aaron-lebo

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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
There was violence at times, but Home Rule was granted before the revolution. I'm against violence across the board, for the record. The problem with violence against the police is it doesn't improve your position, it only confi
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
> You cannot have movements involving millions of people fighting for justice and not have some of those people turn to violence. Demanding that such movements be completely non-violent means de facto endorsing the status quo. Of course
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
What's the proper way to read this? The font is gorgeous but also massive.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Interesting that one of the figures we see most positively went from believing in violence to believing in nonviolence. De Klerk similarly had a great moderating influence. The alternative to the nonviolence of him and Mandela would have be
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
He had very strong views about revolution. He believed it was necessary and desirable at all costs (hence his actions). He's lauding the role of the violent revolutionary without further reflection (because he'd already made his c
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
To be fair, that does sound like something a mass murderer would say. Maybe a justification for their actions.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Undoubtedly to you posting to a message board, maybe , but maybe not so undoubtedly were you one of the victims or long line of people directly affected by it. That's a utilitarian argument and it assumes that independence could not or
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
With his latest "fake news" attack he's starting to sound more and more like Trump: http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/23/technology/elon-musk-media/i... He liked being the media's gol
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
There's some poli sci research that suggests the main effect of term limits in California is to bump people upstairs to compete for positions they aren't worthy of and removes capable leaders from their positions artificially. If
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
It sounds like something a youngster would say. I bet they are in their 20/30s. Not to mention, 60 is pretty damn young. You're cutting off people in the prime of their maturity, especially with longer lifespans. Teddy Roosevelt d
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Very well said.
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It's only powerful if you actually change. Otherwise you're just using one of the classic tricks of manipulators. "I'm sorry, it won't happen this time" is what abusive relationships are made of. https:/&
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Just interested, what's impressive about Zuck as a leader? Money will make people do crazy things. I think he's shown time and time again in his handling of situations that he's been pretty ineffective and his primary strateg
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
This is my experience in political science as well. Poli sci is starting to get some really good repositories of data (replication is something we actually care about), but for a long time common practice has been to post your paper on your
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Not sure whether it originated there, but this kind of stuff is pretty common on the mapporn subreddit. The author posted and commented on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8kf22u/new_version.
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Incredibly pragmatic, which is perhaps the most important thing possible. an approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application You can have your ideal language, we&#x
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
I don't really think JS is bad. I actually prefer it to most languages. It's fast, concise, flexible, and has lots of modern features. It has some weak spots, but all languages do. When people are so ideological about the language
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Didn't mean to target Musk, but he certainly is in the same area. You ever notice how thin-skinned he is towards criticism and how he's constantly pivoting to projects which are years away? Besides the actual lies/exaggeratio
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
It's maybe hindsight that allows us to know whether the schemes of a huckster are going to fail, but it's not hard to see people who are hucksters. They make big promises and don't meet them, and when that happens they just m
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
This is based on what?
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
In the interest of productive discussion, what do you perceive as racism? It's rare that I come across comments about China that are legitimately racist on HN. I get some people are and some discussion is that, but more than anything I
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
“You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
No worries. It is an emotional and complicated topic as you said. We should not accept inequality nor injustice. We've just gotta find the best way (or ways) of combating it, which we may disagree about. I linked an HBO doc about King
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
They may have been ignorant of the extent of slavery, but I'd be surprised if they weren't aware on some level of what was going on. There were fairly notorious slave trading outposts up and down the African coast. Eg. https:&#x2
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Your feelings and beliefs are irrelevant to the question of reparations. Again, this may be an abstract issue that can be dismissed with platitudes to you but many people -- especially the victims -- do not feel this way. Whose feelings me
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
Reparations can be a legal or a political issue. To get the proper court setup to rule in favor of reparations, you need to appoint the correct justices (if you know a way of appointing Supreme Court justices that doesn't come through
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We may be talking about different times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment https://www.history.com/news&#
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
You're not wrong, I'm just surprised when educated people aren't aware of this stuff. Jim Crow was discussed in high school here in the South and there was plenty of opportunity to learn about it in college. The only way peop
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
There's probably a very good case for reparations, but I don't believe it will ever be workable politically. The age of Trump has shown not only a divisiveness but a racism from all quarters. A reparation based policy is inherentl
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by aaron-lebo 8y ago
But these rights were not granted to entire groups of people during slavery. See how the Irish were treated both by the British and as immigrants to the US. They were seen as lesser. Irish Catholics and many other groups had no special plac

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