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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I kinda think that we aren't too far away from developing a western version of something similar to Lysenkoism [1]. It will probably start with a propaganda campaign "fact-checking" the efficacy of fertilizers and suggesting
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> Because it's the state using it's monopoly on violence > At gunpoint. You could say that about almost all functions of the government. Not the least because it's almost entirely funded by taxes, which are collected &q
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> What does media coverage of climate change have in common with coverage of COVID-19? Each has been an example of the media practice of "bothsidesism," whereby journalists strive to present both sides of an issue, even in case
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> There's no point in instituting roadblocks for the sake of preserving a union, especially when its constituents despise each other. There is. To prevent ephemeral emotions from breaking the bond. Obviously, if the couple genuinel
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> More importantly it's not the state's business to override the desires of citizens to end a domestic partnership. That's just the liberal view. There are alternatives. > For some reason Americans in particular who won
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One interpretation of Kennedy's quote is that it's essentially a threat to violence by those who want some kind of radical change. When made by the US president (to Latin America [1]), that probably needs to be taken seriously. [1
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Bakke decision is the reason we started to talk about diversity(twitter.com)
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> Syncing to other platforms is just more work and doesn't prevent the primary problem. Maybe, but my objection isn't to the fact that she doesn't want to use alternative platforms. That's understandable. It's to
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
She keeps saying "everybody's going to tell me I'm a whiner" with a ridiculous tone. She is indeed a whiner. Not because of protesting YouTube's ridiculous copyright system, but because she uses that smug tone to ta
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Haj Subsidy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Their comment is explicitly against HN guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. You don't need to respond to it, flagging will do
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> It is that you revealed your definition of the word as purely negative. It is. I'm not sure in what sense that would be a revelation though. > Ask a person how they define "woke" and they will reveal a lot about their
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> You used it as something that is inherently bad and needs to be avoided. Yes, that's indeed what I think. > already so set in their ways that there is no point to debate the issue. So I'm not allowed to use words with nega
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> Ok, so there was no point in responding to you. Maybe, as your comment had little content (except showing contempt). But there might be a point in reading Hanania's argument: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p&#
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> slightly less of an asshole to the rest of the world afterwards Perhaps we could do better than name-calling?
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That's among the general US population, which kinda supports my point?
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> basing your desire for repeal on "probably" and "likely"? I'm talking about the current executive order. What's there to evaluate except "likely"s and "probably"s? My support for repeal
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
> Have you been a minority in tech? Yes. > any environment controlled by a HR policy. Well, HN isn't really "controlled by an HR policy". Yet, contrary to your expectation, my original comment is already being downvoted
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> That is the original text. But that's probably not what happens in practice. More affirmative action and diversity quotas is the likely outcome. > Wild that being against that is a popular enough sentiment that it can appear at
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I think it would be very unusual for the party of the sitting president to nominate any other person.
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Interesting point, that lead me to finding this article about the French translations. [1] Ironically, until 2016, the German government also used copyright to prevent republications of his book. [2] [1]: https://theconversation.
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>[...] at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.” Orwell's attribution of the quote here
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
Obviously, no matter how much journalists dream about it, that won't happen.
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> As the man’s physician, should I rule out breast cancer because the patient is a man? Not exactly. But even given the very same inconclusive evidence, you probably should assign a lower probability to a man having breast cancer than yo
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
I always find it surprising when a company gets sued for sexual harassment/assault instead of the person who allegedly committed it.
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Of course you can. To take it to the extreme, should doctors (or public health campaigns) assume that men and women have an equal chance of breast cancer?
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Rationality of him trying to buy Twitter is up to debate. I'm talking about deciding what to do when you promise to buy at a high price, and tech stocks crash afterwards. Given that, what he's doing now (trying to pull out) seems
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by cato_the_elder 4y ago
No, that won't happen, and what he's doing is quite rational given the tech stock meltdown. Even if you have a very small chance of winning, taking your chances with a court might have a positive expected value since billions of
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"The internet" is not the same thing as Democrats.
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I don't know, do you need to wear two seatbelts because you are pregnant?

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