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by danhak 6y ago
That’s deliberate. I don’t want to identify my friend on this forum. I am disputing the parent’s assertion that “cancel culture” is limited to a few high profile cases. It is far more prevalent than that. The high profile cases are obvi
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by danhak 6y ago
I believed this until this year. Then I saw it happen to a friend who is prominent in his niche industry but otherwise unknown. He was disgraced via Twitter and forced to step down from the firm he created for making some offensive jokes.
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by danhak 6y ago
They were compensated for their labor. That’s how employment works.
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by danhak 6y ago
What is the alternative? For people not to own the things they create?
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by danhak 6y ago
I always suspected this was how fish wind up in isolated lakes and ponds but no one could ever tell me for sure.
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by danhak 6y ago
I was curious if this was true so I looked it up. AmEx + Discover have 20% - 25% market share depending on the metric you care about. Bing + DDG have 8% https://wallethub.com/edu/cc/market-share-by-credit-card-ne
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by danhak 6y ago
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries You can click through to get more granular on the country, state, and county levels.
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by danhak 6y ago
> I don't like to use infection as a standard because that depends 100% on how much testing you do As I pointed out, our infection rate is higher than European countries that have a testing rate >= ours. So that is a fair compar
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by danhak 6y ago
The U.S. currently ranks #12 out of 200 in terms of infections per capita, far higher than any western democracy--even those that have done significantly more testing per capita. Yes, it is pretty close to the worst response in the world:
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by danhak 6y ago
If you want to talk about misleading, you are the one who just changed goalposts from "most infections" to "mortality per capita." I would hope the healthcare system of the most advanced economy on earth would fare bett
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E.U. Plans to Bar Most U.S. Travelers When Bloc Reopens(nytimes.com)
27 points by danhak 6y ago|43 comments
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by danhak 6y ago
Of course cases will go up as testing becomes more widespread. As you point out, headlines mention case numbers as those are the high, eye-catching numbers. The more important numbers to watch are positivity and hospitalization, which are
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Man Smashes Solo Cannonball Run Record in Rental Ford Mustang(fordauthority.com)
2 points by danhak 6y ago|0 comments
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by danhak 6y ago
It's a corporation, not a democracy. Any "voice" employees have is an illusion when the CEO has his mind made up and controls a majority of voting shares.
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by danhak 6y ago
There is an eerie echo of history here. The late 60's were the height of civil unrest in modern America. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated as Apollo astronauts were preparing to land on the moon.
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by danhak 6y ago
You just used different words to re-state the same assertion that achievement should be shoehorned into a normal distribution regardless of students' actual performance. Why? > Grade inflation means you have no idea how poorly of w
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by danhak 6y ago
Why does this make any sense? Generally speaking, students at top universities are intelligent and hard-working. Their talent is not normally distributed, and this is increasingly the case as admissions becomes hyper-competitive. Not to me
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by danhak 6y ago
The massive plunge in share price coinciding exactly with the timing of the Tweet begs to differ.
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by danhak 6y ago
You can reduce nearly any action of consequence to sound trivial in this way. "Changing some bits," "writing some words," "rearranging a few atoms." It doesn't add much understanding.
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by danhak 6y ago
Yes, I just shared this tidbit as I thought it might be helpful. For most people, chargebacks are probably the best recourse. I've already initiated one for a festival I was supposed to attend later this spring which was cancelled out
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by danhak 6y ago
This policy is against California law: California BPC 22507: "The ticket price of any event which is canceled, postponed, or rescheduled shall be fully refunded to the purchaser by the ticket seller upon request. Any local jurisdiction
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by danhak 6y ago
I'm not able to find examples of that. Can you point to any mainstream media outlets "reaming" him over that decision?
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by danhak 6y ago
Yes, he wanted to dodge responsibility for the unpleasant job of shutting things down. Now he wants to enjoy positive publicity for opening things back up.
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by danhak 7y ago
Small-time individuals don’t get the same sorts of deals as major retailers.
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by danhak 7y ago
Would you mind sharing your age?
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by danhak 7y ago
There’s nothing unintentional about the hilarity. That community is totally self-aware and rife with in-jokes and satire. The folks that post there see their gambling for what it is.
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by danhak 7y ago
Hmmm, how about my right to a fair and speedy trial? That requires the labor of others, doesn’t it?
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by danhak 7y ago
Amazon's mistake was not that they sought government incentives--it was that they did so in an ostentatious, tone-deaf way and turned it into some sort of strange game show. They did not play the game by the (unspoken) rules.
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by danhak 7y ago
What a beautiful illustration of how ego-driven decision making can be at the highest levels—both Bezos’ decision to solicit incentives to compete with rivals, and local NYC officials’ plan to torpedo the deal out of spite for being left ou
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by danhak 7y ago
Start with Prop 13

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