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> I think it is fairly safe to say that rehabilitation and counciling programs to stop shoplifting would be far more expensive and ineffective than imprisonment; I don't see how. T…

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Only because the plan was opposed on equally political grounds. The idea was a welcomed one by the people who voted for the politicians in favor of it, and not welcomed by the ones…

> Don't blame marketing, blame capitalism. I can blame both, as well as the underlying sociopathic mechanisms that the modern understanding of the terms necessitate. If I am not mi…

The right solution in my opinion would be to nationalize the universities and end this predatory nonsense.

> The fact one of the pictures is the house on literal fire, coupled with this context, goes to show that some people really don't belong anywhere in marketing or sales. Namely, ho…

They'll be hurt by it, obviously, but I'd rather take that pain now than condemn the future indefinitely. Of course that puts me at odds with what is apparently the vast majority o…

The real embarrassment is writing beautiful well-structured code that no one can find fault in... to support a game no one plays. If you manage to make a successful game don't take…

Right, which means perfectly preventable problems just plague you until they become catastrophic enough that they require life-saving care. The bare minimum of course.

Telemarketing is just a subset of the greater evil of marketing in general. It is an industry of invading your attention in an effort to manipulate you into doing something you oth…

4. This is intentionally floated with nebulous veracity in order to gauge public reaction before making it official. If so, the reaction I've seen is quite positive. Very unlikely …

Does webui not require testing on each platform+browser combo? Or are we just accepting that sometimes it is going to break and not allowing the same consideration for native GUI f…

Let me ask you something: would you value a set of ~5 games that are an imagining of VCS-era console games as envisioned to exist in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union wa…

Also they didn't consider themselves to be unique and special snowflakes that needed non-standard widgets and theming. Also the internet wasn't as big a thing so marketing hadn't t…

Ok. Can we at least revert to sanity in the FOSS realm then? My guess is no, since for many writing FOSS software is just a way to hone their saleable skills for BigCorp where they…

> In the end, it's up to consumers. ...to vote for politicians who will regulate this shit. Pushing the responsibility to consumers is just BigCorp's messaging to externalize the r…

> Another thing, 3 hours a day spent on walking alone seems like a waste of time to me. Good job I'm not you then.

> Finding time to get your 8 miles of walking a day in would be hard enough. I frequently do 6 mile walks with my dog, 8 miles would only be about 3 hours. Considering how much tim…

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> The question is also 'why does a human form a single consciousness?' The answer should be obvious to anyone earnestly thinking about the question: it doesn't. The "single conscio…

The only significant difference in priorities as regards speed would be the modern prioritization of "developer time", ads, and telemetry. I can run Windows 95 applications at bett…

The whole debate over what is and isn't conscious is foolish, if you ask me. It's essentially a proxy for what does and does not deserve ethical consideration. In that regard our d…

> The moment AI is bootstrapped to the point where it surpasses human ability to advance the AI SOTA, it's pretty much game over—from a Darwinian point of view at least. How so? Th…