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by clipsy 3y ago
As respectfully as possible: can you define what you mean by scraping? Because it seems very much like you don't understand what that word means or are using it very idiosyncratically.
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by clipsy 3y ago
> Twitter is is ok to get info really fast, rarely goes down, you have access to all kind of views (from extreme left to extreme right). Twitter was ok to get (and, equally important in my opinion, share ) info really fast; now you ne
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by clipsy 3y ago
One of the new features added since Elon took over Twitter is the ability to pay to subscribe to a Twitter account, which gets you access to that account's premium/exclusive tweets among other things.[0] They are poking fun at the
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by clipsy 3y ago
I agree that there are other water cycles involved that should be treated independently. I guess, from my view, this seems like a fairly straightforward evaluation (under ideal conditions): if the ship (or space station, or colony, or whate
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by clipsy 3y ago
> So if this is about total human consumed water, on 2% loss, per unit time, without replenishment its 100 units to rundown. Can you elaborate on how you came to this conclusion? How do you define rundown and how much water (outside of t
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by clipsy 3y ago
Harvard cannot admit who they want, in case you’ve somehow missed the recent supreme court ruling.
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by clipsy 3y ago
It's an accurate description of right-wing views: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cpac-spe... And no, there is no such thing as eradicating "transgenderism" without eradicating t
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by clipsy 3y ago
Don't forget, in 1967 (the year in which Loving v Virginia was decided), interracial marriage had less than 20% popular support: https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-mar...
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by clipsy 3y ago
They did, it just happens to be intentional this time.
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by clipsy 3y ago
no
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by clipsy 3y ago
Mostly laid off.
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by clipsy 3y ago
The problem is that every rural county sheriff's office and podunk city police force now has a "SWAT" team that has nowhere near the training that the early examples of the idea have.
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by clipsy 3y ago
I'm genuinely curious: what would you recommend she do in those 5 years instead?
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by clipsy 3y ago
Yes, None, and No. But he didn't, so too bad.
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by clipsy 3y ago
You must know my friends and acquaintances very well if you can predict their behavior in a hypothetical situation; even I wouldn't venture to do that!
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by clipsy 3y ago
"[I]n a sense" is doing a lot of work there; if she truly is opposed to (this particular instance of) surveillance capitalism she has far more power than any of us do to fight back against it, eg by introducing a bill to regulate
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by clipsy 3y ago
They were both quick to try to "don the caul of victimhood," but were they actually successful at all? Certainly in my "leftist" circles no one took their side.
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by clipsy 3y ago
In my experience, parents are the only ones who seem to feel this desperate need to push their lifestyle on others. I'm quite happy with my life and although I'm happy to discuss my choices, I have never once felt the need to deni
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by clipsy 3y ago
> The Guidelines say much the same: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." "probably"
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by clipsy 3y ago
Because flagging is effectively a super-down-vote available to low karma posters and HN does not seem to have any meaningful response to topics being silenced via flagging for political reasons. I suppose from the YC/dang perspective a
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by clipsy 3y ago
No, no one believes this sort of thing except perhaps a tiny minority of halfwits. Don't confuse enforced "company spirit" with reality.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Judging by how easily shoplifters are convicted, it would appear you can just "know it" when the crime is property theft. No one gets off the hook by claiming they "accidentally" stuffed a bunch of expensive goods in t
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by clipsy 3y ago
I don't know what the balance is; when people embrace "alternative facts" I think there is fundamentally not a way to have a meaningful debate. Without a commonly accepted subset of (relevant) objective reality, all argumenta
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by clipsy 3y ago
Should they get to pick and choose any question they answer? From what I've seen of RFK Jr's beliefs, this is one step above debating the homeless guy on the street corner ranting about the end times.
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by clipsy 3y ago
If only there was some way of acquiring more office space... oh well, too bad! /s
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by clipsy 3y ago
Easier said than done, unfortunately. I understand the sentiment, though; I have no children of my own, but it pains me to watch my nieces and nephews be brought up in a country that treats mass school shootings the same as fires or unpredi
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by clipsy 3y ago
I'm sure they'll be just as effective as the Uvalde SWAT team was.
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by clipsy 3y ago
I know this is a very outdated, downright Luddite idea nowadays but perhaps you shouldn't publish something if you don't want it to be public ?
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by clipsy 3y ago
This view still considers homes to be an investment! You cannot eat your cake and have it too; if we evaluate homeownership financially it is fundamentally an investment (even if it is a complex, tax-advantaged, leveraged investment with
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by clipsy 3y ago
> By definition, you can either make housing affordable to young people entering the market, or make housing a path to wealth appreciation for homeowners By whose definition? Certainly the massive suburban expansion in the 60's and

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