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by bdhe 8d ago
Uber has ~ 34,000 corporate employees. What sorts of inferences do you want to make from an engineering blog post with the names of 4 employees?
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by bdhe 25d ago
IIM as in Indian Institute of Management? Absolutely not. Sundar's education is: IIT-Kharagpur Bachelors in Eng Stanford Masters in Eng Wharton MBA Maybe you're thinking of the last one
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by bdhe 2mo ago
I don't think you know what category error is. Or at least, back to my point, you're not communicating as though you do. I think you're strawmanning my point - no one asks you to act like a philosopher 24/7, but this exc
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by bdhe 2mo ago
> The video footage doesn't show how disruptive he was being; but I find it reasonable that he was clapping in a way that the the person running the public comment meeting had specifically asked people not to do in the name of exped
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by bdhe 3mo ago
Because it simply isn't. Philosophy isn't about wordy refusals (ironically the same complaint you try to levy) but about reasoning, knowledge, and abstract ideas. None of which come through in your comment, nor can come through re
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by bdhe 3mo ago
I'm struggling to find a counter argument in your response. You say it is a deeply prejudiced argument? Why? You say blinders? What are those? What is a philosophical statement? One tendency I've noticed is that people well versed
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by bdhe 4mo ago
Honestly there are so many levers we could pull off within Capitalism to both meaningfully improve the lives of people while keeping together all the things that are genuinely good about it (such as the central thesis of rewarding risk and
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by bdhe 5mo ago
What does this mean? I thought Meta has something like 80,000 employees. Meta had about 1,400 H-1B employee petitions last year. Even if we assume that number held for Meta's entire existence, that's less than 25,000 H-1B employee
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by bdhe 5mo ago
I think it is easy to argue that the Chinese govt exerts pressure in "unique ways" - see Jack Ma's 180 in attitude after house arrest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma#During_tech_crackdown Is there
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by bdhe 5mo ago
There's a whole wikipedia article discussing how it is both a logical fallacy and how it is often used as a tool of propaganda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism Please don't engage in whataboutism.
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by bdhe 5mo ago
What facts would you point to, to argue that the Democratic party is "owned by Israel" more than the Republican party?
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by bdhe 7mo ago
Hamas support or Palestinian support?
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by bdhe 7mo ago
> and it quickly grew beyond any reason Why did it quickly grow?
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by bdhe 8mo ago
> 100% of white western civilization Do the republics in the Caucasus region (and Russia) count in this calculation or not?
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by bdhe 8mo ago
> However, the situation has also been significantly escalated by often-violent obstructionists Do you think the protests leading to escalations were done simply? Or BECAUSE of the awful implementation? (Masks, no IDs, no accountability,
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by bdhe 8mo ago
Does anyone have a good understanding of the reasoning behind these targeted operations being in places one wouldn't typically associate with the average illegal/undocumented immigrant? I'd think of CA, TX, AZ, FL, and other
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by bdhe 9mo ago
> A cyberattack targeting an oncology journal has taken it offline that published a peer-reviewed study from Tufts and Brown University exploring links of COVID injections to newly diagnosed or rapidly worsened cancer shortly after COVID
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by bdhe 9mo ago
I'm missing the well-reasoned argument with subtlety. It sounds like parent is saying that "X is a natural product of evolution and hardwired" so "X must be ok". I don't see subtlety here. As others pointed, th
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by bdhe 9mo ago
I don't see a rebuttal to his point that you are okay with people getting put into secret prisons as long as you're not inconvenienced. Are you just complaining that you were called out? I think most people come to HN assuming fol
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by bdhe 11mo ago
> Also easy to forget how much negative sentiment, on the opposite political side, there was prior to the vaccine being approved. The NYT had an article on how it would take 10 years for the vaccine to be developed and approved! I looked
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by bdhe 1y ago
What are the long lasting anatomical changes? Would love to learn more because my kids were bottle fed.
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by bdhe 1y ago
Let's also talk about the how of the enforcement not just the what. Would you be saying the same thing if you HAD a valid Vietnamese tourist visa and was snatched off the road and detained for several hours without access to a lawyer i
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by bdhe 1y ago
> We are basically paying them to get their degrees here. If they are the best and brightest of the world and typically stay back and contribute significantly above the median employee to US industry or even start their own companies, wh
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by bdhe 1y ago
I think reasonable people will agree that Bitcoin's energy consumption had huge impacts on costs of power with very little to show for, at least for the average user. What are ways in which we can incentivize investments and place soci
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by bdhe 1y ago
A lot of Trump's support comes from people wanting to and happy to blame immigrants (of all kinds) for legitimate grievances - such as unemployment, expensive healthcare, housing, and inflation. The distinction between legal and illega
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by bdhe 1y ago
I think I need to just post the Sartre quote over and over again. The inability or disinterest of certain factions of the right in having a good faith argument is just genuinely frustrating.
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by bdhe 1y ago
It is a bit ironic to post this in a thread where someone who arguably wielded only words succumbed to someone wielding violence. From Sartre: > Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. Th
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by bdhe 1y ago
I'm still confused. I don't think it says anywhere that drug companies couldn't show their vaccines were safe enough. I think it said that if we allow indiscriminate lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers, WHILE longer-term t
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by bdhe 1y ago
Because it is incredibly apt. He and his campaigns and influence have worked very hard over the years to stop progress on gun reform, aimed at preventing the very kind of violent actions that he was unfortunately subject to today. This does
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by bdhe 1y ago
> Political violence cannot be deterred with strict gun laws. If a simplistic definition of political violence is targeted killings of political leaders, then this is trivially false. Look at Europe, Australia and other countries with co

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