thisisweirdok

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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Your only point is that the suggestion of the earth supporting 10bn people is akin to terrorism (which you later amended to "intellectual terrorism"), which I'd argue is objectively disingenuous... and completely pointless. T
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this, but you're being outwardly shitty when you have no reason to be. You're just throwing the word terrorism around disingenuously to get a rise out of people.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Please, describe to me how pointing out the inevitability of population increase is terrorism. You don't need to weaponize "sorry" — just don't say it. It doesn't make sense to jump to ad hominem attacks because som
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
If you want to put the Panama Canal through Boston it's going to cost astronomically more than $24bn — the logistics (not to mention the requirements and processes of the time period) are entirely different.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
> If you don't live within the inner 1-2 city ring around Boston and you're not on the commuter rail, you have no choice but to drive. Right, but how many people are driving who live within that ring? Just eliminating those com
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
It is because I didn't say it was "just fine" I said "can" as in "is possible" — which is objectively true. ...and even if I did say it was "just fine" it wouldn't be tantamount to terrorism
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I think catch-up sleep is just an excuse we grant ourselves for sleeping more on the weekends... we've been conditioned to feel bad for not feeling productive, so we need to grant ourselves special permission.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
>Lastly, the planet has trouble with us now... It's terrorism to suggest that 10 billion is just fine. Calling it terrorism is a bit absurd. It's totally possible (and even likely within our lifetimes), but that doesn't me
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
People typically have fewer kids as their society develops. Average age in the developed world is almost double of places like Africa. There is some evidence that slowing or decline in population is a reasonable expectation. Also, from Wiki
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
because the wealth gap keeps increasing and we need to do more about it
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/files/1515/2691/1827/ban... Yes. Everything green here was once under a highway. It completelpely changed a major portion of the city and opened up routes for other pa
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I don't disagree. We should have a lot more streetcars and (everyone has their own priorities). Reducing traffic from the suburbs would be massive. There's also a huge amount of inequality in Boston proper due to the removal of th
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
>As well as paying for the burden of the corruption involved in Bostonian construction projects that (at least) doubled the cost of what it should have gone for Is there evidence of this? Everyone says it but it always seems extreme (Ser
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Can't speak for everyone, but the consensus here in Massachusetts feels like "I don't use the MBTA so I don't want to pay for it in taxes/tolls." (Surprise, we also have a massive congestion problem because our
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Sure, I absolutely think better accountability needs to be in place — but people didn't want the project at $8bn either. People complained before ground was even broken. Looking at the scope of the project in retrospect, as well as the
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
The Big Dig in Boston was originally estimated to cost $8 billion. People were upset about this. There were multiple problems along the way. It ultimately ended up costing $22 billion. People were also upset about this. At the end of the da
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
This type of propaganda is typically misleading in that the sources and claimed intents are flat out lies (Advertising is regulated against this too). They're not saying "Russia wants you to vote for Trump" — they're doi
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Naivety coupled with a positive attitude isn't going to change it either. I'm saying if this is important to you, don't be complicit... because the current response to this isn't enough to stop it.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I agree with you. I wouldn't work there. All I'm saying is that people aren't making as big a deal of a deal as they should be if they want it to change. I'm also saying that people who are saying this will hurt Google o
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I don't think anyone's using that excuse to justify working for Google, I think they're just saying that a small number of people quitting Google isn't nearly enough to stop them. Google employs at least 20k engineers. I
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
It's not big enough or fast to stop Google in China.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
It's funny that you think that a foreign country can legally be sold ad space in the US for propaganda.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I understand where this comes from, but this line of reasoning tends to be very disingenuous. I don't blame businesses for taxing advantage of our tax system (I would too), but I don't think they should be able to. You can be an a
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
There are only about a dozen states that pay more in federal taxes than they get back — all of the states you're referencing are on that list. California specifically has been a donor state for more than 30 years. I'm not sure how
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Seriously, there are open Safari bugs that have existed in Apple's system for 6+ years. At least slap a wontfix on there.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Woo! We need more capable bug bounty hunters. So many reports are very very very bad.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
I mean you're shooting yourself in the foot HARD if you do this because then people start actually hacking you instead of reporting it.
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
The moon at its brightest is about 0.5 lux, and that's at its peak... once a month (waxes and wanes obviously). Many nightlights I've tried are at least 0.5 lux depending on distance, but are often higher (1 lux or more)
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
Oh thank god hackaday redesigned
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by thisisweirdok 8y ago
It already does, there are a couple hack fixes for Safari that force GPU rendering when it otherwise wouldn't.

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