SvenMarquardt

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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
They've already succeeded. America is already unprecedentedly divided and demoralised. “One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.” ― Sun Tzu
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
When 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel is impacted, the government has a problem.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Why is the network constructed in such a way that it allows things to spread?
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
The fact they're both islands in the middle of the pacific is more than likely their saving grace.
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The Wokest Place on Earth(city-journal.org)
11 points by SvenMarquardt 5y ago|2 comments
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
For most, newfound income does not materialise itself as wealth but rather an increase in living standards. $400k can buy you an entry-level home in cash, or a 10% deposit on that $4M mansion across town. Most choose the latter.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Those taxes will be passed onto the majority in the form of price hikes. Further, with current inflation rates, $400k will be solidly middle-upper class in a few years from now.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
If we can reverse ageing, your entire life will be spent planning how to avoid existential risks. When you can live forever even crossing the road becomes too risky.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
You need to reframe it. How many $ do the top 0.35% own vs the next 5%.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Real meat is lindy. Fake meat is not. We won't know until multi-decade studies have been done on the health effects of a fake meat diet.
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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Gifted at Math(reason.com)
41 points by SvenMarquardt 5y ago|26 comments
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
> It's interesting how frequently this pattern exists where history is silent about class difference and loud about race/gender differences. That's not a coincidence. The 0.1% would much rather the 99.9% squabble over race
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
I agree with your POV. I'm arguing throwing away equal opportunities (free education and career path choice for all Scandinavians) with the aim of chasing equal outcomes (50/50 gender split of nurses and engineers) is a fool'
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Equal opportunity ≠ equal outcomes As a teenager, I tried briefly to play basketball. But I was lucky to hit the backboard, much less the basket. Yet I had just as much opportunity to play basketball as Michael Jordan had. But equal opportu
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
> The only way to prevent the extreme outlier men from dominating everything is to prevent winner-takes-all games Which is why we should focus on infinite wealth creation games, rather than zero-sum status games. Throwing away equity whi
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Black Employees Leaving Slack at Alarming Rates(afrotech.com)
2 points by SvenMarquardt 5y ago|0 comments
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
> "white" isn't capitalized because it doesn't bear as much similarities to those words It is precisely the same as black. The mental gymnastics on display here are astonishing.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
They're just following the Associated Press style guidelines: https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-910566...
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
https://basecamp.com/about/jobs
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Which is why it is imperative society push back against the vilification of any race, including whites.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Which quote?
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Where's your evidence of that?
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Coalition calls on Biden to form disinformation task force(axios.com)
14 points by SvenMarquardt 5y ago|4 comments
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
To fully appreciate the difference in scale, compare the event listings for any pre-Covid Saturday night on RA: https://ra.co Berlin, Amsterdam, London, etc, each had a larger scene than the entirety of the US combined.
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Twitter stock plunges almost 10% on user growth miss, low guidance(news.yahoo.com)
4 points by SvenMarquardt 5y ago|3 comments
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Get yourself over to the continent. If you start partying at 4am Sun morning you can finish at 10pm Sun night and be fresh Monday.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Yes, LATAM has the wildest contemporary techno scene after Europe. The US had next to no techno scene pre-pandemic, a party or two in NY or LA each weekend was it, now its dead.
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by SvenMarquardt 5y ago
Detroit techno is a completely different beast to the modern European techno scene. Less than 1% of DJs playing at Berghain are black. Modern techno is dominated by Europeans.