CathedralBorrow

15 ms·

61.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Any action taken by anyone? If I want to boycott a company, would you like my actions to be properly investigated?
62.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> It wasn't a problem that needed solving, but it was a solution that rich people rediscovered. Alternative interpretation: It wasn't a problem that you needed solving, but others may have had a different experience.
63.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
I definitely don't want to dismiss your experience but I have a hard time understanding: "after listening to one of their anchors going after the 538 guy as if he and his industry were fully responsible for Trump's election,
64.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Appreciate it, and I agree with many of your points. I guess my main point -- phrased a bit more aggressively than needed -- was that if you have a huge community-sourced pile of data from multiple people in multiple parts of the country, r
65.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Is it not legitimate to want accurate sources of data? Of course. I don't believe you honestly think that I am advocating for inaccurate sources of data. However, finding and discussing sources of different quality among hundreds
66.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> If you want to create a list for this cause, at least make it good, make it solid. Don't fill it with random junk to inflate the numbers. What I read is: If you want to create a list for this cause, at least make it perfect and un
67.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
And when you add the human brain into any process you now have something much more complex and much less understood, with much more room for say, personal differences.
68.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
I think this disclaimer at the bottom might explain some of it: > This post is day 04 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. If you want to get involved, you can get more info from https://100daystooffload.com . I find that the in
69.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Agreed. And to add to that, I think it's also helpful to keep in mind that we possess the ability to focus on more than one thing at a time.
70.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Is the bad guy a couple of cops who we hold to the impossible standard of not returning fire? That's very hard to answer because the cops have censored or lied about most of the report, as well as making claims about knocking and
71.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
He's been there though, even if you haven't seen him. Here's a C-SPAN interview from 2009 about H1N1 for example: https://www.c-span.org/video/?288279-6/h1n1-virus
72.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> So it is that Dr. Fauci anticipated the outbreak, and that is why he is advising the president. I believe Dr. Fauci is advising the administration because he is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
73.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
This sounds like the most American solution I've ever heard. Incentivize employers to train people by charging employees money for training and letting them pay off their debt by working?
74.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Change is certainly going to happen, and it's not going to be the change you're hoping for. Can you clue in the rest of us here? These are very chaotic times and I'd really like to know what the future holds.
75.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> In essence, those actually supporting the protests have created an environment whereby they'll never be able to judge the true sentiment around their movement, as dissent or even public agnosticism toward it has been all but quash
76.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
That just sounds like racism with extra steps.
77.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Would you be content with replacing "structural racism" with "systemic racism" in that case?
78.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> It really does happen. But not in any structured way, but rather in random human behavior that we might never be able to correct, right?
79.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> They’re deciding that “protesting police brutality is worth some excess deaths from COVID.” Why are you putting your own characterization in quotation marks as if you're quoting someone else? Or did I miss something and this is a
80.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
It it nonsense though? If that's true it sounds like there was no need for anyone to weigh in at all; it was evidently obvious that these protests must be condemned. Do you believe that's the case?
81.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Wait, you read a NY Post article with rumors about a married couple having marriage difficulties, and you believe you've uncovered the "whole story" that other people are somehow blind to but you can see?
82.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Are you open to the possibility that those proponents actually have considered those viewpoints and come to a different conclusion than you for reasons other than being too stupid to understand math?
83.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> I didn't leave anything out. Read it again. But it is interesting how your reply is full of problems that are easily solved without inconveniencing the majority of society (the majority being under the age of 42). Care to tell us
84.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
Does brick have an understood definition though? I think this is the millionth time I see this exact discussion about a news story using the term differently from the one true definition. That doesn't seem very understood to me.
85.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
So to help your cause, make sure to never block traffic. Is that a fair understanding of your position?
86.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> Shouldn't you be taking some medication or, at the least, seeing a psychologist instead of wasting our time here? Isn't this way below the HN discourse bar?
87.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> They are under arrest right now. Who is "they"?
88.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> See? The problem with that kind of thinking is that anyone can declare anything distressing. True, but it tends to be quite easy to separate the real from the disingenuous like yours. So that's there I draw the line at least.
89.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
> They have not "taken the right steps", at least not yet. So reversing and apologizing is still taking the wrong steps? Is this one of those situations where no positive descriptor must ever be uttered about someone? > That
90.
by CathedralBorrow 6y ago
If you read the comments here you'll find the author saying "I don't want to promote a 2nd year business student's work as an original pitch deck so I can look more closely into the provenance of problem slides if you co

More ›