GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> if all my time goes to trying to figure out technical solutions Any musician has to learn their instrument. Commit to that.
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I think you're mixing up interest in the facts with interest in recalling and performing them. In other words, even if you have no answer to the question, a curiousity or interest in the world makes Jeopardy appealing. People who lack
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What should "people" do? The loss of faith is driven by four years of the President lying day in, day out. There have been plenty of voices throughout speaking up for truth and institutional respect, but they're baselessly at
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No, of course it wasn't, but I also didn't say that. You're reading revisionism into a statement that is very nearly too short to contain any. You're also misreading it: my comment was about the Senate, not the electoral
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You're arguing from a presumption that truth doesn't exist or doesn't/won't matter, and a lot of us disagree with that notion.
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It's not "biased" and never has been to project a winner based on statistical data. But if we're sticking to a statistical conclusion, how do you think Biden should be described at this point? There is essentially no bas
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It wasn't even that well-intentioned. It was a necessary concession to Southern slaveholders. It's always been anti-majoritarian.
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I think that's oversimplifying. The fact that Trump is not a full-blown authoritarian, or is bad at it, is compatible with his expression of a number of authoritarian values.
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To be fair, he did say “There won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation.”
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Only four times in the history of the country. So, effectively, no.
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Only Grover Cleveland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland
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Well they have the platform, so they have the power. But more substantively: by applying universal norms such as "lying is wrong" they don't have to make moral judgments, just factual evaluations.
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I think the shift to watch will be whether Trump's tactic of out-and-out lying takes deeper roots, particularly among Republicans or more broadly.
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The legal battles in Pennsylvania aren't even substantial enough to trigger a mandatory recount - the number of ballots the GOP is fighting over is too small. Also, the Michigan "errors" were errors in publishing the data, no
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That is patently false. There are no allegations at any level that would legally alter the election results.
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There really aren't; as that article says, the state was already doing what the GOP sued to require, and those ballots are both small enough in number and likely enough to favor Biden that even saying there are "questions" is
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How could this possibly work? Do you want to legally bar speech with the content "We have a 99.9% confidence that X will win"?
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Looking around the thread you'll see that might not be the case. I think the comment meant to correct a (hopefully uncommon) misconception that the election is now final before all the votes have been counted, which of course isn'
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Here's Moody's pre-election analysis (PDF)[0]. Overall they viewed a Democratic win as more economically productive than a Republican one. [0] https://www.moodysanalytics.com/-/media/article/2020&#x2
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I'm not familiar with the responding literature, but one thing that stands out is his reduction to "living according to life" and dismissal of that as tautological. He poses the question "Is not living valuing, preferrin
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When you realize it's silly, take another minute to think about why it's silly. The author's point is about developing a skill, not about creating a specific piece of work. Even if it were about creating a specific item, th
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I think even that is a reasonable comment to make. It's criticism of things that don't impact your decision (as in the comment I responded to) that offer negative value, in my view.
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And where criticism is substantive, that's valuable. It isn't in this case, and it's hardly dishonest to keep subjective preferences in their place: within our own heads. There's a culture of reflexive criticism in intel
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Why even bring up that style gripe? You acknowledge it's relatively small and inconsequential. If you're excited to see where the language goes, don't drag things down with completely subjective aesthetic criticisms.
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I think it was just distinguishing the different sorts of IP. There's no multiplier effect; they're distinct types/instances of infringement.
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You realize there's a pandemic on?
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It was significantly delayed in starting, because of the pandemic. Failing to extend a pre-pandemic deadline is leaving less time than usual.
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Yes, it does sound like something many racists say. You treat "racist" like it only means someone who uses racial epithets. That's the tip of the iceberg. Looking at how people empower and disempower those of other races is t
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That doesn't make it incompetent or wasteful if it's doing hard or novel things. Looking at the interstate highway system or trips to the moon or massive global health investments and dismissing them as over budget is absurd.
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I did provide some examples at the end of the post. He could honor people doing racial justice work, rather than attacking them. He could stop stoking fear of immigrants and tell the truth about them, which is that they tend to be more educ

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