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by varvar 5y ago
Don't you know, we're supposed to martyr ourselves for humanity. Profits bad.
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by varvar 6y ago
So basically.. nothing out of the norm.
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by varvar 6y ago
Let's see if this comment is still too real for the current beliefs. It's ok people. Mandatory romantic love is a few decades old social convention. Before that it still existed and it was optional, and it was understood that peop
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by varvar 6y ago
New regulations are implicitly a good thing? We are all supposed to be on board with this? How come?
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by varvar 6y ago
What you're missing in my opinion is how profitable drumming up existential fears about climate change in the population has been over the decades.
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by varvar 6y ago
The philosophy that those who hold the power have will be the one winning, since they have the actual means to impose it, regardless of arguments. In this case it is Utilitarian ethics.
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by varvar 6y ago
Ahh, who cares, we're just drumming up another existential crisis narrative again. Governments must spend trillions now to fix the ice problem, otherwise we're all going to die terrible deaths being flooded by water in our homes w
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by varvar 6y ago
That's just mostly viral hype thinking, maintained sometimes by key people in the industry through the press, because it drives money to them and willingness to work for less in certain cases. The decades around 1900 were more innovati
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by varvar 6y ago
Democracy + Capitalism was supposed to bring freedom to the world.. instead it bought domination, and realization, that it all comes down to who holds the power. The typical classical reality fundamentals. Techno-utopianism was supposed to
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by varvar 6y ago
The funny thing is that as long as you render any kind of services on any level, they are inevitably to society, you're already benefitting it. Society has exploited your skill, and you have benefitted its members with your services, a
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by varvar 6y ago
It's amazing isn't it? Principles, ethics.. all talk for a lot of people, situations like these show it. Watch them spin it as a good thing for humanity as a whole. Amazing.
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by varvar 6y ago
I think he is known for being the creator of Brave nowadays, and most likely that's how he will be remembered, thanks to the SJW-leftist overreaction to his rather insignificant donation of $1000, and his own subsequent creative output
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by varvar 6y ago
Hah this article. Was this even wikipedia? So it concludes that we need to take down the Patriarchy and the Sexism in India. So I was right. We need to intervene in their society, and change it to liberate their women. Because we know best.
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by varvar 6y ago
implying CNN and so on have any different motifs? Amusing.
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by varvar 6y ago
Liberating women from what exactly? It all seems ridiculous myth making, considering what indians have shared here on HN about how much asymmetrical power indian women have available through the court system in India, and the sort of abuses
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by varvar 6y ago
Ahh, back to the "Chinese economy to overtake US" narrative. I wonder why. Reports, studies, facts, documentaries the whole circus to be resurrected as well I'm guessing.
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by varvar 6y ago
That's the problem with anecdotes... they only represent your very narrow window of experience while ignoring literally every other person on the planet.
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by varvar 6y ago
Who the heck is society? That's just us. But we don't come together and decide like that, so I don't think society exists in the abstract the way you think it does. It's more like this is how reality is. You've prob
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by varvar 6y ago
When was HN into excusing Apple? It's pretty much run of the mill apple emotional hate club. Quote from the thread "Apple finally has shown their true colours and no form of hardware or software advancement will push me to use the
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by varvar 6y ago
Apple Bad Fanboy Club
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by varvar 6y ago
Naah, don't you see this is about Freedom vs Slavery for all of the US, and perhaps all of humanity, so all developers should quit Apple and join Google or Microsoft to save the humanity.
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by varvar 6y ago
Yeah, mud them those waters.
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by varvar 6y ago
Alchemy means "the process of transmutation by which to fuse or reunite with the divine or original form" which in reality doesn't deal with concrete materials, but it is about something akin to psychological transformation.
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by varvar 6y ago
The pen is not mightier than the sword. I know a lot of intellectually inclined people like to think so. I know I used to too. Having a real world masculine power is the only way to live a non-avoidant, full life as a male.
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by varvar 7y ago
Dem Ego Battles. Second most important thing in an Engineer’s life, after getting the job done. Keeps it all going nicely.
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by varvar 7y ago
The myths are promoted as means to raise hope in the "little man" and to attract new blood (workers) to the specific industries, thinking they can also become as big as the stars of that industry, starting with very little. This i
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by varvar 8y ago
But you make a lot of specific efforts to keep them such society wise? If you keep them ignorant en masse, then you can introduce only partial services, charge, and then introduce a bit more, charge.. etc. It is possible to start off in a g
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by varvar 8y ago
Yeah but it's kind of bad feel of slight deception to it, no? The whole story thing, I think it's sometimes a bit of a excessive Western thing, that yes it works, that may at some point become even boring to listen to, Yet another