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by xabotage 5y ago
Survivorship bias. Especially for high-demand religions, answering "no" means admitting the church you make so many sacrifices for does absolutely nothing. This leaves those who are either too afraid to confront the cognitive diss
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by xabotage 5y ago
If the people who believed in evolution more out of faith than true understanding actually did the legwork to remove their biases and objectively study/experiment on the subject, they would come to find that evolution is real. And if J
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by xabotage 5y ago
"Impossible standards," for some religions, include things like being happy and fulfilled in a mixed orientation marriage with a large number of children. Not all directions are worth pushing in, and religion is actually really ba
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by xabotage 5y ago
Depends. I wouldn't want to get slapped with a high fee if I were held up in traffic, I'd end up renting elsewhere. Also, I've heard that rental agencies often lend vehicles between one another, which could further complicate
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by xabotage 5y ago
Rental car companies cannot control their inventory as well as we might hope. Sometimes cars are returned early. Sometimes late. Sometimes late and in need of maintenance. Sometimes people cancel. If the rental agency planned for these cont
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by xabotage 5y ago
On the bright side, ultra-billionaires like Bezos will never be space pioneers. The reason is simple: they value themselves too much to risk literally going where no man has gone before. They'll wait for "more expendable" (wo
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by xabotage 5y ago
The thing about crackpots with wildly unsubstantiated self-aggrandizing anthropological theories is that they often wield disproportionate power and influence. Take the Mormon church for example: they believe Native Americans were white Jew
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by xabotage 6y ago
This. It has to be a net monetary loss for the consumer, otherwise you're just inviting a form of "e-book mining." I can picture it now: meet Patrick, a graduate student who works part time on his uncle's kindle farm scr
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by xabotage 6y ago
I counted as well, pedant that I am, and I still believe that 2 is an unusually high number of times for hners.
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by xabotage 6y ago
This. I've never seen hners describe a product as "sexy" as many times as in the comments here.
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by xabotage 6y ago
> Microsoft acts like an ex that wants you to believe they’ve changed but you always regret trusting them This is the most apt analogy I've yet seen. I went "back" to Microsoft in the mid 2010s right around the time they s
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by xabotage 6y ago
This. I have worked and developed on the HoloLens; it is 20% cool tech demo and 80% cardboard propped up by Microsoft's over-eager marketing (think Xbox Kinect). Only difference between them and Magic Leap is that Microsoft has a large
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by xabotage 6y ago
The developers' word is irrelevant. Microsoft is a business. Microsoft will pursue its long term business interests. Developers are hired to do what the business directs. So the question is really, "what would best serve Microsoft
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by xabotage 6y ago
Agreed, I think the secret is often a kind of subtlety that can often be confused with meaninglessness. For example, the first time I read "Of Mice and Men", I found the "meaningless" suffering to be infuriating - how co
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by xabotage 6y ago
Assuming "meaningless" truly is an apt description for them, I actually think this makes Tolstoy's stories seem all the more intriguing. Most violence and tragedy in life is meaningless, we humans ascribe meaning to it. It&#x
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by xabotage 6y ago
Agreed. I find it difficult to even ask for a deeper understanding of evolution without first explaining yes, I know basically how DNA works; yes, I understand natural selection; no, I'm not a young-earth creationist. I have a solid gr
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by xabotage 7y ago
I find myself generally unaffected by advertising and would normally fall into the "waste of money" camp, until I started hanging out more with non-engineering types. Seeing them made me realize A) advertising does work, at least
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by xabotage 7y ago
> "I am afraid for my well-being and/or am being held hostage in my own home; please send a police escort to rescue me from my house; and then, optionally, please take me into protective custody, so that I may be safe for a few
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by xabotage 7y ago
It's different because I don't use my ass to open doors, type on computers, prepare/eat food, or scratch my eye. Your face and arms, however, get involved in those activities sooner or later. I don't care if my poop cann
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by xabotage 7y ago
Leakers are playing their part in the same game. In the case of companies I've worked for in the past, leakers were just grabbing cash in exchange for helping the media push the distorted narratives that were already being published, f
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by xabotage 7y ago
> If it's not, then why do we allow open carry/concealed carry permits in public spaces? It's often not allowed to carry in places like schools (varies depending on district or state). However, many pro-gun supporters make
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by xabotage 7y ago
>They had the ability to monitor all of your transactions and if they didn't like you they could roll back or block your transactions. Unlike, what, my established credit card company which still blocks me randomly when I'm tr
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by xabotage 7y ago
Could you elaborate on this specific genetic condition? I, like many I'm sure, have been tossed back and forth from one clueless doctor to the next, none of whom have even an inkling about what RSI is, much less ways to treat it that d
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by xabotage 7y ago
I see your point, but I think the original point still stands - even if we take into account the shortcomings of Japanese business culture, what developed country is without its fatal flaws? In other countries, especially less developed one
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by xabotage 9y ago
Does this take into account opportunity cost for time off of work? I watched a presentation from someone who had summitted, and apparently you have to spend several weeks at basecamp acclimating to the altitude before you even start the cl
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by xabotage 10y ago
Not sure what "empty pockets" means with an engineer's salary using FOSS tools day in and day out. When was the last time you had to purchase a programming language? A Unix terminal? What makes you think FOSS tools only creat
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by xabotage 10y ago
By that I mean, given that artists and game developers are often underpaid and exploited, proprietary tools only exacerbate the situation because the artists are forced to pay whatever price the vendor names (even if the company buys the li
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by xabotage 10y ago
I agree with a focus on open tools. Luckily, there seems to be quite a few OSS game development tools out there, which is why Unity and Unreal now give away their full platforms for "free". That being said, I'm highly skeptic
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by xabotage 10y ago
>Most commercial computer games require very powerful computers. This means that a less-wealthy person cannot play online games with their more-wealthy friends. This is especially a problem for young people, for whom gaming is an importa
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by xabotage 10y ago
I've seen this brought up many times before but I disagree completely that American cities' designs are the culprit. I enjoy visiting my family in their "suburban fortresses" out in the Midwest where you have to drive a

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