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by infamouscow 1y ago
If you’ve got data showing California closing the gap, I’m all ears. But until then, the scoreboard speaks for itself.
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by infamouscow 1y ago
Saying California has churches is like saying a desert has cacti—it's true, but it misses the point. Texas' religious density, from Austin's sprawling non-denominational hubs to its Catholic and Protestant strongholds, isn’t
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by infamouscow 1y ago
Texas cities don't just stumble into better homelessness outcomes because they build more houses—though, yes, their zoning laws are less suffocating than California's bureaucratic strangulations, letting developers churn out homes
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by infamouscow 1y ago
If you use MBA as anything other than a slur, it's probably incorrect.
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I'm open to alternative perspectives on this matter, but lawlessness isn't a meaningful term, at least in the the USA where this would preside, jurisdictionally. It appears the maintainers involved had a personal or ideological co
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by infamouscow 1y ago
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which effectively gutted the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act’s restrictions on domestic propaganda, was passed under a blue team controlled executive and senate. This wasn't a bipartisan effort—it was a
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by infamouscow 1y ago
Please cite what applicable laws are being violated. I have a hard time believing a company as large as Shopify or others using Ruby will take these actions without first consulting their legal departments. Maybe I'm wrong, but you hav
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by infamouscow 1y ago
The Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) was a short-lived DHS advisory group, running from March 2, 2022, to August 24, 2022. It was pitched as a way to combat "misinformation," but let's call it what it was: a top-down att
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by infamouscow 1y ago
Yarvin has written at length about how his monarchy vision isn't even possible within the USA today. A stronger statement is: you have to actually be stupid to think POTUS can magically deploy the military just by saying so. Virtuall
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by infamouscow 1y ago
Unless you actually have the ability to deploy the military, it's genuinely stupid to leap to this conclusion. To be clear, this is not an insult or ad hominem. You have to actually be stupid to think random citizens can magically de
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by infamouscow 1y ago
Six months ago I wrote > The free lunch in the SaaS space is (finally) over, both literally and metaphorically. > What people ought to be doing is moving to remote, rural, and low cost-of-living areas that have been completely ignored
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by infamouscow 1y ago
The United States, uniquely, guards speech under its 1A, excepting only direct calls to violence. A hypothetical like "we ought to hang <person>, but the police would stop us, so have to draw a new plan first" is protected,
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America's Founders saw civil rights as inherent in the Constitution's framework, rooted in natural law. They added the Bill of Rights as an explicit bulwark. That's why we have the 1st Amendment's free speech, and if tha
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by infamouscow 1y ago
Welcome to the ecosystem o/
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Being outside of US legal jurisdiction is exactly why they ought to be thrown into a wood chipper. I don't understand why this doesn't happen EVERY DAY until the problem is resolved. And before someone cite US code: it's virt
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by infamouscow 1y ago
I didn't feed my reply through ChatGPT. I've addressed your questions. Since you rather argue in bad faith than peruse the truth, it's reasonable to conclude you do not have a rebuttal, nor answer to my question re: realistic
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by infamouscow 1y ago
First, regarding logical fallacies: your response relies on an emotional appeal by invoking potential "loss of human life" and an appeal to authority via the Osterholm quote. To provide context on Osterholm, he notably advised in
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As a published researcher operating outside traditional academia, I find this rhetoric somewhat tiresome, as it overlooks the systemic interplay between public funding, academic training, and industrial commercialization in scientific advan
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by infamouscow 1y ago
It's very easy to understand, developers just refuse to accept it for undermining their strongly held beliefs regarding success in the software industry. It's true you need working software, but without sales and operations doing
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Product managers shouldn't be rebranded as "solution managers." The title suggests they can handle solutions, but most lack the chops to solve real problems effectively.
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> BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu.
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by infamouscow 1y ago
People love using their pet issue as the sole explanation for why something did or didn't happen. It's never that simple. My boomer boss thinks writing tests is unnecessary and slows shipping down. It might be true, but it fails t
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by infamouscow 1y ago
My point being that it makes no sense for a society that just underwent Nazi occupation to let it continue. After such a violent effort, it is a foregone conclusion that the remaining cancer is mercilessly destroyed. If you don't, then
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by infamouscow 1y ago
De-Nazification required the Allies mass-murdering about a million Germans after the war was over. There's a reason why there's a fudge factor of 1M in the POW camps in the years after the war. During the Civil War, Abolitionists
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Giving federal employees 6+ month severance packages is a far cry from what Yarvin wrote ought to happen them. Trump really can't get anything right.
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I'll submit a Texas FOIA as well, so we'll likely get a simultaneous response. The only difference is I'll publish them on some .ai tld.
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Being a leader and being a manager are completely different things. Leaders primary concern is for those under them. Managers primary concern is for those above them.
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You're right that the DEA's quota system prioritizes diversion control over access, and it's clearly stuck in a bygone era unfit for todays demand growth. But it's baffling that Big Pharma, with its lobbying muscle, hasn
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You forgot to add: legal council asking why you used a random package that triggered a contractually obligated security audit for your biggest client.
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Rust will thrive despite the PLT coloring debate. Async frameworks often dominate through winner-takes-all dynamics. Most blog posts on async coloring are pretentious nonsense, and I've faced heavy moderation here for calling out their

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