Mosquitos are actually quite beautiful https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58398905

Just lookup mosquito macro photography - they’re all colorful and fluffy and everything

Don’t see how you get your conclusion from the premise.

Equation? Is that what you think existance is?

Under which law it would be illegal? I’d love for this to be true but highly doubt it.

So confident about something we aren’t even remotely close to understanding

There’s nothing in free will that would prevent this though. I’m confused how you get to this conclusion.

Either on purpose to drum up the headlines or just general blissful ignorance of Valve

I use Inkscape as infinite canvas for brainstorming and it’s awesome. The performance is so much better than any other tool I’ve tried too

Well I wish you find success soon then! 🙏

Timezones are much better after covid lockdowns now that world has learned to be more async. I’m based in SEA and I work with European and US teams no problem. The hard part is actually getting your foot in the door for a remote position but once you get your career going adapting to timezones and remote work is not very hard.

The biggest crutch for many is attachments. People just can’t leave NYC or whatever hyperinflated city they live in because they fear change or have responsibilities.

What a pessimistic take and I’d really disagree with it. Many people actually want to work on challenging problems and this “get away” mentality is mostly a symptom of people being tired out by bad systems. There are definitely people who want to hang out and do nothing but I’d say that a minority overall. People love creating stuff, period.

You can totally do this with remote income of 1,000 usd/mo.

For example, in Hua Hin, Thailand you can get a small place for 300 usd/mo and remaining 700 is enough to hang out, meditate and wind surf every day. Lots of places like this around the world and it’s really not hard to make 1,000 usd/mo remotely if work on it. You can even do instructing if you get good at a particular water sport completely legally as well though you won’t be making more than 1k/mo but you’ll be making a lot of friends :)

Don’t tell me employer but it would still work for free. Software engineering is an absolute privilege and I can’t relate to this meme at all.

Nah these absolutist puritan arguments are just nonsensical drivel.

Yes but that’s not the topic here.

I did not mean monetary costs but societal costs as well. Having a dangerous person in banishment still leaking danger to society costs more lives than that of one person.

Let’s say there’s a cartel boss and sure you lock them up but they can still cause enough instability to start a cartel war killing thousands of innocents - wouldn’t killing them (legally) be better for society as it would save thousands of lives? I mean we can probably be quite certain they’re the cartel boss, not 100% but as close as practically possible right?

I generally agree but there are costs to not executing someone clearly guilty as well and it’s about measuring these costs. For a general murderer - sure the costs of keeping them banished forever are quite low but for someone like Musolini or this mayor? There are real costs of keeping them alive in banishment primarily the risk of them coming back or leaking influence back into the real world so imo death sentence here could be justified.

Though in practice I agree that it’s safer to not give government this power as overall risk of abuse is too high but ethically it’s completely justifiable to kill someone who’s incredibly dangerous even if 100% certainty is not possible.

This is fallacious statement - nothing is ever 100% accurate 100% of the time, that’s impossible.

This is called absolute inaction in ethics - if you say that you can’t take action unless there’s utter most certainty and there’s nothing in the universe that is utter most certain -> you can’t take any actions. You’re perpetually stuck in indecision.

So it’s perfectly possible to reach certainty where someone is practically 100% guilty. Would you say that the killing of Musolini was unjustified? Should he be serving a life sentence instead and we ought to risk revival of nazis just for sake of not breaking this dichotomy? Yeah he’s 99.99999% guilty but we can’t be 100% sure.

Counter point - many of greatest society failures were due to insufficient isolation of bad actors. Hitler failed his first coup attempt and came back after 5 years in prison - very few people remember this.

So some form of banishment is required and obviously death is the easiest, full-proof option so this is not a black/white issue as you make it out to be.