engineeringwoke

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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
The reality is that it doesn't matter. Most people don't hold the cards, the rich and influential do, even in the fairest countries. That effect is even more pronounced in the global South, the large majority of areas near the equ
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Can a person from Kentucky and New York share beliefs ? Of course. What I'm trying to say is that extremism boils down to the same flawed mental processes, whether you are left leaning or right leaning. Once your first culture is
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
No offence, everyone is the same in the United States. You talk of left and right but you're both playing the same ball game. I'm from the American South and I lived in Europe for four years with the rest in the Northeast US, so I
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Because Italy is an elderly care state with a hierarchy that is so rigid it might even impress the Japanese. No wonder everyone young leaves or becomes an extremist.
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Lived in Europe for four years and come back to my resident American hellhole and now the gray-haired extremists stacked our highest court so they can ban abortion after they legalized it when they were young and in control of society... sl
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
It's hard to believe that someone can write these sentences based solely on the OP's statement. You have no idea who this person is.
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Sure, but have to understand that a limitation of language is that it doesn't convey perfect information. When someone says "anyone can do it", they mean that most people with full-blown "stuck in the house for years&quo
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
but these are very rare things. The person you originally responded to did not mean anything against anyone who has these things. I've met many people in my life that were convinced they were unable to do things that they were quite ca
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
You can. All the answers are in your childhood, but you may discover things that you won't be able to forget
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Fair point! I don't know that I have ever, anywhere, read any informal text or technical document that could communicate the nuances of body language effectively and entirely though If you aren't neurotypical, then read ribbo
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
This isn't the point the OP was trying to make and you know that. Lesson one: don't assume the worst about people and don't make hyperbolic arguments in order to be "right". You might have more in-person success tha
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Not everyone understands or can engage in body language. Many people find it ancient inducing that their appearance and movements are under constant judgement. WFH is equalizing for them. I find that people actually give away more with
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
If I had a nickel for every time the wikipedia link to whataboutism was the correct response to a hacker news comment, I would be rich
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
As stated elsewhere in the thread, northern Europe bucks this "trend" that the author sees. The nuclear family is as weak as it has ever been, christianity and its ideals are an afterthought, and people have never been happier.
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Second, pretty sure I’d argue the recent riots in Sweden would back up exactly the author’s theory around poorly behaved young males. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Front end complexity - Making applications isomorphic so you can re-use code on the client and server Hacker News commenter: Ugh, why is this problem so over-engineered. It's completely unnecessary Back end complexity - Two hour Google
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Lol why would I attempt a "conversation" with someone like this
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Uhhh the generation that we call the Baby Boomers have been in control of their respective societies for over forty years. You can see the age (and the apathy, of course) in all of them. The worst (and oldest, of course) are Japan and Italy
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Where is the lack of civility in my comment? It's okay to say that you dislike what someone said without projecting that discomfort onto them. Enjoy your civil discussions with people that aren't me
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How are you going to make money as an entrepreneur if you are afraid to take risks? The risk/reward here is obviously good. You say this because you are scared of failure.
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
There's a lot to unpack here. Western Europe took in more immigrants than the United States did last year, by numbers and percentage. You could make an argument that illegal immigration tips that towards the US, but I don't think
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Yet the EU has better standards and works better for all citizens of the EU in comparison to the United States, despite the cultural and language barriers. You could have definitely said this twenty years ago and I wouldn't have blinke
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
I have argued at length with people on this board about this very subject, and the answer is the way that the problem is measured in either country. The HUD survey is a farce; it's designed to underestimate the problem. You could easil
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
which, in my eyes, is a conservative view. Why even try to change the system if it just corrupts itself again? wink wink The Atlantic is a "liberal" rag because they talk about the culture wars... but changing the system? Oh, im
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
It's absurd how the author (and presumably their editorial board) are so willing to paint a picture that absolves them of guilt for the inequality in their country. News flash. If you say that you are wealthy/powerful and "po
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Too bad nobody respects teachers in the United States. There's a reason the conventionalists don't want real education for their children and zero involvement of society in their nuclear family: control. They then frame it as some
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
So you let people control your life by letting them intelligently split interest groups by race and gender so that you can't effectively fight a class war? Bravo, you really fell for it.
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by engineeringwoke 5y ago
> Obviously, every HNer religiously reads and memorizes PG’s mediocre essays. Idk, I like PG. I've read the really long-form pieces like "What I've Done", etc., but from what I gather by following his Twitter, he&#x27
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by engineeringwoke 5y ago
What if an entity like the EU mandated that google make a public search index API, which would allow any competitor to create a low-cost clone. Google gets to stand as it is, relying on its brand and extra suite of tools to compete. It&#x27
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by engineeringwoke 5y ago
Oh wow. I know they have quite some employees in Amsterdam and were actively hiring there a few years ago. I didn't know they had completely dropped Russia. It's where they started, and they had a lot of employees there. Crazy

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