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by thfuran 1y ago
What?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Wealth is accumulated by capturing value, not by creating it.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Why do you think having billionaires at all is of benefit to society? Or do you just mean that the people inclined to break rules to accumulate unreasonable wealth would just follow them instead if that worked as well and that is what wou
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by thfuran 1y ago
Societies where no one has any regard for rules aren't great either.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>If the law has specific clauses about this that the contract disrespects, these conditions are not worth the paper they are written on Unless the law also has severe penalty for including such terms, of course they are. They don't
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by thfuran 1y ago
The DoD has been saying for at least a decade that climate change as an interesting threat to national security.
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by thfuran 1y ago
There's a little more going on than that.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Mac OS will be amazing again. I don't think it's even heading in that direction.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>And lots of people think Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day, Probably because it has the same sort of bad name as Juneteenth.
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by thfuran 1y ago
More closely linked to their phenotype at any rate. And though DNA is in fact alterable, that's pretty irrelevant, culturally speaking.
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by thfuran 1y ago
That's not really a number either. But what about 0/0?
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by thfuran 1y ago
What should happen if you divide 1 by 0?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Yes, that's part of why it's a bad idea.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Neither are anything like common as names (at least in the US. Maybe there's loads of them running around London), and both are words in common use. Johnson & Johnson seems like a much better example for that.
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by thfuran 1y ago
If the big players decide to move their stuff to their own tld, they'll probably keep their old domains to redirect them.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Yes, they're missing a pretty strong incentive.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Mandated continuing education isn't a sign of missing incentives, it is the incentive. Being required to do something to keep working in the field seems like a pretty strong incentive to me. But I certainly won't dispute that doct
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by thfuran 1y ago
A software developer is not required to do any continuing education at all.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Their daily practice leaves little time or incentive for keeping up with studies. Their certification requires it, at least to some extent.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>and enhances the potential trust in the process. I highly doubt it's a meaningful factor in public trust.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Bathymetric lidar exists, but it's a lot more common for there to be enough particulates in water to mess it up than for air.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I have made no claim of any kind about the inherent badness of words. I'm just saying that your claim that >The idea that arbitrary sequences of phones or characters will cause anyone within ear or eye-shot to become offended is rat
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by thfuran 1y ago
Fault doesn't really have anything to do with the original assertion. In any case, that's a pretty weird take on comedy. When you hear a joke, do you ponder it, decide to interpret it as funny, and then deliberately choose to laug
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by thfuran 1y ago
>There are people out there who believe in crazy things. We agree on that. How we should treat those people, or react to their existence, is entirely outside of the scope of conversation. It is perfectly acceptable to call an irrational
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by thfuran 1y ago
You describe it as a religious belief. Surely you are aware that there are actually people with religious beliefs? The rationality of religion aside, belief that there are people with religious beliefs is anything but irrational.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>The idea that arbitrary sequences of phones or characters will cause anyone within ear or eye-shot to become offended is rather absurd. No more absurd than the notion that a mere sequence of sounds could convey any other meaning or elic
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by thfuran 1y ago
The rest of the spitballing aside, your last point didn't hold up. Perhaps unsurprisingly, organizations like the CDC spend a lot of effort trying to get good estimates of mortality of various causes and have thought about this sort of
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by thfuran 1y ago
On what basis do you make that conclusion?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Those aren't clerical busywork, they're important technical writing.
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by thfuran 1y ago
What?

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