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Comment This might be what proves Free Will exists (Score 1) 6

There's a concept of determinism because of some of the consequences of how physics work. Basically the idea that every decision is already made because if we're made of molecules you can predict what those molecules have to do moment to moment.

Like how your body has already decided to move by the time you do it.

But quantum mechanics kind of throws all that right out the fucking door. My favorite fact is if we try to create a complete vacuum we still have little particles popping into existence out of nowhere and we can't explain it.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter (Score -1, Offtopic) 68

Russia can't really force it if they could then the war would be over and Europe wants to keep it all going so they can wear Russia down some more.

So nothing is really going to change in the war will just continue unless and until we get a democrat in the white house again with a clear majority in Congress.

It is incredibly fucked up that the world is just kind of standing by letting Russia do this so that they can wear Russia down and reduce their ability to function as a global superpower. Then again this shit we are letting happen in Yemen and Sudan is even worse. And Jesus fucking Christ if you read the history of what America did in South America during Ronald Reagan...

Comment Re:Wasted resources and money (Score 1) 30

Yeah you're not really supposed to think about how expensive the drug war is versus just giving people support and addiction treatment.

America especially is really into punitive and revenge-based Justice. I wonder if it will start to fade if religious extremism continues to fade. It's not hard to draw a line between puritanical bullshit and wanting to do as much harm as possible to people who commit crimes or do drugs.

Comment Re:*headscratch* (Score 1) 59

but the engineers and sales people would be much better off if the company were acquired.

No, that is your assumption and on you to prove. My argument is in an acquisition many of those will be laid off in short order for "efficiency" reasons and there is precedent for that particularly in filings where consolidation of resources is presented a reason for merger particularly when the other company is struggling. Also part of my proposal is that not allowing mergers will create more competition so those people can get more jobs. If good companies with bad luck deserve to be aquired then how can you argue good employees in bad companies wont get hired again? This is contradictory.

VMware is a great example of that -- it was still the world's best virtualization solution but had been completely eaten from the toes up by free competing solutions.

This example contradicts itself.

it's not even that the company was "dying" just that they ended up in a place that the business could not continue on its current path.

This also does. Unable to make debt is a prime example of how companies die. You took on debt because you were not making money. Profitable companies can get lifelines because they make profit and can tend to show they can continue growth.

Now yes I completely agree that acquiring newer companies is a problem for innovation. Look at Figma -- Adobe tried to buy and kill the product. Because antitrust regulators said no, Figma was not acquired and now they are a colossus of innovation.

*European* regulators to be clear. Sounds like you agree with me. See my thing is I think your latter example, the Figma example is in the 80/20 rule. The vast majority of MA is for this reason the vast minority is for your former reason, the altruistic "they're really good but just couldn't sell their idea". I am very willing to sacrifice the much smaller and much less consequention minority to stop the far more harmful majority.

If an IPO is harder than an acquisition (of course it is), then the acquisition happens.

Well then as part of my plan I would make it easier for companies to go IPO, bingo. What's next?

Comment Re:Not climate change. (Score 2) 76

Climate change did zero percent of the damage.

While this is mostly mismanagement, this statement is just silly. Of course there's an element of climate change involved in water management. Iran has already seen a decline in precipitation and it's estimated to only get drier. Combine that with the intensity of rain increasing causing flooding (which is bad for water management since it means water going to the ocean rather than into the ground) and you definitely have a contributor.

Now it's still nothing like contribution of mismanagement, but it's stupid to used the number "zero".

Comment Re: Indonesia also (Score 0) 76

Trump's done what now?

This has nothing to do with Trump. It takes years of mismanagement to poison people on such a scale. This wasn't even about Trump, he wasn't mentioned, but thanks for showing the world you feel so triggered that you need to simp for him anytime anyone mentions something bad.

Why do you think that is? Why is it everytime anyone mentions bad government you think it's about Trump?

Comment Re:.mozilla is a better solution (Score 2) 33

Actually no. XDG defines 7 directories in total for apps to spread their data across. Firefox is now splitting up across *two* of them. What was previous in ~/.mozilla may not be found in ~/.config/mozilla or ~/.cache/mozilla

It's not bad, but the OP is on point saying that files are split up.

Incidentally GIMP spreads its files across 3 different folders (add ~/.local/share to the list), LibreOffice across three, the other two programs use just the one though.

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