beerpls

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by beerpls 3y ago
Lol all of y’all are interpreting my comments in terrible faith but because you support the narrative it’ll be accepted. Never mind friends. I just wanted to make people think a little, but that’s always a mistake here. For the record: I’m
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by beerpls 3y ago
“ Now realize that publicly stating your lab had a protocol failure of this magnitude and you face career death, the possible eradication of your lab and it’s connections, etc.” From my previous comment. It wouldn’t be the least bit surpris
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by beerpls 3y ago
“scientists who believed a lab leak idea was plausible couldn't muster up an argument that would hold up under peer review” Scientists work with covid viruses, scientists accidentally contract virus when one of a thousand technical pro
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by beerpls 3y ago
On the other side of the spectrum - code reviews have never, not even one single time, given me any real opportunity to learn something of value. They have only ever been someone else shoving their preferences onto my coding style (for be
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by beerpls 3y ago
“ I look for readable, maintainable code, and try to make sure the writer is doing appropriate testing. But whether or not it works and is correct, that's not my job, that's the developer's job.” And I personally refuse to wo
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by beerpls 3y ago
Yeah, this is an issue with way more science than anyone (esp scientists) is comfortable acknowledging In grad school I encountered experiment after experiment, paper after paper where the authors went around emphasizing the parts which wer
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by beerpls 3y ago
“Powering cities” Hyperbole isn’t good
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by beerpls 3y ago
Alcohol was used by more people. The governmental play that had to be carried out to make the people tolerate the tyranny was minimal. Remember it’s not about what a piece of paper says the rules are - it’s what you can get away with in pow
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by beerpls 3y ago
Lol this point is true but it’s downvoted. I love how the IQ of this place keeps spiraling downward.
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by beerpls 3y ago
That would take will power and fix the problem. In the modern world we download another app and then feel better despite nothing having changed.
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by beerpls 3y ago
Um how do you figure? Gravity cares about distance and mass, and as large parts of the planet move their density distribution shifts affecting both of those factors
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by beerpls 3y ago
I don’t really follow. There are billions/trillions of these creatures who are eaten alive every year in the wild. Why is it so significant that humans also do this? Are we trying to make reality fit our wholesome romanced version of r
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by beerpls 3y ago
people who take this emotional and illogical approach is exactly why the homeless suffer to the extent they do stop virtue signaling and start thinking or kindly avoid this topic because you’re only causing harm
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by beerpls 3y ago
lol people would rather be poor in the US than mexico yes. your dichotomy is a false representation. and a poor one at that
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by beerpls 3y ago
I have to assume through some form of leptogensis or similar that we could engineer our galaxies or maybe entire universe so that this feature is at least delayed much longer, if not avoided entirely
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by beerpls 3y ago
It was just a casual bbq with very relaxed friends. Being social and fitting in is a skill like any other. So many people in tech believe they don’t need to work this particular muscle and it shows Can you talk about things with a stranger
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by beerpls 3y ago
It’s a warm climate with large cities which provide sufficient incentive for people to choose to be homeless over other avenues of living Homeless people obviously want to live somewhere like Cali over Canada for the winter. California also
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by beerpls 3y ago
Unlike others, i’m going to say I get it. I had a stranger recently come up to me and ask to come to an event I was inviting others to. No problem! Come along But the thing is the dude was very shy and awkward. Which isn’t a problem, but de
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by beerpls 3y ago
Go to a nursing home sometime that isn’t super duper nice and expensive. You’ll see underpaid healthcare professionals using unwieldly and underserving equipment treating people they disdain all for gross profit from corporations Then ask y
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by beerpls 3y ago
No, from a young age I just appreciated computers and machines and logic. Tbh I don’t love programming. It’s just the best way to make my wage-slave status work best for me. Remote work, chill colleagues, relatively interesting (tho boring)
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by beerpls 3y ago
“Amazon employees stage walkout over… climate goals” Really? You think people working in Amazon warehouses have at the forefront of their mind climate goals? No these people want less shitty work and less shitty pay. They want to have digni
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by beerpls 3y ago
Stop living your life under the ruse that is our government/capitalist elites and start living it for yourself The drugs will come naturally after that (if you want them to)
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by beerpls 3y ago
I don’t understand the mentality that API ought to be open and free If you’re building something on someone else’s property, are you not prepared for the reality they may say you no longer get access to the property? By all means if we want
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by beerpls 3y ago
Are you implying humans will go extinct because of climate change? What’s too late? Why are the doomers wholly unable to provide a solid claim or example of a prior claim of catastrophe that has come to pass? Stop saying it’s too late, and
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by beerpls 3y ago
Now consider that these people are also the ones who have created the rules and policies of online discourse Now apply the fact that talking is how we think and formulate thoughts Explains a lot in the last 20 years wrt politics and social
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by beerpls 3y ago
What specific costs are you talking about?
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by beerpls 3y ago
So when the mega wealthy control the laws and politicians and then you come to me asking how we should get the laws and politicians so what we want, what do you expect me to say? I’m not suggesting anything about bankruptcy. I’m saying it’s
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by beerpls 3y ago
Not to mention that developing tech faster can lead to subsequent tech that will help clean the mess. We don’t talk about climate change as an engineering project, but it absolutely could be. Think if we spent a fraction of what we spend on
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by beerpls 3y ago
Just look at most of the comments in any climate thread. They are mostly people dooming “it’s too late” or similar (nothing has been done!) Ignoring the scientific realities, the public is hopelessly lost and emotional on the subject. It’s
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by beerpls 3y ago
“Nearly all of the attendees were vaccinated, but 70% said they didn't mask.” Why is the mask thing even mentioned, it was dubious as hell when they first pushed it but study after study comes out showing they don’t stop spread But the

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