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colinmhayes
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People eat chicken... People wouldn't just become vegan without GMOs, they'd eat the same food and its price would go up. The US would stop exporting all its soy and asian pork farms would collapse. Without imported food asian countries would not be able to feed their populace.
colinmhayes
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> I wonder how did they get into poverty in the first place.

Human history is basically nothing but suffering and starvation. 80% of the population was living in extreme poverty before the industrial revolution. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio...
colinmhayes
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I think her performance at question shined a light on the incompetence of her administration, destroying her support and causing her to resign, yes.
colinmhayes
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The serious consequences are that if you do especially badly like Truss did yesterday the voters get pissed and you have to resign.
colinmhayes
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I have some doctors in my family and they told me that when their system switched to Epic, Epic sent a consultant to sit in their office for months and answer questions because every new user complains about UX.
colinmhayes
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Hard to believe people who have actually thought about the consequences of demoderation could possibly support it. It would instantly be the end of all forums. Moderation isn't always perfect, but it is infinitely better than a free for all.
colinmhayes
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All rights are legal rights. No one has any rights without a legal system.
colinmhayes
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> jobs you may think unimportant,like farming, plumbing, construction,

> Perhaps try explaining instead of dismissing?
colinmhayes
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No, my job requires me to have internet while travelling. That means phone companies. It could be solved, but would have a huge impact on my life.
colinmhayes
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Right, but the enforcement is actually "no one can make anyone else uncomfortable about being white"
colinmhayes
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The problem with "just let individuals choose" arguments is that our population seems to be extremely opposed to taxes that counteract externalities. Of course we should let people choose, but when their choice harms others we have to either charge them more or force them into making a different choice. I'd prefer taxes, but bans seem much easier politically.
colinmhayes
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It's not a company's fault that the government is unwilling to neutralize externalities. Deciding to do so when everyone else doesn't just means you will fail as consumers switch to cheaper, higher pollution alternatives.
colinmhayes
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But if they weren't royal caribbean would.
colinmhayes
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> they do it for money.

They do it because it's what consumers want. It's not industries job to kneecap themselves so that less scrupulous companies can gain market share.
colinmhayes
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I'm just here waiting for the matrix. Metaverse type content is pretty clearly the future of gaming, but VR doesn't cut it. What we need is a dream like state we can plug into for full immersion.
colinmhayes
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My interpretation of OPs post is that they felt they had a problem. I assumed that problem was the amount of money/time spent installing and upkeeping those drives.
colinmhayes
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Or he could spend $10 on the tracker, $10 to run a normal computer without 30 drives, and still watch all the same stuff for half the price.
colinmhayes
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Well it's costing this guy $45 a month apparently.
colinmhayes
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My department's policy was a 3.2 curve. So half the students in every class got B+ or worse. 2.75 is a B-, most classes had at least 30% at or below there.
colinmhayes
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> “Serious” students are largely only found in degree programs that have weeder courses.

I went to a top 20 university, even higher ranked CS program. There were plenty of weeder courses. There were also plenty of students that were only there to get the piece of paper they believed, probably rightly, was necessary to get the job they wanted. All of the CS courses were recorded, attendance never mandatory for lectures. It was not uncommon at all for lectures to be less than half full due to students watching a months worth of lectures right before exams.