throwaway19972

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by throwaway19972 2y ago
No, nothing like that—I'm saying that people generally deserve better than recycled IP, and Mattel came very close to people realizing this (yet again) by not choosing Robbie/Gerwig (and if you look at the story of how this movi
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
"Science" is not a thing in itself, or it's at the very least heavily polysemous and vague. It's a collection of institutions, processes, methodologies, and cultures that can sometimes, under the right conditions produ
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
It's also worth noting that this was almost handed to Amy Schumer and not Margot Robbie (who actively spearheaded pitching the project alongside Greta Gerwig), which is probably the difference between making a mockery of the project an
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> Not lying is a basic precondition to have a reasonable discussion. No, it isn't. Secondly, you're assuming malice where it doesn't appear there is any. Third, you're perfectly capable of communicated despite this, a
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> This is the "third option" which is missing from the intro: actual science. What a snide mischaracterization of a word that essentially means "methodology"
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Yea, that's my point: the reason is greed (and narcissism, self-delusion, etc). That's the only explanation I can think of: folks with privilege and power not only can't imagine a better world, they straight up prefer a hob
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Who cares? You're missing the forest for the trees. Alcohol is still legal and kills thousands (millions?) times more people. If we can't discuss that, being correct has no value. If the only thing you want to contribute is to poi
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> the design of Unix shell is bonkers Compared to what?
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Do you have an example of a texting app that doesn't use native input? This just straight up doesn't seem accurate.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
"Generally accepted" is nearly impossible to discern from an individual standpoint. I prefer Wittgenstein's stance that you should essentially accept uncertainty that you refer to the same world/concepts/knowledge t
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
His advice is good; I've found multiple outfits based on his recommendations. Given that he specifies how to select clothes based on form, function, and taste, and not by pimping brands, this is absolute gold. Who gives a damn how he d
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Expecting the market to sell EV when there's such pressure to subsidize lower fuel costs was never going to work out. Americans' inability to stomach discomfort without destabilizing the country is really, really bad news for the
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
This response reads to me as, at best, a bad faith intepretation of hyperbole. It seems very obvious why someone could get worked up over demonizing a relatively benign psychedelic over literal poison that is responsible for myriad health i
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
I can't say I've ever tipped based on service and it's a hilarious and depressing falsehood that anyone believes this is what tipping is for. We tip to compensate for the owner-biased, dysfunctional society we have the fortun
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Yea, but why can't we correct this with modern technology? All the old reasons have more or less disappeared with shipping and computation. All the remains is greed.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
It's no mistake that the rise of cyberpunk and postmodernism coincided with the collapse of competing ideologies to market capitalism. As Capital killed its enemies, you see belief in humanity and its ideals in art go up in smoke. Pers
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Ok? I'd rather trust DARPA than private enterprise.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> They could stretch back to middle-earth. Is this an odd translation of 中国 or am I missing something? Edit: took me way too long to realize this was referencing lord of the rings.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Absolutely it does—China's belt and road project is marketed as "the new silk road" very intentionally.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> I’m not sad they didn’t work with a hundred companies and take tens of years and still have nothing to show for it. what a ridiculous counterfactual. We have plenty of wildly successful standards that weren't just thrown at consum
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
(No insult intended to Maria or Michael, it's a lovely name in itself.)
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
If only the NSA or the people designating who terrorists are vs who our allies are had such pure, pro-human intentions.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Better than using a distinct name for a mostly-identical project or effort (looking at you, MariaDB).
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
I wonder how long it will take for the sort of tone this generates to become the baseline for what to avoid in high-volume email.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> In Shenzhen for example, it's not uncommon to see police wearing flashing sirens on their shoulders as part of their uniform. Motorcyclists share the same road as pedestrians, and with so many delivery app drivers you're alwa
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> I would want to do it with my phone because then I only have to have one thing to carry around with me. I would prefer this to be a keyring over a phone for aforementioned reasons. Secondly, the app is buggy and often just fails to wor
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Yea but we also write the same software over and over and over and over again. Perhaps slower, more methodical development might enable more software to be written fewer times. (Does not apply to commercially licensed software or services o
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
If politicians had any desire or awareness to actually represent the needs of their constituents, the USA would look like a wildly different place. Instead we just have a single wedge issue every four years that's sufficient to drive e
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
I won't go so far as to say I'm disgusted by what others do, but I am increasingly resenting having to use my phone for myriad tasks that shouldn't require a phone in the first place. Like unlocking my apartment door. It&#x27
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
This is excellent. It's also worth noting we don't need to fund services via supporting private enterprise, either—many services should arguably be operated by zero-profit entities. For the most part, after paying infrastructure b

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