DenisM

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by DenisM 6y ago
Noam Chomsky covered this problem extensively in Understanding Power. You will do well to read it in whole, but here's a few helpful hints: - All papers are biased in favor of their stake holders. - Some are better at hiding it. - Busi
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by DenisM 6y ago
> These social morays have applied to everyone, everywhere, forever. Sexism has also been applied forever, doesn't make it right.
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> it's slightly alarming to hear that Altman defends the promulgation of such ideas because "people need a forum to debate ideas". Too many of these ideas seep into the discussions even here on Hacker News. Can you unpack
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>>What should society do when an an argument is factually correct but leads to an immoral result? >Choose a moral alternative. Are you saying that facts should be suppressed/set aside when they lead to immoral results? I can&#
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> It also seems to be driven by a vengeful jealousy I have to disagree with that. My personal impression is that Americans are the most accepting of other people's fortune, so much so they need an excuse before they can attack the r
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by DenisM 6y ago
There's lots more to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon Let's hope we never have to dig this up
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You're mixing up liberalism with neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and
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Lynch mob is wrong, even if it hangs the right man on occasion.
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What's easy to do for a thousand apps is impossible to do for a million apps. Large scale is not a new quantity, it's a new quality.
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You may have some good points but the abrasive delivery is unwarranted.
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Which is what makes it so convenient for the establishment - whenever someone brings up the question of economic rights it gets quickly derailed into the question of racial antagonism. As far as the beneficiaries of the economic order are c
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I think the summer protests have displaced the movement against the neoliberal doctrine rather than aiding the movement.
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Do you think the summer protest were a move for or against the neoliberal consensus?
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Both parties are advancing the neoliberal economic consensus - the free enterprise and the free trade. The divisions between the two parties only serve to drive a wedge between the blue-collar working class on one hand and the white-collar&
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by DenisM 6y ago
Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There is the page https://www.projectcensored.org/censorship/ and it links to a FB account with a lot more than 13 views / likes.
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Under-scaling and over-scaling are both suboptimal for all the obvious reasons. Middle-scaling is also suboptimal - you’re paying too much upfront and you don’t get enough later on anyway. Stage-appropriate scaling is the smart way. Scale a
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> the fascists were probably unwise to force the issue in 1939. They also had to get ahead of the Soviet modernization and mobilization efforts, and they did.
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> I'm nevertheless surprised GP thinks that's excusable or defensible in the 21st century They did not say that.
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> What you're doing here is called Argument to Moderation I am doing nothing of the sort.
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> These decisions were likely made on far more more factors than one of purely material. That's the same point the author is making: If the decision was made based on logistics the war would have to have started in 1938. So the deci
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by DenisM 6y ago
> Would my being silly satisfy your hopes? Now that you brought it up, it would make for a better discussion if you dialed down sarcasm. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Otherwise
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We don't know what's "vile" for you, and I'm sure you've seen people getting super offended over things that you consider essential discussions. Give us some details?
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The mega corps are driving the wedge between the blue collar working class and the white collar working class. Should the two groups ever unite they would tear the mega corps back into a pile of tiny toothless startups, and that’s against a
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> racial diversity as an anti-union measure Could you elaborate?
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Would you consider listing this preference on your linked-in profile then? It's the same deal as a job ad.
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People who are seriously helped by the program will not return, but those who were not helped will come back. Over the long run the program will be full of people who cannot be helped and a small number who will do well. So seeing 2 out of
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> You should be ashamed of yourself. I appreciate your point, but please let’s keep this place civil. It might be the last one of the kind.
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There are three X-rays in this article, and the covid one is completely bogus. Kind of stains the credibility of the article and the company the produced it.
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Have you considered relocating them to New Zealand? No COVID, no masks, no need for a vaccine. I’m not sure about government overreach in other parts of life though.

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