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by stoneforger 9mo ago
So people who can't afford a broken system cannot afford dignity or grace? We should be ashamed we allow this kind of collective paranoia.
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by stoneforger 9mo ago
The Kool Aid is strong, remember this is the forum of an incubator. One has to believe to drink the whole cup.
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by stoneforger 9mo ago
Lingua Franca predates colonialism. Latin predates Lingua Franca, although one can argue Latin was forced down due to the Roman Empire's extensive reach and size. Ancient Greek also served a similar role. One doesn't need to learn
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Dino de Laurentis wants his money back
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Windows users are not customers. Businesses are. Tech conglomerates and everyone adjacent are going for the big money, it's what everyone is doing , it really is a fantastic world devoid of anything but ROI numbers. The fastest way to
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
https://evmagazine.com/news/how-chinas-byd-is-using-ai-to-sc... , it's automation and vertical integration. It shows what was always possible if companies focused on product instead of stock buybacks. Fuck Jack We
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
"How money works" YouTube channel had a nice video about this trend in particular going back to making stock buybacks legal in 1982 I think, which made CEO and execs wealth acquisition driven not by a long successful career with h
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
This isn't Star Trek and we will never have Star Trek, whatever your exact fantasy is this ends badly. If we had an iota of foresight and agency left , we would be setting up guillotines, not signing up for another round of work/p
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Jellyseer , request. Popped up, didn't even know when it was airing
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
It means that we are okay with being exploited and that's almost universal except for the sociopath class
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Was McNamara really thinking that's how you win a war and people just went along with it or was it just another excuse in a long line of excuses to keep the gravy train going?
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Thank you!
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Is this facetious? Have you worked in anything remotely bad or complicated across teams?
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Why is the manager unable to understand? Maybe he should be able to in order to manage.
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Fuck Jack Welch
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Only the bottom line matters and the bottom line isn't a good product, it's a good bonus or stock.
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
That's in addition to the parent comment. They are both true. Caring is for other people, the tickets must flow.
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by stoneforger 10mo ago
Token ring was the protocol, BNC the connector. Have you even lived without StarCraft on X.25 ? Don't forget to cap the ends!
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by stoneforger 11mo ago
If it had been solved before we would not be in the predicament we are now, i.e. people might be able to learn but that doesn't mean everyone does. In fact, most do not because we are too busy figuring out how to die leading less fulfi
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by stoneforger 11mo ago
The NASA example should highlight the normalisation of deviance. The Challenger o-rings had failed before and while engineers were very vocal about that, management overruled them. The foam impacts and tile loss were also a known factor in
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by stoneforger 11mo ago
They should really teach physics using KSP.
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by stoneforger 2y ago
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de
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by stoneforger 2y ago
The Meatfucker acts as a vigilante and is unpopular because of the privacy invasions. The Zetetic Elench splintered off. The Culture's morals were tested in the Idiran war. They might not have greed as a driver because it's unnece
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by stoneforger 3y ago
Both films you mention are from Dennis Villeneuve, it's probably just his stylistic look and cinematography in general that you don't like. There are much better examples of bad cinema to contrast against Blade Runner, plus there&