KirinDave

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by KirinDave 6y ago
I'm confused how this would damage my point. It's not like conservative media isn't wildly more profitable in many other countries. This has to do with a scarcity of friendly and popular media outlets for authoritarian, react
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Reactionary conservatism is not limited to religious communities in America. As an extreme example Richard Spencer said he was an atheist in many of the violent Nazi communities don't refer to a literal or specific God but rather a rac
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Certainly in relative terms Bernie Sanders would represent some aspects of progressive politics. However it's very important to know how regressive American politics are. While the loss of life is extremely unfortunate, the timely obje
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Several of the conservative podcasters have come out for Bernie Sanders and Yang had broad support from a lot of them as well. This isn't because they're somehow more left; it's because Bernie Sanders cut much more along anti
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by KirinDave 6y ago
You can't just redefine the political spectrum every four years and pretended there's no history or global context. Bernie Sanders is a slightly left-of-centre person in a global context with slightly left-of-center politics which
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by KirinDave 6y ago
An awful lot of conservative people were moved by certain aspects of Bernie Sanders rhetoric. The notion that Bernie Sanders was a deep leftist is propaganda by the authoritarian right. compared to the majority of politics elsewhere in the
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by KirinDave 6y ago
This is probably not an appropriate conversation for Hacker News but essentially you can vote Democrat in America and still be a reactionary conservative and those are not inconsistent positions. American politics is shifted so far to the r
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by KirinDave 6y ago
It's not like Rogan is inaccessible right now. He appeals to a different age group, but a similar political demographic.
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Fox News has been the hyper-profitable and true mainstream media for awhile now. They make a lot of money because they're pandering to a slight minority opinion that is often not well supported by other organizations. Put another way:
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The challenge is how they would do that. It requires expertise which itself costs money and time to gain, and it's an ongoing maintenance cost for a small restaurant that may have extremely seasonal revenue. It's not actually clea
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I prefer to use BLE microcontrollers rather than real networking because it basically makes a better and more secure remote control rather than opening folks up to this danger. I think very few people plan to open their garage door from acr
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Sure, but this is not a sustained trend. It's a panic buy right after a major disruption to the market.
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Do you think this statement makes sense?
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On #2: No one is helped except perhaps medical supply companies. Folks are mistaking the durability of these companies in the face of SIP orders (due to their ability to function under WFH conditions).
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Actually that's a very interesting question. Is the rate of sexual assault on Japanese Trains higher or lower than their average auto injury rate?
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Would that have made all the sites not be opened by one actor?
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I'm not sure many people believe they are grassroots, but they certainly present themselves as grassroots. Each site claims to be an independent association of local businesses rather than a centralized organization from one bankroller
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I'm pretty sure that producing a single score tracking the liklihood of a unionization movement at every store is "heat mapping" up to isomorphism. Your density values are provided by physical location.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I'm sorry, you're right. There was a narrow window where there were concerns, but that passed. New York DOEs face ICU bed shortages. My response here was mostly dismissive because the poster above is clearly trying to downplay the
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Sorry, I already have decided in another post your "Swiss Doctor's" summary isnt't very credible and that National Review article seems to have an awful lot of hedging in it. Thank you for the effort, but I don't be
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by KirinDave 6y ago
"A swiss doctor on COVID-19," huh? Well since it's written by a doctor we should give it the benefit of the doubt and read the page and the links. But I confess, upon doing so I find that this is a page full of good (and in s
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I don't really see why this suggests Sweden's approach should be emulated though. The reality is that we don't understand the conditions where COVID-19 thrives well enough yet to understand why some areas are hit so much hard
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> But this isn't what the whole US system is built around. That's (at least part of) the problem. As others have pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, many of the things Andreessen says he thinks we need to build are thinks
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by KirinDave 6y ago
My experience with fellow post-exit folks is that at around the 3 year mark everyone wants to offload you. People are citing 5 and 10 year ventures as "long-term" which really shows how incredibly eroded the concept of "long
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People like to make this argument as a blind for, "I am tired of building buildings with expensive seismic retrofitting and anti-fire measures, or to even consider they have modern electrical infrastructure." I don't like tho
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> If he did what he is proposing, he would be out of business quickly with no investor money to mess around. This entire post reads like a script for Gavin Belson to me. But this is sort of the central complaint, no? "These people h
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Yeah, and other local areas that aren't geographically suited for connection to SF's net are starting to kick off their own nets. I expect we'll see a Half Moon Bay centric net in the next two years!
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Why is 5 years the cutoff?
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Thanks for the corrected link. I was walking my dog when posting and I miskeyed it. :)
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The idea that having children is an anti-environmental stands is part of a platform called "eco-fascism." I am not sure you want to involve yourself with those folks and this toxic ideology. It is not inevitable that every life li

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