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Then spend all their retirement on medical care for their broken body. We treat each other like animals no matter the job. Moral relativism has never gone anywhere. It was black pe…

The vagueness could be used against Google, but of course it won’t because semantic tradition. What’s the point of human language again? Except for trivial human tasks it’s easily …

This is the world realizing there’s little novel data inside these noisy black boxes; just noisy people easily distracted by screens like the TV generation. Investors want to cash …

In a universe with no center, why is utilitarianism of ephemera a desired goal? What immediate value did Newton offer given the technology of his time? A data set of our preferred …

Let’s hope the vulnerability isn’t injected into all the deps your OS pulls down to run the VM Physics informs us a perfectly secure system is impossible. We need to socially accep…

Using the same environmental concern logic, the carbon footprint of traditional banking, which still hauls around, protects, and produces real currency, plastic cards, and financin…

Since it’s just math in a machine and we have the math written down all over, what would be losing of long term value to the human species? I have made a lot of money thanks to SV,…

Good news; when the economy implodes there will be no financial costs, but you’ll have skills. 5% of the public hunts. My guess is, should society collapse, there will be plenty of…

So it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s... I mean the politicians are in on it, and turn against them when their ability to control elections for the…

What if there are no layers and you can’t think outside hierarchy? There’s no reason for anyone else to take your view as sacrosanct since many many many apps and services are work…

Domain squatting, and all the security effort of protecting now worthless code IP, meta data analysis for private use, profit being funneled to fewer and fewer people are all outco…

No, human behavior enables things like the Laffer curve to be defined and held up like a shiny bauble by a politically motivated half-wit. Laffer has never had and never will have …

The Laffer curve doesn’t dictate anything, laws do. We don’t need to take every math object as a physical truth. Laffer especially should be seen a political tool more than an econ…

No let’s poo poo Oracle. I worked there. Engineering is vastly different than anywhere else; it’s about Oracle; not open source, not simplifying software and technology… it truly i…

Muddied beyond utility is the point of the left. Rustling Jimmie’s non-violently to disrupt the sensibilities of utilitarians like yourself. Because like you said, progress is happ…

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If you think they can just write off millions of real people you’re deluded. Only 5% of the US population hunts. Until society as is collapses, we’re reliant on this logistics syst…

Taken out of its context to prove a point on a web forum and I would agree Lots of people negotiated these things and agreed to make commerce happen. Novel to you does not mean nov…

If I set my computer clock to 3022 does it expire?

Both sides of the aristocracy only care about hypocrisy on Main Street: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/politics/elaine-chao-c... While I get the sentiment, western working h…