PKop

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by PKop 4y ago
So what? This is akin to crowdfunding, or patronage. Many people were happy to have early access while supporting the project.
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by PKop 4y ago
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by PKop 4y ago
No, OP's project written in Crystal told him about mutual funds.
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by PKop 4y ago
https://builtwith.com/jeffsu.org
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by PKop 4y ago
You're forgetting the music streaming service that's a part of it. Spotify is $9.99 so how is this not comparably worth it?
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Making Trouble with Monkeypox(science.org)
2 points by PKop 4y ago|0 comments
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by PKop 4y ago
>I have given TikTok several tries, spent hours Why would you do that lol? Do you really have FOMO for the next garbage social media dopamine machine that simply wants to hijack your attention to sell ads and get you addicted to zombie s
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by PKop 4y ago
Lift weights and get sunlight and vitamin D, which will boost energy and testosterone, and thus motivation. If you're not doing the physical/health necessities as a baseline foundation, nothing else will work. Start there. Good bo
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by PKop 4y ago
And "politics" is the conflict over groups fighting for power to set these limits. There's no escape from the friend/enemy distinction. At some point there will be irreconcilable disagreements and opposing factions. Who
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by PKop 4y ago
Geopolitics are not about morality but rather national interests. Morality can certainly be a smoke-screen to get buy-in from people that worry about that. Also "global" morality is a sort of contradiction of the term. Morality ap
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by PKop 4y ago
Though then the question is are these other countries opposing US geopolitical actions or are they conceding to them as well. US numerical impact is not limited to their own population count; if they get Europe to do their bidding then add
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by PKop 4y ago
Article title: "Company Documents Show Meta’s Flagship Metaverse Falling Short" HN guidelines[0]: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.yco
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by PKop 4y ago
Supabase
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by PKop 4y ago
archive link https://archive.ph/ZxVYk
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Racial Pseudoscience on the Faculty(chronicle.com)
11 points by PKop 4y ago|10 comments
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by PKop 4y ago
Imagine the scenario where they did do this. And the employee was intransigent and didn't follow orders. Do you think it's possible this sort of person would also present a skewed account of what happened? You have no idea if the
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by PKop 4y ago
Unequal outcomes will produce unequal future opportunities. This fact undermines any of premise from that start. And compelled equalization will commence just the same. So this is a distinction without much of a difference. Certainly rule o
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by PKop 4y ago
I'm sorry but you're just missing the point. You're taking the term literally, but it is very simple in practical terms how this actually plays out: diverse is code word for non straight White male. Slightly more diverse woul
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by PKop 4y ago
Thanks and yes, not good form to complain about forum meta, was just very frustrated that something so quickly supported by many voters could be blocked so easily, because it has a particularly verboten point of view amongst SV elite. It wa
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by PKop 4y ago
It is always useful and prudent to see things from the perspective of those attacking you. "Know your enemy.." You can argue over definitions and terms as much as you want, but the uniform you wear is often defined by your opposit
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by PKop 4y ago
>We used to argue for equality, a level playing field, for all Think of how impossibly naive and utopian this is though, and I don't mean to personally attack just to condemn the idea this is possible in any way whatsoever. Is it po
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by PKop 4y ago
Setting aside the connotation/framing of the word itself, tell me, is not having privilege good or bad? One could define "privilege" as the accumulation of inheritance of ancestors, economic, culturally, biological, geopoliti
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by PKop 4y ago
Why would anyone support a system that explicitly dis-empowers them in preference to other identity groups who themselves are perfectly fine to pursue their own self interest? After years of this, are the "privileged" getting the
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by PKop 4y ago
Time to maintain it ain't free
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by PKop 4y ago
>bigger than what one would expect What would one "expect", and why? In any case, the numbers we find are not "bigger" in raw terms (or per capita) in many sports than say, Blacks. How about Olympic sprinting, or NBA
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by PKop 4y ago
Why is this extreme "nurture over nature", "blank-slate" mentality not applied to any other disparities in biological expression save for the brain/intellect? Do we all think that, say, the massive racial disparitie
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Tim Cook is latest CEO to question the ‘metaverse’(theverge.com)
2 points by PKop 4y ago|0 comments
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by PKop 4y ago
"some degree of it". Trade wars, repatriation of manufacturing, and questioning extended supply lines due to geopolitical factors are all signs of this trend. Not a complete mass isolationism of course. Perhaps also a better frame
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by PKop 4y ago
UK is nearly having a currency crisis. Part of issue for US is having twin deficits, trade and fiscal. Means we source much of our actual consumption from external sources who finance our economy. The debt has to keep growing for the system
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by PKop 4y ago
>experience in risk management >Makes public statements of involvement in crypto scam being investigated by the SEC >I'd like to think I made ethical decisions...I still feel pretty guilty Stop digging man..

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