is it not an issue if your group becomes less powerful than other groups? You are then putting yourself at their mercy, and we cannot assume that everyone has the same values (they don't).
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Hmm I suppose that’s fair. Another commenter did seem to understand what I’m saying, but he may have a more similar background to myself. Coming out sideways is a common phrase in psychology land, or at least this is my impression. It refer
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Okay but if other groups aren’t doing it, the planet is still doomed and now your group is worse off. Congratulations, you have accomplished nothing!
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Make usury illegal again? (I mean the classical definition not the watered down modern one)
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Has tech really gotten more top heavy? I feel more like people kept flooding into the middle and bottom, and companies that used to focus on top talent got watered down with those middle and bottom types. A lot of the people getting laid of
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
Do these actions strike anyone else as theater?
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
“Average”, son. Was the average American a fascist in the early 1900s? The fascist party in the early 1900s was a fringe party. It existed and was considered a legitimate opinion, fine, but don’t act like the average American was anyw
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by pfannkuchen 3mo ago
My point is that I don't think anyone would be focusing on this particular constitutional text if the underlying reason they are focused on it were allowed to be discussed in the open. It sounds like you don't disagree with that?

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