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by jariel 6y ago
"Because on January 5th, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys weren't considered a threat. That changed on January 6th." This is not true. "FBI alert about possible ‘war’ against Congress reached D.C. and Capitol Police on ev
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Yes, we agree that Trump's action were deplorable, borderline treasonous/seditious. But why are so many unwilling to admit/conceded/realize that the US Capitol was very clearly warned of impending problems, and refused h
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Trump is planning a major protest. The FBI says there are threats of violence. What do you do? 1) Accept the offer from the national guard et. al. and make preparations? 2) Refuse and say it's all good. The Mayor of DC and capitol poli
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The preparations were a failure, but the moment the protesters broke through into the Capitol building - and Trump continued to press legislators to overthrow the results of the election (and therefore the Republic), and refused to use his
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This is a misrepresentation. The Mayor of DC refused help in the days coming up to the protest and is very much on the record as saying they were 'well prepared'. [1] The DoD is a major step to take, it's not like they would
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"And I'm not saying sure, let's build HongKong2.0." Yes you are. If they removed controls and zoning, SF would go radically vertical, and over 30-50 years, it would be NYC/Hong Kong like. There is no 'ethical&#
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No, he's saying we should not elevate a murder to the status of guru. That's different than saying 'he deserves eternal poverty'. Taking a life is a very, very serious thing.
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"I don't want to live in a vengeful, vindictive or cruel society and I don't want anyone doing those things on my behalf. " It's not Vengeance if it's Justice. What we could try to do is focus much harder on ma
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'vice' ... 'factual reporting' ... Good grief. VICE is a street punk magazine founded by 1990's hustlers trying to make some money. I remember reading them back when they would have articles like "How to eat Pu
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Zoning does not 'cause' anything. Demand does. The notion is ridiculous - housing is extremely affordable in the US. There absolutely is no affordability crisis. There is merely 'a lot of people who want to live in SF and NYC
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No, in your own answer you pointed out the cause: "low interest rates in order to help keep housing priced up". That is literally the cause. NIMBYISM cannot be a 'cause' of anything - there is always more demand than sup
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Ironically you've demonstrated why low interest rates might be a primary culprit. (FYI the cost of the building it not hugely relevant, it's the land.) Imagine that you can afford some kind of monthly payment for your mortgage -
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Well it does actually. As interest rates stay low - the amount of leverage in housing increases, which creates more volatility. The economic crises is obviously the primary forcing function during the crises and subsequent recovery. This wi
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It's not zoning. The same issue persists irrespective of supposed NIMBYISM. The primary, most obvious driver is historically low interest rates. How much we can attribute to that is hard to say but it's #1 for sure. During the 200
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This is a misrepresentation. There are no 'rogue entities' with nukes outside of N. Korea unless you consider Pakistan to be 'rogue', or, their benefactors, Saudi Arabia who undoubtedly have access to the tech the moment
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They are not very related categories. People use slack because they liked it and convinced their managers. MSFT has direct access to every single CTO/CIO in the world. They have a sales pipe into most of them along with a bunch of othe
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They did, but according to their stats Scotland has 100K people 'dependent' on the sector, Alberta alone has 400K. Alberta is 4.5M pop. Scotland is 5.5M. Alberta will unfortunately not be able to turn those Oilsands dredgers into
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It's not 'unequivocal' though - we don't have enough information to say that. You have to know what the vulnerability is, how it's exploited and what the consequences are. While I don't doubt that in reality, e
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It's not 'corrupt' to spy on other nations and it's not 'corrupt' to facilitate it. It's not rooted in 'insecurity of the belief in a style of government' it's rooted in basic security measu
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The nuclear question work entirely against your argument, and illustrates the naivte of the 'everyone or nobody' concept as totally unworkable. 'Nukes bring peace' mostly only if they are in the hands of a few major, sta
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Because Canada has a massive Oil sector, Scotland doesn't so much - and with a tinge of hypocrisy they want a bigger share of the revenue proceeds from North Sea Oil. Canada's economic influence in the world is fairly strongly tie
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I'm not taking a swipe at the Swiss, and 'pretty currency' doesn't necessarily mean 'culture'. I'm saying that elevating people who have materially contributed to the nation, it's character and histor
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You can move to the United States where they don't 'waste money' on 'old cultural things'. The amount saved for you would be equivalent to about 1/6 of a cup of coffee at Starbucks, so that's a win.
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Totally the opposite, I'm glad to live in a place that has a modicum of culture. Once you give every artifact of culture away in the name of efficiency and 'not having to make a decision' ... ... then we'll have a Starbu
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by jariel 6y ago
Brilliantly true. I've found that it is possible to do during the day, but you kind of have to put your phone away, and also clamp down on browser. HN is unfortunately a distraction! Make yourself 'feel' like it's a Mond
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Many of our system are existentially flawed and can't be truly fixed. Our current OSs for example, were designed in an era where security was no concern. Any app can do 'anything'. If Linux, Mac and Windows were to have been
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Actors have union that sets wages and conditions, otherwise, a lot of actors would get paid $0. That's a lot like a regular union. Major League Sports have unions so that players can leverage their power vis-a-vis owners. It's a s
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by jariel 6y ago
Can someone knowledgeable please explain where these workers are useful? Serverless components within an main infa. make sense - it's an easier way to deploy. But these 'edge' functions ... what is the advantage of saving a f
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Actors have a union because they are commodity workers, which is my point. Software developers are not commodity workers. Profs, Nurses and Doctors have what are essentially guilds, where they set very special standards of accreditation and
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Acting are the most commodity of all commodities. There are 1000x available actors for every role cast. Almost every actor you can name is 'worried about their next project' to the point that basically only A-listers have real job

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