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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The end goal is value. And value changes from community to community. From one overstated and meaningless self-help word to another. Is that what a human exists to do? Provide "value" to the community? > After work I play
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Writing about productivity seems like a nice racket. What's with the excessive productivity propaganda the past few years. Is that what humans are? What humans exist to be/do? Be products that produce as much as possible? So much
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by dotcommand 5y ago
But we aren't speaking french. We are speaking english and in english en masse doesn't mean a tiny fraction of people/group.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The science on this is clear, please update your stance. You are conflating science with "stats". > Natural immunity is not as protective as vaccine induced immunity. If that is true and if the science is clear, then why i
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> That is not a vegan take. I am not vegan. Didn't say you were vegan. Just like mothers telling their children "eat your veggies" makes them vegan. But the prevalence of that saying today is due to the vegan lobby. > T
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Side note: Why do we constantly cry about recommendations from the 1970s being different from today's recommendations? Because hardly anything in nutrition "science" has proven to be predictive. It's all junk. Most
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Delta variant necessitates a higher level of herd immunity because it's so much more transmissible. How much higher? 100%? > No, it's very obviously about stopping covid. Then why are those who already got covid told to ge
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Everyone has to be vaccinated and we must all prove it to exist in society ( even people who had covid )? So, it isn't about herd immunity anymore? It isn't about stopping covid, but getting everyone the vaccine and forcing them t
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Pretty dismal discussion in here at the time of writing. Largely complaints about tyranny. Because it's highly tyrannical? Odd how cavalier you are about this. Nevermind that you have a right to privacy when it comes to health mat
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by dotcommand 5y ago
"significant demand", "sold out", etc. Considering this is microsoft and theverge, this "news" story is just paid PR/ad like so much of these type of stories are.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Hasn't this been known for decades now? 'According to (Hayashi 2005, p. 363), the Śulba Sūtras contain "the earliest extant verbal expression of the Pythagorean Theorem in the world, although it had already been known to the
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by dotcommand 5y ago
More anti-china propaganda. > Education is a key aspect of China's global power strategy. Is it not a key aspect of every major nation? But when we do it, it's called "soft power". > This was supposed to be «neo-Na
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The invasion of the Huns was pretty traumatic for the Western Roman Empire "Traumatic" is quite the understatement. The huns and the hunnic empire destroyed the roman empire by ending roman primacy in western/northern eu
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Why would a company pay more than they need to? There is the prestige factor. And of course pressure from the employees. If you are making $600K per employee and it's public, they'll demand more. > I would pay 4x the price
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The former is suffering from a labor shortage which is why FAANGs and similar companies are willing to pay $300k-600k for engineers with 5-10 years of experience. The reason FAANGs/etc are willing to pay $300k-600k for "high-
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Believe it or not, I spent the last hour typing and re-deleting a response to your sarcastic comment It wasn't sarcastic. Poignant. > Reuters and AP, as news organizations, do not typically make value judgements. Reuters and AP
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> . It's true that mercantilism has been better for Chinese people than the IMF agenda for anyone else. So what? But you wrote: "Not even China! (At least not Chinese people.)" In one comment you say it didn't benefit
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> "Code the Perimeter" is the key insight of Kevin Greer's fabulous 2016 analysis of why Unix beat Multics Brian Kernighan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" delves into why multics failed and unix was created
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Are they supposed to loudly set it? It's ridiculous what blatant propagandists these wire services are. But good for them. Hopefully they'll continue. They should target companies like reuters next. Why is Apple and Microsoft give
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by dotcommand 5y ago
I recently watched a youtube video about why avocados cannot be grown by seed and learned about grafting. Interesting stuff. Didn't know apples also were grown through grafting.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
That explains why red apples taste horrible but what happened to grapes? I remember when grapes were the dark bluish/blackish concord types and now, the supermarkets mostly carry green and purple grapes which taste awful in comparison.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Not ludicrous at all - Trump was open to Japan and Korea acquiring nukes. [1] Don't link to paywalls. Who is talking about Trump? I'm talking about the US. Also, Trump was open to a lot of things. Including Mexico paying for
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Pushed by whom? The German Marshall Fund? Oh a state think tank. Why? "way to shift the power dynamics in today's information wars." So PBS, NPR, etc were originally created to participate in information wars. Sort of like go
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> This article is more than your classic "the CCP is just making moves to solidify it's own power." "And so, in classic CCP fashion, it was time to smash." It's your standard state propaganda. At least he a
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> For the rest of Asia, they'd do well to militarize; for Japan and Australia to consider getting nuclear weapons or hosting them, The idea that we'd ever let Japan have a nuke is ludicrous. Do you really think we'd let a
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> If I ran into "scrutable" or "wieldly" in a sensible context, I'm not sure I would realize they were archaic. Archaic or not, I think most of us would find it "out of place" or awkward. When's th
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by dotcommand 5y ago
We can't handle the truth.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
People in the UK are forced to buy these calculators also? Thought it was an exclusively US racket. Another hit to american exceptionalism. With the rise of smartphones, I figured I was part of the last generation forced to buy these overpr
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> There are certainly worse ones. Agreed. > Yes? That was what the Turkish war of independence was about. The turkish war of independence was merely a face saving way of the west letting ataturk end the ottoman empire. It's fairl
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by dotcommand 5y ago
After 9/11 there was talk about nobody wanting to work or live in skyscrapers. That the world was forever changed. Nothing really changed except the state gained more power and people lost some power. Last I checked, there were cranes

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