slashdev

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by slashdev 3y ago
There’s always someone who stayed. It doesn’t have to be the very closest part of your family.
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by slashdev 3y ago
If my country suddenly becomes Russian or China occupied territory, them having my search history is very far down my list of worries.
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by slashdev 3y ago
For example?
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by slashdev 3y ago
This is quite possible. Not easy, but possible. What you say about us destroying the bottom rungs of the ladder behind us is very true. Civilization, as we know it, is much more fragile than humanity.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t think anyone is dumb enough to make those in large numbers. But even then it would be difficult to achieve.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> All it needs to do is kill enough of the population that what's left can't survive. Obviously. That’s very low though. From history we know we survived a near extinction event where the human population declined to the neighb
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by slashdev 3y ago
I see this kind of negativity all the time, usually over climate change and environmental destruction. Those things definitely can impact the human population. They can even end our current civilization as we know it, which is somewhat frag
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by slashdev 3y ago
I suppose if you used powerful ice breakers, ideally nuclear like the Russians, and escorted ships through in a line, it could work. You couldn’t justify taking them through one by one. This kind of thing requires Canada to have long-term v
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by slashdev 3y ago
I didn’t take it that way. I think Panama owes its existence, the canal, and its democracy to the United States. Also the close ties have been a huge cultural and economic boon. Panama has developed nicely since Noriega was deposed.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It currently generates hydropower, so I suppose so.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It seems like a perfect storm of more dry years, deforestation (although not much in the last decade), more water demand from the city, and more electric demand on the dams.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Perhaps the solution is as simple as invest in more electric generating capacity in Panama. At 8 degrees off the equator, solar is plentiful. One could use lake Gatun for pumped hydro storage as well.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s three months into the rainy season and they expect to keep restrictions until September next year. The problem is some years the rain isn’t enough to cover the demand.
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by slashdev 3y ago
A fleet of ice breaker escorts? I don’t see how that could be cost effective.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t think I accept your premise that more balanced dating equals better academic performance. Seems unlikely.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I hear you, but college admissions should not be tailored to make dating easier. There’s arguably more important things at stake here. If you value dating above all else, send your kids to a party college.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I completely disagree. Your moral obligation to your own family trumps that of your obligation to society at large. Even if you could argue that it should not be so, it is in practice. The harm/benefit to society would have to be much
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by slashdev 3y ago
Obviously one is not restricted to dating inside the same college. Typically the dating environment is the entire community. It can be a good place to meet people of the same age though. Young women tend (at peak physical beauty) to have an
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t support affirmative action of any variety. Why should balance be a desired end in itself? Men are more likely to go into the trades, and we need people to do that. The average age of people in the trades is very high. Who are you go
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by slashdev 3y ago
That’s precisely my point. I don’t care how rich the 1% are. I care about my quality of life. I want an economic system that optimizes the latter, not one that reduces inequality. Communism is a great example of an economic system aimed at
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by slashdev 3y ago
Plus Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. Why do you want to bring race into a discussion that has nothing to do with race? Fuck off.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Call support, get the URLs and logins for all their internal apps. Ouch!
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yup, this. Plus it makes your coworkers jealous when you're in a different exotic locale every week, and that's not helpful.
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by slashdev 3y ago
There are two malls, Apple and Android on different sides of town. Both have a high level of foot traffic. There's a wide river with only one rickety old bridge joining the two halves of the town. People on the one side of the town alm
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by slashdev 3y ago
I give up with you. If you want to argue that more debt is somehow not worse than less debt, that's like trying to argue that water is not wet.
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by slashdev 3y ago
How low can you get your expenses? What’s your savings? Doing gig work might be fine if it helps you survive long enough. If you’re unwilling to get your expenses low enough though, then that’s not even on the table. Always plan for more ti
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by slashdev 3y ago
It's economics, not hard science. "Proof" is a different standard. What the US government is doing is unsustainable. The onus is on you if you want to argue otherwise, I already submitted a link that shows the problem with it
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by slashdev 3y ago
The future will take care of itself man, pass the reefer. Your comment doesn't add anything to the discussion. That some people may opt into "hookup culture" does not mean it's good for them in the long-term. I'll s
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by slashdev 3y ago
How do you guys feel about tailwind? I’ve been using it on some side projects. It feels ok, but I’m constantly looking up stuff in the tailwind docs. CSS I already am pretty confortable with. I think it’s an improvement, but not by as much
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’ve worked at home my whole career. First by necessity and then by choice. If I happened to live in the same city as my job, I’d be happy to come in one or two days a week. But I’d never accept having to come into the office every day. I h

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