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by scaramanga 3y ago
If only these drive-by contributors would be around to maintain the stuff like secretaries that would be a dream. As it is, I think you may have the roles reversed: the maintainers are not there to merge your patch and look after it in perp
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Humans are better off now primarily because the imperial jackboot has been lifted off the neck of the india and china (which, together, contain quite a lot of people) and that has led to a rebound in their living conditions dragging up the
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Am I the only one who sees a jumbled stream of barely coherent semi-thoughts and word salad?
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Throwing them down a well would solve it, no? If throwing them down a well would solve it, then can you think of a less extreme solution, like for example, sitting them down to let them know that they have to give up their political power?
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by scaramanga 3y ago
"Unions have been pushing companies to improve on-the-job conditions. After lobbying for it last year, major freight railroads have started offering short-term paid sick leave—in some cases for the first time—to union workers to ensure
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Yes, that's precisely the sort of thing that would elicit flak. If they openly say "here is an under-egged model for the climate deniers, but here is the real, alarming model" which one do you think their climate-denying flac
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Yes, this is like my relatives who voted Tory because immigrants are taking their benefits away. Only to enter old-age with the Tories taking their healthcare and their benefits away. These are tragic and self-defeating people. It doesn&#x2
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by scaramanga 3y ago
The history is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming Most of the dimming effect was from massively polluting coal burning. I'm sure you understand why we had to stop that. CO2 accumulates in the atmos
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by scaramanga 3y ago
That narrative explains perfectly why this engenders such immediate kneejerk emotional reactions. It's a fly-trap for reactionary crackpots, who are rife in technical circles such as ours. It's as if it were custom designed for pe
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by scaramanga 3y ago
For the non-english speakers: "disbelief" has two meanings: 1. actually not believing something 2. astonishment/amazement Climatologists believe the temperature anomaly, and are astonished by it. Hope that clears up some of t
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Lots copy and pasted tho. I like "buffy" for a buffer. That really dates it :)
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Yes, but these people thrive on inflicting sadistic "treatments" and "remedies" on everyone more vulnerable than themselves. They're not interested in responsible driving, they're just looking for any excuse fo
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by scaramanga 3y ago
I guess salaries which allow people to provide for their basic needs would be a good start. Or providing secure, safe, affordable housing. Where people don't live in constant fear and material insecurity which makes it impossible to sl
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Yeah gosh, like, wow, you can't arrest someone without a jolly good reason... I can see the sad-faces all around, as journo's at the Oligarch's Daily Tribue lament that human rights are completely out of control now that cops
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by scaramanga 3y ago
tl;dr social programs fail when you attack and destroy them. So the obvious conclusion in the eyes of the amazon times? Instead of helping people in crisis, we need state troops to threaten, intimidate, and attack them. You know, like the g
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by scaramanga 3y ago
If you work hard, in the fields, every day, perhaps one day you, too, could be a successful pharaoh like me. Said the great wise pharaoh.
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Fascinated as I might be to read an approximately 11 trillion word article which says "if you want to be great then work on things you are passionate about stay fresh and curious" I have to first stop and wonder if this is advice
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Develop a habit of having a lot of dollars. Don't let life be something you do without at least a billion of them. You're totally welcome for the sage advice. Have a nice day. haha.
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by scaramanga 3y ago
It's absolutely not efficient in the sense you imagine. The VC capital is concentrated in to the hands of a few players. They're not going to compete against themselves. And nobody is going to compete against the titans. The marke
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Haha, the funny part about this article is the mention of people trying to find happiness by studying the works of people who seem constitutionally unable to experience joy and, perhaps as a symptom of that, are extremely prolific authors o
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Yes, how dare people write about their life experiences :) Approval: DENIED.
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by scaramanga 3y ago
He didn't say he knows _the_ cure he says he cured himself. It's like someone loses weight and sticks to it, they don't know _the_ cure for obesity, but they managed to go from being obese to not being obese and staying there
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by scaramanga 3y ago
There is being rational, using principles to interpret a statement. And then there is being rational to the extent that you are in complete denial about that the fact that your rational faculty is located within a spongy organ in the crania
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Just goes to show, you have nothing to lose by organizing Sitdown strikes which effectively take possession of the business. You couldn't possibly run it worse than our self-appointed lords and masters. I mean, if you're all going
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Definitely there's a lot of workloads that are pure data-munging, where you don't want to store the whole bloated JSON (or protobuf) mess on eg. S3 where you're paying by the byte, but at the same time, you're looking at
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Then you agree with all sober analysts. I mean, they basically agreed to disarmament and implemented it with nothing in return for over a decade. It took Bush tearing up the agreed framework, placing them on the axis of evil, and then the I
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Definitely. South korea makes great use of it with sweeping and draconian national security laws, torture, spy agencies trying to rig elections, political parties being abolished, internet censorship, etc. It's just that in the case of
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by scaramanga 3y ago
"The financier and former Tory donor says leaving the EU was a plan by the rich to make themselves richer and the poor poorer." In other news: politics is a thing whereby factions within a society compete for control over decision
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by scaramanga 3y ago
It's a secular religion. The whole thing scans very much the like the man who ambushed me in a public bathhouse a few weeks ago to tell me about how skeptical he was about Jesus his whole life, right up until the moment he found Jesus.
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by scaramanga 3y ago
Dude, you are absolutely not being productive in the 12 hours of indentured servitude. You need to find a new job. The people at your current job aren't your friends. They've let you arrange to give away a full 50% your life (most

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