Cupertino95014

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by Cupertino95014 2y ago
Why no. No it isn't. They're a publisher.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
.. and this from the guy who spends his days policing other people's posts.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
Maybe you should ask one of these gig workers if they feel better off now than before? Instead of making spurious comparisons to Hyderabad.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
When people claim that minimum wage laws don't hurt workers, there's an implicit assumption that the jobs would always exist anyway, and costs will just be passed on. Sometimes that may be true. Other times, you're just getti
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
I agree with most of that, except for: > it's hard to see how war could have been averted by that point when you read the day-by-day activity leading up to the war, you see plenty of missed opportunities. Czar Nicholas, especially,
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
and you can disabuse yourself of your arrogance by reading anything from the ancient world.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
> you're demonstrating exactly the thing described in the blog post. exactly. Who wants to backup anything in their house just to be able to do things that work perfectly well with 50's technology?
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
meaning, what? Some cops and chiefs betray their oath to put other people's safety above their own? would you like some examples where they didn't?
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
> a fantasy world that's the world you're living in, where these selfless, fearless (and also defenseless) people go out to sacrifice themselves every day. > training cops for an exception encounter, yeah, except the "
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
> it must be coming from a lack of knowledge about policing in the U.S. for the last two decades I think you're saying "doesn't agree with me." There's no lack of knowledge -- there's only a lack of indoctri
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
.. and raising the "standards" -- that's going to attract more applicants? Explain how that would work.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
and yet day-to-day, they risk running into a guy with a gun. Grow up.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
Although that's also part of the job. And something that's difficult to practice in a classroom.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
This isn't even a response to anything. notabee held up one example, which is relevant only if the argument was "everyone who challenges the norms is insane." That would be a counterexample, and only one is required. as for &
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
A "strawman" ? you said, "One of the first proponents for hand washing and hygiene during medical practice wound up dying in a mental asylum." Maybe if you'd added, "of course, lots of people who wound up dying
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
What you just demonstrated is called Survivor Bias or Survivorship Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias what about all the people who challenged what was "considered normal socially" and actu
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
45 years later, and some people are still litigating it. Give it up and move on. Prop 13 is not going away.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
The Chronicle finally notices SF's drug problem, only to point the finger of guilt somewhere else! Look in the mirror, Chron. There isn't a "good" answer to dangerous drugs. Fighting a drug war is the worst solution, exc
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
tied with cruise ships. Well before COVID, several people I know went on cruises and came home sick.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
Out of curiosity: have you read the book?
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
> projecting a little bit way to turn it around! But you're the one with the psychobabble rhetoric.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
> psychopaths driving dangerous lifted trucks whoa. You got some anger issues there, pal.
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
I searched and found one instance of the word humility, and he's quoting an article by someone else. Where are you getting that?
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
What was this "billion dollar revenue division at google"? Are you going to tell us?
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
Wow. You really do attack everyone personally, don't you?
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by Cupertino95014 3y ago
Dunning-Kruger is a college professor who pronounces truth to the heathen in a condescending way.
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by Cupertino95014 4y ago
In the long 40+ year history of "social networking" (with that term construed broadly to mean "anything where people contribute") the most stale, boring, pedantic debates have always been "does this message belong
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by Cupertino95014 4y ago
I sent a private message to someone, and then disclosed his response publicly in a different forum. Pretty sad.
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by Cupertino95014 4y ago
My narrator, Maxwell Glick, just informed me that there is no such thing as "the Voice Actors Guild." It's all part of SAG.
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by Cupertino95014 4y ago
How many of the people claiming that it's "all the same" ever actually talk to any of the low-status people? I mean, where does your knowledge come from?

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