RomanBob

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by RomanBob 7y ago
>but don't start excluding one-off noob contributors. Open source is open for a reason. The idea isn't that excluding noobs is good. But that noobs are coming in not because they want to contribute, but because they want to pad
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by RomanBob 7y ago
University is just an overpriced IQ test anyway. We want to delude ourselves that everybody has the capability to be a doctor, programmer, engineer, successful business owner etc. We ban employees from using IQ tests, when SAT scores correl
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by RomanBob 7y ago
creating mountain to get more precipitation sounds good until you realise that the optimum strategy is either forest spam or getting weather control and then borehole and condensor spam.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
Dating sites are female-driven, and females select primarily on looks, as has been shown on plenty-of-fish and tinder data analysis. So a dating sites without pictures would never work. I hope to be proven wrong, but I don't think so.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
The riches already gave back, because they got rich making things people want. >We need more civic-minded leadership across the population, not less. The greed is just excessive. This is the wishful thinking that statists will always use
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by RomanBob 7y ago
The workers chose to work there and chose to kill themselves. Do we not expect people to have agency anymore?
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by RomanBob 7y ago
Instead of being fired with $50 mil severance package?
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by RomanBob 7y ago
>a race to the bottom by other states to claim the production facilities. Instead of a race to the top where people can just say five infinity dollars?
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by RomanBob 7y ago
people still die more driving to the airport than in a plane crash. The fact that people smoke, drive while texting, drive drunk, don't exercise and so on, show that they don't really care about not dying. They just like to compla
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by RomanBob 7y ago
>The 12 year old is sitting in my bedroom, reading. I have some news for you chap.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
>and the exponential O(n^2) You need to look up what exponential means.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
Are you referring to walking away from omelas? I don't see why people think that story is in anyway interesting or tragic. It's non-sensical, when reality isn't so. It's only deep if you have never read an account of a w
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by RomanBob 7y ago
>asshole I guess if you start a free play in town and try to sell bus tickets to bring people to town, and I drive my friend there and ask him for money, I am an asshole. what a world
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by RomanBob 7y ago
Healthcare has always been used by their practitioners as a tool to extract money from customers. Often they will say "it's for your own good". In reality, it's just a cartel, extremely protected by government regulation
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by RomanBob 7y ago
This won't work for loss leader discount though.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
the 'real' price has and will always be the price you are paying.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
those things are figured out centuries ago via iterated optimisation.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
The way this story was structured makes me unsure if it really happened or not.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
This is the case. People will buy el cheapo LED bulbs even now rather than well known brands. And those el cheapo bulbs have low quality electronics that fail quickly.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
In the US, as I go through the airport, I am physically violated routinely for my 'security'. All of the data I transmit are recorded, for the agencies to go through them, if not now, then later, when they figured out how. People
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by RomanBob 7y ago
>I don't consider my colleagues my friends, Do you allow colleagues to become friends?
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by RomanBob 7y ago
the parent asks for congress to intervene. why is it immoral to play by the rules of a country in order to access that country's population? the country's people should decide for themselves how they should be governed. or do you
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by RomanBob 7y ago
It's not possible to be fixed because the majority of people are apolitical, highly illogical and vain. Democracy as a system dispowers the individual (what is a single voice in a sea of milions). It is perfectly rational to not vote (
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by RomanBob 7y ago
It's a private company. How is it unacceptable for them to run the company whichever way they want?
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by RomanBob 7y ago
Virtue signalling only works because people fall for it. So it is really not surprising that it works on a lot of people.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
>so it might as well be those with the right values. By 'right', you mean of course YOUR right. You can't please everybody, so you should please ME.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
This is an absolute butchering of free will. A person being robbed at gun point is being coerced. He is having a choice forced upon him by another person. Society, being composed of individuals all of whom do not want to be coerced has an i
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by RomanBob 7y ago
When you have minimum wage, the person being paid sub-minimum wage is no longer paid at all. That is hardly an improvement.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
Saudis do not want smart people being middle class in their country. That would ruin their theocratic state.
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by RomanBob 7y ago
Because in reality the teenager's mental output isn't higher than a random adult engineer. But people just think "amazing" when a teenager does something, because people now have very low expectation for teenagers.

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