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by a_conservative 5y ago
I'm interested in your high level of confidence. Not only will Trump lose, but it's embarrassing to lawyers as a whole? That's quite a statement. Wouldn't it make more sense to wait until evidence and the case in gener
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Chlorine in the water provides disinfection all throughout the pool, this is very desirable when you have a pool. Imagine you see someone's bandage floating next to you in the water! Do you want to wait for the water to be pulled thr
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Thanks for the response, I'm not making that argument. Platforms are legally within their rights to censor posts they don't like. My point is that this comes with a cost. If we sit a team down to discuss the architecture of a so
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by a_conservative 5y ago
You keep making assumptions about me. You don't know me. I made no such statements about the first amendment. However you justify censorship, it still has a cost. Legalistic arguments about the first amendment and who it restrains d
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by a_conservative 5y ago
The free exchange of ideas can be curtailed by other powerful entities other than government. This is still a problem for society. For example, look at how the lab-leak hypothesis for covid was censored. There were many good questions bei
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by a_conservative 5y ago
"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without Freedom of Speech." Benjamin Franklin Bringing up the first amendment is a way to emphasize the importance of the free
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by a_conservative 5y ago
wouldn't the target of the conspiracy theory have to be in power somehow? What differentiates between false beliefs and a conspiracy theory?
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by a_conservative 5y ago
> Conspiracy theories are the bane of any society. Can you provide some examples of this? I'm having a hard time understanding how or why conspiracy theories are so problematic. Have they always been problematic? I would love to h
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Thanks for the response. There is a lot of truth to what you say. I've come to notice that different articles seem to be magnets for different groups of posters. So there seems to be a little bit of a echo-chamber-like-bubble around
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by a_conservative 5y ago
> HN commenters post views from every side of these questions, and as long as they do so thoughtfully and substantively, we don't moderate them. It's the absence of action that is the issue. There is all kinds of left wing (I&
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by a_conservative 5y ago
EE drop out here: An EE degree will absolutely help you pick out components for a circuit. Computers and digital logic lend themselves towards a sense of everything being deterministic and understandable. Analog electronics, radio waves, ra
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write that out dang.
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by a_conservative 5y ago
it seems like you need to study ideological boilerplate and then constrain your opinions to what is acceptable here at hn. I wonder if dang could point us to a reference of ideological boilerplate to be avoided, or if its just supposed to b
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by a_conservative 5y ago
You are getting close to criticizing posters for "wrongthink" dressing it up under the term "boilerplate ideological rhetoric" doesn't change anything.
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Why are you responding to random commenters on HN as if they are the ones getting ready to go out and start writing the official policy of a country? Discussion is good. It's ok for people to be wrong and disagree. I'm not even s
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by a_conservative 5y ago
> The problem is not my mindset, but your understanding of the subject material. IMO, that is inflammatory and arrogant. More broadly speaking, much of the arguments in this post seem almost political. They are dressed up in fancy langu
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Its interesting that you didn't actually tell the poster what they did wrong.
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Thank you for delineating between cooperation and collaboration so clearly. Your comment and this article helped me to understand the differences between teams I've worked on. I've moved from collaborative teams to more cooperati
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by a_conservative 5y ago
> We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. > we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patt
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by a_conservative 6y ago
I made some flash-based appliances many years ago. There are some things you can do to reduce the number of writes. Have you tried mounting your root fs with `noatime`? Otherwise reads will generate a write to your device (to update the a
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by a_conservative 6y ago
> I have seen 50 startups that have pitched building a shittier version of git for academics because they can't be bothered to spend time reading the internals of git and have no idea how well done it is. I suspect git would make a
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by a_conservative 6y ago
Isn't git an implementation detail here? Git repos don't have to be publicly available. They also don't have to contain history or multiple versions at all. I'm guessing what you really want is: 1) open formats for dat
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by a_conservative 6y ago
This comment really made me think, thank you for that. I agree with everything you said. I think the danger comes from people using results that aren't (can't?) be replicated and treating them as if they were fact. "It ain’t
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by a_conservative 6y ago
It isn't society making it easier for two parents to raise a child vs one parent. It's having double the number of people raising that child. I see no way to read that as BLM supports the nuclear family. So the largest social ju
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by a_conservative 6y ago
Why don't you restate the quote in your own words if you think I am misunderstanding.
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by a_conservative 6y ago
krapp, BLM explicitly states that they want to disrupt the nuclear family. Again, why in the world would it be necessary to disrupt the nuclear family to gain greater connection to extended family and the community??
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by a_conservative 6y ago
I'm perhaps a little sensitive to this and may have overstated things. The comment in particular I was thinking of has indeed been down voted now. I do see it in maybe a less overt way in a lot of comments on HN. There are comments i
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by a_conservative 6y ago
It is bad. How in the world would having both your parents living at home somehow limit connection and relationship with other familiy members and the community?
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by a_conservative 6y ago
I agree with your last statement 100%. Why in the world would it be necessary to disrupt the nuclear family to have greater community and cultural bonds? Some of the founders of BLM are self-proclaimed Marxists. I don't think it is m
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by a_conservative 6y ago
It seems many cultures are more connected to their extended family than many in the US, but the point about single parenting still stands doesn't it? Or are you saying that it's normal for Fathers to be uninvolved in their childre

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