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by viklove 6y ago
The issue is we're preserving jobs like coal mining just so people can have a job to get a paycheck. If we can automate those jobs (or make them obsolete with solar power), what's the value in stopping those peoples' paycheck
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by viklove 6y ago
On the flip side, $38B is a great deal
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by viklove 6y ago
Presumable you could choose different routes and a different organizational structure
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by viklove 6y ago
> dedicating the next 20 years of your own life (and the major part of your income) Dedicating time and money does not make something unselfish, so this can't really be used as justification to show that having a child is not selfis
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by viklove 6y ago
> Having children [...] has to be among the most self-centered [...] thing humans do. Yes.
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by viklove 6y ago
Not long, when a massive airline recently went bankrupt and you can purchase their assets at fire sale prices and hire their now-jobless employees.
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by viklove 6y ago
The amount of material required may drop, but the amount of material actually used definitely increases. This argument is a bit disingenuous because it implies that our resource usage has reduced when in reality the opposite is quite tr
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by viklove 6y ago
No reasonable person would say som33's comment was an "unrelated controversy," it's a clear response to the question "Why was a case involving a wealthy corporation sealed?" The way HN is moderated does not wel
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by viklove 6y ago
How much were you drinking? Multiple cups a day?
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by viklove 6y ago
If that were the case, slavery would still be legal
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by viklove 6y ago
You know HN doesn't let you delete your account, right? Even if you send them an email, apparently they're "too backed up" to handle account deletion requests.
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by viklove 6y ago
In India there's never a shortage of people (police or civilians) beating each other with sticks. Happened long before COVID and will continue long after.
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by viklove 6y ago
> nobody's doing anything stronger than weed, nobody's fucking or even dating at all Doesn't align with my high school experience at all, where there were several pregnant girls and coke was commonplace. Maybe each high sc
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by viklove 6y ago
It's not only possible, but highly likely. Still doesn't make it OK or not worthy of ridicule though. Internal company processes have no impact on how the public (and judicial system) will react to them.
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by viklove 6y ago
> In the long term, change wins. Or else we'd be programming in JS1995. Change for the sake of change is not a sound argument. The thing about hooks is they don't enable a single thing we couldn't already do with HOCs. The
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by viklove 6y ago
I'm spreading misinformation by saying deaths per week won't tell us what stage of the pandemic we're in? > Number of deaths DO matter in relation to: 1. Human suffering (perhaps the most important metric) 2. Learning how
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by viklove 6y ago
Are we still talking about doctors and medical staff here? Sounds like you just want to drag a whole host of other issues into this conversation, but I urge you to try and stay focused on the discussion we're having, and not the one yo
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by viklove 6y ago
What makes you think I'm discussing the current state of US law? I think it's pretty obvious that I'm discussing what ought to be, not what is.
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by viklove 6y ago
That's sort of my point, private corporations run sites that are used by hundreds of millions of Americans, but they're not held accountable by our laws the way, for example, news corps are. > once you were as big as YouTube yo
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by viklove 6y ago
Deaths is not a metric that can determine which stage of this pandemic we are in. Immunity is the figure you're looking for, which will not increase under a shelter-in-place order. Deaths are down, but will immediately shoot back up if
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by viklove 6y ago
I don't think the US has a history of confining them to villages though...
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by viklove 6y ago
Not sure why so many people think it's good for Google and Facebook to be able to control the flow of information on the internet.
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by viklove 6y ago
Ok, so what you're saying is that if YouTube starts banning videos that suggest Taiwan is a country, you would support their decision.
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by viklove 6y ago
> Businesses operate on revenue and margin and companies like airlines can't justify using even 1% of its revenue to "save" for rainy days. So you're admitting that this statement you made is just patently false, than
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by viklove 6y ago
So you're saying people shouldn't listen to the music you've composed until 10 years after you release it. Good idea, I was going to ask for your soundcloud link, but now I'm thinking I won't bother until 10 years f
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by viklove 6y ago
So if they make the wrong decisions and spread misinformation or fail to censor misinformation, can I sue them? Why do they get the power but none of the responsibility? Is it just because they happen to agree with your worldview? And what
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by viklove 6y ago
> Businesses operate on revenue and margin and companies like airlines can't justify using even 1% of its revenue to "save" for rainy days. Huh. Where did they get the money for the stock buybacks they initiated last year?
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by viklove 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're presenting this dichotomy that you can only listen to old music or new music. I listen to and love both, I'm surprised that someone like you who clearly has a deep interest in music would rule one ou
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by viklove 6y ago
...just give them money directly to those parents instead. When you give money to the airlines, those airlines like handing out bonuses to their execs, and initiating stock buybacks with the confidence that they'll get bailed out in ca
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by viklove 6y ago
Turns out Rome was built in a day. Specifically, the 21st of April.

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