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by eesmith 2y ago
> Personally, I feel $1,000 isn’t much to be donating, especially as he would have been decently wealthy going from Netscape pre-IPO and pre-AOL, Plus thousands to Tom McClintock, Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan, to list only the contributions
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by eesmith 2y ago
Works fine with me with JS disabled. Even works in text mode links and lynx browsers (lynx was more readable).
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> social breakdown begins with an increase in prosperity and the weakening of sexual restraint ... > that the decline of a civilization can begin in the decline of its music. This essay suffers by ignoring the elephants in the room. A
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by eesmith 2y ago
An incautious review says more about the reviewer than what is reviewed.
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by eesmith 2y ago
You asked "why", I gave a pointer. I feel like your comment is a knee-jerk reaction to the text I quoted, rather than a response to an article which fully agrees that these are neither good nor reasonable arguments. The headline t
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yes. Quoting the author: "For example, the ability for nearly every application to have full, unfettered access to the entire Internet is a deeply-held and rarely-challenged assumption. Cryptocurrencies generally cannot be mined withou
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by eesmith 2y ago
The normative state can have a two-tier legal system. This is about lawlessness and state violence superior to the legal system. The US education system has at least three tiers: worker class (trained to follow rules), professional class (d
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by eesmith 2y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/high-school-teacher-all-scho... > In talking to teachers across the country, the reasons phone policies don't work or are not implemented center on three main issues: safety (parents
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by eesmith 2y ago
There is no "capture of universities by Leftist professors". Universities have been taken over by the management class. Those "Leftist professors" are generally poorly paid adjuncts with less influence over university po
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by eesmith 2y ago
Standard a-historical story I've been told about for decades by people who want to tear down tax-funded public schools. "The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education'" http://hackeducation.com&
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by eesmith 2y ago
"they did not sign the current board agreement" Was this the agreement which requires board members to have a Google account?
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by eesmith 2y ago
No need to bring WWI into it. Back in the 1980s we visited Canada on a family road trip. My Dad showed his license. That was it. In 1991 I drove from Buffalo to Detroit along the QEW in Canada. Only had a license. In 1993 I walked from El P
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yes. And it's been this way for a long time. Rosa Parks was not the first to refuse to move to the back of the bus. She was, however, more suitable for the lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#Refusal_
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by eesmith 2y ago
He's British. English to be precise. So yes, un-American.
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by eesmith 2y ago
I friend of mine retired, but decided to do some consulting on the side. Even though he didn't need the money, he charged his normal rate, because he didn't want to depress the market. If the friends of your parents are willing to
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by eesmith 2y ago
Trump's golf games during his first administration cost the US $150 million. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... The estimate for his golf playing just for 2025 is already $18
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by eesmith 2y ago
Ownership is not precise and clear. There are always new cases to figure out what it means. Like, if there are two pieces of public land, which meet at a corner, and two pieces of private land on either side of the corner, then are you tres
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"Invested massively" because the could get scaling advantages. Both companies built off of existing OS and ad tech monopolies which should have been regulated long ago. "Lots of developers already familiar with their stacks&q
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by eesmith 2y ago
Are you willing to pay for something like a Consumer Reports subscription? $24 for 1 year. https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/headph... seems like what you want, at least for this case. If you are no
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by eesmith 2y ago
Could you explain then how so many European governments ended up one of a handful of US clouds (Amazon, Microsoft and Google)? Almost reason I can think of comes down to scaling or network effects. I say "almost" because I've
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> If there's demand there will always be companies to supply that demand. I want to walk around town without cameras tracking me. Can companies supply my demand? I want PFAS and microplastics out of the evironment. Can companies sup
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Free markets like to make money for capital holders, and tend towards a monopoly or oligopoly as that maximizes profit extraction. Name a free market where there is an economy of scale and network effect, which does not tend towards monopol
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You have a gender pronoun. You likely expect people to refer to you as "he" or "she." You likely extend that preference elsewhere, to honorifics like "Mr." or titles like "Chairwoman." I've met m
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by eesmith 2y ago
To pull out the first example from your second link, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania > Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the
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I don't think this opinion has historical justification. > How am I harmed when one service that charges me nothing offers me ratings written (for free) by other users, but doesn’t show me the ratings provided by an entirely differe
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My father was foreign-born, and immigrated to the US, where I was born. Did the immigration authorities then screw over their own kids by letting him in? Did the US screw over their own kids by accepting Cuban refugees during the 1960s? By
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Florida had public transit before the 1950s. All those Northerners that came down for the winter during the 1920s land boom traveled on train. It isn't like they bought a car just for their visit. For example, Coral Gables, next to Mia
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I can't read the LinkedIn piece, and from the Bloomberg article I can only see "his plane helps him stay safe and that he’s more than offsetting the carbon footprint of his trips". It doesn't say why he feel unsafe. If i
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That's only half of what MLK Jr's observed: > I would be the first to say that I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive, non-violence as the most potent weapon in grappling with the problem from a direct action poin
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"Diapers and beer" was the go-to story for data mining of purchasing data in the 1990s. https://tdwi.org/articles/2016/11/15/beer-and-diapers-imposs... That link shows both how widespread the i

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