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by bccdee 1y ago
> Yes but one can't just ignore the federal government itself, as if this wasn't an organization. The comment you're responding to specifically indicates private organizations. Public organizations are publicly accountab
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I don't think being an expert in one field means you need to constantly engage in an academic level of discourse. It's extremely normal for blog posts featuring vibes-based hot takes to hit #1 on HN. I think that's fine, if t
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> Also consider youtube, I watch a lot of tiny creators Right, but you don't know these people. You're not in a community with them. Tao points to Dunbar's number as a rough boundary between small and large communities; ho
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I think I'd try a lightweight framework like preact or vue that I can use without a build step. Keep components as separate & stateless as possible; let them live as little islands of javascript, notifying other parts of the fronte
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yeah, in my (limited) experience, htmx works best to grease the wheels of an oldschool multi-page app. I tried building something with SPAish drag-and-drop interactivity using htmx, and my ultimate conclusion was that functionality like tha
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You can't sharpen a serrated knife, though. When it becomes irritating to cut tomatoes with my straight knife, I know it's time to sharpen it—that's how I avoid getting used to a dull knife.
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If you actually knew any gender-non-conformant butch women, you'd know they are overwhelmingly trans allies.
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You famously do not have to prove that you're innocent in court. Prosecution has to prove that you're guilty.
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> I haven't seen one person accusing him of this stuff actually cite a quote that seemed like hate speech or racism? You can peruse the "political views" section on his Wikipedia page if you want something comprehensive, b
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Ironically, "trans women think they're women but I think they're wrong!!" is by far the least real problem being discussed here. Nobody's forcing you to have a nuanced discussion about gender. You asked how we defin
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A better point of comparison would not be a question like "what is 2+2," but "what is 4?" There's a superficial, circular answer ("What is 4? It's 2+2"), and there's a more complex and rigorous a
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> When you can revisit these ideas with a scientific manner, then I can respond. Ironic that you would level a criticism like this while touting "non-empirical science," whatever that is. > You chose to make a narrative clai
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> The idea that hamas isn't stealing all the aid is ludicrous. Bro what the fuck are they going to do with enough stolen food to feed an entire nation? It's not as if they can sell it. World's biggest mukbang tiktok stre
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Education has been under the axe for years. Declining test scores are more likely to be the product of No Child Left Behind than the iPhone. > You keep ignoring: the basic science of creativity "Basic science" is something of a
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> there has to be intent to prevent civilians from accessing food Intent, in cases of genocide, is basically impossible to establish except in retrospect. We can only establish what is happening right now: > “The worst-case scenario o
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Your first study says smartphone use is associated with conduct problems and hyperactivity in 6-year-olds; no teens or stupidity in sight. Other studies discuss distraction, cyberbullying, bad diet/poor exercise, toddlers' sensory
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by bccdee 1y ago
Trump is actively arresting and deporting people for participating in pro-Palestine protests. What are Democrats doing that is even a fraction as censorious?
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It can include that. But we also don't have a carbon capture method that scales to the point that it could balance out all our emissions, so tree-planting doesn't scale either.
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As just one example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation
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Oh I agree, I don't think the Republican agenda reflects some sort of authentic "will of the people." It's produced as much by propaganda as anything else. Nevertheless, it's propaganda that many Americans have swal
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by bccdee 1y ago
> The question is what’s 2+2 and the answer being it’s a social construct. Brother, you'll never guess what type of construct numbers are. If American voters prefer simple, incorrect answers over complex truths, that's a proble
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by bccdee 1y ago
The Nazis and the Communists won enough seats between them in 1932 that it was impossible for Hindenburg to form a government without one or the other. Hitler didn't win a majority, but he won more seats than anyone else, which was eno
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I agree wholeheartedly.
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It's bad faith because womanhood, like (for instance) adulthood, is a social construct. If I ask you, "what is an adult," there's no simple and rigorous answer to that question. You can say, "you're an adult wh
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by bccdee 1y ago
A position like his doesn't really take well to steelmanning… It's not really the kind of viewpoint that's meant to be spelled out explicitly. You're supposed to shroud it in euphemisms. I guess the steelmanned version o
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When you purchase a "carbon offset," you are paying someone not to emit carbon that they otherwise would have emitted. You're not getting rid of any actual emissions. The current marginal cost of offsets is $50/person&#x
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> there is still broad support there for the war, because most israelis feel it's a matter of survival. A phrase like "the war" glosses over a lot. If the IDF were not deliberately shooting children¹, would the Israeli pub
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Who are "we," and what is it that "you're" not putting up with? The last act of violence comparable to this (against a Republican, that is—two Minnesota Democrats were shot in June¹) was the 2024 attempt on Trump&#x
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> Phones correlate to cog decline. Do they? Let's check your source. > To investigate this hypothesis, participants aged 20–34 perform a concentration and attention test in the presence and absence of a smartphone. The results of
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Given that the current generation of kids missed out on several crucial years of socializing due to Covid and were forced to find community online, I'm skeptical of arguments that point to poorly-socialized kids and say, "it must

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