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by adjkant 5y ago
I've very much liked what my company/team/office is doing so far: 1. No hard rules on when to be in the office, simply that you must be close enough to make it into the office when you need to. 2. All meetings are remote firs
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by adjkant 5y ago
So are you against all defamation lawsuits? This is more or less just an extension of that train of thought: people deserve to not have their reputation ruined unfairly by powerful structures. There's a big difference between gossip of
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by adjkant 5y ago
Seems like a good sign it wasn't a good source or story. In other words, we should not try to remember it...
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by adjkant 5y ago
No, it says that a someone or a few people tried to attack and flag a post to death, and all their comments from others were also downvoted. Nothing says that this got "widespread approval". The top comment could be +0 -12 and it
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by adjkant 5y ago
Off your link: "It would appear as though Resident Joe Biden and his team of treasonous usurpers may be responsible for at least one of the campaigns, and this through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." Saying
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by adjkant 5y ago
> The story was genuine, but didn't include anything about vaccine deaths. But in this context it would give the false impression that the death rate statistics had come from the leak.
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by adjkant 5y ago
I am not against dating someone even of a different income level, let alone social class, I think my "I avoid these flags" was taken to mean every one individually when I meant the sum of all when it comes to age gaps, so sorry fo
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by adjkant 5y ago
1. You're applying my statistical factor at the individual level re brain development. It's a risk factor, not any sort of rule.* 2. I didn't say anywhere the 18 year old can't decide for themselves. This is not me sayin
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by adjkant 5y ago
> Is it a hard and fast rule? No. Nowhere did I say to apply any of this as a rule. Literally all this is for is the potential for power imbalances. Plenty of relationships have a mix of these factors and can be healthy. I tried to mak
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by adjkant 5y ago
> greater potential or likelihood of abuse or any degree of taking advantage of people. It seems like this is the core of the disagreement. The factors here are complex, but here are some things I would point to as a starting point: - Yo
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by adjkant 5y ago
> However, 7 years is not a significant age gap (even when the younger partner is only 18) I'm going to strongly disagree with that, and not sure how you decided that was objectively true. An 18 year old who's finishing off the
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by adjkant 5y ago
Morality just doesn't work off legality, nor is the "adulthood" ever truly clear in reality. In this very specific case, passing no judgement on the OP here, there's a somewhat notable difference often between 20+27 and
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by adjkant 5y ago
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724699
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by adjkant 5y ago
There's plenty of nuance here, but I must say I am a bit surprised "the tech industry was a contributing factor to SF's decline" needs to be explained in this much detail. With that said, a few points: 1. As you said you
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by adjkant 5y ago
You need both NIMBY's and a large population influx to cause the core issue here. The tech industry indisputably caused the latter. You also imply some/many tech workers were also not NIMBY's as well, as if these two groups a
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by adjkant 5y ago
Not my experience at all with most cities in the US, as someone who has lived in many and visited far more. I wouldn't categorize NYC, Boston, Chicago, LA, Philly, or DC that way when you're not in literal capitol buildings. I liv
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by adjkant 5y ago
Why is your first reaction to any description or decrease in safety to go directly to the phrase "third world country"? Even forgetting the phrase, what you likely mean by it is also not true in all or even most aspects. It's
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by adjkant 5y ago
I think this is a pretty decent summary, but I do genuinely have one factual question here: > Many homeless people defecate and urinate freely in public because the police have simply stopped issuing citations for such behavior. What was
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by adjkant 5y ago
> To be clear, "tagging" is vandalism. In NYC we call that art. I just went to a museum exhibit in Boston about graffiti art on public transit in the 80's. Point being, something so benign being that strongly and violently
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by adjkant 5y ago
> but lack of police enforcement has led to greater numbers of homeless people acting without worry, setting up camps, pooping in the streets, vandalism, assault, robbery, etc. From my experience, homelessness is not affected by police p
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by adjkant 5y ago
> but doesn't change the fact the poster is wrong Again, I think you're missing the point. The very specific, non relevant way you interpreted the claim is factually wrong. To me, the claim read as: > the military spending i
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by adjkant 5y ago
There's a nuanced point here that looking at GDP % vs inflation adjusted yields different results depending on the range. For example, from 1982-1990, military spending was up, even after adjusting for inflation. It was actually 1990-2
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by adjkant 5y ago
Exactly. What about if it was Sanders, Clinton, Kasich, and Trump? As a far left voter, do I have to approve Kasich if I really don't want Trump to win? In RCV, it's simple: Sanders, Clinton, maybe Kasich to ensure Trump doesn&#x2
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by adjkant 5y ago
Hey, we do live in a Democracy* after all!
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by adjkant 5y ago
I don't disagree it's not ideal if you have more than 5 choices you like, but let's not over criticize a small flaw without appreciating the massive progress here. I read "horrible and unfortunate" and can see how p
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by adjkant 5y ago
It's genuinely interesting you haven't seen any, or perhaps you haven't used the app in the past 6 months? There's tons of them today, they've been cranking the ad load hard. I see like Nike and the like all the tim
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by adjkant 5y ago
Senator, we run ads!
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by adjkant 5y ago
It's a problem if you assume that your infrastructure needs won't scale. For many of the positives listed upthread, it can be a worthwhile trade to heavily invest in infrastructure. It just needs to be a conscious choice, and it a
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by adjkant 5y ago
I just want to give a giant explicit +1 to this sentiment and understanding of how humans learn, and then add a bit from there to connect it back to the problem highlighted in the first comment. IMO, there's a few ways to try and take
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by adjkant 5y ago
Surprised this isn't higher, that's basically "back full time" to me but with a shorter weekly period. Very different than what I understood reading the headline.

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