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by danaris 1y ago
They did their job: they discouraged the construction of high-speed rail. Musk has, IIRC, actually admitted that this was their purpose.
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by danaris 1y ago
I would say that the distinction between the two groups is, roughly: "Corporates" are the leaders of the many large corporations in this country. They want broad protections for corporate power against labour, corporate profits, l
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by danaris 1y ago
It seems clear to me from the way the article is presented that this isn't describing "what people in these roles do"; it's describing "what people with these mindsets do". A "leader" isn't someo
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by danaris 1y ago
And what is their recourse if Amazon just says "nope, deal with it"? Sue them? Even assuming that kind of time, money, and energy expenditure is within their resources, Amazon's legal department is likely to be able to stonew
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by danaris 1y ago
Hanlon's Razor is for a situation where good faith can be assumed, or the benefit of the doubt given. When the actors involved have shown themselves to be self-interested, bad-faith, or otherwise undeserving of the benefit of the doubt
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by danaris 1y ago
> It's specific corner case of FCC licensing. No, it's not. It's fascism punishing those who don't bend the knee. FCC licensing is only the specific excuse they're using this time. > But the PR look was pret
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by danaris 1y ago
> But that meant having to defend making up stuff about a murder What was Kimmel making up? The fact that the shooter was conservative, from a conservative family? The fact that Kirk openly advocated for gun violence? Please do tell us
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by danaris 1y ago
I mean, obviously if you're presenting it in the format that the article does, it comes across as a false dichotomy. I read it as one part exaggeration to make the point that what too many managers do is actively detrimental to team he
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by danaris 1y ago
I mean, for a start, literally every human-made object is designed. It may be designed poorly , or designed purely for function, but every one is designed. The pen you use to write notes with, the sticky notes you write on, the traffic c
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by danaris 1y ago
> because everyone already knows that "debate me, bro" is bad and a problem No. They don't. There are plenty of people—some of them right here on HN—who have bought into the idea that these debate-bros are just rationalist
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by danaris 1y ago
Google was raking in money before the massive surveillance infrastructure. They did it by selling context-based ads.
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by danaris 1y ago
Well, then you are at odds with the vast majority of English-speakers, and will just have to come to terms with the fact that the language is moving on without you.
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Would you like to give them the apple or the pear? ] Give Apple ] Give Pear Do you actually think this is an unacceptable and grammatically incorrect way of phrasing these provided options? > The "apple" in "give apple&quo
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by danaris 1y ago
You and simonask are speaking at different levels of literality. Yes, literally, "let's" expands to "let us". But idiomatically, "let's/let us <do this thing>" does not mean "allow us
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by danaris 1y ago
Those are not analogous. You have added a direct object without preposition, which is not standard usage in such contexts. The closest analogous sentence would be "Give apple", which works perfectly well as a choice to select in a
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by danaris 1y ago
Do books make us less capable of rote memorization? Or do we just not take the effort to do the massive amounts of rote memorization that used to be necessary, now that we have books?
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by danaris 1y ago
Except that lack of communication and reliability is, itself, an intangible, that onlinehost says this job is bad on.
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by danaris 1y ago
> Who exactly made comments that attempted to justify or rationalize her death as a consequence of things she had said in the past? Well, gee, it sorta seems like that kind of behavior would be more prevalent when the person in question
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by danaris 1y ago
> According to its About page, it's for documentation only; Sure, and all those trolls online are "just asking questions."
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by danaris 1y ago
But politically-motivated assassinations in the US are very rare, and almost exclusively lone actors (not part of a movement). The assassination attempts (whether successful or failed) on prominent political figures in this country have alm
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by danaris 1y ago
I disagree, though only slightly: I would say that it's rare that a hierarchy is deliberately constructed to funnel surplus upward. Rather, many hierarchies emerge organically, but those at the top seek to eliminate any that do not f
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by danaris 1y ago
Something can be well worth grumbling about, and still be better than other systems elsewhere . There's plenty of actual data on this. Relying on what "nearly every Canadian you know grumbles about" when the topic is "a
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by danaris 1y ago
In the wide, vast, main, we're still better off with single-payer healthcare.
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by danaris 1y ago
...when the truth is that no news source is unbiased. Period. Even if a particular source somehow manages to perfectly balance between whatever the current "left" and "right" are in that political environment, that doe
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by danaris 1y ago
> But, even if you created a perfect AI robot that had zero cost to operate (in magic fairytale land) to run your single-payer system, you still couldn't reduce premiums by more than 15%. This is only true if you assume that health
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by danaris 1y ago
AIUI, this is very difficult to do: the estimate is going to be based on a superficial (in the literal, physical sense) examination of the problem, and once they are actually in there doing what they need to do, they may very well find that
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by danaris 1y ago
It's going to be different by region, but also by health insurance plan, by provider, and by income bracket.
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It doesn't matter what the insurance company margins are. It matters how much they add to the cost . Typically, "margins" means the profit they make over and above expenses. For insurance companies, the salaries of all the
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by danaris 1y ago
Here in the USA, my wife had an infection in the root of a tooth (long story), and was trying to get in to see an oral surgeon to get proper treatment. Even with an active infection, that could have cost her her jaw or her life if it had be
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by danaris 1y ago
Definitely not until after the current fashion of fascism is over. The only way to be able to get something like that passed will be if we can repudiate the money-first, Christofascist, rule-by-fear ideologies and positions that currently h

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