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by username90 5y ago
When the choice is between their monetary investments being ruined and them using literally trillions of gallons of irreplaceable ground water year after year then I know what side I'd pick. Sometimes you make bad investments and lose
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by username90 5y ago
You can just use less water hungry crops for that, would also greatly reduce the risks of a drought. The reason it isn't done now is that water hungry crops pays better and farmers doesn't pay the real cost of the water.
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by username90 5y ago
And gets a new job, like everyone else. If your work doesn't benefit society then why even do it?
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by username90 5y ago
You are exporting your water from California. Wouldn't people be happier if they had lots of water for their home use and instead of those minor agricultural exports? Seems like a huge misallocation of resources to me.
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by username90 5y ago
When you are racist against people then they will likely become racist. It isn't a threat, that is just how the world works. You can't just impose policies without evaluating them holistically, if you don't take into account
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by username90 5y ago
So why not fix that problem? You can't make up 12 lost years beginning at College, putting them to compete with people who are that far ahead will just make everyone feel those people are stupid even if it isn't true.
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by username90 5y ago
> that 20 of the applicants pass the objective proficiency bar, and now people will apply subjective criteria like "culture fit", who has "leadership potential", etc, and this is where bias creeps in. If that was the
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by username90 5y ago
The biggest problem with "hustle culture" is that they praise each others effort rather than results. Like in this case, 10 failed games is a lot of effort but aren't good results. And if you look at the reviews and where he
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by username90 5y ago
So why is affirmative action still needed at college level if they get so much help in all the years before?
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by username90 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-...
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by username90 5y ago
It is fine as long as your fratboy culture doesn't include nor ignore sexual harassment or sexism. At the end of the day it is your responsibility as an employer to provide a safe and fair work environment for everyone, it is illegal t
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by username90 5y ago
> Tyranids giant biological hive mind that rapidly adapts to new environments consuming or infecting existing species to plunder their genetic advantages. Also have plenty of units that looks rather similar to their Zerg equivalents. Tyr
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by username90 5y ago
> but knowing "gamer" culture all of these individuals are going to receive harassment and doxxing Then you don't know gamer culture, they only attack apparent wrongdoings, these accusations are far from baseless so there
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by username90 5y ago
The slipper slope has already happened, we are already at the point where words that had no bad connotations and didn't offend anyone are changed. Continuing to change words like that is just pushing constant frustration and costs bill
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by username90 5y ago
Most jobs doesn't offer significant bonus or stock. Even in USA most don't.
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by username90 5y ago
I think it is wrong to give the same title to everyone who happens to write a lot of code. Writing code is such a huge area, people who write code already outnumbers Engineers in USA, giving all of those the same title just doesn't mak
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by username90 5y ago
You don't think the police tazered the guy here? Since he died of a heart attack my guess is they did. Police in other countries typically doesn't use tazers.
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by username90 5y ago
Could also be that first past the post systems leading to less competent administrations than proportional representation and coalitions. Common law and first past the post seems to go hand in hand.
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by username90 5y ago
League of Legends wasn't their game idea, they hired the guy who at the time maintained Dota and told him to make a stand alone version of dota. Giving money to someone who is already successful to make them more successful is a great
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by username90 5y ago
Making it illegal for health insurance companies to discriminate based on employment status would be a good first step. This includes not being allowed to giving rebates to company plans. Such a law would have popular support, but probably
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by username90 5y ago
Since everyone else seems to do better chances really high that burning it and just doing anything at all would be better than what we have today.
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by username90 5y ago
And then prospective gamedevs took this to heart and build a flappy birds clone, ship it and feel they accomplished something. Shipping a game you know is shit wont teach you anything at all! You need to pour your soul into it first, try to
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by username90 5y ago
Of course some ideas are hard to recognize as good, but you can't say that there aren't any terrible ideas out there. Trying to implement a terrible idea will never work out no matter how well you execute, unless you make it into
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by username90 5y ago
You couldn't be more wrong, do you have a single example of a rich kid with an idea spending many millions to make others build a game and it was successful? I haven't heard that happen even once! The reason AAA developers almost
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by username90 5y ago
If other companies are making lots profit doing something then it isn't a terrible idea. A terrible idea is trying to build something that will never make lots of money, like the pet dating sites or so.
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by username90 5y ago
Learning fundamentals doesn't mean you don't code as you learn, it just means you code to learn rather than code to finish a project. Coding to learn is deliberate practice and is the best way to learn fundamentals. Just learning
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by username90 5y ago
Google aren't the good guys (no big company is good) but they are still one of the least evil big companies out there. Even Apple is more evil. Apple doesn't personalize ads, but they are instead working hard to kill open computin
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by username90 5y ago
The one true "religion" is science. Once a religion is discovered to be true then science will include that religion.
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by username90 5y ago
People rarely go and read the actual article so the headline must be accurate on its own or you misinform the public. Reversing or strongly altering the statement made in the headline in the actual article doesn't mean it is no longer
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by username90 5y ago
We are talking about the future here. Restrictions on our freedom will be added until it is no longer profitable or until people start to protest. And so far it has been immensely profitable and among the general public basically nobody com

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