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by abvdasker 4y ago
Add this to the long list of actions by the Saudis demonstrating that they are probably the most unambiguously evil government in the world. But they seldom get any criticism from mainstream US media and politicians because of the Saudis&#x
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There's a lot of speculation that the Alexa orgs are going to be decimated by this round of layoffs. I genuinely have no idea how Alexa could be losing Amazon $10 billion every year.
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All it took was a crowd booing him for Musk to get so bent out of shape that he abandoned all pretenses of being in favor of free speech. That must have really hurt his feelings.
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You're arguing against a claim which I never made. I didn't say that decriminalizing drugs would "mitigate retail theft", just that criminalizing drugs doesn't do anything to prevent drug abuse and addiction.
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Can you point to a well known communist today who opposes freedom of speech?
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We already tried this. It was called The War on Drugs and it failed totally, completely and unambiguously. If there's one thing to understand about the last 60 years of United States drug criminalization and enforcement, it's that
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by abvdasker 4y ago
Ah yes, the "simple solution" of uprooting your entire life because it takes ~2 minutes longer to buy deodorant.
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Too bad the piece never mentions it.
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I think this piece is more of a reaction to the hackneyed articles we've all seen about how wine knowledge is all bs. It's a qualification of those conclusions that does a good job of explaining that the reality is a little more c
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by abvdasker 4y ago
That's a good point. The piece fails to address the many ills of the entrepreneurial capitalism it describes, probably owing to Silicon Valley's tendency towards self flattery. It's remarkable how poorly the industry has fare
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by abvdasker 4y ago
If I'm being honest, I'm on Twitter for the pure schadenfreude of seeing public figures — journalists, celebrities, politicians — get publicly humiliated in real time, usually after saying something inadvertently funny or embarras
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What a great and thoughtful response. I really believe too many people — some very ambitious and successful — are being driven by unexamined pathology. I've seen too many examples of people who achieve their goals in terms of money or
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I genuinely believe that AB testing as practiced by every major tech company (and the incentives it creates) has caused much of this. AB testing is a really unsophisticated way of measuring extremely short-term incremental gains in isolatio
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That's capitalism, baby! It turns out domestic chip fabrication wasn't competitive (in this case a rare double-whammy of failing to compete on both cost and capability). The global market determined that Taiwan and South Korea mad
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by abvdasker 4y ago
Ecofascism is a pretty unimaginative, lazy and downright illogical solution to the complicated problem of climate change. It's also morally and scientifically wrong.
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> it had nothing to do with slavery and everything to do with states rights "states rights" to do what?
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> What about the industrial north and the agricultural south? Guess what kind of labor the economy of the "agricultural south" was dependent on at the time. The Civil War was primarily about slavery, especially the expansion of
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by abvdasker 4y ago
There's no reason for scare quotes given the specific carveout for slavery which exists in the Constitution. If you have an issue with that verbiage, take it up with the 38th United States Congress and Abraham Lincoln. > do murderer
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by abvdasker 4y ago
I think they object to the continuing to allow slavery part.
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They obviously won't. The Republican Party is explicitly opposed to expansion of the social safety net which would support the children from unwanted pregnancies. Outlawing abortion has nothing to do with protecting children. It's
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by abvdasker 4y ago
His exact words were "get wages down".
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Personally, I think this slow moving inflation disaster is the result of the US government's inability to raise taxes. They have to reduce the money supply somehow to fight inflation and they're doing it with one hand (fiscal poli
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by abvdasker 4y ago
Powell has said explicitly that one of the Fed's short term goals is to bring down wages.
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The unfairness doesn't derive so much from the act of cheating. It's more that he got the answer ahead of time because of his connection to someone at the company. When people talk about certain inequities in tech demographics I t
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by abvdasker 4y ago
I did exactly what you're describing. I like the S22 but it is a little bigger than my ideal size. My only minor nitpick is with the fingerprint reader being under the screen instead of embedded in the power button (which I loved about
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by abvdasker 4y ago
What's the bad news to come?
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by abvdasker 4y ago
If Twitter learns your identity through the verification process are you really anonymous, though?
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I think there's some truth to this, but there are two categories where Netflix's content is actually much better than basically all its competitors: reality TV and programming outside the US (which there is a huge amount of). I ag
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You completely missed the context of my comment. This was a discussion specifically about the acquisition of media companies unrelated to the businesses which create billionaires' wealth. Elon Musk himself said explicitly in his interv
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What other reason could the billionaires possibly have for owning these companies? I doubt it's out of the goodness of their hearts and given the success of their other businesses probably isn't about making money. This is just ro

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