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No, you're not reading: > Then the negative externalities should be properly priced in. is what I was replying to, saying the market isn't going to naturally do this because capita…

so it's not the market naturally pricing it in then is it?

and who exactly is doing the pricing here then?

we all know that rarely if ever happens. market don't care.

> whereas before you could run away to somewhere new, a new town, a new country, a new frontier now you can't escape it. I genuinely think about this a whole lot. It's wild to thin…

> It's a strange combination between modesty and strategically bending rules. I kind of adore that. It's very earnestly human. Being rigid is fine and all but it also kind of sucks…

Honestly it could also be it's just hard to fathom the breadth and scale. Easier to imagine someone opening your mail or tapping your phone or otherwise physically interacting with…

Hey look, they rediscovered that color exists! I dig it.

ha i meant to reply to the person asking for a citation but also another one you can add into your post.

hell hath no fury like a displeased business tyrant imagine getting that mad as like the richest person in the goddamned world.

It's also literally in the Intercept article with a link to the story lol: > According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had…

Cellular Automata are so cool. I did a project for a distributed computing course on them and it was real fun throwing different rules in and seeing what emerged.

I would very much like the ability to transfer between services but also completely delete once I've backed up locally.

oh you're one of those climate deniers. nothing you say is valid or worth listening to.

> Climate models show that we only have about 10-15 more years before complete climate collapse. and here i am, waking up every day putting on my stupid pants and my stupid hoodie …

Yep. The entire building needs to be completely scrubbed down and all tech needs to be taken and destroyed. A complete fresh start. Move operations to a new building while this is …

yep. trains are also more relaxing in ways that busses/planes can ever be for me. it feels like the one time my brain can truly shut up for a bit and i can just enjoy existing. som…

I don't necessarily completely disagree here, but I'm always thinking of the Douglas Adams quote in Hitchhiker's Guide on this: "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always a…

right? and like something i've come to realize over the years is that there is a huge value add of having something just work that i don't think many people actually appreciate. I …

Walking and biking with some public transit to fill the gaps honestly. Outside of the obvious downsides to a car centric culture, the united states would definitely have healthier …

95 really sucks for a lot of reasons. i like to imagine a world where the smart thing was done and it became a ring road around the city instead of just cutting directly along the …

hell at the ones I went to there were roving groups of people handing out masks and gloves (more masks than gloves and the masks came directly from the box), hand sanitizer, and wa…

It's so weird for me personally because while I have absolutely zero interest in boarding a plane to go anywhere at the moment, there is a weird small feeling of being trapped so t…

Yes, this is true. I guess I wasn't very careful with my wording as I was talking in the classical sense of "there's too much money now so your dollar is now worth 20 cents across …

> But if we're talking about a thriving society and population, surely our aims should be set higher than the very first step on Maslow's hierarchy of needs? Very much agreed. The …