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Are you seriously calling me a racist or are you joking? Edit: Sorry didn't see the greyed out comment above yours on my screen.

> Explain to my why you value life over principles in a universe that neither designates value to either That's quite the post-modernist psychopathic take on this, brushing away th…

I pick through boxes of potatoes/carrots, throwing out the bad ones and bagging up the good ones, then throwing those bag into another box. I do things like this for 2 hours on the…

Agreed. Being of the Libertarian mindset, I was at first completely okay with it under the argument of personal liberty and personal property. It's a private company and they can d…

It's a tough nut to crack. Think about fields like architecture and engineering, where the historical knowledge is well over three thousand years. Yet they still have failures, go …

We can still explore them. It's the contamination of them that is at question.

It's not that we can't or won't. It's that we should study and debate it before we do anything to change the environment. Given how humans have run roughshod over so many environme…

There is debate within the scientific community about changing other planets in general. Not everyone is convinced that we should alter or terraform to suit our needs. Some related…

Get your arguments in order and come back like an adult and make your point. That wall of text is all over the place.

Do you think that government ownership would lead to more competence and benevolence? If so, just visit the inside of any government agency.

We do it currently. Holland is a good example of fighting back the sea, but at great expense. And not every country will be able to do this type of engineering. The temp rises are …

Please explain how you put "reflectors in space" without putting them into orbit.

Basically what it comes down to for me - I don't want to be distracted by my laptop and only bring it to meetings if I feel it's necessary: - Daily stand ups? My laptop is distract…

I was very skeptical of fasting for quite a while, but over winter I was on a contract with a guy that did intermittent fasting and his particular schedule had him eating after 3pm…

Agreed and I I think a lot of it comes down to financial factors. In other words, why are we paying someone so much to make design decisions and how can we be assured they are doin…

I've spent a lot of time in software and I am looking to exit so I can spend more time away from the desk, but I have to say - this is a great attitude to have!

I've spent 24 years writing software professionally and I often think about my exit . I don't think I'll ever stop writing software, I truly love it. But the career itself is incre…

This seems to be a problem in general across all social media. They create a platform people like, people join up because they enjoy the format, then they tweak it until it's no lo…

This has to be the most insane shit I've seen in quite a while.

This dead argument seems to re-animate itself once a year or so. But my question is this: Why not learn both the IDE of your choice and how to use your terminal/vim? No need to arb…

I would counter that those things are not to limit supply, but to ensure quality of service. When you're holding someone's life in your hands the profession can suffer greatly from…

One of the things I do to offset possible interruptions is to write things out or visualize them in some way. It helps me pick back up on the track I was interrupted from, but also…

This may shock you but we have cities out here. I live in one and walk to work. Not the suburbs. That being said, what is your overall point?