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by intermerda 1y ago
> Management learns this the hard way [2] I don't get this. Why is Musk tweeting a fake quote and why are you posting it? What does it signify?
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by intermerda 1y ago
> Everything I've seen so far from Trump is what I voted for. Did you always have fascist tendencies or did Trump bring them out?
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by intermerda 1y ago
> How does the HN crew based in the US think about the current administration? HN and the broader tech community have had their mask off moments.
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by intermerda 1y ago
American conservatives have long stopped pretending to have any policy other than bowing to their King.
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by intermerda 1y ago
Yes, Biden's Inflation Reduction Act had tons of provisions to help out renewables in general and solar energy in particular. Most of them were in form of tax credits which I'm sure helped Texas a lot. Many of Biden's policie
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by intermerda 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness explained a lot for me. > Trevor died from liver disease that would have been preventable if he had had access to health care. But until his dying breath, he agreed w
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by intermerda 1y ago
The fact is that neither the headline nor the article claims that the definition of "protected class" being used is the same exact legal definition used in the US. The fact is that Apple is saying ICE is a "targeted group&quo
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by intermerda 1y ago
I don't know why you feel it's loaded if the language of "targeted group" is accompanied with every single group that is a protected class. > 1.1.1 Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including refer
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by intermerda 1y ago
> Much of this was economic: illegal immigrants dilute the labour force. Then why are the farmers complaining about it? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-farm-groups-want-trump-s...
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by intermerda 1y ago
> Obama was quite strict about it and deported tons of illegals. An arrest isn't a violent kidnapping. Being arrested by the feds for breaking the law has usually been a fairly unpleasant ordeal. Obama prioritized deportation of peo
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by intermerda 1y ago
Trump's bill allocated 170 billion dollars to ICE. That figure is greater than annual defense spending of every country in the world other than US and China. I believe it's spread over four years, so amortized over that time peri
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by intermerda 1y ago
Where does it imply that it's the view of all nine justices on the bench? Are you intentionally trying to undermine the gravity of this by straw-manning?
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by intermerda 1y ago
https://www.commondreams.org/news/alito-2668492585 > Alito replied, “I agree with you,” when Windsor said people who are conservative Christians need “to return our country to a place of godliness.” He said Windsor
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by intermerda 1y ago
> Also let’s be honest, if any government official “requests” anything it is always under the threat of retribution. If you wanted to be honest you would say this government, not any government.
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by intermerda 1y ago
> In both cases US government officials applied pressure and implied legal action to force private companies to act in ways that enabled law enforcement to act with less resistance. That's like saying cooking is comparable with stab
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by intermerda 1y ago
> It remains Apple's policy today. What is that policy? > According to Grok Why did you ask an LLM which is manipulated by a single person when he doesn't like facts? > So, we have precedent where four Democratic senators
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by intermerda 1y ago
I remembered reading about the DBOS paper a while back - https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11112 . Is this an evolution of that research work? If so, how did an OS for databases morph into a workflow orchestration service?
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by intermerda 1y ago
> And I'm at work right now but you can search for "biden admin ban word women/female/mother/etc". You may not be able to use google because they remove a lot of links to conservative outlets (I like yandex
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by intermerda 1y ago
It doesn't have to be explicitly racist. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... Lee Atwater would be proud. It started with Reagan and is used with exceptional effectiveness by the cu
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by intermerda 1y ago
The lower rates weren't statistically significant. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the study, just pointing out the table. In fact, it kind of me of the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by intermerda 1y ago
> The vaccine does not prevent infection and does not reduce the rate of infection, This is not true. Multiple studies have shown that the vaccines significantly reduced infection rates. > however it was mandated for everyone to take
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by intermerda 1y ago
> Obama's love of drones and his ordering extra-judicial execution of US citizens, their destruction of Syria and Libya and Iraq, etc. Good thing that you prefaced with that you're not an American and you try not to wade into i
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by intermerda 1y ago
It’s racists all the way to your core. You just don’t want to acknowledge it explicitly.
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by intermerda 1y ago
Yeah the guy who referred to African countries as "shithole" while wondering why the US can't import more immigrants from Norway puts insurmountable barriers to a program whose beneficiaries are overwhelmingly non-white peopl
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by intermerda 1y ago
Huh I did not know that. I’m usually on careful about not using well-known nicknames unless the person goes by them.
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by intermerda 1y ago
> Don’t play the race card, you sound emotional saying that. It's not a "card", it's reality. And you make it sound like there is something wrong with being emotional. It's neither politics nor getting back to th
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by intermerda 1y ago
You perfectly exemplify the right-wing hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance by saying "it has nothing to do with skin color" followed by a quote by a people who did not consider black people to be people.
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by intermerda 1y ago
> A democrat should've been there so we flip a coin and decide the gender of your kid. Nice strawman. > The democrats went too far left which is why they lost. The democrats lost because they underestimated the stupidity and over
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by intermerda 1y ago
Tim Roscoe gave an interesting Keynote at OSDI '21 titled "It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo . He was involved with the Barrelfish proje
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by intermerda 1y ago
The US has had its mask off since 2016-17. The tech industry somewhat more recently.

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