damnyou

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by damnyou 7y ago
Software developers optimize for overall utility, not paranoia.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yep, that's exactly right. Labor does not behave like ordinary goods.
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by damnyou 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy It's ok to be mistaken about this, the way labor markets behave isn't very intuitive. The important thing to note is that the higher order effects of lab
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by damnyou 8y ago
There is a very large and quite vocal "ban cars" contingent on Twitter. I'm not personally a fan of how much the US prioritizes car transport, but I do see the utility of personal transportation.
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by damnyou 8y ago
Firefox, like most mass market software, is designed for normal people.
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by damnyou 8y ago
You're not wrong, I think birthright PR would be fine, but I'd be worried about the political viability of statutes. Jus soli has the advantage of being embedded in the constitution so nativist leaders can't just change it. (
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by damnyou 8y ago
Jus soli is a civil rights issue. Jus sanguinis has led to many cases of intergenerational oppression. Giving up jus soli would be like giving up the Civil Rights Act.
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by damnyou 8y ago
And yet my post that doesn't violate any guidelines got downvoted and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947886 Stop defending HN's bigotry and start confronting it.
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by damnyou 8y ago
My retry is sitting at -2 right now.
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by damnyou 8y ago
Become competent at something not many others are. Find a niche and become an expert at it.
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by damnyou 8y ago
3 is just completely untrue. Firefox Quantum came out just a year ago.
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by damnyou 8y ago
Yes, the goal of the modern Civil Rights Movement has basically been to say "in these areas, even though Bayesian inference produces statistically valid results, we as a society have decided that it's immoral to use it." What
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by damnyou 8y ago
> There are times to discuss facts and times to discuss moral preferences. Not in politics. Facts about politics are useless devoid of moral context. "The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln" is both true and utterly meani
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by damnyou 8y ago
The point is it is impossible to talk about politics purely at a meta level without evaluating the stances themselves. It is bad that you are not making a value judgement there. Start making some. To respond to your edit, it is not a coinci
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by damnyou 8y ago
Why are you more bothered by some abstract notion of "tribalism" than the real harms only happening to real people today because younger people don't come out to vote as much?
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by damnyou 8y ago
To quote dril: the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
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by damnyou 8y ago
That happens because the US provides people that come here for humanitarian reasons work permits. Europe does not.
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by damnyou 8y ago
The justification is people with wealth and power have a responsibility to do good things for their fellow human beings without.
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by damnyou 8y ago
The fact that Muslims aren't as integrated into European society as they should be is 99% the fault of Europeans. Basic stuff like labor market access is crucial for integration.
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by damnyou 8y ago
This is a common misunderstanding. Trump has attacked through policy legal immigration far more than illegal immigration. https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/trumps-attack...
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by damnyou 8y ago
The flaw in your intuition is that it believes there's a fixed demand. It's normal for your intuition to think that way — humans are notoriously bad at analyzing higher-order effects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by damnyou 8y ago
It's the same thing, it's just the barriers are different. Silicon Valley is successful partly because noncompetes don't get enforced in California. It makes things slightly worse in the short term for each company but better
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by damnyou 8y ago
What about the immigrants ? It's a huge benefit to them!
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by damnyou 8y ago
Get more women into positions of power.
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by damnyou 8y ago
I think getting more women into positions of power will be a start. Testosterone really does affect aggression.
626.
by damnyou 8y ago
What if, and this might blow your mind, we tweak things so that agreeableness is rewarded more? Society is constructed too adversarially for my tastes. More collaboration would be better.
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by damnyou 8y ago
* Abolishing ICE doesn't require abolishing the border entirely, just abolishing a police force that gets as much funding as the FBI even though it is dedicated to one small subset of violations. * It is OK to have ideals that you work
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by damnyou 8y ago
How has putting him through the ordeal benefited society? Laws shouldn't punish honest, harmless mistakes.
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by damnyou 8y ago
I never said people with privilege do nothing but inherit it. But the fact that they inherited it makes many things easier. And in any case maintaining privilege is usually much easier than gaining it.
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by damnyou 8y ago
Systemic unearned advantages. An easier difficulty mode for life, if you will.

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