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by gred 2y ago
No, I'm taking a step back and saying that if the law provides for nullifying the election, it's a bad law. It's an even worse law if no due process is involved (i.e. "nothing has been proven against this candidate in co
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by gred 2y ago
Agreed. You do your best to counter and mitigate this type of foreign influence, but once people have voted, they have voted. Once you start to rationalize "but they only voted this way because X", it will be tempting to expand X
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by gred 2y ago
Your reference [1] seems very confused about what it's trying to say and where it's trying to go, at least in terms of linking abortion to white supremacy. In fact, the fight for abortion access is closely tied to white supremac
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by gred 2y ago
If you asked me whether I would want to pay 5x more for a house that reduces my likelihood of dying in a fire from 0.00427% to 0.00104%, I think I would choose to roll the dice (and maybe DIY install a $20 smoke detector). 1950: 6,405 fire
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by gred 2y ago
Please read the guidelines. Assume good faith.
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by gred 2y ago
Nah, I would propose that people stop trying to "have it all", accept reality, and settle for one or the other (mainly one for men, and the other for women). Nobody wants to hear that these days, if they ever did.
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by gred 2y ago
Or we could work with the natural order of things, rather than against it... nah, too crazy.
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by gred 2y ago
> I try to filter out political tweets. > Seriously!? But don't you realize that ${political.outrage.tweet.792305}??
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by gred 2y ago
Your calculus ignores the hundreds of thousands of unborn lives that will be saved by allowing states to democratically establish their own abortion laws. Since you do not recognize the massive benefit, you see only the cost... I can unders
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by gred 2y ago
Thank you for the example, I do hope that they clarify that gray area in the law. It's a tough situation; they were dealing with probabilities ( sometimes infections occur, and sometimes these infections lead to death) rather than a
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by gred 2y ago
Sure, but will it still be considered an all-time high in a year? Will the alternative investment even beat inflation? All I'm saying is be careful. I have experience here, having parked money outside of the market for a few years beca
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by gred 2y ago
Please take a day or ten to think your decision through as emotionlessly as possible. You could seriously affect your financial health if you make this decision based on feelings that may not align with reality.
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by gred 2y ago
Which laws, and which doctors?
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by gred 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation. But that sequence sounds more like "corruption -> increase taxes", or perhaps "cut taxes -> increase taxes"... not "cut costs -> increase taxes"?
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by gred 2y ago
Keep in mind that the left has been saying that the right has been voting against their own best interests for decades. I doubt that will change, especially if the apparent realignment along "class" lines turns out to be sustained
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by gred 2y ago
> curbing government spending: increased taxes, as per evident of the UK government switch to labour Can you elaborate on this one? I don't agree with most of your takes, but this one I just didn't understand.
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by gred 2y ago
Past performance is mixed: Trump 45 used mostly the carrot with the North Koreans, but mostly the stick with the Iranians and Chinese. I think it's pretty clear that Ukraine aid will decrease, but I'm not sure how much carrot vs s
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by gred 2y ago
I haven't seen that in Trump, myself. It seems to me that a lot of the Jan 6 discussion comes down to "what was he thinking when he did X?", and the tribes either give him the benefit of the doubt or assume the worst intentio
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by gred 2y ago
Yeah that one has more emphasis on the "cautiously" than the "optimistic" :-) Both parties have largely ignored this issue since the Tea Party movement, but it has been mentioned somewhat prominently in this campaign.
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by gred 2y ago
I think you're putting words in my mouth. IMO in this scenario the medical decision-making process should weigh both lives equally. Doctors make life-and-death decisions all the time, and I'm OK with that as long as one life is no
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by gred 2y ago
As a conservative American, I'm... Cautiously optimistic about: curbing government spending, reducing illegal immigration, protecting unborn lives, restraining Iran + proxies, continuing economic growth Nervous about: Ukraine, addition
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by gred 2y ago
This sub-thread moved on from the original hypothesis as soon as innagadadavida put forward his non-empirical empirical example. Take it up with him, he may also enjoy your evaluation of his rationality.
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by gred 2y ago
This sequence replaces an infinite God with ~infinite time and then draws the wrong conclusion.
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by gred 2y ago
Ah, so you're one of the six Epsilon GC users :-)
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by gred 2y ago
Maybe AI risk is also higher in Asia and South Africa, and for the same reasons.
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by gred 2y ago
Interesting perspective. Some of it I agree with, but not all of it. > There are no easy ways to build abstractions so it's all annotation upon annotation or back to design patterns of composition / inheritance. What are your t
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by gred 2y ago
We used a similar setup, but opted for two sets of analog walkie talkies (instead of one set), so that we could fall back to the secondary set if the batteries ran out in the first set (we replaced the batteries in the two sets of walkie ta
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by gred 2y ago
Seriously curious, what is your point of reference that makes this look bad?
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by gred 2y ago
Very interesting, very impressive, and a little concerning that this is what it takes to get noticed! I actually went in expecting something along the lines of "I started a profitable company in order to pad my resume and get some inte
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by gred 2y ago
> it will be a bit of a stretch to say Microsoft should have stopped us deploying CrowdStrike I read GP's post to mean that if you take a step back, Windows' history of (in)security is what has led us to an environment where Cr

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