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by quacked 5y ago
The statesmen that created the United States were rich merchants and slave-owners; they were also inventers, multi-linguists, calligraphers, and philosophers. Much better than the SV billionaires, adjusted for differences in dominant morali
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by quacked 5y ago
I agree with what another commenter said; these are the elite, the powerful, the untouchable. Instead of leading us, they're fleeing with the fortunes they made off of the land and society that we have to live in. Compared to the elite
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by quacked 5y ago
You have entirely missed my point. The question you are trying to ask is "why do my coworkers listen to the GOP establishment (who are telling lies), instead of Democratic leadership and the scientific establishment (who are telling th
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by quacked 5y ago
Here are some things that I thought that at the time were called "misinformation", "conspiracy theories", and had "no data to support that claim": Jan. 2020 - The illness in China is much worse than the Chinese
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by quacked 5y ago
> Relentless propaganda against public health measures no doubt contributes to erosion of trust. However, that mistrust may also be fueled by the sorry state of health insurance in this country and the deep inequities in health care — at
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by quacked 5y ago
There are two phenomenal pieces of writing that lend great insight to what's going on at Boeing (that is, if you believe the two authors): How Boeing Lost Its Bearings: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive&#x2
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by quacked 5y ago
You're not wrong. I should have done a better job of explaining my point--this discussion about Singapore reminds me of discussion about other wealthy nations that uses the same phrases and focus, which is what I commented on Singapore
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by quacked 5y ago
The article says "The total population, which includes foreigners who live, work and study in Singapore but are not permanent residents, dropped by 4.1% to 5.45 million people. hat was largely as a result of a 10.7% decrease in its non
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by quacked 5y ago
Ah, it's hard to be so ignorant sometimes--when I'm enlightened like you I'll finally be able to understand that relocating 15,000 backwater US conservatives to the Bangkok suburbs would actually be a net benefit for the Thai
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by quacked 5y ago
And what about those who didn't, who were born one to four generations after? Malthus is wrong about overpopulation killing through lack of resources, but anyone who disagrees that setting expanding human populations loose on little-po
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by quacked 5y ago
There exist few talking points as odious as the myopic GDP-focused complaining about "population decreases" in developing nations and how they must be overcome by the unrestrained importing of labor. Liberal societal goals (many o
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by quacked 5y ago
I've thought about this as well; it's one of those weird things where you realize that with enough pixel count and shading options, every image you can think of exists within the total set of generated images.
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by quacked 5y ago
I disagree with most of the people responding to you; I think if Toyota re-released the 2000 Tacoma with minor updates to the stereo system and a webcam on the back they'd do a billion in sales.
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by quacked 5y ago
I've investigated about 20 of those old pickups; they're crap, because they've been run into the ground. I want a new old pickup.
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by quacked 5y ago
I have a really hard time convincing anyone that they could have a specific, enumerable, sortable list of technical requirements, and that this is, on the whole, a good thing. Most conversions to DOORS I've heard of, though, basically
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by quacked 5y ago
That is a good question. It depends on the circumstances and whether or not you're doing highly-regulated and auditable work (medical software, spaceflight databases) or more improvisational free-market stuff (video games, non-essentia
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by quacked 5y ago
That is extremely true, but I think it's ugly on a screen-to-screen basis. Random text justification, no distinction between editable and non-editable text, various shades of boring/corporate off-white to distinguish sections of t
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by quacked 5y ago
I hate them, but I almost can't blame the devs. It's extremely difficult to ship anything today at scale without justifying it to extreme growth-focused investors. I bet every single time someone has the chance to say "no, le
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by quacked 5y ago
Completely agree. Jira theoretically could be used to be good, but it's an absolute nightmare to use. Totally inconsistent and muddled UX. Awful graphic design. Worst of all, completely bugged-out word processing, which is the entire
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by quacked 5y ago
I have come to believe that tools will never solve philosophy-of-use problems. This solution may not scale, but I am confident that a team of 5-10 technical writer/archivists/internal consultants under the command of an extremely
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by quacked 5y ago
Delta P... it's so strange to be totally comfortable in water and then to feel a pressure differential. Even a simple current is wild.
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by quacked 5y ago
The first time I found out the weight of water was when I had the bright idea to lay a tarp down on my driveway during a snowstorm so I could drag the snow off to the side instead of shoveling it. What was the most extreme rapid you ran? Di
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by quacked 5y ago
Terrifying stories like those are the norm in the outdoor recreation industry. Risk management is almost always nonexistent, and people coast on the principle of "if it didn't go wrong before, if probably won't go wrong now&q
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by quacked 5y ago
Whitewater kayaking is the only extreme sport I've seriously tried so far that I outright quit. I learned how to sweep roll (when you are upside-down in a kayak and flip upright), I learned how to hand-roll, ran several class III rapid
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by quacked 5y ago
Do you really find that people bond over differences in culture more than they bond over similarities? Devout Catholics and dedicated Protestants? Introverted nerds and extroverted jocks? Career felons and beat cops? People inside the sam
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by quacked 5y ago
I agree with your sense that most people have completely lost their sense of community; this is the primary reason that I oppose widespread immigration. Increased diversity of class, race, culture, religion, values, etc. makes it extremely
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by quacked 5y ago
It is comments like these that make me want to form a separate nation. I don't want what everyone is selling, but soon the option not to buy will be taken away.
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by quacked 5y ago
I have absolutely no idea how or even if that could be discovered, which is why my original comment was more about expressing frustration than offering a solution. I do know that several things going on currently will make it more impossibl
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by quacked 5y ago
> Nobody has found a better way, though they often try. This I agree with. > That's an immutable fact of human nature. Even cradle to grave propaganda doesn't change it. This I disagree with. Past societies saw far more soci
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by quacked 5y ago
It's not even that I think it's realistic to expect version 2.0, although I would really like that. It's more that it's impossible to get many people to even admit that the current system is flawed in a way that is techn

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