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by istjohn 6y ago
Consider that the IRS provides an ITIN number for tax filing purposes to anyone who doesn't have a SSN. Millions of undocumented immigrants pay their taxes and operate in society without a SSN.
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by istjohn 6y ago
That's the syntax for search on replace with sed on Linux.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Here in Ohio, a first time misdemeanor can generally be expunged after 2 years.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I wish the article would describe what motivated her in more detail.
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by istjohn 6y ago
It might be a class issue, not a race issue, or I'll concede it could be something else entirely. I don't know enough to say. But there is a parallel between the two stories that certainly bears consideration.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Racism is a pervasive, if often invisible, force in American life. We've all learned over the past decade that racist policing is pervasive from New York to Texas. It would be odd if racism did not come up in the discussion.
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by istjohn 6y ago
That sounds about right. In another comment, I cited a story about how we closed public pools en masse when they were becoming integrated[1]. People would rather have no public goods at all than share them with people they look down on. 1.
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by istjohn 6y ago
For real. The US vastly underinvests in public goods. Everyone would be better off if we had attractive and free and plentiful public pools, recreation centers, play grounds, and transportation. Instead we neglect these, so everyone wants a
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by istjohn 6y ago
The world isn't that simple. It also seems a little self-serving to lay the blame for materialism at the feet of women. Someone else might argue capitalism is just a testosterone fueled pissing contest, men competing to see who has the
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by istjohn 6y ago
My ancestors may have been slaves 1,000 years ago. Even serfdom in Europe began to fizzle out 500 years ago. My ancestors were never enslaved in the US, under the US Constitution, under a US Congress, US President, and US judicial system.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Of course, everyone has minor workplace tension and conflict at times, and working through those things is just part of the job. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do what we can to make people feel welcome and at ease.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Flop on the field all you want, no one called you racist. Your insistence that foreigners can't continue to identify with their own culture while also embracing a new one is aptly described as xenophobia. If you want to have a sensible
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by istjohn 6y ago
Scott Alexander is condemning woke culture in the essay you quote but the specific reason woke culture cycles through words is the euphemism treadmill.
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by istjohn 6y ago
This is an example of the "Euphemism Treadmill." Words that refer to things that some portion of society hold negative views about acquire negative connotations over time. These words are then discarded by polite society for clean
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by istjohn 6y ago
Imagine that your great-great grandparents were enslaved. Your grandparents weren't allowed to go to white schools. Your dad was harrassed by the cops as a young man in the deep south. You worry that your colleagues may think you would
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by istjohn 6y ago
This is rich. Britain colonized half the world, imposing it's culture on dozens of societies around the world while exploiting their labor and natural resources, but god forbid modern day migrants to the UK dare display the flag of th
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by istjohn 6y ago
Three independent investigators came to the same conclusion, but we're supposed to believe you know better from your armchair?
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by istjohn 6y ago
"Two autopsies — one by a county medical examiner and another by a private medical examiner hired by Floyd’s family — as well as a review by military experts conducted for the federal government, reached the conclusion that Floyd died
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by istjohn 6y ago
Pay for someone to be social with you? Like RentAFriend[1]? 1. https://rentafriend.com/whatis
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by istjohn 6y ago
I hate those auto-playing advertisements at the pump with a perhaps inexplicable passion. The worst is that they often can be muted by pressing one of six unlabeled buttons. As if they knew there would be people who would find the adverts o
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by istjohn 6y ago
It seems there is more to this story than the author lets on. Michelle cheated on her personal taxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7193033
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by istjohn 6y ago
He also wrote bootOS, "a monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code." https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS
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by istjohn 6y ago
A tolerant liberal society is built on the foundational principle that people are allowed to read bad books, think bad thoughts and say bad things. And I'm allowed to denounce these bad things as bad, but I'm not allowed to dictat
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by istjohn 6y ago
Even better: They have to use the storage provider of your choosing.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Fascinating. From the video, this same effect can even invert the image so that a ship appears to hover upside down: a ghost ship.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Hell, we can barely get people to wear face masks in their neighborhood grocery store.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Why do we think the origin of intelligent life requires a few hard steps and not just a continuous progression or perhaps one hard step and otherwise a steady progression?
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by istjohn 6y ago
I can imagine a scenario where civilization collapses and humankind exists in a permanent dark age without abundant oil to launch a new industrial revolution. Edit: Another alternative is technology progresses but political and cultural ins
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by istjohn 6y ago
Interesting. Life emerged 4 billion years ago and the window of habitability for complex lifeforms will end in one more billion years. So terrestrial natural selection required 80% of the window of opprtunity to produce human intelligence.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I will say, though, as someone who just switched, 1Password is significantly nicer.

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