what_is_orcas

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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Isn't that sort of already happening? This year we've seen floods in Germany, huge wildfires in the US west, snow in Texas (and the Pacific Northwest), storms up the US east coast (wasn't there flooding in New England, too?),
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> If I put a gun to your head and give you an hour, you can't make a node that points to two other nodes of the same type? It's easy to make an imbalanced binary tree. I once decided that building a binary tree based only on a
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> Because if you did that we wouldn't have billionaires. that sounds like a good thing
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful answer, though I do not agree with your beliefs (to the extent that I think your beliefs are not only not-good for society but actually harmful for society).
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I can't tell if this is satire, so I'll respond to it as though it is not. > How are you supposed to staff an incredibly shitty low paying job if people aren't literally starving? Why should anyone be forced to do that shi
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
No, I am & was just genuinely curious. And I am now curious about your beliefs that conservative politics will lead to a just society.
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Hey how do you reconcile your beliefs about Jesus with your stance on welfare for non-christians? I'm just curious and I don't know any conservative catholics in real life.
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
So you're telling me that you think that people have kids so that the government gives them money?
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I thought evolution's components were sexual selection (who fucks) and natural selection (who dies). Random variation can change genes, yeah, but evolution is driven through the dis/advantages of the resulting phenotype (do they s
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> It's also interesting that a single mutation can cause this lack of tusks. That reinforces another concept for me - the ability to adapt is also important and has been selected for. Meaning simple genes to define structure are pre
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> but will you pay $500 more for an iPhone? Most people won't. I really enjoy this thought exercise: what if everything was made ethically and cost reflected that. The world would probably be unrecognizable from what it looks like n
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> I am, however, interested in making organic connections with like-minded individuals. Perhaps like right here, in the comments of HN ;-) I'd be legitimately interested in discussing your ideas; I'm not sure that this is the b
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Fellow engineer here who cares about the same things you report here. Did you just give up (using that platform)? Did you find a better platform?
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I find it really interesting that you love TikTok. > it's actually fucking awesome for those of us with "neurodiversity". Can you expand upon that a bit? How engaged were you with social media before your sentence, and has
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
When I lived in SF, sf.funcheap.com was my go-to for this kind of thing, especially random tinder dates. Everywhere I've lived since has lacked this sort of resource, and it's made meeting people & getting out and exploring mu
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> improving the lives of their customers. It depends on how you define "improving the lives of"... Amazon only won the game by undercutting others in the market to the point where they couldn't realistically compete. But t
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I think I see the point you're making, but the stuff that you say that the stimulus money was spent on are the things that result from the US economic inequality: folks tend to save when they _need_ a safety net; folks tend to pay down
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
This is complicated. I live in a poor neighborhood in a reasonably large city. I shop locally (even avoiding the more affluent neighborhoods), exclusively if possible, as a matter of voting with my wallet because the businesses in my neighb
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
This is one of those things that is true, kind of, but inaccurate. Generally, we don't have government moratoriums on eviction when the economy hits new highs, nor do we need massive government spending for things like unemployment ben
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> "The stock market isn't the economy" This is one of my favorite Kai Ryssdal-isms. While this is true, it's not true to a lot of people: politicians and us regular-folk alike often equate the stock market's perf
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
You bring up a lot of valid questions and points, and I really appreciate the conversation! > Let's assume that Inflow is (a) actually effective and (b) they drop the questionable opt-out subscription model. Both big assumptions. I
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> Also, how the heck do you reconcile this with your stance that people shouldn't try and make money from their apps? I think I addressed this in my other reply, but I'll reiterate: given the economic system we exist in, I&#x27
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> People need food and places to live. Yeah, and under capitalism, these are linked to some capitalist idea of productivity. We're getting a little far from the original point of this thread, but I'd argue that food & shelt
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Yeah, you're right.
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
TeMPOral's explanation (sibling of my comment you're replying to here) is better than mine.
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Is there a way to help out with that? I just take screenshots of recipes on my phone because I hate the modern internet. If I could enter in a url and you could scrape the recipe off of that page, that'd be great (for others). Out of c
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
No results for "falafel". I really want this to work, I love the filter options that I see (assuming they work) and I'd love to use something like this instead of Google/Bing (where the top-recommendations are all ads or
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
So, what I mean by "exit" strategy is that they're more interested in going public or being bought out than in providing long-term good (and sustainability). There's a different set of incentives in wanting to exit (high
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> The trauma is actually a bit higher in drone operators from the moral injury aspect. When you teleoperate a drone you cannot say to yourself that you killed to protect your life and that of your buddies. That's a really interestin
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
You're right, I take a more aggressive stance on this sort of thing than others might. I'm also known to say "if you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage you can't afford to do business" of many retai

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