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by jboog 6y ago
Yeah, he could have selectively leaked only important crimes of the US government but he instead leaked tons of shit that endangered the lives of Americans overseas and gave our enemies insight into how we conduct intelligence gathering in
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by jboog 6y ago
Imagine posting this and not idk, googling the author to find he's one of the most well-respected game-theorists in the world. But sure, anonymous internet bro knows more about game theory than the Stanford econ PhD who teaches at Stan
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by jboog 6y ago
Yep, I worked at a golf course in groundskeeping for a summer after HS. The diet of the "old timers" was absolutely ridiculous. The worst, Jim, his lunch every day was literally a can of Coca-Cola and a can of Vienna Sausages (shi
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by jboog 6y ago
And my point is that no test exists which will determine who are the "genius" kids. There are tens of thousands of adults all over the world who went to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford etc. that then went on to live completely
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by jboog 6y ago
What does that have to do with the price of tea in china?
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by jboog 6y ago
Then you should do some research because there are massive government incentives to get married in the US that gays and lesbians were cut off from. What happens in your country is irrelevant to this discussion
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by jboog 6y ago
I think admitting legacies is morally and ethically wrong but the idea that what we need is another test even harder than the SATs to distinguish the "outstanding" is misguided. The difference between kid who gets a 1550 and a 160
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by jboog 6y ago
Funny you think giving gays and lesbians the same rights as everyone else in this country is "social justice olympics" No other way to describe this contempt for basic human rights than "vice signalling"
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by jboog 6y ago
The CEO of the company spent his personal money so that his gay and lesbian employees could be discriminated against by the government. THAT IS "bringing it in the office"
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by jboog 6y ago
The leader of a large tech company was the government to ensure his gay and lesbian employees can never legally get married, despite straight employees enjoying all the personal/financial benefits of marriage. I don't care if it h
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by jboog 6y ago
I mean technically sure, but he created this entire company based on fraudulent con-artist tactics. Good he's leaving but this is almost Theranos level fraud and he's leaving with $3 BILLION. Unbelievable.
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by jboog 6y ago
Yeah you're right, it's all so bizarre. This dude IPOd a unicorn startup and is (for now) a billionaire by selling a vision of a manufacturing company with a non-working prototype that literally almost anyone with modest engineeri
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by jboog 6y ago
The thing with Tesla is that they actually had their own tech IP and a killer product. Nikola lied about its trucks, and now plans to outsource all of its production to other CV manufacturers, or at the very best buy parts off the market an
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by jboog 6y ago
The low skilled workers are going to get paid very little because we choose to pay them very little. We as a society have decided that rather than increase the wealth of the very poor at the bottom of society, instead we want to increase th
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by jboog 6y ago
I'm sure the bugs you mention about Windows exist and are terrible, but I made the switch to Windows after converting to Mac ~9 years ago and I haven't experienced anything but very minor annoyances. I still prefer the Mac OS expe
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by jboog 6y ago
Why is everyone acting like every school charges Ivy League prices? Most state schools are affordable. Mine is a top school and charges $9k a year in tuition for in state. You can get all of the social, in person experience at almost any st
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by jboog 6y ago
I agree with the thrust of your argument but my flagship state university is still affordable for anyone. It's not cheap, but in state tuition even if you pay sticker isn't so high you can't pay it off in a reasonable amount
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by jboog 6y ago
Quite ironic you are using India's caste system as an example of how primitive and un-just the society and how great Britain is when Britain is the very reason the caste system exists as it does today. Prior to British rule, castes we
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by jboog 6y ago
Twitter isn't targeting any specific group so this is a moot point. They have been and will continue to "fact check" liberals and democrats too. This reminds me of the dishonest framing of the IRS supposedly targeting conserv
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by jboog 6y ago
How does fact-checking dishonest (or at the very least disingenuous) comments "restrict the free flow of information and ideas"? The ideas still flow freely. Twitter isn't even forcing more accurate and factual information r
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by jboog 6y ago
Defenders of the EIC at the time surely said "yeah some bad stuff happens but think about the squalor the average Indian lived in prior to the Englishman coming in and bringing great wealth to their country. Think of the untold famine
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by jboog 6y ago
I started on Reddit about a decade ago also. Early reddit was a lot more like current HN. You're right you'd see more pro Ron Paul and libertarian stuff. Then the site went mainstream. Users on the internet are more liberal than t