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by varelse 5y ago
Exactly! She was being cheap as usual and she got the best free advice no money can buy! Pay up chumps.
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by varelse 5y ago
The next few decades will determine the impact of climate change. It doesn't seem like a particularly hard problem to solve: embrace solar and nuclear power ASAP globally, but nothing is easy when people get involved. But even China se
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Technically no. But I guess you could describe what he did was to lie with the truth. He manipulated his accusers to define sex precisely so that he could honestly answer that he had not had sex. Now if only if this whole sordid affair had
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by varelse 5y ago
A loose confederation of 1.8 billion Muslims or approximately 1.4 billion Indians might have a thing or two to say here in the long run. It's not all about China and the US. Even more so as they both pursue policies leading to their ow
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It's not an extreme scenario at all. We just see things differently. Don't ask my opinion if you can't accept my observation which in your strawman would probably be exactly what you suggest because in my experience getting a
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by varelse 5y ago
They asked me what to do not the other way around. I told them something that would make a difference, even if tiny. No fate but the one you make and all that.
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by varelse 5y ago
If we fall as a nation, just under 7.6B other people get a shot at running the show and fix what's broken to whatever extent we can. Good for them, bad for us.
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by varelse 5y ago
Talk is cheap. Lowering standards is how you get craptastic AI like the camera system here deployed. But it's even worse than that because it's obvious they could improve its false positive detections, but seemingly given they alr
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by varelse 5y ago
As much as I loved Sam Kinison, I doubt they chose to live in a place that is sand today and will still be sand in 100+ years. But when someone chooses to live in SF, Seattle, or now Austin in exchange for taking a low wage job, they need t
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by varelse 5y ago
I remember an earnest soccer mom sort asking me what she could do to stop Trumpism in 2017. And I replied that she should move to a blue city in a red state before the 2020 election. She bristled and responded with profanity at the very tho
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by varelse 5y ago
Entity that stereotypes based on content stereotypes based on content. Sad.
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There are plenty of places in the United States where there is little resistance to building more housing and the local government would love for people to come there and start businesses. But they are not considered desirable places and th
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by varelse 5y ago
Which is probably why they want to build company towns where you won't have any alternative except for Amazon. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-16/amazon...
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by varelse 5y ago
I'm long past the point of believing anti-vaxxers who insist on loudly cosplaying this like it's the Holocaust should be welded into their homes if only because it's a lot cheaper than building camps for them to really enhanc
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by varelse 5y ago
If one cannot figure out how condoms work, I'm hoping they can't figure out the rest either lest they reproduce, but that's probably unrealistically optimistic.
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by varelse 5y ago
That's pretty much my take on America right now as well coincidentally.
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by varelse 5y ago
This was a stroke of pure genius by this writer at Breitbart IMO. Spoilers: it breaks the narrative so it doesn't work. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-how...
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by varelse 5y ago
https://www.aidsmap.com/about-hiv/do-condoms-work
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by varelse 5y ago
Condoms bought time to come up with a treatment for HIV in the same way that masks bought time for us to arrive at vaccines, no?
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by varelse 5y ago
Pattern #1: Don't politicize the pandemic. Pattern #2: Enforce mask mandates Pattern #3: terminate public officials who won't enforce immediately I'd say something about vaccines as well but I don't want to trigger the e
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by varelse 5y ago
Why they will get done when they are priced sufficiently above doing nothing silly. And that in turn will spur development of automation instead of Bezos like corner cutting across our entire society. Now if those low wage to minimum wage g
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by varelse 5y ago
This presents a fantastic opportunity for these gigs to explore market efficiency, much to the chagrin of the people who wish to keep paying them subpoverty wages. If our overlords can't protect us from a deadly pandemic then what good
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by varelse 5y ago
This assumes you have no control over who you allow on to your team and that is an erroneous assumption. If you are in such a situation it is time for you to find a new team. Time is a luxury none of us have.
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by varelse 5y ago
If instead of studying the winners you obsess on justifying why you are a loser then it seems unlikely you will find success in tech or any other endeavor. Are they now offering a degree in excuses and rationalizations?
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by varelse 5y ago
Why not focus instead on countries that did get this under control then? Some of them are even western.
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by varelse 5y ago
Slogans are weak. Good people are strong. Great people even stronger. But again I don't get why we keep trying to find shortcuts around hiring people we can trust.
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by varelse 5y ago
Oh a downvote how quaint. So let's double down and talk about how when I was part of senior leadership there all we did was talk about who we were going to fire instead of what we were going to build. They were called "unregretted
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by varelse 5y ago
And if you like seeing a bunch of middle-aged mostly white dudes act like teenage mean girls over whether to add new tenets to their already too long list, after getting mildly intoxicated doing insipid team building exercises for low-end p
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by varelse 5y ago
Just say no to these mental shortcuts and hire good people and trust them to do the right thing. If you need tenets just to stay engaged at your day job you are either incompetent or you're not at the right job. Or in the language of t
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by varelse 5y ago
Society is becoming Reddit and it seems HN is following suit. The next logical step is for society to become 4chan, and we are off to a smashing start here, no?

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