adamsea

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by adamsea 6y ago
He did, with the drone wars and such. Yeah - presidential power tends to accrue.
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure. When the book was written income inequality wasn't extreme as it is now. Also the whole idea of a government / multinational divide gets a bit blurry, doesn't it, when you look at the longstanding U.S. government re
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by adamsea 6y ago
> ... when given the opportunity to sit before a president addressing a global crisis, and then granted the opportunity to ask questions they should not inject their bias and call him a racist. Look - I know it's hard to say this an
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by adamsea 6y ago
To add on to what you're saying, it doesn't necessarily have to be an oligarchy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent IIRC Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman make the argument in "Manufactur
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by adamsea 6y ago
I agree that the Patriot Act was a sad day for America. Whether it meant to or not the Bush Administration kicked off a lot of terrible stuff for America and for the world. I remember obsessively watching the news after 9/11 and just h
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by adamsea 6y ago
> That was discussed with the same seriousness by the other side with Obama stepping down. I'm just going to call that out as a straight-up distortion and falsehood. In it's effect, equivalent to a lie. Show me reliable quotes
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yes, let's keep our America-loathing focused on what America does to itself. ;). Plenty of things to loathe about that at the moment, sadly : ( .
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by adamsea 6y ago
FWIW I don't think "Ceasefire" is a good name. It implies the preexistence of a war (though not a literal one). And it focuses on the cessation of hostilities, as opposed to a name which focuses on the act of debating from a
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by adamsea 6y ago
> For example, why do I believe that the NYT statement is dishonest but the Tucker statement is honest? Because Tucker Carson says all sorts of racist dog-whistle stuff? And, I don’t know if Carlson apologizes or officially retracts stat
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I'm still furious they ever intended to do it, and held the sword of Damocles over his head for so many weeks. I think the actual “Sword of Damocles” story does not illustrate what you wish it to. From Wikipedia: “ According to th
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by adamsea 6y ago
Scott Alexander is a public figure. He himself shares his first name, middle name, profession, and city. Is that true of “Maria” in your example?
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by adamsea 6y ago
I don’t think a paeudonym is a pseudonym if it uses parts of your real name. For example if my name is Dan Smith and I say “call me Dan”, well, that’s just my name
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by adamsea 6y ago
True however I am curious if professional ethics have an opinion on what kinds of publications are appropriate to share anonymized patient stories
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yeah but as humans we have an ability to learn and change.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Except with lots more people ; )
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by adamsea 6y ago
Why even use the word "glitch"?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Exactly - that's my take on React.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed, mostly. To be fair I think that, based on my limited experience with React and Docker and Python, those 3 technologies have valid use-cases in smaller orgs. The other technologies I'm not familiar enough with to comment on. Als
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by adamsea 6y ago
I hope your grandmother doesn't live in your ideal society. Forgive the strong language but my point is it's precisely the most vulnerable / neglected / oppressed of our fellow citizens and members of our society who are
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by adamsea 6y ago
It seems pretty obvious that if this is real and not mass hysteria the first most plausible explanation is a secret military project, no? The Government doesn’t tell folks when they are testing new spy planes and stuff, etc.
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by adamsea 6y ago
No. The danger is not overblown. New teachers just don’t appear out of the woodworks, it takes time to be trained. Plus, since in the US it’s such a poorly paid and poorly respected profession (at least not respected by society; Id imagine
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by adamsea 6y ago
Society's view of climate change has shifted over the past 50 years; I think that individual actions contribute to shifting society's view on things.
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by adamsea 6y ago
React I have been thinking about, having worked with it a lot and also recently done a React / TS / GraphQL (GraphQL may have been the poorest choice I made; time will tell) project. I think React itself is awesome and I've a
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by adamsea 6y ago
FWIW I think you’re making a lot of assumptions.
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think it’s a spectrum and you are correct that on the far end of that spectrum is definitely some very bad stuff. Which is not where I think your comment is at all :). But because it’s a spectrum I think and hope my sharing how some of th
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by adamsea 6y ago
> We have a huge problem at the moment where people think they're achieving something by personally cutting their co2 emissions by a few kg per year. I used to think that. Now I believe that my behavior influences other people’s beh
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by adamsea 6y ago
FYI : ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory "Critical theory is the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture in order to reveal and challenge power structures. With origins in sociology
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by adamsea 6y ago
It just seems like a lot of conclusions to draw around an article that hasn't been released yet and which no one has read. Plus, what if the New Yorker article got something wrong (not necessarily thru negligence)? Or what if the NY Ti
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by adamsea 6y ago
It also depends on the person, no?
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by adamsea 6y ago
FYI I feel like the language you use is kind of dehumanizing - “the beast in action”, viruses and antibodies when talking about people and what they write, etc. Not saying that was your intent but wanted to share my impression. Don’t know i

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