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No, nothing like that—I'm saying that people generally deserve better than recycled IP, and Mattel came very close to people realizing this (yet again) by not choosing Robbie/Gerwi…

"Science" is not a thing in itself, or it's at the very least heavily polysemous and vague. It's a collection of institutions, processes, methodologies, and cultures that can somet…

It's also worth noting that this was almost handed to Amy Schumer and not Margot Robbie (who actively spearheaded pitching the project alongside Greta Gerwig), which is probably th…

> Not lying is a basic precondition to have a reasonable discussion. No, it isn't. Secondly, you're assuming malice where it doesn't appear there is any. Third, you're perfectly ca…

> This is the "third option" which is missing from the intro: actual science. What a snide mischaracterization of a word that essentially means "methodology"

Yea, that's my point: the reason is greed (and narcissism, self-delusion, etc). That's the only explanation I can think of: folks with privilege and power not only can't imagine a …

Who cares? You're missing the forest for the trees. Alcohol is still legal and kills thousands (millions?) times more people. If we can't discuss that, being correct has no value. …

> the design of Unix shell is bonkers Compared to what?

Do you have an example of a texting app that doesn't use native input? This just straight up doesn't seem accurate.

"Generally accepted" is nearly impossible to discern from an individual standpoint. I prefer Wittgenstein's stance that you should essentially accept uncertainty that you refer to …

His advice is good; I've found multiple outfits based on his recommendations. Given that he specifies how to select clothes based on form, function, and taste, and not by pimping b…

Expecting the market to sell EV when there's such pressure to subsidize lower fuel costs was never going to work out. Americans' inability to stomach discomfort without destabilizi…

This response reads to me as, at best, a bad faith intepretation of hyperbole. It seems very obvious why someone could get worked up over demonizing a relatively benign psychedelic…

I can't say I've ever tipped based on service and it's a hilarious and depressing falsehood that anyone believes this is what tipping is for. We tip to compensate for the owner-bia…

Yea, but why can't we correct this with modern technology? All the old reasons have more or less disappeared with shipping and computation. All the remains is greed.

It's no mistake that the rise of cyberpunk and postmodernism coincided with the collapse of competing ideologies to market capitalism. As Capital killed its enemies, you see belief…

Ok? I'd rather trust DARPA than private enterprise.

> They could stretch back to middle-earth. Is this an odd translation of 中国 or am I missing something? Edit: took me way too long to realize this was referencing lord of the rings.…

Absolutely it does—China's belt and road project is marketed as "the new silk road" very intentionally.

> I’m not sad they didn’t work with a hundred companies and take tens of years and still have nothing to show for it. what a ridiculous counterfactual. We have plenty of wildly suc…

(No insult intended to Maria or Michael, it's a lovely name in itself.)

If only the NSA or the people designating who terrorists are vs who our allies are had such pure, pro-human intentions.

Better than using a distinct name for a mostly-identical project or effort (looking at you, MariaDB).