TheBeege

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[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You missed a very, very important keyword there: "deserved."

Theologians miss a key point of rational debate where they don't provide proper definitions and make big assumptions that aren't great.

Who defines what the "correct" effect of an action is? Who defines what consequence is deserved by a choice? If God is the almighty being, he decides what is right and wrong. In Abrahamic tradition, God defines all of these arbitrary rules and expects humanity to obey them without question. Shit, God ordered Abraham himself to murder despite that supposedly being against the rules.

God is like a kid that holds a magnifying glass focused on an arbitrary point near the anthill. He set up the conditions for us to hurt ourselves according to his arbitrary rules. Why didn't he tell Satan to fuck off with the fruit? Why did he allow Satan to exist in the first place? If God created everything, then he is responsible for everything by our human logic. So God can fuck right off

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat

The Remembrance speaks to us on the evil of man's will, of the reasons for Exodus, and the Rites of the Traveler. Arcadia is our destiny and our right. Enlightenment is our gift. By the Bloodnames of the founders we must return, return and protect that which is unique among the stars. Terra awaits us as it was written. We are the last of the Wardens, the sole hope for the Earth.

Wolves still prowl

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not a matter of reward or punishment. It's a matter of the skills required for continued success.

Early startups require big risk-taking, progressing at an absurd speed, charisma to get investor capital, and really just being a little crazy.

Once the concept is proven to be viable and potentially profitable, the focus needs to shift from proving it can work to making it sustainable. This involves less risk, process improvements to avoid issues like getting sued, better money management, more careful time management to avoid burnout of non-founder employees, and generally just being more rational about things.

It's rare that a person can exhibit both of these sets of behaviors, so companies will often swap out the former for the latter as a company matures. If they didn't, the founders might unintentionally drive the company into the ground by taking unnecessary risks after finding something that already works.

Does that answer your question, or did I miss the mark, still?

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

And I'm guessing a smaller chip makes it even harder to detect. Makes sense. Thank you

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Can anyone inform me regarding the purpose of preventing China from producing these more advanced chips? Is it protectionism? Is it anti-China policy? Is there some kind of particular military application?

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Maybe I'm part of the problem, and if so, please educate me, but I'm not understanding why blocking is ineffective...?

And block lists seem like an effective method to me.

The security improvements described seem reasonable, so it would be nice to get those merged.

I understand that curation and block lists require effort, but that's the nature of an open platform. If you don't want an open platform, that's cool, too. Just create an instance that's defederated by default and whitelist, then create a sectioned-off Fediverse of instances that align with your moderation principles.

I feel like I've gotta be missing something here. These solutions seem painfully obvious, but that usually means I'm missing some key caveat. Can someone fill me in?

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that last sentence was quite odd. Where did that come from...?

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Their arguments assume businesses operate in good faith. We fundamentally know that it's not true, from overseas child labor by fast fashion to coal mining to IT security. This economist of theirs can fuck off

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

That was a really, really good article. My observations from living here for 7 years match, and I learned some stuff. It's good to hear that these initiatives are happening. I try to teach coding in English as a non-profit, but I don't know enough Korean to reach these other folks. I should do more

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It makes me sad the site seems to be pushing crypto. Or maybe it's that crypto bros keep referencing the event? Chicken and egg? I dunno

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I was going to post something like this. Thank you for your service

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

This community is on lemmy.ml, which explicitly leans hard left. Maybe a memes community on another instance would be less like this

 

Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this.

I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it's important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don't want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.

 

I was thinking about patterns in history and was thinking about the fall of Rome. We all learn about the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, but I don't recall ever learning about the time in between. Sure, Rome's empire collapsed, but what happened next? City-states? A hollowed-out Republic? Anarchy? Did the goths raid and pillage everything? Did they just go back north? Did they settle in? I wanna know

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