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by adjkant 6y ago
As someone who has lived multiple years in Brooklyn and Boston, this actually does well to explain what I like about both. I also don't think people understand the density and scope of Brooklyn. It's 5x the people of Boston in a s
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by adjkant 6y ago
I live in Brooklyn and have made multiple trips to Home Depot, via subway actually even! If I needed to take bigger loads, zipcar + 10 minute drive. No landscaping but I can chill on my backyard with a garden behind my brownstone. If I real
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by adjkant 6y ago
NYT is reporting at least 5 guns seized so far, 13 arrested. Early numbers and not hard to extrapolate that many who got out when it was open season could also be armed. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06
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by adjkant 6y ago
This type of stuff was posted on HN and pretty well debunked / rejected by most commentors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031344 My comment and some discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by adjkant 6y ago
The irony of this reply is I can't tell if it's a tongue in cheek piece about the hubris of the HN community or 100% serious. I think there's something to be said about quality, but if we look at unionization at just the comp
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by adjkant 6y ago
This is a case where a good journalist could do wonders - to synthesize this beyond the extensive length and to force Apple to investigate and respond. IANAL but it sounds like some of this could get near a workplace harassment suit too and
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by adjkant 6y ago
> Researchers from The New School and University of California, Berkeley, in a city-commissioned study, determined that drivers make about $9.73 per hour after expenses. > However, Uber points to a study from Cornell University’s Indu
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by adjkant 6y ago
Might need to add an explicit /s tag to this, even if it is just the plot of Minority Report :)
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by adjkant 6y ago
When hospitals hit capacity, the death rate dramatically spikes. Take a look at early NYC data to see how hospital overload affects this. Letting things be would have been true disaster. Because we took steps, this is not going to reach a
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by adjkant 6y ago
Enjoyed this one and went ahead and read another of interest to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25567210
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A Look Back at the MacBook Air(sixcolors.com)
2 points by adjkant 6y ago|0 comments
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by adjkant 6y ago
> If the tribes are not equally powerful, the powerful one will kill most of them and take all the resources and the women. This simply doesn't describe humanity, nor many species of animals. Yes, humanity is selfish and will do man
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by adjkant 6y ago
Oh, I'm an error theorist myself, no need to tell me! The key modifier there for me was "nihilistic" error theory, aka one that gives up on making sense of a world without an "objective" morality. No intention of ca
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by adjkant 6y ago
> What kind of unhinged philosophy are you smoking? Objectivism? Marxism? Freebasing Solipsism? Not OP but I assumed this was a version of nihilistic error theory that led to the "no such thing as morality" and then from there
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by adjkant 6y ago
I think you were stuck on the literality of "eradicate" here a bit. If you think anger can be managed, kept from the surface, have defenses constructed against it and the like, is that not more or less an informal meaning of &quot
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by adjkant 6y ago
I'm so sorry you went through that. I fully agree about eliminating anger from my personal life. With that said, an exception to a case doesn't invalidate an entire article or philosophical argument. In this case, I think it mainl
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by adjkant 6y ago
The meaty claim from the article, sans the argument that gets there: > I believe that, when faced with injustice, we should sometimes get somewhat angry. Such anger is not “pure” and entails submitting oneself to (some degree of) moral c
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Claiming Philosophy for the People(adriankant.io)
1 points by adjkant 6y ago|0 comments
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by adjkant 6y ago
I can't say I have much time to engage today, but since this seems to have some support and a fundamental misunderstanding, I want to address this one. Hatred towards the ultra-rich is not based in jealousy but in a moral stance. The a
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by adjkant 6y ago
Maybe a percentage will, but I think when people are trying to guess and assume what these people will do as "rational economic agents", they miss the human factors. No one is going to pick where they go to college based on the ta
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by adjkant 6y ago
Well I guess I'll take the apparently bold stance here that this isn't the end of Silicon Valley or California and yes this is fair and further, good. When people are getting 5-6% returns on investments (minimum), 0.4% is still no
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by adjkant 6y ago
> Doesn't this seem inherently dysfunctional? The whole point of the thread is that bikes and cars sharing the road with these sharrows is dysfunctional so yes, that's the point... > The maximum is there precisely so drivers
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by adjkant 6y ago
Speed limits + cars set an implicit speed minimum that is required for both safety and to not cause mad cars who are trying to go the speed limit. There's a reason you'll get pulled over for going 20mph on a US highway, and it&#x2
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by adjkant 6y ago
It's really hard to think from reading that memo that they have any intention of making changes related to the core issue. It more or less read to me "look at all the things we're already doing" + "oops this really
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by adjkant 6y ago
As many mentioned, getting into philosophy tends to be best done as an active activity with others due to the value of discussion. Your specific question, as also mentioned by others, seems to be more about psychology than philosophy. I thi
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by adjkant 6y ago
I couldn't recommend the CDC link above more. The various dashboards tell the clearest story here.
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by adjkant 6y ago
If you go look at my other comments over the thread, how I respond very much varies based on context. I spent energy where I think others will actually benefit. > Among the people I know closely enough, I see almost no one who has change
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by adjkant 6y ago
> I just wanted to point out that it's unlikely to be something endemic to the space. I'm still not sure why that would be the case. FWIW I don't suspect it is either, but I don't see any reason it would be more or l
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by adjkant 6y ago
No, it's a commentary on how much lifting is expected to be done by each side in a good faith discussion and the imbalance exhibited all over the current discussion. Everyone has the same tools - if you want to understand the perspecti
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by adjkant 6y ago
All of this is within the context of the "apolitical" statement by Coinbase and those who engaged with the post, which was by and large only the tech industry. I'm not looking to go on a full analysis of "racism in the w

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