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by dnomad 9y ago
The only thing that's "Pretty crazy" is this idea that giving free reign to the Nazis and the trolls represents an "embrace of free speech." Americans really don't understand their own history. Free speech has
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Yeah those damned coastal elites fighting for universal healthcare and more education and higher minimum wages. The reality is that the only real "elites" are these fantasists who've bought into this narrative and actually be
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by dnomad 9y ago
I suspect Texas will wish it had California's problems in a decade. California is experiencing a brain gain [1] as the best and the brightest relocate to the state en mass. Texas is meanwhile experiencing a brain drain by experting col
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by dnomad 9y ago
Yeah the people who think this is a bad thing are pretty confused. The real story here is that everybody in California is becoming very highly educated [1]. California is experiencing a remarkable brain gain as the best and the brighest
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This is on the right track. You actually sort of need both but it's important to get the language right. Objects, particularly highly sophisticated objects, generally have minimal requirements that determine who can use them successf
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by dnomad 9y ago
In the real world nobody would ever create an Account class with a 'withdraw' method. Withdrawals are always first class entities that unique IDs and states of their own. Every Withdrawal is itself a request with a lifecycle that,
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by dnomad 9y ago
Only a very disingenuous reading of history would lead to the conclusion that our society is less "objective" than the past. What has been lost is widespread confidence and faith in those institutions that previously served as the
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by dnomad 9y ago
> Either science isn't what we think it is Science isn't what most people think it is. "Reliability" is not the point of science. It never has been. This whole process started with a bunch of old white guys tooling a
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What China manages to do quite well is stop rentiers from stifling innovation . This is a remarkable achievement. There's corruption in China but the CPC has made it very clear that corruption that threatens national growth won't
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It goes deeper than this but yes this is the right track. The US is a wildly inequal society. Each year it becomes more and more inequal and the latest tax cuts are going to dramatically accelerate the rising inequality. Such widespread ine
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Yes this would be much more interesting. I don't see much value (for me) in what is just overpriced co-living space. What would be useful would be a kind of subscription/housing-as-a-service approach. You pay $X month for membersh