mrphoebs

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by mrphoebs 2y ago
I don't know why the lens you view this through is retributional, us vs them, or about taxing success of developed nations or rewarding people of a particular geography. Population growth is not an independent variable, it depends on a
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by mrphoebs 2y ago
This sounds like someone standing on a sinking ship asking why everyone onboard needs to be given their share of available tools to help plug the leaks, when those tools could be used to create surplus for those having tools.
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by mrphoebs 2y ago
Those who benefited from the carbon emissions at the cost of others on a per capita basis need to take accountability of funneling the accrued capital to those who are suffering because of it. https://ourworldindata.org/cont
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by mrphoebs 3y ago
The profound number of changes are in tact only if those changes aid in the natural selection of the organism against selection pressure. Such changes are replicated more successfully (more offspring) making the change/mutation more re
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by mrphoebs 3y ago
My mistake, I presumed incorrectly, that the argument you were making came from a place of defensiveness, rather than a more holistic framing of evolutionary success. Thanks for providing further clarity.
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by mrphoebs 3y ago
I doesn't seem like the above commenter was making a value judgement.
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by mrphoebs 3y ago
This is an insightful way of communicating technical and domain debt that software can accrue over time. Thanks.
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by mrphoebs 3y ago
Mission to unexplored south pole of the moon and investigating the presence of surface water at the bottom of craters that don't receive sunlight. Simultaneously capability development and demonstration for ISRO
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
I didn't claim sex work in all countries is a result of human trafficking. I said forced prostitution is fuelled by human trafficking. >"In some countries, sex work seems to be illegal and problematic. But in other countries, i
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
No it's not, it might be acceptable in a few societies but in a vast majority of societies across the globe sex work is both frowned upon and illegal. You are naive if you think all prostitutes are willing participants that chose this
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
I don't know why you feel the need to give people your background/ability/level to bolster your argument. I'm sure you can string together a coherent argument without the need for an appeal to authority. I'm not cal
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
There is certainly scope for a more intelligent and nuanced discussion to be had here than what reads like a junior engineer's half baked rant on the uselessness of engineering managers. Yes there are awful engineering managers just as
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
>There's no evidence to support this assertion Like all your other assertions this one feels self serving for your point of view when a rudimentary google search provides references to the alternative. Consensus on efficacy of lockd
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
Lockdowns did help flatten the curve, many countries health systems were overwhelmed regardless, but without lockdowns the fatalities and outcomes for severe cases would have been an order of magnitude worse. -> personal experience: I su
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
I think you were half way there taking charitable view on one of the arguments, I think taking a charitable view on the commenter's perspective/intent would have gotten you all the way. With that adjustment, I think you can go fro
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
While I agree with the points you are making and think they are important, they could have been made just as effectively without resorting to an Ad hominem format. Though the quality of civil discourse on HN has degraded over the years, HN
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed analysis. It was quantitatively informative.
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
The article reads like a self serving western narrative loosely based on cherry picked facts. India has clearly stated it will buy cheap oil where ever it's available on the market, there is nothing special about russia, look up the ac
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
There is no love lost between india and china due to events in the recent past. The Indian people and government are furious with china's flouting of the agreed upon status quo at the border and it comes with all the nationalistic ferv
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
Wow, an analogy as spectacularly useless as it is distasteful.
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
I don't see how domestic policy is relevant to a discussion about perspective of India's foreign policy alignment concerning the west. And don't mistake me for a champion of Indian government either. I'm not a fan of the
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
I haven't ascribed an independent perspective to india exclusively, merely pointed out india has an independent perspective. And I did not say west are arrogant morons I said "Some in the west". I agree with you and as does a
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by mrphoebs 4y ago
India is not anti west. The west has this binary/absolute way of looking at things, "either somebody is with them or against them". India recognises the world is a much more complicated place and sees the world through its ow
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by mrphoebs 5y ago
This was eye opening. Thanks.
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by mrphoebs 5y ago
Space-time isn't a gravitational field. Gravitational fields curve space-time.
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by mrphoebs 5y ago
lol, once more on cue.
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by mrphoebs 5y ago
Or, you know an asteroid hits us causing the 6th Extinction Level Event killing humanity. As long as we are doing wild speculative Sci-Fi the Great filter in our future is a real possibility to consider. For now, we are an incredibly young
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by mrphoebs 5y ago
You thinking it is worthwhile is all that should matter, just as a farmer thinking it's worthwhile to build a wall that lasts. Both instances are us giving meaning to self actualisation of individual drives be it preservation or propag
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by mrphoebs 5y ago
Agreed, and no matter if we manage to beat our fate or not, doesn't make this thing called life any less precious.
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by mrphoebs 5y ago
Fossilised remains in the sediments on earth are all that remain of the species that have come and gone before us. Many species are lost to time, because they weren't fossilised or their effects preserved. And our fossilised remains wi

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