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by slibhb 3y ago
Your mentality (people are monkeys who can't make choices) is more responsible for people making bad choices than engineers at facebook. We can make choices to improve our lives! And the more convinced we are of that, the better choice
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by slibhb 3y ago
Ah yes, those poor dumb masses...from which you exclude yourself. I suppose it's pure selflessness that leads you -- someone who is clearly not average -- to advocate on behalf of all those rubes without free will.
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by slibhb 3y ago
If we're monkeys then companies are monkeys too and they aren't responsible. You're sneaking free will in the back door. In your view, "victims" don't have free will but big companies do.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Microsoft disagrees with you: https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1705664458952151101 The "solar makes nuclear useless" line seems wrong. There are situations where solar isn't feasible (like in
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by slibhb 3y ago
There's no evidence that the pitch clock has anything to do with these injuries. The article goes into it, but the more likely culprits are starting pitchers throwing harder, throwing more sliders, pitching without foreign substances (
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by slibhb 3y ago
What you're describing is clearly eugenics, just a benign form.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's not an obtuse argument. People value different things. You listed a bunch of things you value (lifespan of cat, not killing lots of birds, etc) but other people are uncomfortable preventing their cat that wants to go outside from
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by slibhb 3y ago
There's no mechanism that ensures that no one does things you consider unethical. What an idea!
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by slibhb 3y ago
Great but for those of us who have better than adequate working conditions and enough money, please explain why we "deserve a union". Reading through this interview and thread, I notice how often this debate comes down to a sens
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by slibhb 3y ago
> After the 2016 presidential election, the tech industry saw a surge of activism when workers began to recognize the work they had produced could potentially be abused to harm people. This is one more reason to be skeptical of tech unio
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Union support is substantially higher among younger cohorts, and ~2 million of the 55+ cohort ages out annually, so support should skew upwards over time. Progress in this regard is a function of time. If this logic held, we in democra
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by slibhb 3y ago
Young people in the West who are unhappy are mostly mentally ill. It's not the same in China and the article enumerates various concrete reasons why.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It seems clear that Marcy has been "condemned by a government-like body" (with or without due process -- I don't know). At any rate, this isn't simple freedom of association. And according to the article, the blacklist d
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by slibhb 3y ago
> The odds we live to see an asteroid hit us are slim. Presumably this is based on a belief that humans are likely to go extinct. I don't agree; I think we're extremely unlikely to go extinct and, following from this, an impact
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by slibhb 3y ago
Web components fill an important niche: creating a library of components that can be easily used in react, angular, some other framework, no framework, or some framework that someone will invent next year. I expect their usage to increase o
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by slibhb 3y ago
I don't know -- Tao Lin claims he cured his autism by eating raw eggs and honey.
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by slibhb 3y ago
This nonstop talk about getting rid of legacy admissions is funny. The subtext is that legacy admissions were acceptable as long as racial preferences were acceptable. Apparently, only now that we've gotten rid of the latter do we need
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by slibhb 3y ago
I've recently started running every day to train for a marathon (previously 3 days a week). It feels great and I'm sleeping better than ever. Also, weirdly, I'm less stiff/sore now than when I ran less, likely because I&
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by slibhb 3y ago
> This isn't complicated: marijuana is addictive to some people, but making it illegal doesn't solve that problem--it should be legal. But it's apparent that's too much nuance for the average politician. If weed is il
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by slibhb 3y ago
California should pursue a "reimagination of community safety". The rest of the country can watch the results play out. Either way we'll learn something.
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by slibhb 3y ago
No. Chrome was much faster than Firefox when it came out, which was in turn much faster than IE.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's not even true: burning wood is worse than burning coal.
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by slibhb 3y ago
If these scientists considered lab leak plausible that raises the question of why. I doubt it was just "feelings". Also, "the Enlightenment was all about peer review" is an odd statement.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Is most LSD sold on dark web markets fake?
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by slibhb 3y ago
> It should matter, a lot, that even a group of scientists who believed a lab leak idea was plausible couldn't muster up an argument that would hold up under peer review. "We can't say what we actually think because it&#x2
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by slibhb 3y ago
Advocating for "changing the conditions in society, workplace, and culture" is a bit of a moonshot.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I don't agree: having more stuff makes people's lives better even if that doesn't show up in terms of real wages.
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by slibhb 3y ago
The housing crisis is interesting. Post-crisis, Europe adopted austerity measures and the US went the other way. I bet that explains this gap more so than (from the article) unions and Europeans being lazy.
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by slibhb 3y ago
The economy doubling in size helps most people even if the resulting wealth is unevenly distributed. Goods, services, technologies, jobs, etc are good.
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by slibhb 3y ago
No, because journalists love writing articles critical of tech companies, some fair some not.

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