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China doesn't have to do anything because they've convinced the world that per-capita matters. It doesn't matter.

I'm also willing to bet China's population is smaller than they say. And I'd also bet their emissions are higher than they say. Nothing that comes out of China's mouth can be trusted.

Justine Sacco is such a sad story, but she is doing better now thankfully. Last I heard she was rehired by the company who fired her when she made the tweet.

I don't understand why you can't link to a single _existing_ alt-right subreddit. You keep referencing a single one that was purged years ago.

You're claiming they're still on Reddit but using a long gone subreddit as proof of Reddit being alt-right today? How does that even work? If you can't link to something today you can't say the problem still exists today.

You don't think LeBron has any say in the teammates they sign?

Tom Brady famously got Gronk out of retirement and Brown was on the team because of Brady despite having a horrible reputation and being essentially blacklisted from the NFL.

Star players are a dime a dozen in professional sports and I don't think their influence on the team makeup is as rare as you think. In fact, a big name star might have _more_ hiring power than a typical CEO in a public company.

> There are many players who don't live up to their $100MM+ contracts.

Do you have examples? The ticket sales alone that big name players drive to home games make far more than 100MM over the course of their contacts.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/294166/toronto-blue-jays...

That doesn't even include all the merchandise and the food/drink sales and all the other benefits that come from signing big name stars. The CEO of a company doesn't have the same "star" power a pro athlete, musician, or actor has.

The thing about people is they'll whine and cry about how awful <anything> is but if it gives them convenient access to a dopamine hit they'll put up with whatever they're complaining about.

Putting your money where your mouth is and using your wallet as your vote are rare values to find in people anymore. Most people want cheap entertainment and they want it now.

This xkcd is the stupidest one in existence. I wish he would just delete it.

I am sorry but you will never convince me that private companies should have more power than the government. It's such an idiotic premise on so many levels and it blows my mind that people like you still come around with that bullshit xkcd comic as if it means anything or is a sound argument for censorship.

So because you don't have a use case for >250mbs down nobody has a use-case? I don't understand what your argument is.

It seems like the entire point of online communities are to gameify whatever the community is about. I noticed it around 2008 and its only been getting worse.

Creating Internet points (likes, shares, retweets, karma, w/e the system) was a huge mistake for humanity. I'm starting to appreciate forums and chatrooms again where everything doesn't have to be a competition and people aren't trying to min/max everything they come across.

I smoke weed 8 times a day and I smoke cannabis 8 times a day. Sounds the same to me. Why the hell would the word you use matter?

Take your morals and shove them. Go look in the mirror and judge yourself if you want to judge somebody but leave me out of it.

Why would my last paragraph be false?

Which one of these activities do you think I'm lying about and required ID?

> Clearly there's some balance to be found in releasing details about intimate relationships

Yes and the current laws are adequate enough to address this. We don't need to restrict everybody's free speech because 1 person published their ex's home address. Stay out of my life and my business and punish the people for breaking the law. That's not a good reason to take the ability to be anonymous away from everyone.

> No, almost all parts of society require identification

Do you have a source on that? I can think of FAR more parts of society that don't require identification than parts that do. It feels impossible that "almost all parts of society require identification" in a world of infinite possibilities.

I put some pants on 10 minutes ago without identifying myself. Then I left my house without telling anyone. Then I walked down the street and never had to identify myself. The mall I visited didn't require ID. Finally, the McDonalds I went to accepted cash and I didn't have to prove who I am.

Why do we have to be pedantic and can't just say when the FBI or CIA come after us?

If all anyone ever talks about is APIs in the web services sense then, yes, the definition of API has been narrowed. When everyone will assume you mean web services API when you refer to an API and have to use extra words to describe non-web APIs then the definition has narrowed. That's how English works: the definitions of words depend on their usage and dictionaries describe how words are used.

You even admitted "The pervasiveness of web apps and applications consuming web services means there's a lot of work involving web APIs" and "If your bread and butter is developing web services, you don't waste time with context-free definitions of your API" which is acknowledging the common use definition of API has morphed into Web API. It's only in the context of technical documents or documents that are explicitly referring to non-web APIs that use API and it is understood to mean something other than a web API.

Thanks for clarifying. Yeah, I have no interest turning a Java GUI that's been working for 20 years into a React app.

I probably have to admit I have a manager who doesn't really align with my needs. He's great at the business side but terrible at the technology side. That's why I'm still around, because he does back me up, but he won't get into battles about downloading VisualVM. We have jdk8 installed and it's in there, just use that! Why do you need the latest version? It's frustrating, but I do like my manager and my team, they just have the ability to roll over and follow the damn rules sooner than I prefer.

I hate this comment because it describes my workplace to a T. It's scary how accurate it is.

So many fragile egos in high authority positions who can't admit they made a terrible decision 3 years ago and are still in denial and doubling down on it.

shudders

You're far from the only!

I love programming and I'm more than happy to work with juniors and solve junior tasks. I feel like this industry puts so much pressure on people to be an engineer or an architect or something more than a person who writes a little script to fix something and moves on. Everything built today seems to have to be architected and scalable and I hate it.

Sometimes I need the distraction and want to try out the shiny things.

I really should find a new job because my manager has your attitude and it drives me crazy. I'm at a big corp and I can't stand the "just deal with it, there's processes and they suck but it's for the best" attitude that everyone has. I keep having the delusion that this year will be different because there has been small improvements.. but ffs. We run a Java stack and VisualVM is something I should be able to download without all the hoops. Nobody wants to help you jump through the hoops either, they just tell you to do it, and expect you to succeed.

You really don't need a car. Bikes are awesome. You can ride them with backpacks. Friends have trucks. Money pays for delivery.

Source: a normal 38 year old that never had a license

Right?

A friendly reminder that Gates shorts Tesla and that Washington state has the most regressive tax system in the USA.

I'm nearly at my wits end when it comes to rich people preaching nonsense they don't believe in to everyone.

https://time.com/6208632/celebrities-climate-impact-private-...

Carbon credits are the equivalent to murdering an innocent person and thinking that raping 2 women and supporting the offspring morally absolves you of the original murder and 2 rapes because you assume those 2 children will go on to save the world.

The Musk brand sells.

That sounds like such an awesome experience. As inconvenient as it sounds sometimes I wish I grew up in the beginnings of computers.

My uncle told me a story of when he was at his first programming job carrying a box of at least 500 punch cards across a factory floor on his 2nd or 3rd day. Someone opened a garage door somewhere and a gust of wind came and blew every single punch card across the factory. They were everywhere he said. My uncle was terrified of losing his first job meanwhile these factory guys are pissing themselves laughing and almost literally rofl.

Turns out it's a prank they pull on everyone. There's only been a few that held onto the box and the cards are complete trash.

It sounds fun.

> If you did that to a child it would be neglect, that is the point. Children aren't cats.

I would never do that to a child. Even if they had a bowl of food and water and a toilet in the room I wouldn't expect them to be able to take care of themselves. That sounds like something a psychopath would do. Stop straw-manning me, it's incredibly rude, and against the rules. You bring down the discourse of this site when you quote 5 words from a paragraph and leave the rest of the context out. Plus you are not even quoting me directly yet you're using quotes. Stop doing that as well please.

> "Do as I say because I am the boss" is just not good enough.

When did I make that argument?

For the record, I don't believe you should tell children that. I don't understand the difficulty in telling them "The iPad broke and you are not getting another one because you can't take care of it properly. Perhaps you'll get a new one at Christmas." when they break their iPad.

That's what I consider being a boss. Saying those words does not seem difficult to me.

Sure, you can think that. I don't fault you. Musk is extremely childish at times and that's putting it lightly.

It's his money to light on fire and his reputation to tarnish. I don't know why people get so miffed by him. Twitter wasn't anything special to ruin and I think it's doing just fine nowadays.

Blorgen is clearly an interpretation of something and a tangible piece of art.

Psychic predictions are never psychic predictions because psychic predictions don't exist.

Nobody in the universe can give you a psychic prediction.

I always find it a headscratcher when people advocate for making the violation of civil rights easier.

Cops seem perfectly capable of doing it with the tools they have today.

I didn't beat anything into submission.

I set ground rules and gave her safe ways to be upset. If she misbehaved she lost privileges she enjoys.

I never neglected her if that's what you're trying to get at. That's a pretty low-blow to accuse me of based on what I wrote. Be better.

Obviously locking children in rooms isn't right. How about this, instead of locking kids in a room, you could try making a toy room and locking them OUT if they're misbehaving. Is that inhumane torture? That's basically what I did with my cat.

I never understand this view, but admittedly I don't have children. I have a cat though. She's the first pet I've ever had in my life.

I got lots of warnings from lots of people. Don't let her out or she'll cry all the time to go out. Keep her away from the door or she'll run out and you won't see her again. It sounded very difficult.

However I didn't follow this advice and let my cat out in my backyard. And I found out that people were right and she does cry to go out all the time.

At the start. So I ignored her. I didn't even tell her to be quiet. I let her whine and cry as much as she wanted. She was 100% fine and had everything she needed except the ability to go outside.

She started to scratch the screen to voice her displeasure. I'm the boss and so she lost screen door privileges. She tried to negotiate but failed horribly because, again, I am the boss. She is a cat. The next weekend she got screen door privileges back and scratched the screen on day 2. She lost them again because I'm the boss and I don't want her to scratch my screen. When she got her screen privileges back again she never scratched the screen again.

The door thing, same. She snuck out once. Then I started locking her in a safe room with everything she needed. It's still her room to this day and she can trash it as much as she wants, just like she could as a kitten. That's the only room she can do that and seems to understand that. She doesn't really come near the door if I'm leaving now, and if she's close she will not try sneaking out.

She just turned two this past month, and while she was a nightmare as a kitten, she is a complete angel now.

I'm not totally perfect and for example I can't keep her off my desk if it's in the sitting position. So I've learned to deal with it. If I don't want her on my desk I need to either keep her out of my office or use it standing. I can't seem to win this battle and I tried everything. I'll say that not buying a kid a new iPad seems like a much easier thing to do.

I'm sure children are a lot different but the "I can't teach children philosophy" excuse sounds pretty weak. I don't understand how children can have that much power over an adult.

Some of these dangers are relative though. A 6 foot fall for a toddler is probably not going to kill them but relative to the size of the kid it's a great height they can experiment with. A 10 foot drop for an 8 year old is a great height to them but they'll survive.

The bison example, I would think any child would be very wary of walking up to a bison. On top of that, if a child were to approach a bison I highly doubt the bison would come out with full offensive. They'd probably assume a defensive posture to scare the kid away. If the kid kept coming you should keep in mind that mammals recognize babies of other mammals. It would be pretty extraordinary for the bison to consider a human child as a threat and attack them.

The cars though, yeah. I don't even want to get into that.