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by content_sesh 5y ago
> It's almost as though there's another force at work, silently undermining reason, relentlessly overwhelming rational discourse. Like some nefarious hidden incentive structures which reward attention getting over honest discou
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Every one of my ex-wives is a crazy bitch. Every judge has it out for me. It's not my fault my kids don't like me; their mom keeps poisoning them against me with lies and my visitation schedule makes it impossible for me to be in
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by content_sesh 5y ago
What the hell are you talking about? It was multiple women, independently, over decades, that all gave similar allegations of abuse. At one point, one of the unpaid site administrators flew across the country so she could take one of these
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Inverted by whose standards? You could just as convincingly argue that capitalist enterprises are the ones with inverted incentives: to extract as much value from workers as possible while paying them as little as possible.
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Depends on your definitions, right? What you describe sounds an awful lot like the Democratic party, but they're liberals, not leftists. I'd argue they're center-right. From what I've seen at least, when more leftist par
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by content_sesh 5y ago
The left (both modern and not) is much less self-defense averse than you think. There's plenty of leftist gun clubs; the Socialist Rifle Association and Redneck Revolt, formerly John Brown Gun Club, come to mind immediately. There&#x27
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by content_sesh 5y ago
In 1989, those under 40 had 13.1% of total household wealth. In Q1 2021 that number was 6.0%. It seems 2009-2011 saw the lowest levels where it didn't crack 5% https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/datavi
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by content_sesh 5y ago
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened on March 25, 1911. The owner kept the factory doors locked and as a result 146 people either died in the fire or jumped to their deaths. The owners were acquitted of manslaughter, but did have t
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Haskell's Maybe type (monad?) comes to mind.
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Does your hot take genocide-based solution include "tactical nuking" of Pakistan as well? Because the Afghan Taliban gets plenty of support from them as well.
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Really nice explanations and visualizations. The discussion about ship stability and the moment arm between center of gravity and center of buoyancy gave me flashbacks of my undergrad aircraft stability and control classes (where the moment
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Appendix B (pg 76) contains the extremely dystopianly named Prolific Offender Calculation, which I think is the criteria applied to the letter recipients in this article
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by content_sesh 5y ago
I'd argue that by their own criteria, every member of the Pasco Sheriffs Office should be on this list, given that rates of domestic violence are 2-4x higher in police household than US households in general. citation: https:/&#x
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by content_sesh 5y ago
You're correct, "particular" and "specific" are synonyms, and I concede that I might have been unclear. I'll try again. What bothers me, and I imagine the original commentator, is that swatting works at all. It
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by content_sesh 5y ago
GP isn't talking about any particular consequence of phone calls. It's talking about the specific consequence that, because American cops have a tendency to murder people instead of arresting them, you can use them as a hit sq
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by content_sesh 5y ago
I've held clearances before and that was very much not the attitude of the security folks I met. But they were big fans of reminding you what happens if they catch you doing an unauthorized disclosure. I was very low on the totem pole,
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by content_sesh 5y ago
"An occupied building partially collapsed, killing multiple residents. But on the other hand, the report about its systemic structural issues was long and kind of a boring read" Are you for real?
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by content_sesh 5y ago
I would like to know this as well. I'm not a Civ E, but I have worked in aerospace and software and seen reports in both fields that contain warnings of potentially catastrophic problems use similar language as the report: The join
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by content_sesh 5y ago
They call out that it is an extremely expensive systemic issue that will need to be repaired (bullet point "b" on page 7), and the first paragraph on page 1 indicates they attached an estimate of the overall costs of necessary rep
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Boeing was my first job out of college (BS in Aero Eng but I was hired as a software dev). I worked there for a few years in both commercial aviation and defense projects. I've since moved out of the aerospace industry entirely in favo
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by content_sesh 5y ago
What proof is there that means-testing this to weed out "unworthy" renters will save more money than it costs?
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by content_sesh 5y ago
It's to throw red meat to DeSantis's base while making sure to avoid pissing off one of the state's largest employers
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Today I'm proud to announce my candidacy for Dog Catcher of Sarasota, FL, and that I am suing this website for its communist deplatforming of my many troll accounts.
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by content_sesh 5y ago
> The Zoom bombers’ public IP addresses matched Malachi’s — but four other students who did not appear to be Zoom bombers were also listed as having Malachi’s public IP address, an impossibility since they were not in the same house, sai
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Reminds me of frequency hopping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spect... Interesting side-note, one of the people who re-invented this technique was actress Hedy Lamarr who was quite an accompli
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Campus activism is much older than 10-20 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Philadelphia_student_demo... https://en.wikipedia.or
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by content_sesh 5y ago
Somewhere a Gentoo maintainer's ears are ringing, but they don't know why...
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by content_sesh 5y ago
so because child porn and not-child-porn are both stored and transmitted as bytestreams from a hosting company's servers, you can't actually draw a distinction between them? is that where we're landing on this one? "Play
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by content_sesh 5y ago
whoa nelly. asking for a "rational argument" against distributing child porn before launching into one of the strangest combinations of ad hom and strawman arguments I've ever seen on this web site. here I'll break it do
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by content_sesh 6y ago
If this isn't some type of thought experiment to prove a point, then this is some off-the-charts chauvinism. Why do you believe they would actually want to relocate here?

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