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> 1. by eating less you are going to lose weight > 2. It's no(t) going to be easy > Not at all Self righteous nonsense. It does matter. I would suggest, that it would be compelling…

How is that relevant to the topic or infrastructure comment?

SMH Your assurances that you know what the NSA (or proxy) would reason is laughable, for example. You have a view that he's a bad actor and it doesn't matter to me, other than it's…

Not just specific companies, but largely specific areas (which have to compete with specific companies). New grads will, statistically, never see signing bonuses in their career, m…

I have never seen a signing bonus. Options, yearly bonus, even rev-share, sure. > There can be other facets of a company that should influence your decision, such as what type of h…

> What are the motives for leaking information regarding our actions on foreign soil against foreign citizens? 1. Removing plausible deniability. "Well we might be deeply involved …

It keeps industries (affecting the currency, in the case of banks) stable. There's only 1 asshole to talk to, when it stops being reliable or the populace gets uppity enough for th…

> 26 cents per ride That's terrible. Other non-tech businesses, hell EVERY business that I've ever worked in that used AWS did better per transaction - healthcare, digital advertis…

> rock phosphate is a finite resource and the biggest supplies are mined in politically unstable places A similarity with oil? I think it's a forgone conclusion that politically un…

> 150 degree weather I guess that depends on what you consider "weather" If I said "ground temperature", would it matter to the discussion? 60C (140F) was the Average temp in the t…

The survival of our technological civilization is very much uncertain. It has been since the nuclear age. If someone wanted to take meaningful action, they would be sinking contain…

I don't draw any "consequences", whatever that's supposed to mean. I have been following the article's claim and explaining it in simpler terms, because there was a misunderstandin…

You continually make the grave error of framing the criticism as if I had proposed it. I am clarifying what is plainly stated in the article, by Callender, but somehow has escaped …

systemd wasn't necessary for init when you ignore Poettering's binaries which broke with common interfaces (now there are more, sigh). It's worse from a maintenance standpoint, for…

It seems incredibly self-defeating, to quit over a lack of CODE REVIEW at any point in someone's career. Hiring someone just to review your code is not a sane business decision, so…

> No. It is posible to define the entropy of an object that has no internal indivisible parts, for example a black hole How? If there is no system of parts, there is no entropy. I'…

> UBI is especially a terrible idea if you don't want people like Gates and Torvalds and Stallman to emerge naturally from an environment that enabled and fostered their genius eve…

> The money taken from billionaires/millionaires would eventually dry up. The Pareto principle remains. Wealth is measured. Ergo, there will always be people who maintain a network…

These aren't bold claims, if you've been reading about it for a decade. Even the New York times covered these points (more or less). https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/t…

> Yes well I'm talking about chopping trees down and building homes out of them https://youtu.be/zVPUFMwm73Y?t=228 Relevant: Coppice

The Rey-Palpatine clone is just as compelling... https://youtu.be/hzG3m-ZW198?t=358 There are hints with the theme of the Emperor being played at times. The sounds of his laughter …

> So you’re talking about software which doesn’t exist, right? It exists on my computer right now (didn't use an actual admanager, just coded a remote call). You want to believe th…

As per the principle, the lack of failure is how success can be measured. ie Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency …