JPKab

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by JPKab 6y ago
My wife is mostly liberal from a US political perspective, but happens to be opposed to abortion. I happen to disagree in nuanced ways with her on this topic. My business. According to my coworkers, who discovered this because they saw he
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by JPKab 6y ago
I feel like this confirms (although this could be confirmation bias, and would literally be a textbook case) my belief that this is indeed a tiny percentage of people at most tech companies that are really into social justice activism, and
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by JPKab 6y ago
America lacks the population density, even in the northeastern corridor (which I have ridden by the way, DC to Boston) to make the investment make sense. By the way, the price was too high, and it kept having to slow down near every city.
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by JPKab 6y ago
You're focused too much on the vacuum aspect of the tube, and not nearly enough on the fact that it's a tube, with enough self-support to be elevated on pylons and is an order of magnitude easier to build than pouring a foundation
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by JPKab 6y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by JPKab 6y ago
Trump's an asshole, and if he pardons Snowden, he'll be less of an asshole than Obama was for NOT pardoning him. I voted for Obama twice, and the fact that he didn't pardon him told me everything I need to know about him bein
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by JPKab 6y ago
Disclaimer: I've recently at my company built and released a product that has a displayed DAG on screen and allows people to build ML pipelines in addition to the existing data prep and blend capability. My company is profitable and
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by JPKab 6y ago
The thing that hits me is the "$500k+/year in the valley". Is this really a thing? Am I a giant dumbass for staying in Colorado? Even factoring in my stock grants, I'm nowhere close to that number.
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by JPKab 6y ago
"I don't see why that's a problem when the goal is the same. Proposed police reforms aren't race-specific." It's a problem because making it race specific undermines the goals of police reform. BLM the slogan
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by JPKab 6y ago
Your analogy isn't correct. Physics isn't used as a catch-all to explain things that haven't been researched. And I never said the 10% delta wasn't awful. That is of course a horrific thing that must be addressed. It&
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by JPKab 6y ago
Thank you for linking to studies on the systemic racism issue. "Using rich data linking federal cases from arrest through to sentencing, we find that initial case and defendant characteristics, including arrest offense and criminal his
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by JPKab 6y ago
Agreed. US dollar being propped up has undermined manufacturing sector by making exports artificially expensive, and imports artificially cheap.
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by JPKab 6y ago
One of my early mentors was ex-Soviet, and he impressed to me the absolute dangers inherent in elevation of elevating collective identity over individual identity. I see this happening now, and all too many of my colleagues gleefully signin
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by JPKab 6y ago
I happen to share your opinion that banning abortions is not an ideal solution, and therefore I don't support it. However, your statement "banning abortions is a wrong opinion" is itself an opinion. Yet you stated it as if i
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by JPKab 6y ago
"If we would give climate-deniers and anti-abortion biggots the platform they deserve" My wife happens to be vehemently opposed to abortion, and also a woman of color. Yet you associated her with a bigot and climate change denial
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by JPKab 6y ago
You've just summed up why being a moderate is such a miserable experience for most of us. These days, being a moderate isn't being in the middle on everything. Instead, being a moderate means that someone can't infer my pos
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by JPKab 6y ago
Were you saying this in a comedic way, as a parody of the thinking the parent complained about? Because it's exactly that, intentional or not. Politics is about applying collective power from an entity funded by taxpayers. There is n
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by JPKab 6y ago
There's a lot of weirdness lately about people expecting companies to not take the money. The virus wasn't any company's fault. The choice to respond to the virus by shutting down the economy wasn't any company's f
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by JPKab 6y ago
In defense of your father on "Defund the Police", the last time I checked, the Black Lives Matter's website where the idea was first widely publicized had a release on it that I was hoping would add nuance to the phrase. It d
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by JPKab 6y ago
I think it's very, very important to understand that power, not unlike variable scope, is a collection of nested contexts. You could be a member of a dominant ethnic group in a society, but if you are surrounded by a group of armed m
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by JPKab 6y ago
"You literally have to send a picture of your black skin to the mods of r/BlackPeopleTwitter in order to be added to the country club." Is this really true? I quit Reddit years ago, even though some of the tech specific subs
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by JPKab 6y ago
I have fond memories of Patagonia catalogs when I was a kid. Had a much older brother who could actually afford the stuff, and he'd give us the catalog. One bummer about the company: They used to make most of their products in the USA
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by JPKab 6y ago
"At this moment of heightened public awareness, forcing big public pension funds to commit to putting more of their dollars in funds controlled by minorities could have a major impact. These public institutions, unlike their corporate
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by JPKab 6y ago
Media in USA is primarily concentrated in New York City. It was hit HARD. The rest of the US wasn't. The numbers demonstrate this. The pictures and essays from New York based journalists say something different. Also, it's an e
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by JPKab 6y ago
That's incredibly convenient, don't you think? If I was a human being who happened to be black, and made the same criticism, would you have a different response? You think that my response epitomized the thing I was complaining a
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by JPKab 6y ago
" I honestly don't know what to do about it though." That's a major criticism I have of the crusaders against "systemic racism." While I think the term is intended to capture the accumulated, "death by a
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by JPKab 6y ago
"I think that level of embarrassment/defensiveness would be common to the vast, vast majority of white people of a particular social class in the US" Interesting. My response to your recommendation of Dr. DiAngelo's wor
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Agreed. I found her work to be devoid of any attempt at connecting her theoretical claims to any form of data and/or measurements. As if two human beings who both happen to be white are the same, when one was born in a trailer park an
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I've read "White Fragility". While I completely agree that the stories in this article are hugely problematic and represent issues that need to be solved, I think books like "White Fragility" are not helpful in solv
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"The alliance between European indentured servants and Africans (many enslaved until death or freed), united by their bond-servitude, disturbed the ruling class. The ruling class responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery in an

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