ganafagol

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by ganafagol 5y ago
> Could you imagine ants finding a method to annihilate themselves? It's not very hard for ants to collectively commit suicide.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Exactly. These are social and political problems. They won't be solved by expanding. On the contrary, expanding makes them worse.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
There are other alternatives beyond "spreading out" and "sitting on our hands". Solving world hunger does not need expansion. Stopping climate change does not need expansion. Preventing the upcoming antibiotics crisis do
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Maybe it's being downvoted because it is simply wrong? If tomorrow all ants disappear then most land-oriented ecosystems would just collapse. We humans are having so egoistically anthropocentrical world views that it's not even fu
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by ganafagol 5y ago
I'm confused. Do you mean the millions of "long covid" cases which already exist today? Or the estimate that about 70% of all people who got the vaccine will be dead within 3 years? I know which of these two I consider gaslig
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Your parent comment was written in a way to discredit vaccinations as a concept and insinuate that it is cult-like. You may want to double-check your understanding of sarcasm. It works exactly the other way around.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
> you would treat it with antibiotics and be fine. Funny how you are confirming the sentiment in the article. I'd suggest you read it.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
You are welcome to compare the number of cases of suspected-but-not-confirmed side effects with the number of people getting Lyme every year. You may find a difference of a few orders of magnitude.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Why don't they just solve world peace and faster-than-light travel? Because these things are hard. Lacking the ultimate solution, a small step is better than nothing. Or do you only walk because cars and trains are too slow to get you
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by ganafagol 5y ago
If you consider enjoying nature as "reckless behavior" then the shared understanding needed as a basis for a conversation may be missing. Lying in the grass looking at sky and stars, running through the forest with your dog, go pi
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Not sure this is meaningful. It's similar to asking "I wonder if the stock market could cope with Elon Musk dumping all his Tesla shares at once. Do it!" Of course the stock would crash. Of course it would create a panic
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Gnome Shell anybody? I'm surprised nobody brought it up yet. About 10 years ago I switched from Gnome 2 to 3. Because my distro did. It was a huge drop in features. Over the years I had tuned my desktop experience on Gnome 2 with diffe
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by ganafagol 5y ago
"We thank the anonymous reviewers for constructive feedback that we used to improve the article." Standard phrase, credit where credit is due, no need to make some definition worse just to not trip off a plagiarism filter. Unless
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by ganafagol 5y ago
I'm fully on board with fighting plagiarism down to that level. But that said, I've often times wondered if this requirement of having to "rewrite in your own words" may do a lot of harm too. It obfuscates that things th
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by ganafagol 5y ago
How about the common daily anxieties "Will I ever find true love?" and "Damn poop stinks"?
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by ganafagol 5y ago
This criticisim is slightly misguided. Let's say you have email notifications turned on too, and Joe could be standing next to you. Do you expect everybody to start email conversations with "whats up?" just so you can establi
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by ganafagol 5y ago
"unless it is misleading" which could be considered to be the case here.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
If somebody is trying to stand out by having a github with two projects, one is a merge sort implenentation they typed essentially 1:1 from a book during an algorithms 101 class and the other is an almost-trivial shopping list app that neit
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by ganafagol 5y ago
"Ridiculous job market"? The job prospects for devs in todays market is an essentially 100% guarantee that you get a job. The demand is huge and there are more jobs to fill than candidates available. You may not get into the compa
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by ganafagol 5y ago
> Build a small personal project and put the code on GitHub. This has lost its effect and partially turned it upside down. In school people seem to be instructed "have a github with personal project" to improve hiring chances s
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by ganafagol 5y ago
That's more than what Trump got in 2016. Still nobody compared the U.S. to Belarus.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
> If there is one single lasting international effect of Orbán and his party, it's how he demonstrated how EU is completely helpless against rouge states (as well). Helpless and hypocritical. If Orban rolls out surveillance he is a
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Let's not conflate security and safety here. The boards hailed by the article are all about investigating safety failures, and so is the advocated invetigation board. Security is a different beast. It's sub-par in many airplanes
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by ganafagol 5y ago
That makes it sound like Ph.D. graduates are a homogenuous bunch. That's nonsense. Somebody with a Ph.D. degree is just that -- a person with a certain degree certifying a certain competence. Apart from that, it does not say anything.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
> The next victim of US military incursion will be oil rich country. There's no reason for incursion if it is not going to be profitable for the US. That's exactly what I'm talking about. See e.g. https://www.wo
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by ganafagol 5y ago
The comment was not about heterogeneous or not. It was about Ph.D. or not. Everything else equal, I'd prefer a heterogeneous bunch of Ph.D.s to have designed and built the thing that's put inside my brain over a similarly heteroge
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Looked cool, until i scrolled further down. Not only is any info lacking on how it's done and what the status is. There are even a bunch of "community projects" listed. Among them "Real Vegan Cheese and Narwhal evolution
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Maybe when putting things into peoples brains, competence is a highly necessary requirement. It's not enough to have "liked coding since high school" and "read a bunch of blogs" and "taught myself javascript&qu
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by ganafagol 5y ago
> The next target will be also rich in oil, although it would be definitely said that it's only because of lack of democracy in the said country. Haiti.
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by ganafagol 5y ago
Then you are participating in a self fulfilling prophecy. The oil and gas lobby won't stop calling. Nor will the car industry lobby and all the other industry groups. So if you don't call (or vote, for that matter) the cause is lo

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