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by consteval 2y ago
It’s a very complicated issue, but I think, at its core, it’s because those other solutions just don’t work. I mean, they work for a lot of people all the time. But they’ve existed forever, and over the past 50 years the obesity epidemic ha
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by consteval 2y ago
I don’t think this is true. My understanding is that the heart is a very unique muscle because it doesn’t grow. If your heart does grow, either by genetic defect or anabolic abuse, it works much worse. So you’ll live a shorter life.
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by consteval 2y ago
If you minimize the government that means you minimize regulations. That's an oxymoron - you want companies regulated, but nobody to regulate them? There are other options - a communist utopia, a zero-state solution. Somehow, I doubt t
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by consteval 2y ago
It does if those successes aren’t based on you at all, which they’re not. In every instance, a lot of other people did all the work. Musk provided funds, which a machine could do. And, he did fail. A lot. But the more money you have, the mo
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by consteval 2y ago
If anything this is an argument for not outsourcing things to the private sector. If anything, we should grow the public sector and things become more efficient. Which, to me, intuitively makes sense. More hops is more complexity is more fr
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by consteval 2y ago
We used to have this and, well, it sucked. Turns out people are still extremely rich but in their own little governments - what we call corporations. This may seem like an improvement. But these people aren’t elected, so we’re back at squar
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by consteval 2y ago
While money is just one form of influence, it’s the most flexible. Those other forms of influence can be bought, just as everything can be bought. We may instate rules to prevent such buying. No problem, undo the rules because undoing rules
128.
by consteval 2y ago
This is because of car-centric suburbs first infrastructure, not in spite of it.
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by consteval 2y ago
And making other countries more independent helps the US… how? Ultimately we rely on partnerships because - news flash - pretty much nothing is made entirely in the US. This is a Tom and Jerry level “bending the shotgun in your face” moment
130.
by consteval 2y ago
You can’t replace infrastructure with the private sector because infrastructure doesn’t generate any money. Instead, it works like a velocity multiplier that helps others generate money. Infrastructure is also dependent on centralization. A
131.
by consteval 2y ago
This is such an absurd stretch that I don’t think anyone can actually believe it, even if they wanted to.
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by consteval 2y ago
Woke is such an abused term that now it refers to the ideology of wanting… clean air. If that’s woke then consider me wide awake.
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by consteval 2y ago
Money can offset a lot of things, but money is still inferior to exactly one good - time. You can use money to move around time, but you can never buy it. Every second that passes is gone forever, never to be seen again. The recognition of
134.
by consteval 2y ago
To be fair, I use a mouse on a MacBook. Because even the best trackpad is still more cumbersome, painful, and inaccurate than a mouse.
135.
by consteval 2y ago
To be fair, NTFS is just slow and awful and we’ve all known about it for a while. I’m sure the new UI piled on top doesn’t help, but as a consolation, the core software is shit too.
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by consteval 2y ago
The difference is that we atleast acknowledge that stocks are traded as securities. The crypto bros are under some delusional that they’re a legitimate currency, and they should be immune from the SEC. … and then they betray that thought ev
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by consteval 2y ago
Efficiency is perhaps not the right word, but I was under the impression that attempting to measure performance is a cost saving tactic. I think you lose the cost saving if you just double your engineers while keeping the same amount of wor
138.
by consteval 2y ago
You don't, you just don't understand how they're intrinsically linked to politics. That's not me being mean, because a lot of the time it isn't obvious. But, you would be shocked how often you can trace an exact bil
139.
by consteval 2y ago
It works in the sense that if you open the website it will open... probably. Based off of what I've seen on Twitter, I'm not convinced it's very popular. I regularly see the stupidest people who walk this Earth making obvious
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by consteval 2y ago
It's an unsolvable problem, because any sufficiently complex job will therefore be complex to measure. I mean, if you could measure it, then you could just do it, no? Why spend all this time measuring how good an engineer is? If you re
141.
by consteval 2y ago
Profit in it of itself is an inefficiency. It's a bandaid for the fundamental problems of the private sector. The fact the public sector isn't burdened by a requirement to make profit isn't a downside, it's a super power
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by consteval 2y ago
It's in an inexperienced engineers blood to demand a full rewrite. I mean, it's just so tempting. Learn from our mistakes, a build a system that solves them! Then, we don't have to wade through the crud on top of crud on top
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by consteval 2y ago
The debt will only grow under Republican leadership. Framing this as an economic issue is disingenuous, and we all know it. That debt goes straight into enriching the already rich.
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by consteval 2y ago
Europe in the late 1700s is VERY different than Europe today. I don’t mean in technology or culture. I mean in foreign policy. These are formally imperialist nations.
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by consteval 2y ago
Nearly every decision made since the late seventies has been with the intention of making the most money in the shortest amount of time. Not just in government. In everyday people’s lives, in companies. And it always fails long term. We los
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by consteval 2y ago
The moderate left (I.e almost all of the left in positions of power) don’t have answers. But, the rest of the left does. The thing is they’re wildly unpopular. For example, we all know, left and right, that the healthcare system in the US i
147.
by consteval 2y ago
IMO it’s not a toss up, it’s just dishonesty. After a certain point we have to call a spade a spade. Hell, even Trump supporters know it. Half the reason I’ve heard for that vote is that they know, and are relying on, Trump lying about vari
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by consteval 2y ago
I completely agree, and I think this is most noticeable on online spaces like twitter. Relenting on a point even just a tad is perceived as being an agent of the "other side". So radical opinions, be it neo-nazism or white suprema
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by consteval 2y ago
It's not that the market is stupid, it's that consumers are flawed. We are all just meat sacks at the end of the day. Our time is limited. We can't investigate everything thoroughly. I mean, if I wanted to check how many calo
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by consteval 2y ago
I don't think so, because not all opinions have equal power. By allowing nazis and white supremacists a safe haven, you inadvertently shift the entire platform right. Because those opinions are so extreme, even those who disagree are n

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