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by wredcoll 1y ago
The "scientific method" doesn't explain anything. It's a method for evaluating claims people make. The fact that there is no scientifically verifiable theory of consciousness has no bearing on the science that helped peo
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by wredcoll 1y ago
My pre-adolescent child says all sorts of things, occasionally some of them turn out to be true!
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> There is more rigorous peer-reviewed, published evidence for psychic abilities than most sociological and biological fields. If this proved that such things were real, there would be a corporation exploiting it by now.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This is a prime example of the fact that ultimately prices are set by what people will pay, the cost of the item is functionally irrelevant. see also: half of apple's product
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Thats the point where I started double checking for april fools
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Because in this world my vim editor gets to benefit from the money and time microsoft spent building a typescript syntax highlighter. If I waited for one that spoke the c abi so someone could load it via dll instead of http, well, I'd
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This is a good point, git is more like a very clever toolbox than an actual "version control system". You can certainly implement a vcs using git, but it doesn't exactly start out as one.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I can't help with your actual problem but I am incredibly curious about how/why you run into this so frequently you need a tool for it. I feel like in my 15 or whatever years of using git I have basically never wanted to remove a
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by wredcoll 1y ago
There's a big ol' messy line between a powerful entity saying "I would like you not to do that" and "I'm going to stop you from doing that". We don't want to be in some world where the gov can't
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by wredcoll 1y ago
So this is a fascinating example of left vs right thinking. To those on the left, why you do things matter. Breaking a law that is widely regarded as unjust is considered to be a moral action as long as it helps people. The difference is
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I mean, you'd think so, but the past dozen years have repeatedly demonstrated that there's quite a few people who don't seem to realize that this sort of thing is, in fact, bad.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Didn't apple stores recently lose a lawsuit for essentially the same thing? I'm extremely on the side of workers being victims of wage theft, but according to the article the employee was paid an hourly rate of $46, if the rate ha
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This is, uh, not usually how these things work out, historically speaking. A desperate country with an extremely strong military is not a great situation for anyone .
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by wredcoll 1y ago
We really have completely forgotten the whole napster/itunes lessons. I'm old now, I've got disposable income, I'm morally inclined to pay book authors but the stores and systems make the experience so completely unpleas
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Ok that was funny
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I mean, I can't reach into your brain and experience your perceptions but the literal billions of people who read for hours a day on "shiny" phone screens seems to show that as a rather rare view.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Why not just... read on your phone then?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
There's a whole lot of "probably" and "must have" about a person who is not in fact the elected representative.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I mean, whats the difference between seeing the logs of the actual blog content?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Do they run without set up? What are some useful tricks?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
People acting like the supreme court would overturn laws in favor of obama the way they do for trump...
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by wredcoll 1y ago
A rather perfect example of "correlation is not causation". But being "suckless" is a lot harder to measure than just running `length(string)`.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Mmm, chatgpt docs...
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> We cannot have corporations expecting to make a dollar off human life. That's literally a political ideology. The answer to problems like this isn't to pretend politics is some kind of abstract system imposed by higher-order
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I appreciate how quickly you jump from "oh we need incontrovertible proof of guilt" to "oh that proof isn't real it's a hoax"
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by wredcoll 1y ago
It's a reference to the video of israeli crimes being referred to as "blood libel"
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by wredcoll 1y ago
You're the first person to bring up jews. The rest of us are talking about israelis, try to keep up.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> The majority of all successful civilizations on earth have done this So did the majority of unsuccessful civilizations (whatever successful even means here), whats your point?
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I don't know, would it?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Selecting children for leadership positions becausr of their parents.

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