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by bhupy 4y ago
Same here, he is my one and only LinkedIn block. Given how anodyne (even if sometimes vapid) most LinkedIn activity is, it’s quite a feat of obnoxiousness to get yourself blocked on LinkedIn, of all places.
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by bhupy 4y ago
India and Pakistan didn't split up because of the British, they split up because Jinnah and the Muslim League wanted it . Pakistan was born out of a sustained bottom-up movement. The reason the British get blamed for a lot of the Indo
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by bhupy 4y ago
Oh yeah, Trevor Noah doesn't speak for me, and I (and many minorities, especially most Asians and Latinos) find his brand of progressivism to be the exact opposite of what we think America should be about. The author of the Vox piece y
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by bhupy 4y ago
It certainly does! But that's different from racism, which is the entire point. I have never felt like my race has been a barrier to reaching my current socio-economic status, and do not believe there to be some magic socio-economic ce
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by bhupy 4y ago
Yup, I'm from India, and I'm now considered "firaang" (foreigner) — even my own people won't fully accept me! "ABCD" is an acceptable pejorative, because the culture is by and for the people that were born
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by bhupy 4y ago
Even assuming that your grandma was coming from a place of racial animus (itself debatable), nobody is arguing that America is devoid of racism — there's no country on Earth that has truly eradicated racism. The real point is that the
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by bhupy 4y ago
Yup, minority here, and I wouldn't feel comfortable living anywhere except the US, Canada, the UK, and maybe ANZ. The Anglo-world in general is far more welcoming to people of color than anywhere else. I'm sure I could be comforta
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by bhupy 4y ago
Your statement does not contradict the general idea that its moat is evaporating. 10 years ago, most of the alternatives mentioned didn't even work in certain US cities or specific countries, and that's changed. It's only a m
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by bhupy 4y ago
Eh, I'm not sure it's fair to suggest that they screw up well-established tech — at least in a significant way. They've certainly had a few misses, but they've had a ton of at-bats.
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by bhupy 4y ago
I’m pro-choice, but this is a bad argument. In the case of abortion, the default (inaction) means the baby lives, whereas having an abortion is an active action which ends the “life” (I don’t entirely believe it’s a life up to a certain poi
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by bhupy 4y ago
> If there's a separation of Church and State, does that mean that we can allow a State to be run by religious zealots? If the so-called "religious zealots" were duly elected through free and fair democratic process, then
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by bhupy 4y ago
> Because it clearly shows the president is not picked by the people but through an abstraction that steals voting power from some and gives it to others. That "abstraction" is known as "degressive proportionality" [
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by bhupy 4y ago
The main implication here is that the policy making decision tree needs to change. Whereas before it was: Do we have the political will to enact this from sea to shining sea via Federal legislation? -> YES/NO -> Can we enac
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by bhupy 4y ago
> it makes the US completely incapable of operating in the modern world. A less pessimistic outcome is that it forces the US to operate more like the EU, which seems more than capable of operating in the modern world. Whether that actual
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by bhupy 4y ago
> There's nothing in the constitution about oh so many things. That's exactly the point; and those "oh so many things" are left to the States. > Perhaps a constitutional amendment that gives people their privacy ba
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by bhupy 4y ago
> You cannot legislate something you cannot see There’s nothing in the Constitution that comports with this philosophy. You can’t “see” gay conversion therapy or whatever physical characteristic such therapy aims to target, and yet it’s
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by bhupy 4y ago
>The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. This just means that the absence of an enumerated right doesn't imply that the right is totally abse
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by bhupy 4y ago
I think you're overstating just how "obvious" this adverse selection problem is, because we haven't seen this play out historically. It sounds like a purely theoretical problem. Canada established its single payer system
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by bhupy 5y ago
Even Canada doesn't have a Federal minimum wage on the private sector; it's entirely left to the Provinces.
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by bhupy 5y ago
That's not true, the legislature has final say over both statutory and constitutional law; it's just that the barrier to amending the constitution is higher than amending / passing statutory laws. The Court's job is to i
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by bhupy 5y ago
No idea, I'm no expert on the matter. I'd also think that $100M to get hypersonic aircraft working in 1 year is also inadequate, so shrug . Either way, he's deploying his capital in ways that advance each of these goals, and
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by bhupy 5y ago
> We need to advance public transport for the masses and the use of renewable energy for it. I don't think Sam Altman would disagree with this statement. He also recently led a $500 million investment in Helion ( https://w
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by bhupy 5y ago
Different culture: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/06/21/... "Do these Asian students have an unfair advantage because their affluent parents can afford to pay for expensive te
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by bhupy 5y ago
That's a myth perpetuated by a (possibly willful) misinterpretation of the survey results[1][2]. If you click on the report in your own link, the survey summary even says as much: "If faced with an unexpected expense of $400, 61 p
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by bhupy 5y ago
There's no need for this, since parents entrust schools to supervise their children (read: control their interactions) during the school day. Outside of school, making sure you know whom your child is hanging out with, where they are,
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Uber posts quarterly profit as ride demand recovers, delivery remains strong(reuters.com)
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by bhupy 5y ago
> would counter that our reverence for the founders and their documents has papered over a lot of fucked up shit baked into our governance (the fact that a Wyoming vote is 50x more valuable than a California vote is hard to get past). I&
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by bhupy 5y ago
> I can tell from your parallel ongoing thread you're having trouble differentiating between the public and private aspects of a politician's life, and how the two can often be at odds. I don't think you're fully comp
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by bhupy 5y ago
I see, then we're not really disagreeing on much. On net, one can deeply agree with Jefferson while overlooking (or perhaps even excusing) his alleged hypocrisy, especially considering that his written word carried a lot of weight in h
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by bhupy 5y ago
> And I'll assume you also believe LBJ didn't harbor a racist thought when he passed landmark civil rights legislation as a senator and as president. No, actually, in fact, my argument is that LBJ's passage of landmark civ

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