cooolbear

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by cooolbear 2y ago
> Instead of simple, readable text-based menus, icons everywhere because they are "more intuitive". Navigation aids because, otherwise, "users get lost". I'm not especially dumb but after they dropped "hambu
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by cooolbear 2y ago
The studies you link to about Parkinson's do not support and/or contradict what you say here
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by cooolbear 2y ago
> One product of mine takes reports that come in as a table that’s been exported to PDF Here's the first problem! I can't believe actual businesses think that a report is anything other than for human eyes to look at. Typesetti
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by cooolbear 2y ago
No one got hurt
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by cooolbear 2y ago
Nice try, but getting 10,000 people to dig holes (e.g. gigantic infrastructure projects) ends up costing much more than what it takes for "one guy" to "design a microchip"
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by cooolbear 2y ago
You might be really missing the point here in simply echoing the conventional wisdom of the last 100 years
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by cooolbear 2y ago
I think they've grown up already awoken to it
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by cooolbear 2y ago
look before you leap my friend
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by cooolbear 2y ago
> Just more evidence pointing to the glaring truth that the mind arises from the brain, and that if there is anything like a soul then it disintegrates away within minutes, hours, and days after cessation of cardio-respiratory processes.
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by cooolbear 2y ago
I'm surprised that the definition of 'community' he uses here so strongly revolves around a shared identity and activity, and that what is shared is what defines a community. For one, I don't really think communities w
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by cooolbear 2y ago
So their politics on freedom and privacy of blah blah blah non-cohesive ideology doesn't correlate with their actual stance on crypto. A politician being pro-crypto does , however, tell me that they are dumb enough to be duped/gr
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by cooolbear 2y ago
Why is it so hard to make software developer jobs that are humane and dignified, where you cooperate with people to make interesting and useful things that also provide a decent living? The bloat of VC and the expectation for company profit
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by cooolbear 2y ago
wh-questions are different than polar questions, and in particular, saying "no" is infelicitous in most cases, and denying presuppositions is also different than answering a polar question with "no". From the Washington
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by cooolbear 2y ago
> Over 92% of Americans have health coverage. How many choose to use it, though, and specifically, how many are afraid to use it because of cost? I'd count "waiting for an appointment/life to line up to see someone 'i
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by cooolbear 2y ago
> Then why are there stories of Canadians crossing the border to seek care in the US? Because they got the scrap to pay for it and they can't quite get what they're looking for in Canada. There are private clinics here, too, wh
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by cooolbear 2y ago
Aside from the usury of US healthcare, even with insurance from your employer, dealing with the healthcare in Canada is a dream to the US. You might have to wait to see a doctor (most people probably still have to wait in the US if you&#x27
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by cooolbear 2y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm really looking forward to when the second read-through will call to me and what I'll get out of it then
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by cooolbear 2y ago
"Generate wealth" means "make somebody's number go up" i.e. allocating real resources/capital somewhere, with the assumption that 1. allocating that capital creates a net boon for society and 2. those who have
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by cooolbear 2y ago
false equivalency
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by cooolbear 2y ago
I don't think like this and no one really thinks like this. It is a shallow analysis that can only really be done after the fact and is, at best, a curiosity
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by cooolbear 2y ago
I don't think it's especially helpful to use this kind of "let's look at an infinite timeline/every possible outcome" type of reasoning. What if a region's local economy crashes and there are no more cars