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by dalbasal 5y ago
Just the thought of LHR makes me want to go to bed, though admittedly, I always fly with the plebs.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
First cool headed reply. ty My question was more tactical than anything. Coding tests and hiring are a good example. Is a general purpose "diversity officer" likely to understand hiring, coding tests and such to improve on this? A
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think your missing my point. Antisemitism isn't just not liking Jews. Of course there is hatred and bigotry, as we just saw in every mixed city. What I'm saying is that antisemitism is a distinct thing.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
You've got the history garbled. The Palmach enforced a truce during this period. I suppose you could call Etzel rebels. They aren't the ones who formed the State of Israel, or led the majority militia. There were also jerusalemite
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Re: Irish republicanism There is quite a lot of similarity between the two movements, current antagonism aside. Language revival being the most commonly noted. IDK what you would consider "principles of," but they're both nat
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I'm not arguing the etymology. I'm just saying that "Ashkenazi, as a demonym would be a new idea historically . I have no problem with people forming new identities. It's also not about accent. There are distinct Sephar
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Let me hazard a guess that I know the history of my own country better than you. That doesn't make me right, but don't be condescending. "history of Israel is centered around" - bollocks. First, the main faction, which l
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think it's a mistake to understand this (or most) conflicts in terms of an argument about ideology, or history. Those play a role, but it isn't a philosophical debate. It's a war. Palestinians and Israelis are not on the Pa
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Saying that Israel is a jewish homeland does not necessarily mean that it is not anyone else's home. It does to some, but they are an extreme minority. It's also contrary to our declaration of independence. I'm not american,
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Ashkenazi is just an old hebrew word for German. If you strip away both Germany (the HRE, more specifically), and Judaism then the term doesn't have much meaning. At least, not as an identity that people have assumed historically. Ashk
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I don't think you can't be critical of that sentiment. I do dispute that it was a a sentiment at all, at least in grandparents' case. It wasn't ideology either. It was just a fact. They couldn't stay in europe. A ri
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The majority were not zionist, including my family. The Holocaust changed that. The premise of zionism was never "having a natural "homeland" because of your DNA." The premise of Zionism was that Jews could not stay in
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Historically, this doesn't seem to be true. Villages appear long before defensive fortifications in the record, in many cases. Pure reason is not very good at forming predictive theories about history, as a general rule. There are many
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> How (is it) not false nor unnatural. Exactly. There have never been culturaless, parentless people. If there were/are, then that is simply a terrible circumstance and terrible results will probably occur.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
There is a lot of disingenuous stuff to go around, in all directions. Antisemitism, antizionism and anti Israel sentiments relating to current events are distinct in purely theoretical terms. One does not imply the other and they often ar
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Somewhat tangential, but who is the right kind of person for a diversity job? What does a job well done look like? Changes in hiring? Changes in company culture? I'm skeptical of roles with a "my job is to care about X" kin
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Despite these problems, Concorde managed to fly for a long time... on the routes that they managed to fly. The reasons that they stopped flying were different. It cost a lot, and was a lot more cramped than first class or private... the com
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Technically, or originally perhaps, capital gains are paid based on gains. There are a lot of clauses and loopholes that allow for tax on gains to be deferred until they are realised.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It is, but it's also more politically explosive. The upshot is that CGT loopholes are extremely prevalent. Both succeed/fail in the same way, marking to market. Apple Inc, the publicly traded entity, is able to deny its income for
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> disproportionately affects companies with higher capital requirements How/Why? >> underlying issue of moving to a jurisdiction with lower taxes Well... nothing simple solves this in full. However, "loophole" in
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The masses don't have wealth, especially if you exclude personal dwellings. In any case, you need "balance sheets" to have CGT, which in theory we do.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
You are on the right track, IMO, but taxation can't be abolished. Taxation is what gives currency value/demand. Everyone needs to pay tax in USD, so they need USD. A loose monetary policy (a la NMT or Keynes) also needs taxation i
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It's extremely easy to speculate about this stuff academically. Economists tend to delight in theory-adjacent discussions. These have very little bearing on the real world. TRW, in this case, is a cascading infinity of corporate law, t
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by dalbasal 5y ago
At least in the enlightenment period, tend to come from political philosophy rather than history... though the two are closely related in this period. Notably, Hobbes and his "state of nature" concept. Philosophy of this period (a
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>>What can we do? It's a tough question. The tendency is to react superficially: Moralizing reactions, emotional reaction, first principles takes. The way tax actually works is via accounting "standards," tax law and co
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by dalbasal 5y ago
IDK if its a modern bias or a recurring one, but people are very drawn to the idea of a core human "nature:" what we are when all the surface level stuff is stripped away. The way the conversations I've had tend to go is ever
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Why does this apply only to policing? Is it a matter of authority/jurisdiction?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I've hear that villages in the netherlands have municipal (if that's the right term) policies in this vein, particularly picky about the colour of doors.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
My apologies. "Replication crisis" (or Ted Talks, really) strikes again. I should have said "demonstrated," though that's probably a cop out. From the wiki article and its meta research source, it seems that researc
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by dalbasal 5y ago
we have a lot of arms. I didn't say everyone.

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