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The author saying people should be able make their own choice, and specifically "not advocating a Burkean return to the past". How is publishing this on the internet at all hypocritical?
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You can only make a choice if there is a choice. The author argues for "a restoration of choice: a campaign to ensure analogue alternatives to digital tools." If you had a viable choice besides a car (like a combination of mass tr
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Since you've ignored my direct question, you encourage me to assume you don't care about the data but are cherry-picking citations which affirm your beliefs. To double check, by "native" you do mean people born in Britai
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My specific point was: why do you think a news article about 36 FTP inquiries in Ireland was at all relevant? A spot check of the diversity links shows they all compare the statistics to the local, endogenous population. There is no reason
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You have misread your sources. The 32% is for doctors, the 19% is for all staff. You wrote "But it must be a much broader category than immigrant, because only 19% [of UK doctors] are foreign nationals, and only 14% are from outside th
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Please define "open borders", and tell me which politicians support that. Certainly neither Democrats nor Republican consider it part of their party's goals: "Trump has inaccurately accused opponents from both parties, b
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Your [2] doesn't seem to understand how the Sander's opposition to guest workers, eg, H1B, which is a non-immigrant visa, isn't that of "decrease immigration" but an objection specifically to guest workers: > San
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What a broad brush to use about the antiwar movement, antisemitism, anti-narcotic and anti-drug campaigns, anti-suffragism, anti-statism, antismoking, antisalooners, Anti-Catholicism, antitrust laws, and of course antidisestablishmentariani
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When I last looked into it, the compute overhead was very high, such that (for the tasks I was looking at) it seemed significantly cheaper to handle everything on-premises with trusted hardware than remotely on untrusted hardware. To be cle
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> I had a problem with the hyperbole and the fact that this nonsense is on HN. As someone without a smartphone, I caution you to be very wary about what specifically you mean by "nonsense". If you only mean "tyranny",
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https://www.recurse.com/social-rules > No feigning surprise isn’t a great name. When someone acts surprised when you don’t know something, it doesn’t matter whether they’re pretending to be surprised or actually surpri
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Take a look again at rwmj's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137896 . * I think it's reasonable to requiring an app bad. * Maybe not a "tyranny", we'd probably want to reserve that
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> Just as a disabled person would have a caretaker sign as a proxy for them You should likely be more careful about how your use of "disabled person" as I'm sure you know most disabled people do not have caretakers. Also,
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Market segmentation through user profiling and individualized discounts based on the entire order, making it hard for people to tell if they are being treated "fairly." Get more people to use McD's app. When they order, give
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Like following the GPS instructions onto a logging road, or into a lake.
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I would complain if the bank requires everyone to sign with a pen as there are disability reasons for why someone is unable to sign with a pen. Eg, https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/250d63/w
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So, two US companies subject to US laws, the FISA court, and government-ordered secret surveillance.
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> Why has the ability of humans in the digital age to read agreements regressed to the level of apes? Humans have never had that ability. 50 years ago most people rarely needed to read agreements. In my experience it started with softwar
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> is quite irrelevant to its status today as one. You are the one which talked about how Germany has always been a nation state, as if that were a good thing. > Poland basically expelled its German population after WW2 for example. ..
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"Germany is a nation-state and always has been" Do you think the systematic repression of Polish people during the German Empire, which was seen as necessary to achieve the 19th century ideal of a nation-state, was appropriate? Be
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addandsubtract wrote "sell their Tesla shares", not "sell their Teslas". Even nicce's parent comment only concerned buying new Teslas.
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Trump added $7.8 trillion to the debt in his first term, which is about 25% of the debt. Congress after Congress has borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund while lowering taxes. And you want to place all the blame on "an insanely
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It's how about 2/3rds of the US works. About 1/3rd of Americans have an employment arrangement which requires just cause or other factor which makes it not at will employment.
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"nothing you or me can do to prevent anything" I'm glad the negotiators for CFC reduction didn't listen to that advice. I'm glad the activists who got us off leaded gas didn't listen to that advice.
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It isn't a false equivalency. I'm undermining the entire assertion by pointing out the 'over' in 'overreach' is entirely in the eye of the beholder. By definition, "overreach" must be beyond the point
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It would be nice to know how that compares to previous generations. Boomers had a different set of complaints about us Gen Xers having "a different approach to work, with unique preferences and expectations." There's also a l
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The American left has also (always?) been anti-government overreach too. It's all a matter of who gets to define the "over" in "overreach". Laws which enforce racial segregation are overreach, for those in the Ameri
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From their most recent annual report, at https://info.arxiv.org/about/reports/2023_arXiv_annual_repor... "In 2023, arXiv received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF Grant 2311521 | “
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I think everyone on this thread is aware that it's an arbitrary line. That's where the "how rich is too rich?" comment comes from. That's where the "Let’s start somewhere. We can adjust if we need." The &q
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This topic came up 11 years ago after Facebook did human subjects research by tweaking a ranking algorithm. https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2014/06/29/how-an-irb-cou...

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