MegaButts

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by MegaButts 2y ago
Credit Suisse no longer exists. Whatever problems Credit Suisse had, UBS now has.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
> In the end, countries are nuanced enough to understand American political dynamics. Is that why Ukraine agreed to the Budapest Memorandum?
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Just as a counterexample (not saying this disproves the trend), UBS auditor recently said there is something wrong at the bank. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ubss-auditor-issues... I think this says mor
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by MegaButts 2y ago
> I will say that you do not need to explicitly say something for your line of argumentation to imply it as a logical consequence. Maybe you should read my actual comments instead of jumping to conclusions. In my first comment I made it
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by MegaButts 2y ago
I never said you shouldn't protest. I said the current protests are pathetic.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
If you view Trump as your enemy, understanding him matters if you intend to fight him. To be clear, I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset. I was just changing the perspective because I think it's interesting all the things he&#
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by MegaButts 2y ago
If the protest is ineffective then the protest is ineffective. I don't care how hard you tried, I care how effective you were. Pragmatically, if the protest doesn't change anything, it's not any better than sitting at home.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
> Why not criticize all the people sitting at home, rather than calling the ones actually trying "pathetic"? This is quite the whataboutism. Just because I criticize the protestors doesn't mean I'm defending people t
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by MegaButts 2y ago
There are many people who think Trump is a Russian asset. If you look at it that way, he's been pretty great for Putin.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
If you look at this from the perspective of Trump wanting to destabilize the USA geopolitically and internally (for whatever reason), it seems he's been incredibly successful. I'm not saying Trump is smart but if you look at this
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by MegaButts 2y ago
The current protests are tame and quite frankly pathetic. If your protests aren't strong enough that the government fears you, there's no reason to believe an apathetic government will even acknowledge you. Until the citizens of
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by MegaButts 2y ago
> What he's pulled off with xAI more recently is really quite incredible. I genuinely have no idea what he's done that's incredible. I don't even know what xAI does apart from being a chatbot inside of twitter.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
“But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found
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by MegaButts 2y ago
What are some of your favorite history books?
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by MegaButts 2y ago
I realize this website has operated more or less the same for a long time. But as it becomes increasingly popular it's going to become a bigger target for abuse by people wanting to push a narrative. I'm just commenting on why i
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by MegaButts 2y ago
So then it's not an equal flagging vs equal upvoting, it's fewer flags by fewer people being able to derail a post off the front page which may have been upvoted by 10x or 100x as many people as flagged it. The fact that it's
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by MegaButts 2y ago
dang has admitted that flagging carries more weight than voting, we just don't know what the weighing is.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Getting 500 karma is a trivial task and not some tiny group. Are there any HN regulars (that don't just lurk) that don't have that much karma? The point is a flag has higher weight than an upvote, and it's easy to get the ab
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by MegaButts 2y ago
We just fundamentally disagree. From my perspective you are the antithesis of curious conversation by censoring topics you don't want to discuss. I don't want to read the latest update on some dumb framework but I don't f
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by MegaButts 2y ago
> These topics have been the most discussed topics on HN the last couple of months by a massive margin. Have any of these topics managed to not be censored via flagging? From my perspective, I have very much wanted to talk about these t
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by MegaButts 2y ago
There's a reason most concept cars don't make it to production.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Do you also believe we shouldn't make laws just because people will still break those laws?
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by MegaButts 2y ago
The DA is not their boss. Cops are supposed to enforce laws. The DA is supposed to prosecute them. The cops are just using the DA as an excuse to not do their jobs. And once you normalize the cops not arresting people, now the DA has an
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Whenever you feel like not doing your job, just tell your boss "I don't want to" and see how that goes for you. I understand how motivation works. Sometimes doing a job sucks. That's part of why you get paid to do it.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
> You can't expect the police to arrest criminals knowing full well the DA is immediately going to drop or reduce charges and let them loose. You can't expect the police to do their jobs?
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by MegaButts 2y ago
I'm deeply concerned about it too, but the moderation on this website is pretty hostile towards politics. Only expect major political news (and the debate seems to be what qualifies as major) to be tolerated.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
The majority of political posts, especially those that make it to the front page, are very quickly flagged. It feels much worse lately which makes sense considering the political climate in the US.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Commercial pilots have approximately 100x as much training as your typical driver.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Watching that looks like something out of a movie you wouldn't think is real. That looks terrifying.
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by MegaButts 2y ago
Fair enough. I'm pretty sure OP meant M1. My comment reads more like a "well akshually" than a useful point (since technically M2 changed, but not in a meaningful way). Anyway, I think we understand each other.

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