havelhovel

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by havelhovel 1y ago
> People from the US really need to get out of that bubble. Maybe you live in a smaller bubble. India: "Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American, has been elected as Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American
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by havelhovel 2y ago
It’s the same in English. There was supposed to be a comma between both words because they’re coordinate adjectives.
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by havelhovel 2y ago
It's incredible that a term was coined in the 19th Century to describe demonstrable hatred toward Jews, that the term was happily adopted and popularized by people who hated Jews, and now over 150 years later the term itself is pointed
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by havelhovel 2y ago
> people who migrated from what is now Sweden a.k.a. vikings
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by havelhovel 2y ago
These things can add value, but no one needs a new hire to point that fact out. I'm also skeptical that a freshly hired IC's values will align with business values, even though the latter is what shapes the tech debt and tooling y
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by havelhovel 2y ago
What's more likely: a team of equally experienced engineers is waiting on a new hire to identify and fix significant blind spots or a team just needs more bandwidth to get things done?
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by havelhovel 2y ago
I've never been on a team where we've needed a new IC to come in and assess our inefficiencies, question priorities, and lengthen meetings with debates we've already had. There are plenty of management consultants available f
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by havelhovel 2y ago
"When questioned about the relationship between art and sexuality, Pablo Picasso once replied, 'It’s the same thing.'" https://time.com/archive/6671960/sex-in-the-city/
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by havelhovel 3y ago
I’m not sure why you’re pointing specifically to American Jews as the source of authority on a conflict in the Middle East, but in terms of polls and surveys: “About a quarter [of Americans] (27%) say Israel is going too far in its current
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by havelhovel 3y ago
> It appears to be the only one able to consistently get US citizens working for US employers in US soil fired Can you provide some examples of Israeli lobbyists getting US citizens fired by US employers for expressing their opinions?
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by havelhovel 3y ago
I think that's a fair critique. Do you have any alternative metrics for evaluating the "most powerful" lobbies in the US? Because I'm curious how AIPAC and Israel get this reputation if it's not based on something o
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by havelhovel 3y ago
I don't think that providing actual lists of top spenders is either "clever" or "disingenuous," but if you have a better way to empirically evaluate the claims being made about lobbying influence please share. >
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by havelhovel 3y ago
> The Israeli lobby is the most powerful This is simply not true. If you look at spending since 2016, Israel is 10th, but didn't even break top 10 in 2023: 1. Liberia $183,313,959 2. Saudi Arabia $47,703,350 3. Japan $35,712,625 4.
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by havelhovel 3y ago
I'm curious which lobbying group Paul Graham is referring to as "America's most powerful lobby." Here are the top ten, by spending, in the US as of 2023: 1. US Chamber of Commerce $49,970,000 2. National Assn of Realtors
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by havelhovel 3y ago
No. The comment you're replying to explicitly calls out the poor methodology this report is based on and the lack of subject matter expertise shown by the authors. The Wikipedia article is supplementary information that situates this c
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by havelhovel 3y ago
I think this report actually demonstrates the anti-Israel bias HRW has been accused of. HRW points to the 9,500 content takedown requests that Israel has made as one of "four underlying, systemic factors that contributed to the [pro-Pa
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by havelhovel 3y ago
> Human Rights Watch published a call for evidence of online censorship…from the main Human Rights Watch accounts on Instagram, X (formerly known as Twitter), and TikTok. I don’t see how HRW can post this in good conscience without ackno
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by havelhovel 3y ago
I hope someone investigates whether 23andMe adjusted user profile preferences or exposed this data through new features instead of assuming users chose to share the information now available in this leak.
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by havelhovel 3y ago
And in the West what’s available is the product of people making what they want to make with relatively few restrictions.
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by havelhovel 3y ago
I guess I’m also pretty naive then. Got any examples of the US government dictating what people can watch through censorship on par with North Korea or even China?
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by havelhovel 3y ago
This isn’t a free speech debate. This isn’t a Chinese newspaper being banned. This isn’t a US citizen being blocked from expressing themselves. This is a software product. The US also regulates products like arms and drug shipments without
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by havelhovel 3y ago
Nothing important submitted to the app except for a full psych profile of every user updated in real time. I’m not a very creative person, and I can immediately see how this could be used to identify and recruit potential assets or improve
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by havelhovel 3y ago
Those interested in this topic may also want to read Stephen Greenblatt‘s The Swerve.
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by havelhovel 3y ago
> Trader Joe’s fans will stand in line for hours for groceries but still give the store just an 84% satisfaction rating, according to a survey by the American Customer Satisfaction Institute. It’s tough competition, but I think this is t
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by havelhovel 3y ago
You asked “how in the world do people in India or Arizona survive their summer?” Historical trends are irrelevant when the answer is that some don’t.
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by havelhovel 3y ago
There are also people who hate their day job, and after dealing with food, chores, and physical fitness, just want to spend their last waking hour or two relaxing before starting over.
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by havelhovel 3y ago
According to the article, Reddit has gone from 20 employees to 2,000 over the last ten years. As someone who still uses the old theme and has been conditioned to use Google instead of Reddit’s own search functionality, it’s hard to understa
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by havelhovel 3y ago
> Plus, it would be great to get to know more about the amazing SaaS community here on Reddit! Chef’s kiss.
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by havelhovel 3y ago
The author of that article is a professor of archaeology who seems to hedge their language throughout. What speculative claims are presented as fact?
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by havelhovel 3y ago
> I’m not sure those are great examples of people clinging to power forever, considering they’re semi-retired / retired and neither were heavily involved in politics in the first place The desire to retire may have something to do w

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