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by jballer 3y ago
It is for exactly that reason (the expectation that one can or should take care of themself) that people use this word. They believe it's not only inoffensive and compassionate, but actually a way to solve the problem through activism:
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by jballer 3y ago
Point taken, I could’ve worded my comment better
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by jballer 3y ago
Why is water designed to be capable of drowning people?
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by jballer 3y ago
The driver’s ability to command a car’s speed gives effect to our rights to self defense, to unrestrained movement, to due process, to choose to break the letter of the law where there are extenuating circumstances, etc.
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by jballer 3y ago
Why are knives designed to be capable of being used as a murder weapon?
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by jballer 3y ago
What is expected is that the applicant will tell them what they want to hear. Top marks: convince them that you’re a true believer. Passing marks: convince them that, while you have yet to reach gnosis, you’re eager to learn from them, make
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by jballer 3y ago
The only beneficiary of a forced apology is the authority figure's ego.
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by jballer 3y ago
We were typing at the same time - see my other comment (sibling to yours) linking to Thiel arguing things are likely worse in hard sciences, and encouraging people to find ways to expose it.
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by jballer 3y ago
Even so, it was a good demonstration of the point above: the peer review process in journals is not designed to keep out garbage, and is incentivized to apply less scrutiny when the subject is politically convenient. Peter Thiel in this rec
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by jballer 3y ago
Yes, Rufo is an activist, and he is transparent about his intentions and strategies. I have a JD and passed the bar. I know that a “protected class” is for all people and all manifestations of a trait, not specific identity groups. It was p
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by jballer 3y ago
This was what a few academics hypothesized and set out to prove in what is now known as the Grievance Studies Affair [1]. Not only did they get multiple hoax papers published, they got recognized for “excellent scholarship” [2]. [1] https:
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by jballer 3y ago
You are not taking crazy pills. This comment perfectly tracks my thoughts upon confronting similar a couple years ago. The toughest part was that I didn’t know the words to name or describe it. I’ll +1 someone else’s recommendation of Tim U
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by jballer 3y ago
You may be able to expose it to the client as a SMB network share. But you might also find it easier to back up over a network than to migrate a local backup into the necessary format.
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by jballer 3y ago
How about in the original iPhone keynote, when Steve says “this cable is just here for it to work on our projector” - if you follow closely, there was no phone demo’d that day with screen on and no cable. I’m sure the main board was still e
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by jballer 4y ago
The initial announcement made it sound like this would be a drop-in replacement for cell tower coverage. T-Mobile contributing already-licensed spectrum, existing phones are supported, and they plan to eventually support voice and video: h
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by jballer 4y ago
What aspect of this article is noteworthy or valuable? It starts by minimizing people who "felt mandatory vaccinations violated their personal freedom" - a matter that is philosophical and political, and not at all scientific. It
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by jballer 4y ago
My first thought was the presence of 8” tiles may narrow it down a bit? Sounds like it’s an area on the flat bottom surface where they’re uniform in shape. This article has the video and a screencap: http://www.collectspace.com&#
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by jballer 4y ago
They're betting that a lawsuit would be so wildly unpopular that people would rather leave the money (and the principle) behind than face social exile.
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by jballer 4y ago
Maybe they’re just trying to get more people to walk out voluntarily
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by jballer 4y ago
“We avoided firing people who aren’t white” vs “we preferred firing people who are white.” This school of thought purports to agree that harmful impact supersedes good intent. They just refuse to recognize the individual as the ultimate min
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by jballer 4y ago
This reporting about the depths the Gibsons were hurled into, just to serve as scapegoats without any evidence of wrongdoing, might change your mind. The activists perpetuating the boycott were right about one thing: this is about way more
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by jballer 4y ago
That’s the obvious criticism. Not to mention ability to generate a profit beyond those concerns. Proponents would argue that this a feature, not a bug.
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by jballer 4y ago
ESG should be boiled down.
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by jballer 4y ago
But did they cross state lines?
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by jballer 5y ago
Make sure to talk to the docents - many (all?) of them are engineers who worked on the hardware! Last time I was there I spoke with someone who had worked on an IMU mounted in the interstage.
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by jballer 5y ago
Freedom is self-determination and ownership of your own survival. Some people will make decisions you see as stupid or bad. Upside: others can't impose their decisions on you. Downside: you can't impose your decisions on others.
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by jballer 6y ago
needs a banana for scale…
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by jballer 6y ago
I think it's fair to care about it for precisely the reason that you don't get it. This problem doesn't get as much attention, and is more likely to get worse because of sentiment like this :(
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by jballer 6y ago
TL;DR because the Constitution was written to protect us from the government, there is a lower bar to sue and win under both federal law and constitutional challenges. For example, the Fourteenth Amendment protects against discrimination by
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by jballer 6y ago
I work at FB. I wouldn’t want to be working alongside people who think I’m a mercenary abdicating my moral precepts. And I wouldn’t expect that of my colleagues. So my guess is that you could get away with it easily, but you‘d be doing a di

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