ryandvm

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by ryandvm 2y ago
Honestly, nothing in US politics is going to get any better until we are able to completely outlaw non-individual campaign contributions.
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The population with the logistical wherewithal to do something about it.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
That's kind of a lazy argument and it falls apart when you go the other way. Do you ever feel like we should intervene? What about if we have a trillionaire? A 10 trillionaire? A 100? Is there no conceivable amount of wealth hoarding t
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Good point, but still that's not reciprocity. Allowing the CCP to fine tune their propaganda at American citizens while US companies have to comply with heavy handed censorship is not a fair trade.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Two extremely obvious reasons: First, it's a national security issue for a company controlled by the CCP to have intimate data access for hundreds of millions of US citizens. Not only can they glean a great deal of sensitive informatio
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"Democracy, like mold, flourishes in darkness"
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Indeed. If you're on a team where the bottom 5% are always getting culled, eventually you're going to find yourself in the bottom 5%. That's just math. Sounds like a good way to turn a functioning team into Survivor Island.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Agreed. It would be ironic if it wasn't literally the exact same arc that every single company in this industry goes through. * Scrappy upstart catches the industry off guard * Wild success and growth * Becomes bloated, unable to innov
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"belief". lol
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by ryandvm 2y ago
You're right. How do you square that with the fact this generation is also having less sex and having a harder time meeting romantic partners?
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by ryandvm 2y ago
That's an interesting point, but if you follow it just a little bit further you'll realize the problem. Corporations shouldn't live in existential fear of the executive administration because then they'll kowtow to every
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I don't recall BASIC having a dozen different package management ecosystems...
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Great list - especially the "what not to do". The most self-destructive thing you can do is be the new guy that shows up talking about how everything is shit and needs to be rewritten with your favorite stack. I have seen so many
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I will agree that the free market has really shined here as far as product development is concerned. I have a hard time believing any government effort short of a war-time incentive would have produced anywhere near the same results. That s
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I think there's probably life out there but once they ditch the shackles of religion they're overcome with ennui and they just end up whiling their time away on their celestial couches in VR with their AI life partners. I mean, if
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by ryandvm 2y ago
To me, a solution that has a 10% success rate is a bad solution.
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Fascinating that your version said "vapor". That's a much better translation. The versions I've read called it "vanity" which was even more obtuse. Once I figured out that they meant something insubstantial and
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I don't know about horror, but for me there was definitely a sort of peace that comes with this understanding. If you have imposter syndrome, you've spent your whole life wondering when everyone is going to figure out that you&#x2
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by ryandvm 2y ago
But why did he pick pools? What if he lives in an upper middle class suburban neighborhood where everybody has pools? And what if he slowed his scrolling just a little too much on a pool ad on Instagram? What if he actually, kinda does thin
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Same. But honestly with all the "I pay extra for Apple because privacy" posts around here, I kind of expect better from them. Whereas everybody pretty much knows that if you dance with Google, they're going to be looking down
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I hate to break it to you, but the political machinations of the richest person in the world will *and should* be high profile news. This isn't the MSM busting his ass because he's not progressive enough, it's him being in th
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by ryandvm 2y ago
"What is it like to be a bat (or a thermostat)?" is too abstract for anyone to thoughtfully grasp. Instead try asking yourself "what is it like to be asleep?" or "what is it like to be waking up?" or "what
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Fair point. At high enough levels, ethyl alcohol is also a pretty effective poison.
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"When it comes to drinking rubbing alcohol, the digestive tract suffers the most, even when only swallowing a small amount. The body metabolizes these extremely high alcohol levels into acetone. If consumed to intoxication, the substan
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They work and they are indeed expensive. I have a feeling in the coming years the popularity of GLP-1 style drugs is going to really skew the income:lifespan ratios even further.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
It absolutely floors me that this isn't already illegal. I've been to healthcare providers that charge one a reasonable amount until you've hit your deductible and then they charge a higher amount. That was a real eye opener.
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I did not know "ye" was second person plural. I'm bringing it back. Ye can thank me later.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I hope they fucking do it. Sometimes people just need to learn hard lessons. Maybe then they'll stop looking to billionaires for answers - at least for another hundred years or so until we forget this lesson (again). Or, I'm wrong
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Chirality Could Kill Us All, If We Let It(hackaday.com)
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Don't worry, it will be abandoned and recreated multiple times in the next 10 years anyway.

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