ineptech

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by ineptech 5y ago
He has a lot of greatest hits (Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles) but if you're looking for something different, I really enjoyed his murder mystery trilogy (Death Is a Lonely Business, A Graveyard for Lunatics, Let&#x
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by ineptech 5y ago
This sounds like a florid way of saying, "I saw a pro-vax lefty lie about something on TV the other day." Okay, feel free to ignore that one guy, but to argue against the vaccine mandate position generally you have to engage with
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by ineptech 5y ago
That's egregiously misleading. In context she clearly said that she would take it, but only when scientists say it's safe, not when Trump says so. (I will concede that, in implying that Trump would push people to get a vaccine be
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by ineptech 5y ago
> summation of the concept of evil That's a rather strong way to describe someone who refuses to implement a policy you like. You might be right, a natural immunity exemption might be sound policy. I personally tend to agree. But
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by ineptech 5y ago
> People need to remember the goal is to eliminate the threat, not get everyone vaccinated. For you perhaps, but some people have the terminal goal of avoiding vaccination, even if that increases the threat. That is why the government
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by ineptech 5y ago
> The politicalization of the vaccine is foolish and unscientific. I think you're confusing cause and effect here. The politicization of the vaccine is the reason the government is now pushing vaccine mandates and such, not a react
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by ineptech 5y ago
It's not knee-jerk. This is the same company putting ads in the start menu and trying to force Windows users to log in to microsoft.com on boot. And I guarantee you, the PMs who pushed for those 'features' genuinely believe
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by ineptech 5y ago
Okay, that makes sense, but "creating an entry in a database" would've been confusing to the intended audience of urbit devs. I probably should've said "serve some stuff".
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by ineptech 5y ago
Um. Go to Facebook. Type in some text or select a photo and hit "Share". You have just shared a file with your friends. (I'm not being snarky, but it seems you misunderstood me and I'm not sure how. Perhaps you thoug
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by ineptech 5y ago
Well, you know how client/server stuff works, right? The whole "client/server" paradigm exists because it's necessary; some use cases can't be done well just from client software. Sharing a file is such a use
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by ineptech 5y ago
In fact, since I'm in my cups and I've got a head of steam, and since I know urbit people will read this no matter how fast it scrolls off the front page, I'll make my pitch for the use case that I wish they'd work on: p
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by ineptech 5y ago
This seems like a pretty shallow take. Urbit is (or aspires to be) a platform for server-side use cases; complaining that it's not decentralized is kind of off the mark. But I (more bullish on urbit than 95% of HN, I suspect) agree
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by ineptech 5y ago
Who convinces people to buy Herbalife? People who have spent a bunch of money on Herbalife. Who convinces people that NFTs aren't just a fad, they're really innovative and you should consider adding them to your portfolio? Not p
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by ineptech 5y ago
I know HN is always on a hair trigger to call out free speech issues, but "youtube does a poor job of curating covid information" is the expected outcome. You don't need to postulate a conspiracy or malicious actor to explai
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by ineptech 5y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Trying to manipulate populations into a desired behavior by lying to them is, as you point out, counterproductive in the long run. Manipulating populations is what governments do . Subsidizing milk prices, fining people who litter, i
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by ineptech 5y ago
The notion that the primary threat to American democracy is an invading army seems comforting but unrealistic.
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by ineptech 5y ago
The assumption that the armed population and the forces trying to impose tyranny will be on opposite sides is looking pretty tenuous.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Your "unceasing but uncoordinated efforts of activists" sounds indistinguishable from people adopting the term because it's useful. Is there a better, less loaded term you'd prefer they use?
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by ineptech 5y ago
"No one knows precisely how many instances of wage theft occurred in the U.S. during 2012, nor do we know what the victims suffered in total dollars earned but not paid. But we do know that the total amount of money recovered for the v
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by ineptech 5y ago
"The researchers estimated that the average loss per worker over the course of a year was $2,634, out of total earnings of $17,616." -- TFA
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by ineptech 5y ago
I was asking more about the "unceasing efforts of activists" part. That seems like it would've been controversial but I don't remember hearing anything about it. Who were they?
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by ineptech 5y ago
> A restaurant not paying wages is a civil matter because they failed to fulfill their contractual obligations to pay you... That's tautological. The actual reason it's a civil matter is because the people who write and interp
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by ineptech 5y ago
> It is established through unceasing efforts of activists, who pushed for it, precisely in order to exploit the negative connotations of the word “theft” to describe something that is not what people typically associate with the notion
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by ineptech 5y ago
It's not always true that you "just have to give it back"; repeat offenders do get taken to the woodshed sometimes. But, when employers and employees steal from each other, the fact that one is a criminal matter and the other
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by ineptech 5y ago
Complete article is at the author's website here: https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/nensmeng/files/Ensmenger2015... Not sure I buy the central thesis, but there are some good early-day stories and anecdotes in
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by ineptech 5y ago
I think the main thing we disagree on is: I don't think Alex Jones has any power, or changes anyone's mind. He doesn't have a silver tongue, a deft wit, or evidence on his side. He's just a schmuck who tosses out bulls
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by ineptech 5y ago
I think you've misunderstood which direction I imagine the sunlight going here. 1. You seem to think that Joe Rogan is not very reliable or trustworthy. How do you know that? Because of past interviews where he nodded along with a cr
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by ineptech 5y ago
> There is evidence that deplatforming works. 'Works' in what sense? Does it make the sort of people who believe this stuff less credulous? Or does it just make them less likely to listen to the specific blowhard being depl
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by ineptech 5y ago
And keeping Jones off of Rogan would've accomplished what? Someone who thinks the gummint is out to git 'em would believe a different 'gummint is out to gitcha' conspiracy theory instead? I don't think you can win

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