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by free_rms 6y ago
I guess my beef is, how come everything is game for criticism EXCEPT the critical theorists? Why can't we analyze their power incentives as well?
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by free_rms 6y ago
But you're doing the thing. The tactic that you agree is bothersome. Edit: I agree that one could incorporate some CRT into their worldview without becoming insufferable, in fact I think lots of normal people have without calling it t
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by free_rms 6y ago
This right here. The veiled accusation and attempt to put me on the back foot in a power dynamics debate. That's what I find exhausting. Anyways I was just explaining to OP that the situation was already about that stuff before any r
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by free_rms 6y ago
I should have been more precise. The phenomenon the other poster was describing is independent of a particular norm or ideology. Talk of evolving norms misses their point.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Critical race/gender theory is all about power dynamics permeating every interaction. You might think that's exhausting, I certainly do, but that's what we're dealing with here.
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by free_rms 6y ago
No, they're describing a particular scenario where the Political Officers of those norms wind up being a sick joke of careerism and weaponized ideology. The Soviet Union was about equality for workers. Who could be against that?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Linus had like one outburst a year in between spending all day every day reading/writing emails. And a bunch of them weren't actually hostile to his team, they just got taken out of context. He'd refer to a userspace program
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by free_rms 6y ago
In my youth I wound up in charge of hiring at a low-end shop due to a funny set of circumstances and absolutely got burned by people straight up lying to me. If I were more experienced, I'd have been able to ask the right questions abo
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by free_rms 6y ago
But do they still have to pass a bunch of HackerRank-style interview questions? The best interview question in my life, a few years ago, was one where they gave me an open-ended question, a laptop, and the whole afternoon with occasional ch
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by free_rms 6y ago
I'd add that these topics tend to attract dramatic personalities, and that's what we saw here. Do something productive and uncontroversial, or something unproductive and very controversial?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Wouldn't it be a lot more productive to lobby for inclusion of more samples into the performance measurement datasets than to get into super-combative twitter pissfights with people who aren't even opposed to that? That's, li
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by free_rms 6y ago
Thanks for the additional detail, but those all still boil down to dataset eventually, right? Those sound more like "yes, and" additions than the "no, you're racist" shitfight we saw.
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by free_rms 6y ago
'Governs' Golan Heights and Cyprus buffer zone? Come on, man. A few blue helmets to discourage shooting across the ceasefire is a great idea and all but it's not government. I didn't know about Cambodia, that's an
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by free_rms 6y ago
But OP didn't use either of those terms, they used "775% chance per year", which you can interpret colloquially as a speaker of English. It's been clear throughout this thread what was meant.
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by free_rms 6y ago
In rare cases, when no major or regional power is interested, they do that as the humanitarian backstop, yes. I'm pretty sure East Timor is the only case of their stepping in for a government. Could be wrong? Other examples?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Some liberals, sure, but the Liberal Establishment knows who their donor base is.
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by free_rms 6y ago
The country is actually way ahead of the politicians on this stuff though. Red states are getting there ahead of blue politicians. I think it's more of a generational thing.
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by free_rms 6y ago
The UN isn't a government, it's a meeting forum.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Because eventually all other values besides profit for 5 companies will be sacrificed if you go down that road. Why do consumers need the government to enforce child labor laws? FDA regulation? OSHA? These lessons are written in blood. Y
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by free_rms 6y ago
I wouldn't say it's 'clear' but you're right that it's at least ambiguous. For a less ambiguous case, look at how CNN and MSNBC treated the Bernie campaign/movement. Calling them "MSM" doesn&#x2
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by free_rms 6y ago
Guess I fell afoul of Poe's law on that one.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Multiple sides, actually. Here's Jamaal Bowman, recently elected Democrat from Brooklyn, getting his mic cut by CNN the other night for criticizing Rahm Emmanuel: https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/133129
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by free_rms 6y ago
Maybe hacker news should forcibly insert a modal saying that they don't think it's true, and make you click through that to display the objectionable content, like twitter does. Can't have people thinking there's censors
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by free_rms 6y ago
It took them like a decade to get there though, all the while telling the entire non-Google world that they must be doing something wrong if they want versioning for their dependencies.
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by free_rms 6y ago
I'm not super educated on this but I thought that malpractice insurance basically "handled" the problem at a reasonable overhead compared to other gross inefficiencies.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Owell was a Democratic Socialist, FYI. There used to be a lot more nuance to these things before the cold war.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Not to mention squads of clerks at every single doctor's office doing battle with entire armies at the insurers in a many-to-many clusterfuck of epic proportions over every single bit of care delivered.
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by free_rms 6y ago
You're able to discuss the issues, but you are very much not able to push for changes. Nobody has successfully pushed back on any aspect of the war on terror my entire life, including 2 different Presidents who came in saying it shou
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by free_rms 6y ago
The quote: Assessment by third-party agencies earlier this month showed that the poverty incidence in the nine counties in Guizhou decreased to zero percent and that the satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent, said Li Jian, dir
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by free_rms 6y ago
What's so funny about it? I've been to rural China, and it tracks with the improvements I saw. But maybe that's anecdotal, do you have more insight on the matter?

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