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by simorley 5y ago
> Are taxpayers funding the government? Yes. It certainly isn't the billionaires as all their wealth wouldn't as the OP noted. > Last year, federal tax revenues were $3 trillion less than federal spending. A once in a few ge
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by simorley 5y ago
Wrong. Business is about relationships. Be competent and do what is minimally required. Do extra networking or befriending your manager/boss/etc. People who get ahead build relationships. The slaves stick around to do the extra wo
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by simorley 5y ago
> I sincerely doubt you would, since I asked you for the citation and we're discussing moderation in this thread. I will if I get assurances that I will not be penalized. > In the absence of this, what is anyone reading your orig
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by simorley 5y ago
> If the US confiscated all of the wealth of the billionaires in the US (which would absolutely wreck the economy as well as that wealth, since much of that their wealth is tied up in stocks)...it would fund less than a year of governmen
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by simorley 5y ago
Considering MAD existed and most nukes would have been dropped on the US and USSR, not Germany, I don't think that's the issue. We and the russians had far more to worry about than the germans. Of course MAD pretty much ensured a
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by simorley 5y ago
Maybe it's a temporal vs spatial vs cardinal issue. I'm sitting "between or in between" two people ( open boundary or exclusive or non-inclusive ). Seems spatial is always open boundary. Park your car between those two t
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by simorley 5y ago
> There is no assertion in my post that the nazis invented unethical medical experimentation which would be absurd. But you asserted it's why we stopped. So your logic is we were okay with experimenting on black slaves, aborigines,
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by simorley 5y ago
> The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys science, it is this
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by simorley 5y ago
The nazis didn't invent human experimentation. Human experimentation happened in the US before the nazis. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cruel-medica... Also, we created the largest human exp
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by simorley 5y ago
> Is there any evidence this is actually true? Apple stock hasn't cratered so the markets don't think much of this story. > Literally every year at this time, Bloomberg or the WSJ reports that Apple is due to cut production
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by simorley 5y ago
> could you provide a link to an example? I was going to link to an example but removed it before posting because I'd get in trouble. It's the "chilling effect" of censorship. You probably think I'm lying but act
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by simorley 5y ago
So the definition of "nonconsenting prisoners" is "killing a person without their consent...". That makes every organ transplantation of prisoners "nonconsenting" since nobody consents to their own execution. I
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by simorley 5y ago
It's so strange to see the same people denouncing censorship everywhere celebrating censorship here. I know, I know. Moderation isn't censorship. Moderation is censorship you agree with. Censorship is moderation you disagree with.
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by simorley 5y ago
In other words: Ignorance is bliss.
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by simorley 5y ago
> Climate science is politicized because moneyed interests have a strong incentive to continue to deny the science and conservative individuals have both a shared financial interest with liberals to conspire with those interests and a un
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by simorley 5y ago
So that's what dinosaur tastes like.
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by simorley 5y ago
> You believing or agreeing that climate change is an existential risk to humanity makes no difference to the evidence we have. It's not me "believing", it's no sane person believes it. What "evidence" are y
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by simorley 5y ago
> Credit where credit is due, we all WISH nix had something like PowerShell. Who is "we". I've worked exclusively on a windows stack so used powershell on the job. But at home, I use bash. I don't want something like
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by simorley 5y ago
As others have pointed out in this thread, why doesn't india create their own tiktok or instagram instead? Just clone them if they can't come up with something new. Neither instagram nor tiktok is rocket science. The value of inst
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by simorley 5y ago
> The difference is of course Consequentialism. Which is just rationalization to justify something you agree with. > If you believe that your actions that will contribute to death and deprivation of future generations then you are mor
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by simorley 5y ago
And of course this would affect all their properties including search. There was a time, long ago, when we expected objectivity from google in search, etc. Those days are long gone as google is a political actor. What's next? Banning a
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by simorley 5y ago
"This means that we will support Republicans, Democrats, and Independents - as well as candidates identifying themselves as Forward Party members." It's not a party. It's more of a organization to fund politicians who al
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by simorley 5y ago
> Of course, immigration-driven growth is great! But for people on the ground, what matters is GDP per capita, not total GDP. If GDP per capita is what you are interested in, you don't want immigration as it increases the "capi
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by simorley 5y ago
What are you talking about? Australia hasn't had a recession in decades. Australia has done well with all the resources it stole from the aborigines. Most people living in australia has never experienced an economic downturn. https:&#
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by simorley 5y ago
Does Norway use most of their oil money for social media adverts? There is another self-congratulatory norway article on the frontpage. "Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year" https://news.ycombin
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by simorley 5y ago
> FAANG companies will primarily be differenated based on network or software, rarely commodity hardware. I know. I didn't say they were going to sell commodity chips. Just that they were big enough to own their own stack. > Sepa
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by simorley 5y ago
No. Science is about empiricism - scientific method, experiments, etc. Philosophy is an overarching field encompassing all pursuit/love of knowledge. It's why another term for science is natural philosophy. It's why people wh
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by simorley 5y ago
> Maybe, just maybe we should take a long hard look at just how fragile and easy to topple all of our supply chains are A global pandemic hasn't taken out the supply chain. So I wouldn't say fragile. > With how the climate i
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by simorley 5y ago
Next War. I guess we will never stop until someone destroys us. Or we destroy the world.
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by simorley 5y ago
> When we say something is barbaric, we mean it is in its natural, unrefined, untouched-by-civilisation state. No we don't. We generally use barbaric to describe people. Barbaric comes from barbarian. Which was originally used to de

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