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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Even more accurately, it perfectly describes people - specifically, the worst in people . But the devil is in the details.
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
It seems like an obvious opinion. Not that it's obviously true , but that the evidence for it is obvious - as in, it shouldn't be a confusing or surprising opinion for somebody to have. You may perfectly reasonably disagree wit
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Why "Huh?"? It's about as surprising that many companies don't have explicit email signature policies as it is that some companies do. That is: Not very.
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
This is not by itself a defense, but you're speaking relatively ("more and more"), so the obvious thing to point out is that things have gotten more and more extreme within the political right in the US over that time frame,
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Does NYC have a hell-hole stereotype? Other cities do, and 80's NYC does, and some people throw that shade at all metros , but I wasn't aware of NYC being specifically mis-characterized as being worse than average. Regardless, th
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Yup. On informational topics or news, the video format usually means a reduction in quality of content and comments, but the topic of aviation in particular doesn't suffer that problem, for whatever reason.
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
There is simply no reason to use the statistical safety of air travel to excuse incidents. We can appreciate the incredible feats of engineering and logistics that make air travel so safe without letting the bar dip down or throwing up our
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Antagonizing Mexico, especially in a petty way, and renaming geographic features to include the word "America", seem very solidly on-brand. I assume the majority of Trump voters would support this. I.e. this specific thing is no
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
America is an extremely common synonym for the USA, for better or worse. It's not convincing to imply that you believe a president of the USA, renowned for his nationalist rhetoric and pettiness, renamed a geographic feature bordering
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Analogies are weak. We should discuss and express concern for everything that happens, and not give up part way through and cease highlighting/flagging anything at all, simply because of repetition, or the vague emotion of "you sh
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
As always: Shock/outrage != surprise. We should be shocked and outraged by evil deeds, regardless of how clearly forecasted.
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Yes, but this starts to get into semantics. If a person complains about the economy (as in the relative-to-the-past QoL of common citizens), and an economist says the economy is great, they're talking past each other by using the word
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
> The listeners don’t recognize your authority Yes, this is a "main thing" in that it is common and has a significant impact, but this one falls to both sides to get right. Communicators shouldn't try to invoke authority a
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
>1. Stone racists who hate immigrants, especially brown ones. This is one of the biggest, most common mistakes a lot of well-meaning people make regarding their mental model of their society. Not that this group isn't significant, b
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
I'd really like us to not continue creeping down this dividing line of "I don't give a shit about this entire group of people", which started up at the billionaires, down to the top 1%, down now to just anybody with some
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Prepare? What are you specifically referring to?
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
It initially referred to spending too much time scrolling through negative content, e.g. bad news, politics. But the term has at this point completed a transformation to meaning any excessive time-wasting scrolling.
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Yes, on the scale of centuries, but I think we are on the other side of the peak now, at least in the US. Being born 40 to 60 years ago is probably better than being born 10 to 30 years ago. And that is the timescale humans live and think i
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
The point is that humans want a meeting's clock time to change when they travel to a new time zone, but not when their local time changes (either due to DST or a legal change). Unless of course not everybody invited shares the same DST
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
"Just store it in UTC" will cause bugs for human time, which calendaring is the most complex example of (because it contains basically every other use case). Don't throw away the date and time the user entered. How you store
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
I always feel really bad when I see these two bar charts, because the way women rate men is how I thought everybody rates each other. I find the statistically average woman (and man) explicitly unattractive. I always assumed it was some c
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
I see this sentence a lot: "How can somebody who does X just do Y?", implying that Y is somehow bad or wrong in the context of X, or contrasts with the experience level implied by X. Maybe it's true of the subject. Maybe they
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Natives cost more, or, more generally speaking, they are less willing to cede ground on various dimensions (pay, hours, commute, benefits, COL, etc). This can be framed as natives having higher standards of living, or natives being lazy, de
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
This is an oversimplification. One should of course take great care not to use generalizations to promote group-based hatred, but this is in addition to the fact that it would be naive (and impossibly restrictive) to declare nationality gen
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data, but at some overwhelming quantity it is as demonstrative as data.
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
This is the (very common) fallacy that disagreeing with something, or considering it immoral, is equivalent to not believing that it will happen (if not prevented somehow).
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Taken at face value, it's hideously evil, and we should fight as hard as possible to prevent this ideology from intruding any further into the culture of American employers or employers of American workers. If there is context you feel
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
I sympathize, especially if the mod was brusque, but in this case I agree with the mod. That rule is helpful to keep information pure and readable. HN has similar rules - thanking somebody is fine, since this is discourse, not Q&A, but
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
>as easy as creating a website This strikes me as odd - I have a much easier time making a well-functioning native app (iOS or Android) than the equivalent website. That's not typically a checkmark in the web column for web vs app p
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by happytoexplain 2y ago
Yes, that could be. And you could focus on being annoyed at this guy's social media behavior, if you like. However, it doesn't mitigate, and is less important than, the problem of the car getting into this state and Waymo not havi

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