AlexB138

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by AlexB138 7y ago
This post is a fantastic example of what the actual problem is. Neither of the points made are factually accurate, but boy is the poster angry about it. "Let's talk about how is social media's fault", indeed. Moral outra
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by AlexB138 7y ago
> It must be said, again and again: corporations exist at the sufferance of the society that grants them their charter and only exist for the benefit of that society. I'm assuming you're talking about the US. We are not subject
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by AlexB138 7y ago
How so? As a consumer, I personally have a lot less trust in Amazon. At least with Walmart I know I'll get what I ordered instead of some cheap Chinese knockoff.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
It's good to see some viable competition to Amazon, but it's regretful that it comes from, and probably can only come from, another mega-corporation with an extremely poor track record around worker treatment. I wonder how viable
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by AlexB138 7y ago
Paraphrasing, because I can't find the original quote: You can start a movement without a god, but not without a devil. It's mostly a boogeyman used to galvanize and justify another extremist group.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
> As I heard from one candidate in an interview, “software development is one of very few career paths left to have a middle class lifestyle without a degree.“ That's very true, and it's because technology is more of a meritocr
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by AlexB138 7y ago
That seems like a non sequitur. If each country were left to decide on its own, it seems that many, in fact historically nearly all, would not have open boarders. It seems like you're assuming the freedom of a group to govern themselve
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by AlexB138 7y ago
Or, perhaps more viscerally, in this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
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by AlexB138 7y ago
> I think that it's fair to not try to add anything beyond what's demonstrably there. Why? If peoples' experiences and psychology (in my layman's understanding of agreeableness) show that women tend to be more empathe
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by AlexB138 7y ago
Where did I say they were blameless? There are varying degrees of bad behavior, and while the US Government has a whole host of actions they can be validly criticized for, they're not even in the same ball park as the PRC. As I said, w
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by AlexB138 7y ago
While both are reprehensible behavior, supply information to the US government and being fundamentally linked with the Chinese Communist government aren't even close. It's like comparing a school yard bully to a serial killer. Pol
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by AlexB138 8y ago
> This is the labour/capital struggle that your socialist friends talk about. In capitalism, labour produces the products, but capital still has control. In what sense do Sales people own the means of production and exploit engineer
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by AlexB138 8y ago
What a dystopian nightmare the internet is turning into. Anything that isn't in line with "right thought" isn't Responsible and is therefore hidden away? How did we end up here? How did Silicon Valley go from a place foc
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by AlexB138 8y ago
Sure, that's generally true, but in his example the developer actually spent significantly more time and effort on their bad implementation. It was the worst of both worlds, flawed and tomorrow, so to speak. I've seen people do th
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by AlexB138 8y ago
Reddit admins shut down communities without warning due to their own political whims, have edited the content of a users post with no indication of doing so, and, as said already, inject ads. Reddit's model is paternalistic at best.
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by AlexB138 8y ago
I don't, unfortunately. I'm in the same boat as you. I frequent a few narrowly focused sites, and spend some time in a couple IRC channels for more general discussion, but that's not quite the same. I wish I had a good recomm
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by AlexB138 8y ago
I think, by and large, "calling out" is something we ought to be doing much less of.
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by AlexB138 8y ago
It's racist to advertise to the group that is most likely to buy your product? And advertising is equivalent to ethnic cleansing? This hyperbole is ridiculous.
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by AlexB138 8y ago
> The commenter didn't conflate anything. They defined the legal parameters under which freedom of speech actually exists in the United States. You can insist on talking about this idealistic normative if you want, but in common par
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by AlexB138 8y ago
> the CEO or shareholders didn't invent the computer either, and buying a PC is a fairly small expense, so why should they be the ones to benefit from the increased productivity? Because the company owns the computer, and the work
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by AlexB138 8y ago
Yeah, it's funny how we work. Heck, read my comment, you can probably just as easily pick out my ideology. I wonder if linguistics has a term for that. It's something like "spin", but not exactly because it's not in
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by AlexB138 8y ago
> if you let rich people keep more of their money, they have more of the money. If you simultaneously take from poor people, they stay poor. Not to join the debate here, but the use of language here really interests me. When talking abou
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by AlexB138 8y ago
I know nothing about John Wayne, but the MAGA kids thing was basically a hoax. It's the definition of "fake news", a term I hate, but it applies there. It's a perfect example, and the fact that you still believe the comp
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by AlexB138 8y ago
I think you're very close to right, but not quite. I think what we actually need is something that fills the role religion used to fit into, but that is compatible with the modern world. Religions have too many supernatural elements th
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by AlexB138 8y ago
> Maybe. In Australia, 'bleeding heart' used by people on the right to describe people on the left who act with conscience, ethics, compassion or recommend a course of such acts. It's a term of abuse, because they think su
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by AlexB138 8y ago
Why is this kind of accusatory moralizing so common on HN? It seems really needlessly confrontational.
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by AlexB138 8y ago
A lot of Python's popularity, in my experience, is from the simple fact that it came loaded on many mainstream Linux distros by default. Many people picked it up simply because it was there, and it became the de-facto systems tooling l
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by AlexB138 8y ago
> The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more. When you think there are simple answers to big problems it's generally because you don't ac
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by AlexB138 8y ago
You're arguing against points I'm not making, and equating the ability of alcohol and psychedelic drugs to detach you from reality is willful ignorance. This is the kind of argument that hurts the cause you're arguing in favo
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by AlexB138 8y ago
I'm not sure what your argument is. The "Oh, we already tried that? whoops" seems like you just wanted to say something snarky. We have plenty of laws in place around regulating the societal impact of alcohol. Minors can&#x27

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