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by roughly 3mo ago
I haven't either. I'm honestly questioning how many resources are being wasting on bumper stickers we don't buy. Is this why I couldn't find the sticker I wanted last week?
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by roughly 3mo ago
I think there's two things I'd point to here - The first is that, by the standards of the world at large, this is a relatively homogeneous community. It is still a wildly diverse community, that's one of the things that makes
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by roughly 3mo ago
You saying “this doesn’t happen to me” and someone else saying “it happens to me” is not that person saying you’re wrong. It does not happen to you, that has no bearing on whether it happens to them. Them suggesting it happens to them gives
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by roughly 3mo ago
There's a weird incuriosity in the responses here for a place that calls itself Hacker News. "This doesn't happen to me" is about the least interesting or useful response you could have to someone telling you something h
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by roughly 4mo ago
"People" in this case is a legal term, not a colloquial one. Nobody's arguing that corporations are not composed of people. And, arguably, yes, the same argument applies to the legal personhood of a forest - that proving that
156.
by roughly 4mo ago
Right - you can sue CorpCo for violating the law, you don't need to dig in far enough into the corporate structure, decision logs, and personal actions to figure out that Bob, head of accounting for CorpCo greenlit the budgetary plan f
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by roughly 4mo ago
On every penny they make. The property taxes are largely offset by the carbon credits, though.
158.
by roughly 4mo ago
We recognize corporations as legal entities with rights because it makes a great deal of the legal wrangling around, eg, assigning blame for criminal activity, or assigning permissions to operate, more convenient. Assigning rights to trees
159.
by roughly 4mo ago
Sure, most of them don't have the body count Zuck's wracking up, though.
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by roughly 4mo ago
Yeah, and in urban areas in particular, that exacerbates the “DWB” problem that feeds into all the other problems that make being poor so goddamn expensive.
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by roughly 4mo ago
That all makes sense, I appreciate the engagement. I should've figured that the state-level vs federal-level gaps where where all the dragons would live here, and I don't live in a rural area, but I've spent enough time in th
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by roughly 4mo ago
Interesting, I see the distinction. That said, I’m genuinely curious here (and, I’m not defending police overreach - you can browse my comments if you’re worried I’ve got any love for authoritarians) - let’s take as a given that we’ve got a
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by roughly 4mo ago
It’s a goddamn banana car. This guy’s banana car is apparently legal, well constructed, and registered properly, but yes, the presence of a hand made banana car is reasonable suspicion that the car may not be up to snuff, road legal, or saf
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by roughly 4mo ago
“Spending more than you have” is an equation with two terms in it, and that is my entire point. You’re focusing on the one term, I’m focusing on the other. Do you have a reason for saying the current amount of spending is bad other than tha
165.
by roughly 4mo ago
This presumes that federal spending is a bad thing.
166.
by roughly 4mo ago
The banks were not, the bankers were.
167.
by roughly 4mo ago
“Raising taxes” is a misnomer - “restoring taxes to the level they were when we were deciding how to allocate tax revenue” is more accurate. There’s plenty of other causes of the deficit, but “Congress deciding not to take money from wealth
168.
by roughly 4mo ago
Policy flexibility is the only one of those that’s in theory responsive to democratic governance. Your opinion of whether that’s a good thing or not depends somewhat on which side of the inequality you’re on, I think.
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by roughly 4mo ago
Learned this one dealing with bureaucracy at uni - and don’t leave someone’s office until you know where you’re going next. “I can’t do that” - no problem, who can, and where can I find them?
170.
by roughly 4mo ago
As they say, the best time to plant a tree was 20 (or 200) years ago…
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by roughly 4mo ago
They apply equally to all people who run a company of a particular size with a particular user count.
172.
by roughly 4mo ago
Ahhh, the ship-shipping ship. There’s some great photos of it shipping ships.
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by roughly 4mo ago
It may be infinity, it may be nothing, but it's fundamentally inaccessible to us. All we have is our subjective reality, so the assertion that someone has found objective reality is always false and usually used as a means to deny othe
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by roughly 4mo ago
> because they are aligned with objective reality. This is the exact problem. Anyone who thinks they’ve found objective reality isn’t looking hard enough.
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by roughly 4mo ago
If you met anyone, anyone at all, who’s views on the world hadn’t changed in the last 15 years - and I don’t mean this last 15 years, I mean any 15 year period - what would you think of them?
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by roughly 4mo ago
This paragraph made me chuckle: > When Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her will bequeathed her library to the sons of two friends of hers. The first, William Royall Tyler, Jr., stored his half in a warehouse on the outskirts
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by roughly 4mo ago
Yeah, it’s funny how IBM managed to be both absolutely undeniably corporate and somehow still incredibly beautiful. I think it’s just a testament to the visual pleasure created by knowing someone really truly cared about what they were doin
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by roughly 4mo ago
Yep. The most interesting places in science are where the model breaks down.
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by roughly 4mo ago
A truck will always be a worse car than a car, the question is do you need a car or a truck? If you need a car, get a Neo, if you need a truck, get a Framework. They’re not competing past that initial question.
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by roughly 5mo ago
> Times change, and I work more in R&D space than on legacy codebases, but I still ask it to write something in Python then convert it to the actual language on occasion. I don't know if I'm tricking the context window, for

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