nicepplonly

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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Drugs are great. You are entitled to your opinion, and so am I. There's nothing morally wrong with not wanting to participate in a society based on suffering and exploitation of poor people in far away places.
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Capitalism is just a system based around the belief that capital appreciation is the ultimate end goal, and the ends justify the means. Everything is fine so long as the GDP keeps going up.
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
I guess we can all believe what we want to believe. But Y Combinator (who sponsors this website) is a venture capital firm, which seeks to generate returns on capital by investing in companies. This website, therefore, is designed to reflec
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
You're trying to add layers of complexity that don't exist. The universe is remarkably uncomplicated, much like biology (which, you correctly assert, only exists to replicate itself). Humans like to anthropomorphize and we have a
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
I don't think capitalism is inherently bad, but the system we have is bad. Adam Smith wrote a lot about this, in particular he loathed landlords and entities that suck value out of the system while offering little in return. Apple is a
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Apple is simply playing by the rules of capitalism, which are as follows: extract as much value as possible from your customers, employees, etc, for the purpose of enriching capital (shareholders). Apple will follow the law to the letter, b
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
This is a really bad take that ignores a variety of things, such as the cost of going out and the general enshittification of everything (i.e., decline in quality of goods and services). It also ignores the growing cultural divide of our cl
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
So long as we keep polluting unchecked, we are in big trouble. Staying below 1.5C is a pipe dream at this point, and we've already (briefly) hit 2C[1]. We're also producing and consuming more fossil fuels than ever before, and the
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
If you use a pencil to stab someone, yes it's a weapon. If I use a shovel to kill someone, it's a weapon. If I use a pillow to suffocate someone, it's a weapon. If I drive a car into a person and kill them because I don'
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
90% of the people who salivate over these giant death machines aren't using them for hauling goods or farm work. Where I grew up, people get very excited about owning pickup trucks because they view them as status symbols (bigger is be
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
If economics took externalities into account then our entire economic order would break down. Thus, it won't happen...until eventually the whole thing stops working.
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
> Eh, that's a pretty big vehicle. Does that still actually count as a _car_? The 2 best selling vehicle models in the USA are the Ford F-series and Chevy equivalent (Silverado), according to some sources[1][2]. I agree they'r
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
If you took the average American and airdropped them into Amsterdam with an F-150, they would probably think it's very anti-car :)
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Humans are weird, and they don't behave how you might expect. But once you've lived for a while and seen it first hand many times, it starts to make sense in a weird way.
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
I agree with you, for example, traffic calming devices (speed bumps, roundabouts, chicanes) are incredibly effective. However I think enforcement needs to be rethought, cars are essentially just computers now and they know what the speed li
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Do you also believe the laws of physics are just an opinion? If physics is an opinion, then I believe that F = ma, which means that more of m and a means more F, which means more injuries and death.
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Phones are easy to blame here, but nobody wants to talk about speeding and dangerous driving, which seems to have become totally normalized. People treat speed limits as a minimum speed suggestion. There's also close to no enforcement
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Recruiting is so, so important. I generally agree with the idea that the most important attribute for startup founders is to be great at hiring/recruiting. Sadly, this is not something that the big tech cos focus on these days. Employe
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
Incredibly smart people are unlikely to get hired by most big tech cos these days because the truth is that they don't want very smart people, they want pliable drones who will push the buttons per their boss's demands. People gen
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
This is one of those tough life lessons that I have also suffered. First, the vast majority of startups failed, and unless you have something to fall back on (like rich parents), you should _not_ take on the risk of starting a company unles
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
NYC is the greatest place to raise children IMO. The best of everything: you can live car-free, high density of opportunities, educational services, activities, art, culture, etc. EDIT: Okay, arguably some places like maybe the Netherlands
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by nicepplonly 3y ago
I live in New York City where it's not unusual to see cars going places they're not allowed, including parks. The problem is not the ruleset, it's the fact that automobile operators don't comply with the rules and nobody