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by trentnix 7y ago
I'm not buying the climate change alarmism. The climate has changed and will change. Some of that change (although I think its a small part) will be influenced by human activity. The Earth will adjust. Humanity will adjust. And humanit
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by trentnix 7y ago
I'd bet the farm, all the farms, that your list turns out more correct than the one at the link. The item on your list I have the biggest issue with is 10. We'll still be catching plenty of fish in the wild (but some places that f
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by trentnix 7y ago
"Failed to progress forward" - what are you talking about? The United States - and really the world as a whole - has enjoyed its most prosperous time in all of human history during Gen-X's window of contribution.
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by trentnix 7y ago
You seem to define mobility different from me. The people in those areas have the legal and opportunistic means of going elsewhere.
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“back breaking work” Mercy.
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by trentnix 7y ago
No, a company just a collection of people with a common goal. And when you don’t like one company, you have incredible mobility to find another. In a job market as good as the one in the US at the moment, that mobility is irrespective of s
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by trentnix 7y ago
Nonsense. Everywhere I’ve been employed cared about my wellbeing and when I was an employer, I cared about the wellbeing of my staff. Calling an employer/employee relationship slavery after a Googler complains he wasn’t promoted fast
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by trentnix 7y ago
How about copy/paste from Stack Overflow? Is that cheating? Most of the code I write these days is put together like a ransom note but it sure makes it easier to get things done.
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by trentnix 7y ago
How aware of the uncertainty were those “experts” who recommended they have surgery? Was that uncertainty effectively communicated to this family? Surgery carries risk and costs as well. And it’s becoming more likely that the risk assumed b
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by trentnix 7y ago
While I certainly hope humanity 'can do better', I haven't seen any strategies that are all that encouraging. Those that commit more resources end up with more homelessness and more of all the side effects that come with it:
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by trentnix 7y ago
I’m of the opinion the calorie reduction is the primary catalyst for health improvements. Over and over our assumptions about nutritional timing have been wrong, eg breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day, don’t eat after 8pm, etc.
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by trentnix 7y ago
Because getting hit by other cars is somehow more tolerable?
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I agree, I don't trust the US government either. But there is some irony that Mr. Freedom took significant efforts to assist a dictator who denies all of his subjects liberty and freedom (and usually in brutal fashion). Good thing he d
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I won’t believe any of that makes a difference until I see a poorly validated study from grant-hungry academics published in a barely read journal.
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The charge had served its purpose and the evidence was eventually going to actually be scrutinized. It was just lawfare all along.
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Everything John Carmack touches he makes better. AGI will be no different.
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by trentnix 7y ago
Agreed. About 15 years ago I worked alongside a developer who worked like this. He was a very good engineer (not some savant as in the parent's example, but arguably the best in the organization when his mind was right). His mania had
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by trentnix 7y ago
Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot. - GK Chesterton
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by trentnix 7y ago
So the whims and popular beliefs of the masses decide what’s moral and immoral? If tomorrow society embraces organ harvesting from loving children, is it suddenly ok? Or is it always wrong irrespective of public opinion? If law doesn’t tell
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by trentnix 7y ago
That was a straw man and an association fallacy. It was not a useful or instructive analogy.
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“Obviously immoral” - the ChiComs disagree. https://www.foxnews.com/world/organ-harvesting-china-survivo...
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The organs belong to those kids. They are in their possession, and they made them. I’d have to take those organs from them by force or threat of force. Kind of like my money that the government calls a tax and takes by threat of force or, i
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by trentnix 7y ago
There may be other reasons Airbnb is unethical, but minimizing one's taxes legally is not unethical.
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Without profit, someone doesn't get paid. If you don't pay the landlord he can kick you out. If you don't pay the electric company, you can't keep the lights on. If you don't pay the gas bill, the gas company can tu
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by trentnix 7y ago
Of course not. If it was, they'd have led with it. But by arguing revenue is up, it's almost always burying the lede that profit is not.
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by trentnix 7y ago
If raising the minimum wage didn't have an adverse affect on revenue and employment, then clearly it's time to raise the minimum wage again. Right? Why not $50/hr? $100/hr? If increases wages increases revenue, why have
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by trentnix 7y ago
Nonsense. Of course increased operational costs for businesses most sensitive to labor costs has an adverse effect on small business. That such increases occur at the same time price competition shrinks margin - such as price competition
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by trentnix 7y ago
Motivations? Every fascist is convinced of the purity and necessity of their motivations. And eventually maintaining power becomes the overriding motivation...for the children, for the common good, for the poor, for the planet, and all that
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by trentnix 7y ago
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence i
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by trentnix 7y ago
On the contrary, that's exactly what it makes him.

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