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by Sacho 6y ago
> A true meritocracy can't really exist unless you have knowledge of all prior decisions, which is impossible. This is a good point but your argumentation isn't really convincing. Here's a simple fix for your scenario: onl
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by Sacho 6y ago
I think the "secret police" part is a red herring. My opinion is that the federal police were justified defending the courthouse, but were not justified hunting around for suspects in vans, unmarked or not(this is the state police
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by Sacho 6y ago
It's difficult, when we are in thorough disagreement of the facts. > And not be talking about a massive police crackdown on protest Is the police crackdown on protest or rioting? I can buy an argument that Trump hates the protests a
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by Sacho 6y ago
> I assume you're aware of police obscuring their badge numbers, and refusing to identify themselves? Er, is this what you would call secret police? The article's facts may be incontrovertible, but they don't agree with yo
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by Sacho 6y ago
This is the kind of ethical and competent journalism that we are fighting for? The article is not spell checked, parts of it are gibberish, and Orban's quote is politically editorialized to fit the narrative of good guys fighting bad g
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by Sacho 6y ago
I disagree that your question is the only important one to answer on this topic. Among other things, the study authors are seemingly trying to answer the question if more racial diversity among police would reduce the amount of shootings: &
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by Sacho 6y ago
Um, they literally do? In aggregate, it's a similar effect as a VC-backed company burning capital to push out competitors. You're spending money you don't have, which drives the economy, raising demand and prices. The people
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by Sacho 6y ago
That sounds ridiculous. I can totally buy that CAs don't want to vote for a republican, but don't other democrats exist? EDIT: Looks like she's still what Californians want. > De León's 12% was the lowest ever recorde
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by Sacho 7y ago
I don't see how a transaction saves you here(without locking the row), can you elaborate? In EF projects, this problem is solved through optimistic concurrency, similar to the fashion you described - a column that changes on each updat
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by Sacho 7y ago
"Although there is no reason in theory why men could not become nurses or care-home assistants, few do." When it's women in tech, it's obviously discrimination, but when it's men having a rough time breaking into fe
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by Sacho 7y ago
I don't know the realities of the weird city life Americans experience, but the places I've lived in Europe make this trivial. First off, buying groceries and cooking is a huge money saver - if you're worried about the cost o
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by Sacho 7y ago
I don't know how medicine is practiced in other countries, but finding a doctor that shares your philosophy about treatment and sticking to them seems like a problem best solved at a local level. In my country, you are assigned a GP, b
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by Sacho 7y ago
The answer would be: 1) they do, and 2) they can't 1) Google clearly hires plenty of people in India. Here's their new office in India, with allegedly ~10k employees: https://careers.google.com/locations/hyder
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by Sacho 7y ago
You'd be looking to criminalize rational behavior - a difficult and quite often counter-productive endeavour. First, there's survivorship bias. The hospitals that eat the costs of saving lives eventually go under or can't com
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by Sacho 7y ago
Even assuming the correctness of your argument, the threat of violence only applies where it is credible. Strong bullies aren't intimidated by their victims, men generally aren't intimidated by women, and so on. There is in fact a
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by Sacho 7y ago
Hmm, the long timeframe makes me wary of the comparison. The problem is, the comparison holds weaker and weaker over shorter timeframes: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_... Planned spending
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by Sacho 7y ago
Sure - I would argue that bandwith costs are only a tiny fraction, and the real cost is in stewarding all the existing content(page numbers) - e.g. more servers = more admins, older content/tools need maintenance, etc. I think what is
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by Sacho 7y ago
The statements you are making now are already retreating from your initial position. "Bringing in drugs and crime" is not equivalent to "every immigrant is a criminal", which was your initial interpretation. I think it&#
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by Sacho 7y ago
I don't understand how any of these conversations(besides the first one, in perhaps an HR meeting), could possibly be topical at work? The company isn't paying me to preach my political agenda. Have you also considered that while
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by Sacho 7y ago
FWIW, I fully agree with your interpretation of RMS's argument here(to be fair, I think his argument as presented was worse , but giving him the benefit of the doubt, I arrive at your interpretation). However, I don't see how tha
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by Sacho 7y ago
> The only thing I'm interested in defending is that Stallman said that Minsky couldn't have committed sexual assault if we assume that his victim "presented herself as willing" Well, your initial argument was differe
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by Sacho 7y ago
I downvoted your previous comments because I think you haven't made any progress from your initial point. I flagged this comment because it is complaining about downvotes. Having thought about it, I downvoted your initial comment as we
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by Sacho 7y ago
Quote from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html > It is theoretically possible to program in HTML and CSS, but in practice this capability is limited and inconvenient; merely to make it do something i
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by Sacho 7y ago
Not so definitely, from reading the links. The first link describes some form of sexual offense, but is only strict liability if the person is under 13. Quoting the link: "A person(A) commits an offense if..." "(c)either— (i)
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by Sacho 7y ago
Your argument against Stallman seems to hinge on him defending Epstein, which is something he didn't do. He was defending his late friend, Minsky. Specifically, he was unhappy with the language used to describe his conduct evoking imag
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by Sacho 7y ago
This source was provided by Vice in their article. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929/091320191...
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by Sacho 7y ago
I think you managed to perfectly exemplify the point parent is making. Stallman never argued this, but in the frenzy of outrage his points are being misconstrued and he is villified to rationalize the punishment he has received.
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by Sacho 7y ago
All of these cases sounds like "administrative proceedings", which according to Cornell LII, have a (somewhat controversial) history of limitation due to the 5th? https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan&#x2F
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by Sacho 7y ago
The opposite is true - the most common complaint from high-rep users, by far[0][1][2], is that there are too many garbage questions and not enough moderation. [0] - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252756/a
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by Sacho 7y ago
That's quite scummy, but presumably the examples in the article have already lost their competitive edge? The EpiPen authorized generic was launched roughly 3 years ago.

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