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by charlesism 7y ago
Alot about our system of roads and cars strikes me as crazy. Most of the vehicles on the road have only one person in them, yet weigh as much as an elephant. Nobody drives under the speed limit, which is typically fast enough to result in h
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by charlesism 7y ago
It’s not a convincing argument to say a society shouldn’t fight unwanted behavior unless it can be completely eradicated. That’s akin to saying there’s no point advertising a product unless it results in 100% of the public buying it. If 80%
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by charlesism 7y ago
That occurred to me, but is "unneededly" a real word? The ambiguity is partly why the typo distracted me so much. The final sentence of an essay is a bad place to derail a reader’s train of thought like that.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Is “unnededly” in the final sentence meant to be “needlessly”? I enjoyed the article, but it would be a more satisfying read without that typo.
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by charlesism 7y ago
I've been waiting for an excuse to compliment the mods here, without it being off-topic. They do a great job! Of course, it also helps that the community here is more reasonable than most.
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by charlesism 7y ago
If we're being pedantic, aside from "Harvard," it wouldn't have screamed much to most people in 1974: "What are all these acronyms, and what on earth is an 'operating system'?" This resume was written
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by charlesism 7y ago
> Essentially, I'm operating a system, and if you can > guarantee the system functions as documented -- I > don't really care how the sausage gets made. If a software fix for a hardware issue works wel
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by charlesism 7y ago
I know little about Boeing, but I'm sure the amount of money at stake, if they have a serious mechanical issue, would be staggering. I don't want to fly on a 737 Max. I worry they have too much incentive to conclude every root cau
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by charlesism 7y ago
Is it complicated? You like a website, and that website is bad for the world. Coco-Cola causes tooth decay regardless of how much I enjoy drinking it.
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by charlesism 7y ago
I figure, if I avoid leaning new linguistic trends, after enough years pass, my writing will suddenly seem sophisticated. What's the payoff for mimicking internet slang and turns of phrase? A decade from now, you either sound like a ha
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by charlesism 7y ago
I don’t have much feedback, except to say I think this is a really good, useful concept.
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Wanamaker's Store, List of “Firsts”(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by charlesism 7y ago|0 comments
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by charlesism 7y ago
Thanks. I subsequently went down the Bertrand Russel rabbit hole, and wound up watching a half hour interview of his, which I just posted to HN.
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by charlesism 7y ago
> and they are rebelling against them. And also against foreigners, minorities, gays, women, liberals, fictional entities. > Seems very democratic to me It is very democratic. It's too early to say whether it&#
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The Origins of Some English Last Names(localhistories.org)
1 points by charlesism 7y ago|0 comments
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by charlesism 7y ago
Both have access to nukes, which is a credible argument they are "just as powerful as any emperor in history" > What do they all have in common? They have too much power and > display autocratic tendencies when ex
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by charlesism 7y ago
The source seems to be related to a “Center for Economic Freedom” which I gather promotes some variant of Reaganomics
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by charlesism 7y ago
At Reddit hardly anyone complains that Reddit is turning into Reddit.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Don't go for a BA in English and Philosophy at the University of Sydney, at any rate.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Harvard denies admission to boy once they discover he’s a racist troll. That seems quite reasonable to me.
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by charlesism 7y ago
“It’s not fair! We stole these lyrics first”
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by charlesism 7y ago
The Factory milieu produced at least one would-be murderer, and probably worse. Not that I agree with the original comparison. Culturally, the Warhol crowd were a stop between the somber, black-clad Existentialists of the 50s and the sombe
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by charlesism 7y ago
In reality, when you attack a group, it gets stronger, unless it retains the same strength, or gets weaker. That’s admittedly a less satisfying rule, but at least it’s true.
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by charlesism 7y ago
> Jobs personally heads the MacIntosh development team MacIntosh :)
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by charlesism 7y ago
The article really does read like propaganda to reposition “debt peonage” as “aspirational debt peonage”
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YouTube just banned supremacist content(theverge.com)
7 points by charlesism 7y ago|6 comments
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by charlesism 7y ago
Wouldn't impairing a foreign nation's economy increase economic migration from that nation? I'm no economist, so maybe I'm missing something.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Of course, there are minor differences between various ethnic groups This is a poor choice of words, which undermines the author's thesis. If there were actually distinct "ethnic groups" then one could call those gr
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The White House’s ‘Tech Bias’ Reporting Form Is a Masterpiece of Trumpism(nymag.com)
6 points by charlesism 7y ago|1 comments
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by charlesism 7y ago
It's not a huge deal, but would it be hard for HN to vet submissions here before they go live, instead of after ?

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