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Comment · 1 month ago
not really, and you dry clean them pretty seldomly
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
robot make sandwich, robot drive bus, robot cook soup
Comment · 3 months ago
Wasn't this obvious?
Comment · 3 months ago
You are a good consumer, consumer451, because you don't judge other consumers' consumption habits.
Comment · 3 months ago
Exactly. If social media apps had a configurable old style non-algorithmic feed the problem would be dramatically smaller.
Comment · 5 months ago
somehow the invisible hand of the market is also blind af
Comment · 6 months ago
I couldn’t be farther from the rationalists in my views but there are definitely a lot of valjd arguments against utilitariansim…
Comment · 6 months ago
For all the grief they are getting GTK4/Adwaita/Gnome is doing a lot for performance and consistency of experience.
Comment · 6 months ago
> We can either hold ourselves back an an endless and futile journey on solving the human condition of poverty and inequality, or we can explore the stars. It's an easy choice.

Wait... Are you suggesting that "exploring the stars" is less of an endless and futile journey than dealing with poverty and inequality?

Comment · 6 months ago
But he's not blaming his poverty on "whitey on the moon" but the lack of healthcare. There is an opportunity cost to war, Moon/Mars missions etc.
Comment · 6 months ago
Kind of a false dichotomy. How about medical care as a right for a big abstract concept? He's not anti-science here, he's against the inequality of its distribution.
Comment · 8 months ago
Of course, yes. Yes. It is also sad when it is hungry so best feed it with its preferred food, which is dollars. Loves to eat dollars.
Comment · 8 months ago
Because they think this is good writing. You can’t correct what you don’t have taste for. Most software engineers think that reading books means reading NYT non-fiction bestsellers.

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