Yeah, but it all depends. I live, work, and shop all within a few blocks, so traffic for me is the exact same as any other mid-sized city suburbs. Oh, sure, occasionally I get caught in traffic on the freeway because I…
Absolutely.
Takes all types. It's the best thing I've ever done and I'll never move from here.
How much can they make from selling this type of information?? Hundreds of billions? It would seem to me that the amounts would be pitifully small as compared to making their customers angry. Even if it was $20 million,…
Nah. How would any civilization be able to distinguish it from any other tiny piece of material moving through space. As far as radio waves go, no way. Anything that we have sent out from Earth is indistinguishable from…
>First, more people means more outliers—more super-intelligent, super-creative, or super-talented people, to produce great art, architecture, music, philosophy, science, and inventions. There might be 1,000 certified…
Workers, yes, but mainly consumers. A million dollar fine, if you sell 500,000,000 cartridges (just a guess, but in 2012 I searched and saw they sold 315 million worldwide) means they would have to charge .2 cents per…
You are bringing up the exceptions. If everyone you know played Russian roulette, well, that is a stupid game to play, even if nobody you know landed on the chamber with the bullet in it. "Play stupid games, win stupid…
whatever you say, dude.
oh, wow, ok. 19... I went to university and didn't get out until mid-1980s. We're the same age. About 5 years ago, I did work in a tech company startup with 21 and 22 years old. On my side it was just fine. Don't know…
Cool, good on you. I did write: "except for exceptions." which of course, there always are. Even back in the day when you and I were getting our first jobs in tech in the mid-1980s. I'm sure you were very aware of the…
>I didn't claim otherwise here, either You implied it, you didn't say it. >I literally didn't mention political beliefs or forcing people to accept what's best for them at all To him and to me, you didn't literally say…
Because "privilege" is a code word and a slur on those who do not agree, and a way to try to shut down rational conversation. Words can have more than one meaning, they can be nuanced, and they can mean something else…
>This is a comment that originates in privilege. This sounds like a comment about privilege that originates in privilege. The person just expressed his or her opinion, and bandying words like "privilege" shuts down…
what system isn't?
>if "time" is infinite And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass every time he hopped. But back to reality, there is not infinite time and matter. All that heat death of the universe and everything. The arrow of…
Being an atheist, I vehemently disagree with his assertion and give reasons for why I disagree: >Religion is not “ancient superstition.” >The great religions caught on because they successfully communicated something…
I read about an experiment where they had people draw a pencil. However, with each iteration, the next person to draw the pencil had to do it in a new way that was not done before. The first drawings were regular…
Because there are a ton of ill-informed consumers, not just in regards to automobiles, but everything. There are only 4 cars that I ever shop for. Toyota Corrola, Toyota Camry, Honda Civic, Honda Accord. It really makes…
Why worry? Nobody is going to stop driving their car, nobody is going to stop taking plane trips. And those are utterly nothing as compared to the largest generators of CO2 --- children. Every single thing that a person…
Same. Used Firefox from long ago, but switched about 3 years ago when I just was getting way too many problems with firefox not running SaaS stuff. Couldn't run Salesforce on Firefox. Maybe there was some way that…
But was he doing a great job on Firefox before being fired?
After watching Russia's performanc in Ukraine, I'm sure the thought has flitted across Xi's mind once or twice.
>_especially_ immigration At least that is good, as immigration takes a lot of what little available housing that is available. It's the same in the USA. Housing prices are shooting up on everything and 40 million…
Yeah, but it all depends. I live, work, and shop all within a few blocks, so traffic for me is the exact same as any other mid-sized city suburbs. Oh, sure, occasionally I get caught in traffic on the freeway because I…
Absolutely.
Takes all types. It's the best thing I've ever done and I'll never move from here.
How much can they make from selling this type of information?? Hundreds of billions? It would seem to me that the amounts would be pitifully small as compared to making their customers angry. Even if it was $20 million,…
Nah. How would any civilization be able to distinguish it from any other tiny piece of material moving through space. As far as radio waves go, no way. Anything that we have sent out from Earth is indistinguishable from…
>First, more people means more outliers—more super-intelligent, super-creative, or super-talented people, to produce great art, architecture, music, philosophy, science, and inventions. There might be 1,000 certified…
Workers, yes, but mainly consumers. A million dollar fine, if you sell 500,000,000 cartridges (just a guess, but in 2012 I searched and saw they sold 315 million worldwide) means they would have to charge .2 cents per…
You are bringing up the exceptions. If everyone you know played Russian roulette, well, that is a stupid game to play, even if nobody you know landed on the chamber with the bullet in it. "Play stupid games, win stupid…
whatever you say, dude.
whatever you say, dude.
oh, wow, ok. 19... I went to university and didn't get out until mid-1980s. We're the same age. About 5 years ago, I did work in a tech company startup with 21 and 22 years old. On my side it was just fine. Don't know…
Cool, good on you. I did write: "except for exceptions." which of course, there always are. Even back in the day when you and I were getting our first jobs in tech in the mid-1980s. I'm sure you were very aware of the…
>I didn't claim otherwise here, either You implied it, you didn't say it. >I literally didn't mention political beliefs or forcing people to accept what's best for them at all To him and to me, you didn't literally say…
Because "privilege" is a code word and a slur on those who do not agree, and a way to try to shut down rational conversation. Words can have more than one meaning, they can be nuanced, and they can mean something else…
>This is a comment that originates in privilege. This sounds like a comment about privilege that originates in privilege. The person just expressed his or her opinion, and bandying words like "privilege" shuts down…
what system isn't?
>if "time" is infinite And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass every time he hopped. But back to reality, there is not infinite time and matter. All that heat death of the universe and everything. The arrow of…
Being an atheist, I vehemently disagree with his assertion and give reasons for why I disagree: >Religion is not “ancient superstition.” >The great religions caught on because they successfully communicated something…
I read about an experiment where they had people draw a pencil. However, with each iteration, the next person to draw the pencil had to do it in a new way that was not done before. The first drawings were regular…
Because there are a ton of ill-informed consumers, not just in regards to automobiles, but everything. There are only 4 cars that I ever shop for. Toyota Corrola, Toyota Camry, Honda Civic, Honda Accord. It really makes…
Why worry? Nobody is going to stop driving their car, nobody is going to stop taking plane trips. And those are utterly nothing as compared to the largest generators of CO2 --- children. Every single thing that a person…
Same. Used Firefox from long ago, but switched about 3 years ago when I just was getting way too many problems with firefox not running SaaS stuff. Couldn't run Salesforce on Firefox. Maybe there was some way that…
But was he doing a great job on Firefox before being fired?
After watching Russia's performanc in Ukraine, I'm sure the thought has flitted across Xi's mind once or twice.
>_especially_ immigration At least that is good, as immigration takes a lot of what little available housing that is available. It's the same in the USA. Housing prices are shooting up on everything and 40 million…