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by dnissley 6y ago
I think you're proving my point. Can you just state the fact? You can even add some qualifying statements like I did. But for christ's sake just say it first! No need to go out of your way to find a subset that is (no doubt) excep
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by dnissley 6y ago
That's no longer true unfortunately. Denialism on the left about certain things is becoming rampant: - Blacks commit far more crime than other racial groups. There are sociological explanations for this, but that is currently a fact, a
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by dnissley 6y ago
How do we reunite then? If we are constantly going on about how bad one side is (fwiw, I basically agree with you about that), then it will only lead to more division and resentment. Based on my in group's behavior, it seems like most
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And in the meantime... things are going to be messy. Just like between American colonists and the British Empire. Hopefully we can avoid unnecessary bloodshed this time around, if and when the time comes for Mars to establish its independen
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by dnissley 6y ago
Is this not SSR streaming? https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom-server.html#rendertonodes...
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by dnissley 6y ago
Facebook could have chosen not pursue algorithm-based advertising as a business model. I think this is hugely presumptuous. Is there an alternative model they could have used? Are there companies using such alternative models? It's
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by dnissley 6y ago
Don't you think it's too soon to play the blame game? Both of these groups were just following incentives (both to make money and also just survive in a competitive landscape). On top of that there's also two other groups tha
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by dnissley 6y ago
Do border walls have anything to do with civil liberties? https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1318242920416366593
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The solution to this is really simple: Use multiple accounts. You can even have multiple "real self" accounts to help bucket different aspects of yourself that you want separate. And of course, you'll need at least one anon a
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by dnissley 6y ago
I think this is a fair counterpoint, but the counter-counterpoint would be that decreased housing prices are just one of an array of benefits that increasing housing supply would bring about.
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by dnissley 6y ago
Sounds like a chrome extension could/would do something like that.
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Why bother when you can just install apks directly?
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They're claiming that those cities are extremely dangerous. But in reality, that's just innumeracy.
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It is not listed. I found out by googling around after noticing that there was added sugar listed in the nutrition facts but no sugar of any kind listed in the ingredients.
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Also not the study, but the results would be in line with another study I know about from the book "The Righteous Mind": "... we tested how well liberals and conservatives could understand each other. We asked more than two t
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by dnissley 6y ago
Just had something similar happen to myself a couple months ago -- bought some good condition used Galaxy Buds Plus (released 2020) sold by Amazon, received Galaxy Buds (Non-Plus, released 2019) inside Galaxy Buds Plus packaging. I had zero
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by dnissley 6y ago
I wrote up my experience with dreem here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23432243
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> Google's evil What is this for you? I ask because I seem to get a lot of different answers to this question.
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Fitbit
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No one said that.
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If that's what you think happened, you need to go look at the facts. No harassment occurred. There was no emotional outburst. Only a solemnly worded paper that was written in response to a request for feedback and wasn't even mean
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by dnissley 6y ago
Regular folks who were "cancelled": - David Shor - Justine Sacco - James Damore - Adria Richards A full list would be a mile long
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by dnissley 6y ago
A billion dollars? That's a lot larger than what I've seen before -- $15 million according to http://nomorecopmoney.com/
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by dnissley 6y ago
I guess I don't see the problem of the preferred first speaker in practice. Let's take the examples in question: I've never seen either Murray or Pinker come out of the gates swinging with poorly framed appeals to genetic det
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by dnissley 6y ago
One of these sides and the problem they represent just grew a huge amount in the last month. If it continues to grow at this rate, it will become the number one problem very shortly, and the time to speak out is now.
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by dnissley 6y ago
Some bright spots I've noticed in the past month or so in this area, for those who care both about justice and open debate: - John Carmack signal boosting[1] Sarah Downey's article "This PC witch-hunt is killing free speech,
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by dnissley 6y ago
Unfortunately it was lost to leftist fundamentalism back when that started to become a thing. Just look at a discussion of the blog in question: https://www.metafilter.com/145707/Privilege-doesnt-mean-you-... Sure, the
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by dnissley 6y ago
The point of the post you were responding to was not to discuss the details of this particular claim, it was to show that one of the best ways we can learn about perspectives beyond our own and discover the faults in our logic is through di
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by dnissley 6y ago
I think I can give Apple the benefit of the doubt on this one -- it kind of seems like they just didn't even think of this particular use case (not auto billing at the end of a trial period), since almost all companies would prefer to
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by dnissley 6y ago
Yeah, we're in a weird world where there is still some residual racism (which is not evenly distributed -- some areas being worse than others), but so does all of this weird overcompensation for the fact that racism exists in the world

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