DistressedDrone

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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
Why would that even be a problem?
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
It's almost like we can't force them to do things our way.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I suspect it can be solved in many different ways, but when you sell food by the pound, it's much more advantageous to distribute your limited quantity of nutrients in as much produce as possible. This seems really, really hard to regu
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
You think the OP has never heard this before? This is the attitude that creates the guilt that weighs people down in the first place. You, like most people, are talking about the future. I'm sure you're about the 1000th person tel
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
Could be. I hope the intent is still encouraging!
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
The other commenter takes this somewhere interesting, but to me the main point is to not get trapped by guilt. That's why I say "you now" and not just "you". I'm not implying that you're the best you ever
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
This was always the problem with capitalism based on short-term gain, it will inevitably sacrifice loyalty for a quick buck. The same will happen or is already happening to online stores who do the same, eg by showing ads. That said, at som
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
It's literally a therapist's job to help you figure this out, I don't want to undermine this. Please speak to a professional, you are not alone. In the meantime, here are some of my own "no bullshit mantras" I found
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I'm pretty sure they've been trying, but our bodies have evolved to distinguish actual sugar from anything else for a very long time.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I can't read the article, but the fact that they include suicide in the list indicates a strong possiblity that they did not control for socioeconomic factors. Maybe richer people drink more coffee, and also tend to die less? Sorry if
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
Well, it's all relative. Assuming all corporations are equally amoral (or close enough), defense means war profiteering, whereas (traditional) media is a blight on our society that has largely abandoned any pretense of social function
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
As a programmer with morals, I would never work in pharma, defense or media. I can't be the only one.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
> (b) they'd know you'd done it. That depends entirely on how exactly you do it. And knowing something and being able to prove it are two very different things.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I tend to agree, although I hate ads on principle. But there are a lot of things I hate and don't have to think about. I don't go around protesting the war because in my country that's not something I have to care about, for
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I use Linux exclusively. You don't need a zero-day when everyone forgets to patch or takes a month to do so. To say nothing of the documented vulnerabilities with no available patch.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
And Digg.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
If the universities wanted the problem fixed it would be fixed. I truly don't believe research universities are focused on producing value (other than to themselves).
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
> Also, I think most people vastly overestimate the level of competence of VCs and especially the degree of due diligence that they do. They are just as easily wooed by great presentations and the typical sales tricks. Cases in point: We
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I don't mean to attack the author rather than the article, but it's hard to take them seriously when they use terms like "liberals hate" and "lol" in an article that aims to be empirical. It's just so need
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
Maybe it looked better, but I think it felt better because it was much faster. This is a marketing push disguised as an aesthetic change. Mozilla, please stop trying to make Pocket happen, it's not going to happen.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
You are right, I don't have rich friends who create wealth. But if I to choose one as a friend or mentor to make the world a better place, I'll side with the person not trying to game an entire society to get richer, regardless of
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I was commenting about this earlier, here's a link to a study that says otherwise: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaau1156.full Or rather, it says people who are advantaged (ie lucky) consid
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
The thing is, it's all luck. Policies are made with the idea that someone like you must have somehow "earned" it, and you may believe it yourself, but no one chooses to be poor. You were lucky enough to get a good job, lucky
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
It's more complicated than that. It can look something like this: https://xkcd.com/882/
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
You got me there! It shows the kind of market that can emerge when piracy is less practical than purchasing the software. My point still stands though for emulators on PC where I believe software piracy remains popular.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
It surprises me the number of people who thought they could make money selling emulators, in what is and has always been almost exclusively dedicated to piracy.
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
I really don't understand this idea that is often repeated. You take someone who can code in a specific language and maybe a specific framework, and it takes them years to become useful? Are people understating the capabilities of youn
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
What do you think of this one?
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
> I'll also mention: Exploding job offers aren't always b-llsh-t. If I have a 3 person startup and need a fourth person, and two strong candidates, I'll want to extend the offer to candidate number 2 if candidate number 1
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by DistressedDrone 5y ago
At that point why not just use a globe?

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