Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years
by zeroimpl on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:16PM
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Indeed. Yet this port city with almost no land ruled over quite a significant empire for about 1000 years. I think itβs had a good run.
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Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years
by dang on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:12PM
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Personal attacks will get you banned here. Will you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules so we don't have to ban you again?
Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years
by dfcagency on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:37PM
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You know I meaningfully contribute more than most people here, right?
Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years
by dang on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:09AM
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That's great! But it's not enough to contribute positive things; you also need to not contribute negative things. It is like society: good deeds don't mean you can break laws.
Another factor too: people tend to overestimate the value of their positive contributions and underestimate the damage of their negative ones. Probably by an order of magnitude in both directions, in which case many of us are adding a hundred times less value than we imagine, if we're adding value at all.