cato_the_elder

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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> We're neutral and carry both sides Very often, they are not neutral. Go to your local library's website, and check out the new arrivals section. Most likely, the political bias will be very evident. Then go to the page where
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Polemics don't belong on HN.
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I kinda agree with Sen. Grassley, although he doesn't seem to be articulating the issue very well. Remember what happened in 2020: near the presidential election, you couldn't even DM the URL of the NY Post story to others. [1] Th
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
In case you want to read it, one of the books they are burning seems to be "Life and Labor in the Old South" by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Bonnell_Phillips
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The same reason they don't do it the "honest" way for affirmative action. It would significantly decrease the prestige and legitimacy of degrees awarded to people who fill those slots.
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Admission because of donations isn't really as bad as affirmative action. Each possibly undeserving rich kid admitted probably funds many deserving but poor ones.
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I think a lot of people who defend "affirmative action" [1] are misinformed about the extent of it. It's not about preferring the more "diverse" or less privileged candidate among roughly equally qualified candidate
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Chess.com is not displaying the flags of Russia and Belarus(chess.com)
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It is. Not all of are relativists. Freedom and anarchy aren't synonyms. Contrary to popular belief, the fundamental freedoms many of us desire are not bestowed upon us by God or something. They are upheld at gun point, by threat of vio
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> Why would it be ironic to use a word describing the thing you're talking about a lot? Their position seems to be that polarization (in the sense of the sides being pushed to extremes) is a bad thing, they claim that has happened,
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> If anything that video claims that "leaving no one behind" and "decency and compassion" are what makes America America. Well, I kinda think those claims are mostly lies. We all know that Americans are not well-known
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day That's an overestimate, it's probably closer to 3 hours per day [1]. Also, if you exclude the elderly (like +55), it probably becomes significantly less. > people feel th
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> I don't think anyone feels like the US shouldn't have its own culture I disagree with that. The "America as merely an idea" sentiment is quite popular. [1] > It's just that (sorry for using such a provocativ
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This verges on trolling. I'm sure as you know, guns are mostly used in wars, not school shootings. > Why not? Privacy of the victims?
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> A culture that sees mass shootings as normal That's just muddying the water by bringing up an irrelevant issue. We are talking about displays of violence in movies.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Right, but there seems to be a strange belief that the US in particular shouldn't have its own culture. My objection is to that. That's kinda American exceptionalism at its worst. Europeans have their own share if strange cultural
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
This is opt-in, they can choose not to use it.
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Different countries have different cultures. That seems alright to me.
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> That's so American. Not sure if I see anything particularly wrong with that. Apple is an American company.
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> Imagine your CEO tweeting this as part of the response.. That's pretty based TBH, and definitely better than the usual corpo-speak.
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> out-of-context that fact may be. What's out-of-context about it? It seems very relevant to me. And it seemed relevant enough to the person who wrote the article to still put it there. > some little factoid > distorted your w
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> and I don't care if it takes two to tango Well, at least you are acknowledging your bias.
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Ok, I just found this buried in the article: > At the time of the alleged liaison in early December, Mr. Brin and his wife were separated but still living together. It's sad how dishonest journalism has become. I have the feeling t
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I find it interesting that everyone is shitting on Musk, and no one is blaming Nicole Shanahan, Brin's former wife. It can't be because of a general hatred towards tech CEOs, as Nicole Shanahan herself is the CEO of ClearAccessIP,
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> the consistent position would be to advocate for doing away with the state's monopoly on dictating the terms of marriage (and, consequently, divorce) in the first place. Maybe, but that's not the pragmatic position. In forese
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Well, fertilizers have diminishing returns, you can't keep adding fertilizer to increase the yield as much as you want. The amount of farmland available globally is limited, so reducing the yields per hectare in one country will probab
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I'm assuming you are referring to the WEF "Young Global Leaders". If you look at the members and alumni for that [1], you'll find many politicians who oppose things like this. A relevant example would be Andrew Scheer, t
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I don't think it's that, as we aren't ruled by very competent people capable of such conspiracies. It's just that the western ruling class lives in a bubble in which policies like this seem like a good idea. Their disda
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> I think with the advent of climate change and water crisis they are going to face same trouble in future. That's not true, at least about global warming (which is the relevant issue here) and for Canada. See my other comment below
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And here's a paper [1] corroborating that, at least for Canadian crop yields: > Canola and wheat yields were projected to increase with global warming, while maize yield was simulated to increase or slightly decrease depending on th

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