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by Natsu 3y ago
It says "over 50" but... why not 100? Is there some reason any senator should be without one if there's a worry? I'm pretty sure we can afford a few more phones.
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by Natsu 3y ago
This is very much the better way to do things, because it leaves both sides better informed instead of playing out like someone shouting "you triggered my trap card!" in a game.
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by Natsu 3y ago
There's already a solution for that can be made to transmit arbitrary data to the brains of people who know Morse code and have their head in a certain particular orientation that tends to be popular among management: https:/&#x2
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by Natsu 3y ago
> Libertarian website argues Libertarian viewpoints. News at 11. It's not just Reason or Libertarians saying that the old "fire in a crowded theater" trope is nonsense: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09&
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by Natsu 3y ago
They also tried to screw over Linux when standardizing it: > In 1999, then Microsoft CEO Bill Gates stated in an e-mail that Linux would benefit from ACPI without them having to do work and suggested to make it Windows-only. My Windows l
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by Natsu 3y ago
> Thankfully I can go outside, talk to people and find out that they don't have the same opinions as reddit mods/admins. For now. People who grew up before the internet are limited and non-renewable.
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by Natsu 3y ago
Well, we went from talking about whether the best 'scientific theories' were recognized to whether certain individuals won certain awards, so it's hard to do anything but broad strokes. I'm not here trying to refute the
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by Natsu 3y ago
There's a lot of power in shaping how people see the world, and with more of our experience of the world being virtual, it's easier to shape than ever before.
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by Natsu 3y ago
"Sometimes people do good work and don't win major awards" is hardly a rebuttal to the notion that meritocracy exists, because it's not some binary state. To say there's no such thing as merit, you have to say that
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by Natsu 3y ago
> This is why it is dangerous to think that the best scientific theories always prevail and that science is a meritocracy. This is because people form trapped priors and so some scientific advances come "one funeral at a time",
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by Natsu 3y ago
They do that a lot, but they seem to have no power to actually do anything, because this is hardly the first time they've criticized the FBI with no visible consequences.
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by Natsu 3y ago
A lot of things that people think are entrapment don't count legally: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633 Another fun one is that if you join their conspiracy, they can charge you for crimes they committed as part o
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by Natsu 3y ago
It's kinda weird that the people worried about supreme court ethics are worried about a guy with rich friends who has no business before the court, but not worried about someone with large book deals who does have business before the
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by Natsu 3y ago
Inflation is caused by increases in the money supply or decreases in the amount of stuff you can buy with those little pieces of paper. Printing more little squares of paper, or adding numbers to a bank account, does not, and cannot, make m
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by Natsu 3y ago
A video that someone changed their perception was discussed here, earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917912&p=2#35919980 The actual video it mentions is here: https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg?t=
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by Natsu 3y ago
So, to start with, I absolutely agree that the news can distort out notions of what is representative or not and it's something I've done my best to notice and account for by looking at broader statistics and trends in the data.
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by Natsu 3y ago
This seems to have been one of her last acts before leaving.
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by Natsu 3y ago
This just kind of ignores how one of those things wouldn't even be a problem without the other.
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by Natsu 3y ago
There will always be a most popular car to steal as long as there are car thefts. Maybe the problem is the thieves?
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by Natsu 3y ago
"Too many" doesn't mean much when you look at actual crime rates of serious things like murder and rape where most people don't want those people to be free to commit more crimes that are less susceptible to reporting bi
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by Natsu 3y ago
> especially the government being "on the side of the criminals etc." What would that even mean? I imagine that people would gesture at stories like this: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-
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by Natsu 3y ago
So this guy has founded multiple successful engineering-heavy companies, did not receive any actual financial support past 18 (despite inflated myths of an "emerald mine"), is attested by multiple skilled engineers, and has given
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by Natsu 3y ago
I wasn't even thinking about Google specifically here, it seems like almost every ad free service eventually adds ads.
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by Natsu 3y ago
Also there's the fact that once enough people get on board with the ad free subscription services, they usually just start adding ads anyway.
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by Natsu 3y ago
> In some cities garbage workers are intstructed to take a look at a recycling bin beforehand. If they see a single plastic bag they dump the whole thing with the landfill pile. I once saw someone throw a couch away in the recycling bin.
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by Natsu 3y ago
I mean, sure, that's what happens literally any time you set up a super-powerful government, necessarily including any government powerful enough to redistribute all of a society's resources. See also: company towns, Pol Pot, th
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by Natsu 3y ago
That formulation erases any distinction between capitalism and anything else, leaving it as just an empty synonym for badness. I'm calling out the intellectual emptiness of that use as an epithet here.
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by Natsu 3y ago
That only works if you have some way to justify it to begin with and is rather transphobic to make other people the sole arbiters of one's identity.
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by Natsu 3y ago
I think the USSR would object to being called capitalist, since they were one of the major Communist revolutions until their economic collapse. And in this vein, we shouldn't forget Mao's "four pests campaign" in China u
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by Natsu 3y ago
Oh, it's definitely harmful to have a manager saying things like that. Fortunately, this story seems to be about precisely one person. I'd be surprised if they didn't give this guy the boot.

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