The problem, fundamentally, is that unlike a computer program that won't compile if there's syntax errors, or that will crash on null pointer dereference, etc. There's no such mechanisms in place to ensure logical…
If they take the most absurd interpretation or nitpick about irrelevant details that doesn't take away from the crux of the point you're making - and that's the best they can do - are they really intelligent? Or are you…
The frustrating part about arguing - on the internet: 1. Infinite supply of people. 2. 90%+ of times before you get anywhere, you find out the person doesn't have "what it takes". At minimum you have to filter out 90%+…
> One is that money makes people inherently happy. Which is so obviously wrong it's not even worth talking about. Really. The mere fact of having large chunk of cash and resources, without necessarily even spending it…
"money can't buy happiness" is a poor mans cope. It's a comforting lie for proletariat, the opium for the goycattle. If you can't buy happiness either one of these is true: 1. You don't have enough money to buy it.…
> Most of the things that can be remedied with money are not the truly painful things of life either. Have you done the math of what life consists of for most people? It's 9-to-5. Your life is DOMINATED - by large order…
Dude, every sane language out there does this. Just generally with 4byte prefix. Null-terminated stuff has always been backwards compat stuff. Pascal strings - historically and why people even remember this being an…
Yup, and there you go confirming beyond sliver of doubt that you're a genuine, certified "akshually" type redditor. Fundamentally incapable of distilling the substance of the argument, and always latching onto any…
> The purpose of consumption for most people is to soothe the pain of working. Yes, for a lot of people it is like this. When I was young, I couldn't understand why people went on 1-2 week short, extremely expensive…
Why are you being an obtuse "akshually" redditor? > The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Everyone wants more If he wanted to say masses work, because they have to pay rent and meet…
> The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Hell, no. Masses work, because they have to. It's not under threat of violence, it's under threat of sleeping under a bridge and starving. Which,…
Pentium 1 133mhz ran Quake2 pretty darn well as long as you had hardware accel. Without hadware accel it was ass. (maybe even Pentium 100)
Before FB acquisition: Yes, really, it ran on potato feature phones you've never even heard of. That can only happen if you really bend backwards to make it happen. Massive userbase with very tiny team.
> Why? It’s repressive if done to cap a natively-growing population, since that means government controlling reproduction (à la one-child policy). There's a point where caping even natively growing population is…
I remember "playing" it briefly somewhere within PS2-era. And the absolutely horrid framerate is the thing that I remember most about the game. It absolutely ruined the experience for me and made me stop 'trying' to…
> A stunning number of people have been raised/educated solely by the internet. That’s the source for knowledge, not other people. On the internet you can learn from and sometimes interact with the best of the best, so…
For all I know maybe you are an expert, but as a general rule of thumb - people are sick of "experts" eager to share their "expertise". It's simply the case that the supply of "experts" wanting to share "expertise"…
> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be there all day before someone said "I wish I could replace the battery". I doubt most people…
Should Antarctica be counted as habitable then? It constitutes something to the tune of 9% of Earths land mass. And it's already inhabited by millions if not billions of people? Really? Is Sahara-Desert habitable also?…
> I don't think you're discussing this in good faith. 134m^2 is well over 4 acres of land for a single person! 134m is a distance you can walk in a minute and a half. And you're already in somebody elses land. The only…
> I think your intuition of 140m x 140m being a small parcel of land is rather odd. I actually went into google maps/satellite of some very familiar places to me, and drew out a 140m x 140m meter squares just to get a…
> I'm not sure if this emphasizes how few humans there are, or how massive the Earth is. But it's the same point in both cases. It emphasizes neither! What you've described is a mass grave. Quite literally so. If you…
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Lets say, you have 47 years left to live. Does that make those 47 years irrelevant - just because they will end? There's no contradiction there. It just makes these last-remaining fossil fuels even more valuable.…
I mean something undeniably WILL happen as the world has roughly 47 years left at current consumption rate of oil. Whether what's going to happen will be whatever it is you're imagining is completely different story…
The problem, fundamentally, is that unlike a computer program that won't compile if there's syntax errors, or that will crash on null pointer dereference, etc. There's no such mechanisms in place to ensure logical…
If they take the most absurd interpretation or nitpick about irrelevant details that doesn't take away from the crux of the point you're making - and that's the best they can do - are they really intelligent? Or are you…
The frustrating part about arguing - on the internet: 1. Infinite supply of people. 2. 90%+ of times before you get anywhere, you find out the person doesn't have "what it takes". At minimum you have to filter out 90%+…
> One is that money makes people inherently happy. Which is so obviously wrong it's not even worth talking about. Really. The mere fact of having large chunk of cash and resources, without necessarily even spending it…
"money can't buy happiness" is a poor mans cope. It's a comforting lie for proletariat, the opium for the goycattle. If you can't buy happiness either one of these is true: 1. You don't have enough money to buy it.…
> Most of the things that can be remedied with money are not the truly painful things of life either. Have you done the math of what life consists of for most people? It's 9-to-5. Your life is DOMINATED - by large order…
Dude, every sane language out there does this. Just generally with 4byte prefix. Null-terminated stuff has always been backwards compat stuff. Pascal strings - historically and why people even remember this being an…
Yup, and there you go confirming beyond sliver of doubt that you're a genuine, certified "akshually" type redditor. Fundamentally incapable of distilling the substance of the argument, and always latching onto any…
> The purpose of consumption for most people is to soothe the pain of working. Yes, for a lot of people it is like this. When I was young, I couldn't understand why people went on 1-2 week short, extremely expensive…
Why are you being an obtuse "akshually" redditor? > The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Everyone wants more If he wanted to say masses work, because they have to pay rent and meet…
> The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Hell, no. Masses work, because they have to. It's not under threat of violence, it's under threat of sleeping under a bridge and starving. Which,…
Pentium 1 133mhz ran Quake2 pretty darn well as long as you had hardware accel. Without hadware accel it was ass. (maybe even Pentium 100)
Before FB acquisition: Yes, really, it ran on potato feature phones you've never even heard of. That can only happen if you really bend backwards to make it happen. Massive userbase with very tiny team.
> Why? It’s repressive if done to cap a natively-growing population, since that means government controlling reproduction (à la one-child policy). There's a point where caping even natively growing population is…
I remember "playing" it briefly somewhere within PS2-era. And the absolutely horrid framerate is the thing that I remember most about the game. It absolutely ruined the experience for me and made me stop 'trying' to…
> A stunning number of people have been raised/educated solely by the internet. That’s the source for knowledge, not other people. On the internet you can learn from and sometimes interact with the best of the best, so…
For all I know maybe you are an expert, but as a general rule of thumb - people are sick of "experts" eager to share their "expertise". It's simply the case that the supply of "experts" wanting to share "expertise"…
> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be there all day before someone said "I wish I could replace the battery". I doubt most people…
Should Antarctica be counted as habitable then? It constitutes something to the tune of 9% of Earths land mass. And it's already inhabited by millions if not billions of people? Really? Is Sahara-Desert habitable also?…
> I don't think you're discussing this in good faith. 134m^2 is well over 4 acres of land for a single person! 134m is a distance you can walk in a minute and a half. And you're already in somebody elses land. The only…
> I think your intuition of 140m x 140m being a small parcel of land is rather odd. I actually went into google maps/satellite of some very familiar places to me, and drew out a 140m x 140m meter squares just to get a…
> I'm not sure if this emphasizes how few humans there are, or how massive the Earth is. But it's the same point in both cases. It emphasizes neither! What you've described is a mass grave. Quite literally so. If you…
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Lets say, you have 47 years left to live. Does that make those 47 years irrelevant - just because they will end? There's no contradiction there. It just makes these last-remaining fossil fuels even more valuable.…
I mean something undeniably WILL happen as the world has roughly 47 years left at current consumption rate of oil. Whether what's going to happen will be whatever it is you're imagining is completely different story…