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by swombat 8y ago
I've tried a variety of search engines and I always end up going back to Google. They're just better overall for me. That's been my experience and based on that I can see it being justifiable for Apple (who is after all a ver
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by swombat 8y ago
... doesn’t everyone?
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by swombat 8y ago
That's no accident though. Divide and Conquer was a core conquest and governance strategy for the British Empire, one that has left scars across the world that are still causing conflict today.
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by swombat 8y ago
That was the joke...
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by swombat 8y ago
Says who? I bet if we do a proper study we will find out the truth: that every kind of food eventually leads to death. Of course, that's what the Fasting industry wants you to think...
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by swombat 8y ago
Maybe some roads might have led there...
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by swombat 8y ago
If only there were world simulations where economic crashes have much lighter consequences, where economists could literally run A/B tests of their theories. Of course, for those to be possible you would need a vast connection infrastr
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by swombat 8y ago
Surely this is an April's fools joke... I mean, it's even called the "i.Con"...
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by swombat 9y ago
I wrote a long reply to this but then realised maybe you meant that it's the first and only _animated_ movie that brought you to tears?
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by swombat 9y ago
It’s already legislated in Europe. The new law, GDPR, is coming into force in May across the EU.
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by swombat 9y ago
<blunt>: You have an over-inflated view of your own contributions, because, well, you're human, and we tend to view our own contributions as much more valuable (because we understand how complex and impactful they are, and we don
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by swombat 9y ago
Generally VCs won't let you do that and will occasionally make you re-vest shares you'd previously vested as part of a new round of investment.
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by swombat 9y ago
Isn't the FCC being run by a Trump shill at the moment? I mean, they just repealed net neutrality, I doubt they're going to go around imposing fines on Trump buddies now are they...
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by swombat 9y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure what this one has over Cog, which is mature and well supported. Of course it doesn't hurt to have more than one option... but Cog seems slightly nicer of the two at the moment.
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by swombat 9y ago
Spreading tyre piercing shrapnel out your window on a busy motorway scales pretty well I imagine. Luckily moth people have better things to do with their time!
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by swombat 9y ago
All that time spent arguing with me wasn't wasted after all!
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by swombat 9y ago
Saved a life. About 5 years ago a friend was kidnapped by Indian police on behalf of their parents who were trying to gain custody of them, in India, on a Friday evening. By the time they landed in Delhi on Saturday, HN had helped me and an
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by swombat 9y ago
Counter-intuitively, given the state of German infrastructure it seems to me they should consider doing the opposite, if it will help motivate them to actually invest in their public transport infrastructure...
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by swombat 9y ago
Yes, and in the location "anywhere in Geneva" it costs a few millions.
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by swombat 9y ago
I’m Geneva that costs a few million dollars. Not much by billionaire standards but not cheap either.
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by swombat 9y ago
You could just join a company that runs Holacracy... it’s like a board game for the company rules. Not strictly RPG - but it does have roles...
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by swombat 9y ago
I used to feel conflicted about this, much like you, and then one day it made sense to me that I just didn’t need to feel conflicted about this - I went vegetarian. Now I no longer feel like every bite of my meals is conflicting with my sen
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by swombat 9y ago
Perhaps a bit of context might make it seem less like I’m being unempathetic. TL;DR: I was caught in the London tube bombings in 2005 and I believe it changed my life for the better. http://swombat.com/2011/12/19&#
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by swombat 9y ago
Somewhat controversially, I wonder if that existential horror was really so bad. I can think of worse ways to spend 48 minutes that contemplating the reality of your mortality, the fact that you could very well be dead at any moment with no
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by swombat 9y ago
I think it's unlikely that the remainder of the population would double their meat consumption. The more obvious failing point might be the fact that as the price of meat goes down, people (e.g. in developing countries) who weren'
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by swombat 9y ago
To embrace the skiing analogy, I’m Swiss and I love skiing. I’m about to go on a ski trip next week. If I believed that going on occasional ski trips does anywhere near the harm that meat consumption does I would indeed give up skiing. For
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by swombat 9y ago
If you’d rather eat meat all day, then you’re probably saying this problem is not important enough to you. Which is totally fine, it’s your choice. I just want you to realise you have a choice. Also, vegetarian food can be really delicious.
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by swombat 9y ago
Temporarily I guess it would drive the price down, and then production would adjust to meet the lowered demand. Think about it this way: if the number of meat eaters halved overnight, meat would be really cheap for a while, then a bunch of
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by swombat 9y ago
Do you feel helpless to stop the problem of antibiotics use in the meat industry? You’re not! Here’s a simple easy trick you can use to reduce its impact on the world: eat less meat. You don’t need meat in 3 meals a day. Reduce it to 1 meal
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by swombat 9y ago
You could say that we’re upset when a dog feels pain not because the dog feels pain (though it does) but because we ourselves feel (sympathetic) pain from looking at the dog in pain, or even just from imagining a dog in pain.

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