Gunax

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by Gunax 6y ago
Using that analogy, putting a wealth cap on people is something communists do, so therefore they are communists.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Sure, but it's going to come up whenever sexism comes up, which is often. I guess I feel very conflicted here. We have people who--riggt or wrong--think that there is at least partial biological explaination behind this. Then we hav
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by Gunax 6y ago
But that's exactly what I mean when I say political persecution. If his political views cause him to lose the respect of his employees, and losing the respect of his employees causes him to be unfit, then his political views caused him
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by Gunax 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me. But the fact that that's considered a hostile view is precisely the kind of persecution that I mean.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Although I disagree (yes the view that his immigration policy is fundamentally rooted in fear of brown people is common) I'm not trying to make it about Trump, or to argue pro or against him per se. I'm trying to say that the pers
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by Gunax 6y ago
Others might want HN to be open to tough issues. I know this is controversial, but it's hard (perhaps impossible) to discuss something controversial without either: 1. adopting groupthink/wrongthink patterns 2. making some group u
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by Gunax 6y ago
> I don't know how important the stiffness effect is for real tires, but I suspect they are sufficiently stiff that it matters a lot. It's odd, because as I was reading your comment, I was thinking the exact opposite. I am cons
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by Gunax 6y ago
This is difficult because there are different definitions of 'right' as well as different environments. They can be successful at the ballot box nationally but still be persecuted. Remember that Brendan Eich was forced out of Mozi
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by Gunax 6y ago
And a white supremacist is not someone who advocates for bringing jobs back home, or enforcing immigration law. But people still feel free to call Trump racist because of those policies. The reason is that people view him as having ulteriou
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by Gunax 6y ago
Of course we know that using master/slave terminology doesn't actually perpetuate harm. But the reason to change it is because a lot of people don't like hearing it or saying it. It feels like a punch to the gut when I have
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by Gunax 6y ago
I sympathize with Google here. The fact is there can only be 10 hits on the first page for each query. There isn't a correct query result. Any addition necessitates removal of something else.
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by Gunax 6y ago
You've made me challenge my preconceptions. Thanks for your reasonable and researched response.
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by Gunax 6y ago
That's unfortunate. I was/am always a big defender of online education, but I think the critics are right: most students just don't do as well.
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by Gunax 6y ago
When reading a resume, it's important to remember that often one attributes group effort to oneself. That's just the generally agreed upon etiquette for resumes. So a programmer who says 'Designed and developed a Ruby web app
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by Gunax 6y ago
This discussion always goes in circles. Usually when people are talking about Twitter endorsing free speech, they are not asking for a law, but moreso asking Twitter to do so out of principle. I don't like these arguments because they
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by Gunax 6y ago
Facebook cannot be the arbiter of facts and truth. IMO people are assigning way too much power to facebook. Everyone knows Facebook is just the national enquirer of the internet--no one really cares what shows up there. The reason censorshi
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by Gunax 6y ago
I am absolutely fascinated that some evil genius is out there threatening entomological terrorism.
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by Gunax 6y ago
I know it's difficult to disagree, but please don't strawman. Obviously I know everyone was a kid. But we agree as a society that parents are responsible for the financial burdens of their offspring. It isn't fair to make peo
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by Gunax 6y ago
No, the US does have maternity leave. It just doesn't have paid maternity leave. Also known as: it doesn't take money out of my pocket to pay for your kids.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Humans all ready are black boxes. IMO, if you're worried about a black box AI juror, we all ready have that--they are called (human) jurors.
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by Gunax 6y ago
You don't own the airspace above you. If someone wants to fly over your house or business, they can generally do that--airplanes fly over your private property all the time. Granted this bozo might be violating FAA guidelines by flying
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by Gunax 7y ago
What I find incredible is just how similar everything tastes. Either my qualia are objectively different from everyone else's, or it's 90% marketing fluff and psychological tribalism. It's not so much that there can't be
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by Gunax 7y ago
Perhaps the internet is best understood as a reasonable shorthand for general consensus.
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by Gunax 7y ago
We have governor's calling for detention of people who have comitted no crime. We have officials suspending HIPAA. The president is claiming he has total authority and isn't limited by the constitution. That feels very much like a
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by Gunax 7y ago
Damn... One hour. It's like the patenting of the telephone all over again.
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by Gunax 7y ago
The conspiracy theorists are going to come out hard for this article.
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by Gunax 7y ago
They wanted to play spy. Hearts are in the right place, but I advise them to leave the ops to the professionals.
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by Gunax 7y ago
COBOL is the perfect skillset for the grad who just studied CS in order to get a job. I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings saying that.
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by Gunax 7y ago
America is not spending trillions on their military, and even then it's still barely affordable. To give every American 12k per year would cost about 10 times the military budget (7 trillion versus 780 billion). And that's before
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by Gunax 7y ago
No, right now government money is debt that has to be repaid plus interest by us or our children. I don't want to get money for the same reason I don't want to go and run up personal debt.

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