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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Read up on the Fundamental Attribution Error and reread my post. I'm not coming after you in the way you think. I just said that your post was low signal. I neither said nor implied that I believe or disbelieve you. It's not a mat
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Gender identity is a different concept. It's an internal conception of what gender you are. Compare that to, for instance, gender presentation, which is an outward facing set of traits that correspond to which gender you are showing ot
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is the central question. If someone isn't asking, "What would a malicious user do with this system?" and inserting their favorite internet bogeymen as a thought experiment, they haven't finished their design. This i
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm curious what mechanisms will be in place, and how effective they will be, at preventing dogpiling on people using this system. As a specific example, as a nonbinary person, I'm constantly running into people online who tell me
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I absolutely love living in a city. I also suspect that if we were to spread everyone out evenly over the globe we'd have limited wilderness areas (and introduce a number of inefficiencies in commodity exchanges). While the work tech w
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I strongly believe that, through legal/social/regulatory pressure, we can make housing not a commodity market. Just like we don't consider our roads or elementary schools to be a commodity market. I'm happy to discuss
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You may not be aware, but liberalism is a bit of an overloaded term. Some folks use it to mean liberal in the sense of 'permissive', while others use it in the more traditional political sense of 'permissive free market capit
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I think it might not be zero sum. While sometimes we have policies that maximize one for the sake of the other, not all policies will. Some will maximize both, others will minimize both. The solution likely includes some policies that will
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Shutting down restaurants was the right call. But it should have come with a complete shut down of rent obligations as well.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
We need to get out of the mindset that housing should operate like a market. We need to build lots more housing, yes, but to really solve the problem for good we need to change how we think about housing. Otherwise we'll build a bit mo
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm not so sure it's chilling. Many indie folks actually feel like they get more reliable income from gamepass or epic exclusivity than they do on steam for example.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Is it not consistent with a dislike of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Entinguish approach? While what AWS is doing is (probably, IANAL) within their legal rights, it's arguably immoral because it is basically saying, "We love t
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> slaughtered each other just as much as the Europeans did to themselves and to others. The Europeans killed 90 to 95% of indigenous people in the Americas, killing tens or hundreds of millions. Yes, there was obviously war and conflict
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
A small number of protestors made it over some waist high barricades and nearly made it to the white house lawn. They were arrested. Trump himself said he wasn't whisked to a bunker. If you don't see a categorical difference betwe
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It sounds like you are talking about the federal judiciary in Portland? Being specific helps readers understand how to address your comments.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's a pretty thin technicality. In many places those were majority opinions and the representatives were doing exactly what their electorate wanted them to do. If you'd like, I'm sure there are referendums and initiatives
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I went through the Wikipedia page the parent posted and summarized them. The first shooting that I saw was the man who drove a vehicle into a crowd. The crowd attempted to stop him, and he shot a protestor. Go read the wiki page and the sou
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Isn't the east precinct a government building? Yes, but your framing isn't genuine. Some protestors did wander into an abandoned building. I'm not sure whether any of them were armed. That's a far cry from "Arm
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Of course not. But institutions matter, and shutting down a governing body through threats of violence has consequences far beyond just the immediate politician's lives.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yes, thank you for agreeing. There are two different definitions, and the first (free from disturbance) is the one used in this context. The protests aimed to be non peaceful (eg, causing disturbance) and non violent.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Which government buildings? The police just left the east precinct... And who were the armed protestors, what were they armed with? In my experience it was umbrellas and loud voices. And keep in mind that the SPD did considerably more viole
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Agreed. Additionally, it's important to recognize that "peaceful" does not mean the same thing as "non-violent". The protests were not necessarily peaceful -- they intended to be disruptive -- but they were explicit
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Violence is not categorically bad, I don't think. Rarely, violence is necessary in self defense. It might be the option of last resort, but sometimes violence can stop worse consequences. I'm not justifying any particular actions
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Antifa and BLM burned and looted for months This sentence fragment appears deliberately vague and it assumes the conclusion. Compare, for example, "The Capitol Attack" vs "Right Wing Violence in America". One refere
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The idea that you can just debate every point with every person is frankly absurd. It doesn't scale, it's always easier to produce more garbage that will appeal to folks on the fringe than to meticulously debunk it all point by po
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Has that ever happened or is that just an argument to let politicians keep their power? Yes? American history is full of situations like Jim Crow, redlining, anti lgbtq legislation, lack of support for people with disabilities, crimina
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
In that system, how do you care for folks who experience rare but serious difficulties. The tyranny of the majority gets real complex when dealing with massive populations.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Free discussion does not axiomatically stop radicalization. There is a reasonable argument to be made that as we've seen communication get easier, it's made radicalization more possible rather than less. That said, I'd invite
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
HN seemed to be pro prop 22 (with many dissenting voices), it will be interesting to see the impact this law has over time. My suspicion is that it won't be good for workers, but there certainly are many who disagreed with me.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This would be great.

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