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by hga 10y ago
At the base, in the perfectibility of man, as I discussed elsewhere in this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13055322 Pretty much everything flows from that.
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by hga 10y ago
My reply is the Instapundit's, embrace the power of "and", it can be both ideology, although that's really now becoming more identity politics, and economics. Sometimes they go hand in hand, like the importation of vas
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by hga 10y ago
As the Left defines them , I am every one of "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic". Although you would think more would realize by now "The Race Card is Maxed Out": http://www.cc.com/vid
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by hga 10y ago
And to the extent you believe e.g. the remnants of movement conservatism is on the right, this is not even a Right/Left thing, as Kevin Williamson put it, " The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale [white, working class] com
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by hga 10y ago
a multiplayer game that was in development for a number of years, but was ultimately abandoned
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by hga 10y ago
My abstraction claims there are two different takes on fundamental human nature. To shift the domain to things like hierarchy, equality, materialism, class, and idealism is Not Even Wrong, especially since you're not denying my side&#x
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by hga 10y ago
The Alt Right's position on your first paragraph is that all those are fine, but those "basic human decencies" should be accorded to others in their own lands ("diversity + proximity = war), ignoring the minor detail tha
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by hga 10y ago
It's perhaps a little late to tell someone who's about to turn 56 to stop doing this ^_^! Seriously, the "Right" and "Left" are abstractions for two general philosophies about human nature, the Right believing
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by hga 10y ago
However, is not the tend worrisome? One of the reasons we do "public health" is to nip things in the bud. In the domain of infectious diseases, to prevent epi- and pandemics.... The other notable thing I've been told is tha
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by hga 10y ago
Cool! I don't play the Node.js game, but I'll see about polishing my 2 decades rusty Javascript web page experiences and see if I can't make this into a simple web page which I can keep a tab always loaded with, I pretty much
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by hga 10y ago
And using "flat earth beliefs" as a comparison is telling, seeing as how that conceit is a 19th Century propaganda campaign ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Myth_of_the_flat_Ea... and https:/&#
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by hga 10y ago
Rather, it was the exposure to individuals who were being hurt by the politics he favored. And whites, especially male and/or heterosexuals, aren't "being hurt" by the Left's campaign against them, that says we&#x
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by hga 10y ago
Campaign press release source with those exact words: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...
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by hga 10y ago
And her Jewish husband Jared Kushner ran the campaign's data operations: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jared+Kushner+data The ADL's complaint about Bannon is thin gruel: http://www.adl.org/sp&#x2
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by hga 10y ago
I just found a reference to this concept in Churchill's The Gathering Storm (WWI->him being appointed PM), first page of chapter 11, he talked about opinions events had caused to become no longer " excluded from lawful though
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by hga 10y ago
None of the information above is new to those familiar with the GFW. It is only after I reached this point in my tests that I did some deeper reading and learned that the GFW uses machine learning algorithms to learn, discover, and block V
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by hga 10y ago
One trick to get around the use of asterisk for italicizing test for footnotes, use a character like this one: † I keep a copy at the top of a file that I always have loaded in my Emacs.
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by hga 10y ago
Not necessarily. A company can't just magic the best or even good/adequate "engineering resources", AKA human beings , out of thin air, as anyone who's tried to start a startup even with serious cash in hand can a
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by hga 10y ago
This needs a (June) marking, e.g. Trump has indeed won, and: Believing, really believing that the future doesn’t have space for you, your loved ones, and your way of life — believing that you are on the verge of extinction — is so scary th
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by hga 10y ago
"[...] how is it that the world’s most valuable company can’t find the time to make a full line of personal computers and PC peripherals alongside its market-leading smartphones and tablets?" The answer is simple. It's becau
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by hga 10y ago
What makes it self-limiting? There's always an opponent, someone completing for resources or whatever, that you can use this method to outgroup and purge. That's just one of many mechanisms driving it. What are the specific coun
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by hga 10y ago
Errr, have you actually paid serious attention to "televangelists"? I benefited from growing up Catholic in a strongly Pentecostal area which I've retired to, and I can assure you they aren't exactly preaching the Word
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by hga 10y ago
You're ignoring the power they have to shape minds during that 4 year period, which is particularly powerful for residential students who are out of the nest for the first time, how they can keep doubleplusungood people out of a lot of
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by hga 10y ago
The article also postulates that due to the threat caused by people outside the academy/media/"cathedral", the overton window has shifted sharply in a radical direction in order to flush out those who are insufficiently
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by hga 10y ago
I agree, except that the fixed resource is votes, not economic resources (which everyone here knows are not fixed in any practical sense). But doesn't this Presidential election at least suggest that enough people got unhappy about t
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by hga 10y ago
Yeah, the horrible state of their search, which in many cases is clearly costing them serious money, tells me something is wrong with that part of the company, and since it's so critical, it says nothing good about the company as a w
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by hga 10y ago
There are a bunch of domains where you should just avoid buying anything on Amazon that's sold by a third party, and this strikes me as one of them. And if it's sold by Amazon itself, hope it's either in one of the categories
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by hga 10y ago
If you manufacture in China you find huge legal and social issues with maintaining quality. I've read, without adequate if any sourcing, that this is a pattern that's at least centuries old, specifically, building things to the
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by hga 10y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the offer, but 4 people beat you to it by private email, 3 within 30 minutes.... When I've peeked in on e.g. the lisp subforum, it looked to be quite good, although that was a while ago, too frustrating to contempl
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by hga 10y ago
Signup by invitation only, and having retired before it started I don't know anyone in it who I would feel comfortable asking for one.

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