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   by greenail 5y ago

   I don't think it is possible to make the distinction. It is too late unfortunately. I'm vaccinated and I'm ok with people making (what i view as) bad decisions. The fundamental issue here is a question about the role of go
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   by greenail 5y ago

   > People distrust masks but trust ivermectin. source? It may also be useful to disambiguate anti-vaxers from anti-vax-mandate-ers. I think they have fundamentally different arguments. >but everyone likes their particular Senator&#x2
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   by greenail 5y ago

   My post had nothing to do with any party affiliation. I was simply pointing out the data regarding where trust in our institutions is. Please ratchet the "they"/"other" stuff back a bit. I don't think it is
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   by greenail 5y ago

   This seems reasonable. I wonder why it is not the prevailing approach?
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   by greenail 5y ago

   While this thread is mostly a US centric discussion I wonder if Australia isn't a better case study for this topic. Seems like things are pretty intense there.
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   by greenail 5y ago

   You are assuming "they" trust the Republican leadership. this Gallup poll says only 12% of Americans trust congress. https://news.gallup.com/poll/352316/americans-confidence-maj... Lots of other inter
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   by greenail 5y ago

   adding a reference for what a boltzmann brain is for those who don't know. If you've enjoyed the article I think you'll also enjoy learning about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain#:~:text
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   by greenail 5y ago

   how likely is it that we are a Boltzmann brain manifest in a randomly occurring superconductor?
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   by greenail 5y ago

   Sweet, nucluear fusion now must only be 20 years away!
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    by greenail 5y ago

    "But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice — guessed and refused to believe — that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I can't quite understand why you would buy a profile pic collection or "own" a piece of art that lives in an assumed publicly available blockchain? Is there demand for autogenerated digital "art"? This is strange.
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I would guess that any criticism would be called out as transphobic. That isn't something most people would be ok with being labeled. Even more difficult is the fact that I have no clue how to prove that I am not transphobic. What pr
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    by greenail 5y ago

    are serial ports mapped like they were in WSL1?
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I think they missed "create fake users" which is less likely to be admitted but likely a viable strategy. Are there any good studies on how fake users influence your ability to acquire new users?
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I don't think you are allowed to criticize this. That makes me wonder how anyone can comment who doesn't agree with the ideology behind the mandate.
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    by greenail 5y ago

    This may be the most practical use for proof of work type bitcoins but it does have me asking what the network costs for bitcoin mining are? A quick google says 500kbps to 15Mbps assuming your provider doesn't throttle you and then yo
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    by greenail 5y ago

    "Late Marx is sharply opposed to, and incomparably more radical than, almost all that we know today as Marxism. " Maybe not so many 10's of millions would die if Stalin and Mao chose to be more radical.
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    by greenail 5y ago

    You can simply go out to a bar and have a beer.... oh covid! :( Well, someday!
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    by greenail 5y ago

    do you play speed, blitz, longer? If you want to play expert or master level I believe you should study end game but the format you play may have some impact on how important you think endgame is. Blunders become much rarer as you play h
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I'm disappointed this is front page HN as it seems a purely political piece of little value. The author supplies an anecdotal example and claims we should make more stuff here. Where are the details? What should we make and why?
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I think the author is underappreciating end game. Understanding how drive winning pawn promotions informs much of the other strategy. This sort of thing informs when to make a trade or a sacrifice. If you don't understand it you are
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I recall Lydia Leong's theory was that the number of big cloud players would be driven by what the ecosystem could support. If you are providing services on top of cloud technology you can't really afford to support more than a h
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I would guess that one reason so many legacy big tech companies failed to compete against AWS is that they had a critical mass of sellers who were not equipped to sell cloud. Combine that with existing relationships with CIO/IT folks
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    by greenail 5y ago

    The idea that you can understand reality through CRT was what struck me postmodern/intersectionalist not the historical sequence. "lived experience" as truth and all that.
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    by greenail 5y ago

    "DEI existing at all as a thing is based on a mainstream understanding of reality developed through critical race theory." This strikes me as a very postmodern and intersectionalist view. My reply pointing out the ideological pro
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    by greenail 5y ago

    What CRT/anti-racism actually says is: capitalism is racist the US is systemically racist all white people are racist color-blindness is racist all disparate outcomes can be explained by racism None of the analysis is falsifiable so it
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I believe the ideology went something like this marxism -> neo marxism -> postmodernism -> critical theory -> critical race theory -> anti-racism You can see the connections by swapping out class for oppressions/oppresse
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I have seen all your examples in a top tech firm. In that same firm any public questioning was quickly shouted down in a way that made it clear that your were putting your career at risk by asking why the company was promoting left leaning
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    by greenail 5y ago

    I think one way to measure how far left or right by looking at how far they take "Equity". If equity is an anti-racist version of "racial equity" then it demands "anti-racist" discrimination. To quote Kendi &
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    by greenail 5y ago

    In my experience the farther left DEI policy goes the more chaos, distraction, and resentment it creates. There also seems to be some correlation between how far left DEI policy goes and how acceptable vocal political activism is. The fin