vigilantpuma

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by vigilantpuma 7d ago
But we CAN survive turning off both the Faber-Bosch process and cargo shipping. Our numbers would be diminished, we would lead poorer, much harder lives. But no one would claim that getting rid of modern fertilizers would be the end of the
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by vigilantpuma 7d ago
Yes. It gets a little tiresome to read all these people prophesying doom and then turning around and continuing to work on the doom. If you genuinely think you are building the mechanism of the destruction of our species, the only rationa
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by vigilantpuma 3mo ago
They literally said, "Violence is necessary and justified in various situations, which means guns are necessary and justified in various situations"
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by vigilantpuma 5mo ago
The further you have to narrow down the set of speakers for whom it's a basic color term, the less of a basic color term it is for English as a whole. We don't have to have this argument about e.g. orange.
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by vigilantpuma 5mo ago
With all due respect, you're one individual and basic color terms for a language are not determined by a single individual. If you look at usage via proxies like Google ngrams[1] or Google trends[2], cyan barely registers, which sugges
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by vigilantpuma 5mo ago
Pink and red are also separate basic color terms in English!
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by vigilantpuma 5mo ago
I didn't say that English speakers only see blue or green. I said that those are the two basic color terms that cyan is in between, and cyan isn't a basic color term and thus collapses to one or the other if categorized under basi
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by vigilantpuma 5mo ago
This test is really using how English organizes color. In English, blue and green are basic color terms ([ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_
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by vigilantpuma 5mo ago
Actually people will definitely insist on "no that's blue" or "no that's green." My husband and I have frequent disagreements about a specific shade of blue/green. I think it's blue. He thinks it&#x27
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by vigilantpuma 5mo ago
I had an interview in 2024 and my interviewer was CLEARLY doing other stuff during the interview. So a very different experience.
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by vigilantpuma 1y ago
Musk is a clearly brilliant man who does not know how to keep his mouth shut or not act like a teenager. I know he doesn't need my respect... But he's certainly lost all of it by now. And for people who are like "yeah but he
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by vigilantpuma 1y ago
Probably because major news outlets are reluctant to include pictures of penises, even stylized ones, in their articles.
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by vigilantpuma 2y ago
Nobody is against hard work, but what's the point of working harder than you need to for a company that has shown that hard work is no defense against being laid off?
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by vigilantpuma 2y ago
Why would anyone be motivated to work 60 hours a week on Sergei's say-so when Google has amply demonstrated that they will lay people off at random regardless of their work ethic or contributions? I would think the layoffs demoralize p
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by vigilantpuma 3y ago
Signing a petition is not the same as quitting, but that is something (and I hadn't seen it).
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by vigilantpuma 3y ago
Have 500-750 key employees departed? Or even threatened to depart? OpenAI has (well, had) 770 employees, you think Microsoft will lure away 70-97% of them?
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by vigilantpuma 3y ago
Google, according to the article, has no moat either.
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Ask HN: Setting up Mac for dev work
2 points by vigilantpuma 4y ago|5 comments
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by vigilantpuma 9y ago
I think having children is pretty selfish also. You bring a child into this world... for what? To see yourself continued in the next generation? To make some future friends for yourself? To have that experience? How are these not selfish th
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by vigilantpuma 9y ago
Really? In this comment page alone we have shit like: "Final point, and one that I am cautious to make for not wanting to offend anyone needlessly: I know plenty of singles and couples who are childless, and several that are childless