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by ambrozk 4y ago
The movie is about the way that little girls grow up in the society that we all actually live in. If you're not interested in seeing honest representations of the the world you inhabit, no one's forcing you to look, but don't
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Sidebar, but the "Cuties debacle" is nothing more than a moral panic. Cuties is a great movie about an immigrant kid struggling to cope with a broken home by escaping her parents and becoming a "normal French girl." She
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by ambrozk 4y ago
What you're saying makes zero sense. What is this commodity that you think will skyrocket forever, that people should perpetually hold as an investment vehicle?
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I interviewed with Terraform Labs less than a year ago. The guy interviewing me was a pretty standard eng manager who'd left Amazon for the excitment of a crypto startup. I tried to prep for the interview by researching their white pap
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by ambrozk 4y ago
What makes you think that peolpe who lost their money to slick-talking salesmen in the past were not also blameworthy?
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Yeah, but they still deserve it.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
> can you really blame people for investing Yes, you can. You don't have to dig very deep into the crypto world to realize that a lot if not most of the participants have are not plain ol' honest folks making a big ol'
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by ambrozk 4y ago
You may be disinterested, but you're not informed. The people above you are not arguing about whether LUNA is a successful coin in general, but over how it reflects on "proof of stake" vs. "proof of work" protocols.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
Both of you are correct.
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by ambrozk 4y ago
I don't like Paris' broad boulevards. In my opinion they're the least interesting part of the city. The best places to congregate are always off the main line of commerce, away from cars and trucks. Obviously, proper waste di
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by ambrozk 5y ago
Exactly. It's sickening to see a billionaire like Elon Musk push around the ordinary people who currently own Twitter! (The ordinary people are Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, and State Street Corp.)
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by ambrozk 5y ago
This is a dumb statement every time it's asserted. Sanctions are not an act of war in any sense. Not in theory nor in a pragmatic sense. The distinction between war and other modes of interstate hostility is an important one which we
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I said 'a strain in left-wing thought views the "traditional family" with extreme suspicion.' I didn't say "the majority of Democrats". The polls in question demonstrate that Democrats (though only the whi
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by ambrozk 5y ago
A lot of what you said is reasonable, but I think you're really stretching your argument when you say that 1) liberals refrain from advocating for the "two-parent family" because to do so would imply pushing back on workplace
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I think there are a significant number of liberals, and not just crazy people on the internet, who think this. A data point: a while ago, I fell down a rabbit hole arguing with social justice people online who maintained that the notion tha
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by ambrozk 5y ago
1. Rosenbaum wasn't on trial. He was Rittenhouse's assailant. 2. The defense needed to present a motive for Rosenbaum's having attacked Rittenhouse, and they felt his prior convictions helped establish that motive. 3. The j
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by ambrozk 5y ago
Like I said, I followed the Rittenhouse case extremely closely, and you are completely, 100% full of shit. That you are so confidently spouting off about it means that you are a completely unreliable writer, and no one should trust a word
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I would be find what you wrote much more convincing if I didn't have sufficient knowledge of the Rittenhouse case to know you were deliberately misleading us by selectively presentating and omitting key facts. 1. You omit the defense&#
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Yes, though "town square" is a metaphor which typically refers to public space generally, and usually includes things like streetcorners in its definition.
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by ambrozk 5y ago
No, you're imagining complications that don't exist. The very boring answer is that if two people (or groups) want to exercise their right to free speech at the same time, the government is charged with fairly apportioning the spa
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I read the essay and I do not believe it is.
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by ambrozk 5y ago
Are you telling us that it was literally violence?
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I agree with most of what you've written but I don't think it's correct to think of social power having been "democratized." It seems more accurate to view the transformation we've seen as existing mostly at th
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by ambrozk 5y ago
In general, there is nothing wrong with the government legislating what its employees may say when acting as agents of the government, just as there is nothing wrong with a corporation telling its employees what they may say when acting as
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by ambrozk 5y ago
If there is a pulpit in the town square, then the 1st amendment says that a speaker *is* entitled to that pulpit. This is the essence of free speech, and always has been. The 1st amendment is very explicit about this: citizens have a right
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by ambrozk 5y ago
This is a pretty shocking fairytale version of the past.
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When Elon buys an ownership stake in Twitter, he's taking an ownership stake from other billionaires, so it doesn't make sense to think of it as an example of billionaires increasing their power in society.
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by ambrozk 5y ago
Who do you think owned the Twitter shares before Elon bought them? The dispossessed working classes?
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by ambrozk 5y ago
> If they're capable of launching the platform in every language, they're capable of moderating it in every language. Uhhhhh this does not follow at all. "If you're capable of launching feature set A, you're capa
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I will repeat what I said, which is that this is rhetorical point-scoring, not discussion of reality. It's not helpful. Everyone with two neurons to rub together understands that both the Palestinians and the Israelis have engaged in t

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