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by blast 5y ago
If that is the case, why would officials and experts be "stumped"? This seems like the obvious explanation.
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by blast 5y ago
Thanks for that Twitter link, that's a really good thread from Dec. 21st. I learned a lot from it even now. Although even Alperovitch said "He is unlikely to invade Western Ukraine": https://twitter.com/DAlper
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by blast 5y ago
It's a fascinating letter, but Feynman's prediction didn't come true. Wolfram did succeed in running a company.
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by blast 5y ago
In Canadian terms it's politically one of the most foolish things you could do. There's little constituency for 2nd Amendment style gun rights in Canada, so they'd be sawing off the limb they're sitting on. And that&#x27
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by blast 5y ago
> A group of the protestors locked the doors to a downtown apartment building with handcuffs and then attempted to set that building on fire. What evidence is there that that was real? An allegation was made on Twitter, but only thing I&
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by blast 5y ago
I didn't downvote you, but you're using extreme language like "torture" (I know noise and sleep deprivation are associated with torture but this sort of verbal escalation is not objective) and the only in-depth reporting
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by blast 5y ago
This is a bit removed from your point about foreign support, but the flag thing appears to have been exaggerated for political purposes. The Confederate flag guy was shunned by the protestors and stood out like a sore thumb to begin with:
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by blast 5y ago
The article contradicts its hypey headline: To be sure, the Bay Area has such a deep reservoir of tech talent, money and infrastructure, not to mention the climate and the ocean, that it won’t be easily knocked off its perch.
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by blast 5y ago
The video of the confederate flag guy shows that he was shunned by the protestors. https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1487834109678395392
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by blast 5y ago
I think you've effectively conceded the point here. Losing one's job is generally understood to be a catastrophic outcome for people in our society, especially when someone has been doing that job for a long time (and perhaps also
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by blast 5y ago
As I understand it, the convoy was sparked by a decree that truckers crossing the US/Canada border would have to either be vaccinated or go into 14 days of quarantine. The latter would effectively take away the livelihood of anyone who
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by blast 5y ago
It's obviously a peaceful protest*. The word "occupation" here is already spin from the side that wants to shut it down and is trying to build a case for doing so. Peaceful protest involves physically assembling and making no
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by blast 5y ago
> Cool. What if it's misleading? That question applies in literally every case and therefore doesn't change change the optimal strategy. > What if it requires some domain expertise to detect a reasonable-sounding, but actual
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by blast 5y ago
> The dynamics seem likely to swing even more in favor of founders. What makes you say that?
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by blast 5y ago
He made Paper Moon and What's Up Doc after that. Are they supposed to be before or after the swift decline?
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by blast 5y ago
Why does your having different priorities mean that she got bad advice? It sounds like you're at different life stages and have different risk tolerances. That's natural and doesn't make either person wrong.
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by blast 5y ago
"The type of arguments this person likes to make" seems ad hominem to me. Being wrong about global warming doesn't make him wrong about this unrelated topic. Also, his coauthor on the current book has impeccable credentials a
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by blast 5y ago
I don't see how it's "just as valid" to mention those extraneous things. Daszak's conflict of interest is directly relevant to the issue being discussed, and the Lancet piece which was distorted by it was a critical
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by blast 5y ago
Leighton Woodhouse wrote the article.
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The Four Corners potato(thecounter.org)
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by blast 5y ago
We need each corrupt side to fight the other's corruption.
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by blast 5y ago
Sure, but that's not an argument for censoring it, especially when you consider all the lyrics out there that don't get censored.
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by blast 5y ago
It may have been rational to pre-emptively murder millions of people by dropping nuclear bombs on them? That's quite a claim. We should be eternally thankful that the political leaders of the time had the good sense not to listen to ce
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by blast 5y ago
The argument is that it impacts disadvantaged groups disproportionately. Also, there are lots of studies showing that women negotiate less than men do. I don't know how good the studies are but they've certainly been reported a lo
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by blast 5y ago
If you aren't personally one of those protected groups, exploiting their needs to get more money for yourself seems unscrupulous. That ought to make for a weaker negotiating position, not a stronger one, so I'm surprised none of t
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by blast 5y ago
I partly agree - the progressives I was referring to are the ones criticizing her. (Welcome!)
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by blast 5y ago
> a text judging biology That's exactly what Chomsky's article is not.
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by blast 5y ago
There's more to Chomsky's argument than that, and if you read it closely, he says "redistribution of income would appear to be an equally obvious strategy", which is much closer to a mainstream progressive position.
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by blast 5y ago
The topic of the article, and therefore of my comment, is progressive takes on the issue. If you aren't a progressive, you don't agree with any of those. That's fine but trivial, it doesn't need pointing out. My point
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by blast 5y ago
Chomsky wrote the definitive progressive answer to all this 50 years ago: https://libcom.org/files/chomsky%20-%20iq%20building%20block... Still timely and fresh, especially considering that he was critiquing Herrnstein

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