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by bsanr 5y ago
Recognizing that the odds of this thread turning into a ****show are high, a piece of general advice: Note whatever you feel compelled to say within the first 5 minutes of your deciding to leave a comment here. Discard it. Write an entirely
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by bsanr 5y ago
What if the point of taxes is not simply to redirect and redistribute funding, but also to reduce economic activity and, by extension, emissions and inflation?
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>It's a bittersweet book, about being a small human in a world where the value of individual creative efforts are overwhelmed by the sheer might of automation and vast collaboration and technological accumulation. I also hold, stron
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by bsanr 5y ago
An addendum: 1909 would have been when Picasso was in his African Period, and 10 years after the publishing of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which both presaged French negrophilie and common early-century European attitudes towards Afr
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Any technology; society, language... But I think, at its heart, it's a general metaphor for overreliance, materially, physically, psychologically, philosophically, and so on. It's a little stilted, in that it takes the complete an
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by bsanr 5y ago
“The tunnels, of course, were lighted. Everything is light, artificial light; darkness is the exception. So when I saw a black gap in the tiles, I knew that it was an exception, and rejoiced. -Malcolm X, probably. (Please don't mista
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I have to imagine that most prefer organelle cooperation to, say, spontaneously bursting into flames while on a trip to the opera.
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by bsanr 5y ago
Homelessness? Yes, sort of. I have family who work at a distribution center. They work under conditions that I couldn't contend with at a similar facility and which quickly drove me out. I don't know how they manage psychologicall
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by bsanr 5y ago
It goes beyond that. Did everyone forget mail-order catalogs? Even up into my early teens, we would regularly receive them. One could mail-in (or phone-in) orders for a similar variety of goods as is available on Amazon (relative to the num
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by bsanr 5y ago
There is a commonly-held - though contentious, if not outright fallacious - notion that environmental conditions in Europe helped to shape complex society there. On that same token, between African primates, elephants, and giraffes, one has
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by bsanr 5y ago
>I'm sure if I'd planned to work at a grocery store until I was 40, the union would have been of great benefit This is an important point to consider, the malfeasance (which is a feature of poorly-run enterprises of all kinds,
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by bsanr 5y ago
>Hacker News is _supposed_ to be a place for curious and insightful discussion. A reddit-style per-statement rebuttal would seem to be antithetical to that. You don't seem curious, you seem like you have an agenda. EDIT: I'm go
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by bsanr 5y ago
Their post meets both criteria. Their description of the issue is not hyperbolic; it is a brief but reasonable and accurate description of the failure of American policing. Their description of the solution is well-reasoned: it is not unrea
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>Motherboard recently obtained data demonstrating the stark racial disparity in how Chicago has deployed ShotSpotter. The sensors have been placed almost exclusively in predominantly Black and brown communities, while the white enclaves
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by bsanr 6y ago
Part of what makes music so wonderful (and universal) is that it encodes information somewhat more ambiguously than written or spoken language. You could probably see comprehension and memory dividends from transitioning to a music-based co
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by bsanr 6y ago
I worked at a Best Buy which was the most easily-accessible location to residents of one of the most affluent majority-black counties in the country (that is to say, most of the county is not particularly affluent, but that it attracts a sm
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by bsanr 6y ago
That's simply your white fragility speaking. For those with experience speaking on the subject, it is simply another (rather crucial) aspect of the science as it applies to our contemporary society. The article was sufficiently neutral
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by bsanr 6y ago
It's frustrating that your comment is beginning to slip into transparency, because it's a direct and satisfying answer to the parent's frustration. Don't shoot the messenger.
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by bsanr 6y ago
Because, unfortunately, lactase persistence has been turned into a white supremacist talking point, as proof of a purported fundamental genetic separation between black Africans and white Europeans. It's become necessary to explicitly
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by bsanr 6y ago
I'm going to post this even though there is a large chance that it's going to be poorly received: This is simply an extension of what happened to urban poor (particularly blacks) in the latter half of the last century, and our fai
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by bsanr 6y ago
>[...] if you don't take into account how uneven the income distribution is, specially in the US where income inequality reached abismal levels. I did, which is precisely why I used that figure in the first place. I made the (eviden
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by bsanr 6y ago
>In colloquial language Further, if you go into the definitions of median, mean, and mode on Merriam Webster's, only "mean" actually mentions the word "average." It shows up in the "synonyms" section fo
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by bsanr 6y ago
>at the same time, noone became poorer in the united states This is false.
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by bsanr 6y ago
I've heard of the median and mode being associated closely with the "average," but never as a synonym. Actually, I think it's much safer to assume that someone speaking of the average is referring to the mean unless
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by bsanr 6y ago
Generally, when one says average, they mean average. I used it deliberately because of the implicit comparison to be made between it and the median, and because of where it compares to the arbitrary $50k figure grandparent chose to swing
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by bsanr 6y ago
Doctors and lawyers are not making $50k a year. $50k is not even the average annual income in this country; it is not the income of the barely-wealthy. This is the problem: people making multiples of $50k live fundamentally different lives
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I have a degree and I've never made more than $35,000 in a year, pre-tax. This is not uncommon.
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It can be argued that the barely-rich are also a huge part of "the problem." Collectively, they wield a great deal of influence through their wealth, networks, and savvy, and instead of using it to solve "the problem," t
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by bsanr 6y ago
Frankly, no. The issue is a falling share of productive growth going to the not-richest. That is the problem, not the "size of the pie," as it were. In this sense, "incentivizing wealthy into investing it productively" i
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by bsanr 6y ago
I imagine that this gray area is where a lot of "unnecessary surgery" comes from. The vast majority of people have no medical need for circumcision (but some do). A lot of people don't need their wisdom teeth removed (but man

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