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Climate engineering is pretty risky, and in the current stage, so small scale, by the time we are able to actually do something it will be too late. And relying on just investments…

Lol, reading this in a call booth at work sure is something ...

Yes, absolutely

Re: first law ... one thing I have been thinking a lot lately is just how much like gardening software is. But in gardening we are not afraid to trim the plants and put them in sha…

I think we can look into the notion from complexity theory of attractor states. If you want to make a change, you need to shift your system enough that it moves into another state.…

During the USSR, the Soviet government pushed the cyclic script on populations that speak very different languages, sometimes forcing them to abandon other scripts, i.e. arabic. Sa…

Well, rental as another profit-driven thing, that has multiple consequences - it removes property away from people, it prevents people from getting their own place, it creates conc…

> A primary root cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing. Nah, I think that is still a consequence. The root cause is the fundamental assumption that homes should be a …

An alphabet is connected to a language. And controlling the language and its writing, especially related to religion is a very powerful tool. How you do communication, what culture…

> So, author boils everything down to anti-Western politics a 1000 years ago and insists Cyrillic just got lucky that it spread so wide. It's a mix of accurate and inaccurate. It i…

During the time we are talking about politics and religion are one and the same ...

It's a bit more complicated. The OG cyclic was the the Glagolitic - which is very different from the greek alphabet. The proper Cyrillic, while based on the greek alphabet, was dev…

> It's a different you. I think some inhibitions or blockers fall off, and you kind of run on dream logic. I had some major surgery and my sister was supposed to come in and help o…

I think there is some nuance to it.The absolutely best thing for clean code for me has been taking courses in academic writing. But also why would it activate just the language cen…

My sister is in SF, and even though she nominally makes a little more than I do, I end up having much more disposable income, and can afford a lot more things, which is ... weird f…

Yup, which is probably one of the reasons why those third places get undone

Yeah, its more of an ideal vs reality thing ....

> Ideally it's should be a balance between customers and business Nah, I think for it to be a proper third place, revenue and business should really really be secondary to everythi…

Nah, thats not Denmark, thats a particular racist government

> 55% personal income tax rate? That's not really correct. It is more like 36%. And also it is more complicated than that, as the more you earn the higher it gets, but it's roughly…

Well do remember that a lot of the recycling plastic, personal responsibility, carbon footprint thing was literally made up as a marketing gimmick by fossil fuel ...

There is something to be said there about power in society, ruling classes, interests and that German dude with the beard

Maybe then we shouldn't be putting technologies like the internet in the hands of profit-driven companies. Most of the internet driven technology is inherently un-monetizeable, but…

I had the exact opposite experience :( Stating things like "what is this shit"or "This is an absolute dumpster" was taken as demoralising colleagues ...

Interestingly enough, what survives as pumpkin spice today used to be an incredibly popular spice mix - powder douce - going back to the Middle Ages, and used on everything from ap…