elgabogringo

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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Care to give actual examples? Sounds like you are living in a different world than I am... And the "trains run on time" argument... Hmm... where have we heard that before?
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Reading this and the comments I can't help but think that: A) Microsoft's windows business will go away quicker than we think.. Which is why I never hear them talking about it anymore. Nadella seems to be embracing the cloud as t
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Would we buy "Government Software"? What about "Government computers"? Any of you tried to go to the California DMV's in the Bay Area lately? How is Government single-payer health care (the VA) working out for ve
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
that's not the common understanding of Terrorism. That's just war. I'm sympathetic to anti-Iraq war views. Less sympathetic to those actually against the war. Most seemed like they didn't want any response to terrorism
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
I wasn't talking about formal academic writing in this post. I was talking about academics.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Oh, and I shouldn't have said "absolutely nothing and nobody". That's not fair or accurate. I could have expressed that sentiment better. Incidentally, it's a POV Thiel shares, I believe.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
hmm... So many of the "social justice" and "progressive" ideas have marxist roots.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Good point. I thought about this a bit more and, to be honest, I read very few academics. Not intentionally, but it worked out that way. Strangely, some of the smarter, best informed people I read are just regular people without any journ
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Too many to list easily, but I've found over time that I read fewer and fewer professional pundits, opiners, and journalists.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Look, this isn't an ideology. More of an approach (not sure of the academic term for it, sorry.) I think it's marxist, though others have had the "inevitability of history" at times. As for your examples... Manifest d
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
If there is something that is actually unethical going on, then you should consider leaving, but you need to be more specific on what those things actually are. "beyond what is fair" and "really sketchy" are pretty subj
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Fixed. Sorry.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Science and economic journalism are both pretty bad. My favorite thing (ok, one of my favorite things) about blogging/internet is that I can read real-time thoughts/opinions from actual scientists and economists now instead of hav
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Skimmed the beginning, will read the rest later. Liberalism is definitely modern (it's from the enlightenment), it's definitely British (ie. has nothing to do with Rousseau)... I'll have to read more to see why the author th
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Backward looking as a proofpoint, yes. Forward looking as a justification, no, it's not that common until recently and - at least to me - has a marxist sound to it.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
I think I get what you are saying, but not sure. What is liberalism, BTW? Liberalism used to refer to philosophy of English enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and had natural rights as a large part of it's foundation. Today? wel
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
OK, so only utilitarian comments then? No thanking or showing appreciation? Serious question.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
OK, but is "awesome post" OK? Or should I just upvote?
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Point awarded. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Replying to your aside... You are absolutely correct. Thank you. I'd add that implementing security "at the border" is the lightest touch option available and doesn't infringe on the rights of any citizens. But our lea
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Thank you for your efforts. I will read more of this when I get a chance. You are right that the new tech barons are waaaaay too cozy with the government. They travel by private jet with armed bodyguards and share our info with the gover
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Pretty much. "Racist!", "Hate!". They are just buzzwords that serve to shut down debate.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Silicon valley is increasingly adopting way too much of the PC groupthink as of late. There's absolutely nothing and nobody that is truly disrupting anything. Even the word "disrupting" has become a cliche adlibs fill in th
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
There's an irony to using the marxist derived "side of history" construct to support something you believe in. If there really is such a thing as history taking sides, Marx and his followers very clearly ended up on the wrong
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Awesome post. Too hungover to read all that today though. Definitely Saturday morning over a cup of coffee - assuming I'm not in the same shape then.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Pretty sure most/all of those carrying out the French/Belgium terror attacks were muslim immigrants, wouldn't that make it very related?
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Good comment. And to your side note: I think TSLA goes to zero in the next 5 years.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
The political agitators are the people doing the killing, not the person complaining about it.
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
per the other commenter, most of those are acquisitions and, outside of Youtube, what's the P&L for those other products sans search advertising? I'm sure Echo is very complex, but it's usually not the complexity of the p
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by elgabogringo 10y ago
Very well put. Thank you.

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