squirrelicus

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by squirrelicus 7y ago
When you convince people they're being robbed because of inequality, it's a problem. Envy is the problem. It's a cognitive defect. There's a reason it's a considered a sin. You are not entitled to what other people
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Generally you get downvoted for doing so, but people still try to argue. I have a lot to say on the subject, but one thing I still need an argument for is why inequality is bad intrinsically. I'd love to hear a cogent argument that add
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I think all the fish I eat is farmed... Now I'm curious, because that's a partial counterpoint. Doesn't defeat the message, but it's certainly a gap.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I'm certain we're talking about two different things. I'm talking about the West's distance from the depravation of the state of nature (capitalism certainly causes), and you're talking about some cherry picked metr
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Let me try this again. Seriously today was busy as hell. I'm not sure exactly the point with respect to the soil and soil nutrients. The dust bowl area isn't unfarmable, it's a goddamn breadbasket. And if the Amazon, if it&#x
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
What changes and what food chains? Your statement is just false. We don't live off the wild. We're long past that point, and the developing world is increasingly past that point.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
But... Like... Economies of scale are literally what gave the capitalist West it's unthinkably high standard of living.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
FWIW, not trying to troll. I grew up with and was in favor of 90s environmentalism, which seems to mostly have been a success [0]. The latest environment doom and gloom doesn't have the impact and persuasive power that the previous env
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
So that's the jump I don't understand. Why would dramatic decreases in biodiversity cause any dying off of humans at all?
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
So replacing the Amazon with monoculture farming, as you say, increases the number of humans the planet can support, right?
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
For what it's worth, clear cutting the Amazon and replacing it with farms is probably better for humanity when it comes to Maslow needs
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Is it just me or does the biodiversity crises seem a bit blown out of proportion? I mean, I think it's true that humans are causing faster species loss than the historical average. But I think it's hard to suggest we're an hi
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I know that was an example out of thin air and not to be taken literally, but I can just see the commercials a la Juicero or Morus or Waterseer. What you need is an overpriced device that makes doing laundry even more exhausting and time co
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
The best advice I can give us to build something for pain you feel. Maybe it's edtech integrations or a part of your workflow or life that needs optimization. If you build something for other people, you'll need user discovery an
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I'm sure everyone is different, but it's worth saying that I find myself spending more time in the writing code phase with dynamically typed languages than statically typed languages.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
If you're talking wood and clay and stone, I think your supposition is potentially reasonable for some very narrow definition of civilization. Perhaps two digits worth of humans. Surviving artifacts of the metal ages are very much the
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Kinda puts the old religous flood stories in a different context eh? There were almost certainly costal communities who were consumed by rising sea levels the world over. Recent global flooding.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
14 years in the industry, and I often describe typing the code as the easy part of software engineering. Once I'm typing the code, I already know in large part what code needs to be typed. The hard part was understanding the problem mo
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
So this. Go down rabbit holes when you get stuck. Understand your tools deeper as time goes on. Learn by doing. You can't learn programming by reading. Learning programming has more in common with plumbing and carpentry than medicine a
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I'm not on board for designing economy based on the happiness levels of the envious. Besides, the literature is clear that rising in status has very little long term impact on happiness. Edit: it kinda goes like this "I'm not
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I'd love to understand why you think that.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Electricity costs for the 70s mainframes running COBOL probably. Only half tongue in cheek.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Hah! It's Data Mining all over again! Do... Do you guys remember Data Mining?
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Well, I've never been called to participate in a political survey poll thing, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen to people. There's a lot of doctor's offices out there. What was your sample size?
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
> This is really applicable to any products that are valued based on their marketing efforts instead of intrinsic value or utility Care to elaborate what your distinction here is? I don't see it.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Hmm. By compatibility do you mean translatable metadata across filesystems?
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I'm not sure Linux fs devs care about point 1, the simplicity and ease of implementation. They're already beyond that need. I might choose exFAT if I wrote my own kernel, but LOC and complexity don't care Linux fs devs. Point
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
> There's reasonably compelling evidence that Russia is engaged in exactly that as we speak. I mean, not through marketing. Through exposing the DNC's treatment of Bernie, yes. But...I mean... Have you seen the Facebook ads the
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
It is, however I support both of those things because sometimes it's better to slope the playing field to the advantage of those with the bureaucracy set up to enforce safety and pollution requirements. It harms the competitiveness of
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Shifting the blame through scandal to take attention away from your failure and ignorance is the longest political tradition of humanity. But in the days of Twitter, you can't take a breather. Devoid is an overly strong word. There has

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