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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
It would make me feel a lot better if Gates didn't buddy with Epstein even after his first conviction for trafficking teenagers. I think MS, if it wants to have some respect, should basically disown him unless he has a legit and contri
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
The first game I ever played online was R6. Kids these days don't know the joy of finding a cable host so you could do 2v2 with tolerable lag, nor what it was like to fill someone up with a mag and for them to fall over dead 10 seconds
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
It's nuts to me how much peole despised MS at the time. I remember getting a hacked/modded version of Halo 2 (2004) and it came with a picture of Gates with a bullet hole in his head. Which is sick and not appropriate, but people
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
HN users can be incredibly incredibly petty at times, which I think you are referring to. I think the software itself is just too easy to abuse and the moderation is too inscrutable, even if I appreciate dang. I really dislike how political
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I was around for original Digg. 1.0 was better than 2.0. 1.0 had beautiful minimalism, 2.0 turned gaudy and it just got worse and worse. Digg was cool for its time but it was way overly simplistic. The frontpage was dominated by a really na
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
They use right-left in political science departments, so I'm not sure it's "useless". It just requires context. We don't look at US and EU politics on the same scale, or at the very least, EU politics are just furth
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I don't believe any of his statements imply moral equivalence. I can believe (using your example of WW2) that on the whole, Imperial Japan was a more evil system (rape of Nanking? unprovoked attacks?) but still see Hiroshima and Nagasa
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I know that "rules" say don't complain about downvotes, but man, I'm confused when people have downvoted me for complimenting someone's work and suggesting that you should support them. I stated it was $2 so that pe
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
No, you're right. One of the big issues in historical discussions, especially if you get out of scholarly material is that a lot of people do tend to have overly simplified views of conflicts and if they've got a side they are bia
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
It really wasn't a knock at your motives and it wasn't personal. I just feel like if you are going to make statements and even go so far as to label them as fact, it is your job to back it up.
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Yeah, we should be able to discuss topics like this without pearl clutching and the only way to really do that is with actual facts supported by evidence. I appreciate you providing that information, really.
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
You guys mind backing up your facts? > The simple answer comes down to the fact that a species has to find a balance between maintaining genetic diversity, which is important for resilience and adaptation, and maintaining a strong breedi
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
This is really beautiful work. Thanks for dedicating yourself to that. Yall, it's $2. Support the man.
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I guess the issue is that it's really difficult to draw the line between being unreasonable or even momentarily irrational and just being delusional. It's hard to admit to yourself that you're delusional, so that quote, which
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Not a huge Google fan, I've gotten downvoted more times than you can count for criticizing them, but the thread we're talking about isn't genuine criticism, it's a twisting of something easily explainable into something
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I think there's just a pretty narrow range of opinions that you're allowed to express or the regulars that have invested so much time getting karma will make sure you aren't heard. That does stifle discussion. I dunno if HN u
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Yeah, I just don't understand how in a thread of such important stuff, this comment that's so low-hanging, so based on a non-issue is the top, with dozens of responses to it. It's really bordering on the conspiratorial, it&#x
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
This was originally in response to your parent, but gonna attach it to your comment instead, cause you're right. I don't believe we've found the low-hanging fruit at all, it's still all over the place. There are hundreds
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I'm certain it is hard to get that advice, because it's pretty hard to get out of your own way, success certainly ain't going to make it easier. You're completely correct about both of those guys, but Bloomberg showed an
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Both of those guys have a track record of plowing more money into money, with their own failures. It's just sports, but winning a title isn't nothing, and if you've followed his sports career, he was big into advanced stats d
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Cubes has always been outspoken. He's been almost as publicly known for 20 years and certainly winning the title in 2011 gave him more prestige. He'd make a decent candidate though. He's a Democrat (I guess he could run as a
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Not at all. I'm just saying, the guy got repeated tryouts. He was not shunned the way people act like he was. It really helps your cause when you are great, and you gotta be realistic about consequences (and narratives) when you aren&#
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
It's possible, but the "minor" league which debuted Saturday night got higher overnight ratings than the Rockets-Thunder which was the league's marquee game Saturday. The sport is just fantastically more popular than oth
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
You know I probably shouldn't bother wading into this, but in 20 years nobody is going to care about Kaep. While the league officially didn't do anything towards him, and multiple teams gave him a chance, there are worse QBs that
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
But again, no longer unique to lisp - Ruby for example deeply integrates them as do Clojure, Elixir, and others.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
You said it yourself in another post: they were just copying the British. The Virginians, that aristocratic lot, would have and did prefer features like the Senate, which would have provided a counterweight to the more radical House. It&#x2
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Certainly for a state like Connecticut it was more about preserving the influence of a smaller state, but why would Virginia throw its support behind a plan that would seem to weaken its own influence? Because while they were aware of tha
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia voted for the Virginia Plan, while New York, New Jersey, and Delaware voted for the New Jersey Plan, an alternate that was also on the table. T
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The Senate is directly responsible for lynching? Holy claims Batman, you should back up such an assertion. They were, among other things, aping the British system, where a reactionary upper house was an old feature.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.[1] The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum

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