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by tharne 4y ago
> Are you saying that Musk somehow inherited $44 billion from his still-living father's stake in an Emerald mine said father bought for under a $100k? Are you trying to ruin someone's petulant rant with a simple statement of f
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> we should use our rationality both to make sense of the world and to shape the world so it is more reasonable. Recommending that groups take revenge on one another for past behavior and wrapping it in some Orwellian term like "Asy
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I hope you're young because this level of naivety in an older person would be very concerning. As others have pointed out, the real world does not work based on rationality, and assuming it does will lead to some very bad decisions.
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You don't need a study. Enough people, myself included, have used the healthcare system multiple countries or have family in other places, that this is mostly common knowledge. That might not satisfy a debate judge, but it's good
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> A fine example of how twelve years of continuous conservative party rule can gut and drive into the ground what was once a beacon of national health that the world looked to for reference. And this right here is the exact reason why Am
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> The majority of people should go to urgent care for routine stuff Most medical providers would advise against this. Managing someone's health is not the same thing as changing the oil in a car. It's immensely helpful for the
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> And yet getting an appointment to see a Doctor is a multi-week process (Ontario). And there's the rub; in the U.S. you pay for healthcare with your money, and in Canada you pay with your time. There's no such thing as a free
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> That said I think many agree that the old "why should I do anything when all these people are flying .." is a tedious lazy arguement. It's not an argument against doing anything - we should definitely take action, but th
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> It’s a distraction to ask people to change when we don’t force industry to change. It's not. Having folks like Bernie Sanders or AOC telling us that we're all going to die unless we drastically cut our emissions is not very c
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> Some developers just don't know or care about performance. I disagree. The reason developers and managers don't care about performance or more generally, good software, is because customers don't care about it. There&#x2
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> We wouldn't have acted Yup. Even the folks I know who regularly post about the dangers of climate change still make frequent use of commercial flight to take unnecessary trips, usually vacations. If Exxon had published their findi
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I can't believe how many people are still out there cheerleading nuclear power after watching what's happening in Ukraine. Nuclear power is great until you have a large-scale conflict in the vicinity of one of your plants. Then, o
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Right, just like, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people. /s. A tool that readily lends itself to misuse by is more often than not a bad tool.
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> when you go so long without a substantial recession 2008 was 15 years ago. It caused a lot of pain and human misery, just not among the social classes that typically comment on hacker news.
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Anyone claiming Musk's purchase is a disaster is just looking to take shots at the guy. I say this not because I think it was a good move or a bad move, but because it's impossible to determine the success or failure of a deal tha
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Dave Ramsey is very good. A lot of folks object to him because he can come off as extreme, but his advice is simple and effective.
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> I understand what this meant in the context of the article, but without context, this seems like a potentially dangerous statement. To be honest, the context doesn't really help much.
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> Therefore an end goal is a must-have. I agree, but this will never ever happen, which is one of the many reasons these programs are unethical money pits that only benefit people who make a career out of DEI. If you're head of DEI
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> To be fair, we can probably replace most of these with ChatGPT You joke, but I'm almost positive this would work. I had a colleague many years ago who, while in business school, would frequently use speeches or emails from our CE
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> There are plenty of voters who are registered independent/unaffiliated, but most of them still lean strongly toward one of the major parties Just because a person consistently votes for one party does not mean they like that party
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A moderate has more to do with a mindset and epistemological stance than it does with specific views. A moderate, regardless of where they stand on a particular issue, will ask themselves "What if I'm wrong?", or "Wow th
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When you have two choices in a polarized country, one of them is going to win and the other is going to "almost win". That's what makes this situation so ugly.
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> If the US had an equivalent of lib dems and/or proportional representation and/or ranked choice, would it still be so polarised I don't think this would be a panacea, but it would definitely help things quite a bit. The
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> Yes, because they are liberal only by name not concept. Liberalism is based on tolerance and civil society as the space of freedom. Exactly. We tend to conflate "left" with "liberalism" because historically in the
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The sad part of all of this is that the folks pushing the polarization in the U.S., the Trumpy right, and the progressive left, represent an extreme minority of the population. If either of these two groups had an any level of self awarenes
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> Do most people want to constantly fuck every second of every day? Depends on your age and gender, I suppose. For most 15 year-old boys, the answer is yes, they do want to constantly fuck every second of the day.
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> My hot take is that remote work is unnatural and has only taken off because of how laborious commuting and unaffordable housing have become in this country. Prior to the industrial revolution, most people worked in the same place that
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> I can understand calling it foolish, I can understand calling it naive, but why are you calling it cowardice? Because this is often a standard emotional response to very large problems. It's one of the reasons so many people (main
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> What's interesting is he generally is aware of groups of people that should not do so, like those who are abused, but does not consider the possibility that everyone can become a target (through regime change for instance). This i
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That's fair. Perhaps I should have chosen my words more carefully. What I was trying to say is that I've noticed that when dealing with very large and complex problems like privacy, climate change, terrorism, etc., people who clai

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