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by jlawson 7y ago
What I responded to was >too many people who have had those advantages think they are “self made”. Implying that none of them are actually self-made. Which would mean that people born into decent circumstances cannot be self-made. In oth
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by jlawson 7y ago
It takes time to "context up" on code you haven't read in a while (or ever). You have to read it, understand how the parts fit together, understand any gotchas and what purpose it serves for other modules. All this takes time
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by jlawson 7y ago
>my “success” is solely because of my “hard work” and none of it can be attributed to luck. That's near the opposite of what I said. Please don't lazily pattern match me to some strawman argument and attack on that basis. I&#x2
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by jlawson 7y ago
Just because you had some advantages doesn't mean your accomplishments are worth nothing. If you start out on home base and end on second you did well. If you start out on second and finish a home run you did well. Let's please no
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by jlawson 7y ago
I've noticed my video player does this, but only when using the "5 seconds forward/back" arrow key commands. Tap the left arrow and you end up skipping back to the same moment over and over, even if you wait a bit. Inter
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by jlawson 7y ago
Noone thinks it's an island untouched by the world. But a small degree of foreign influence over thousands of years, carried out by mutual trade of objects and information, just isn't the same as the kind of mass immigration seen
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by jlawson 7y ago
>Why would folks ostensibly wanting to use the sharper sides of self-expression go and label their own actions as violence? Nobody labels their own actions as violence. They label others' actions as violence, and either don't n
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by jlawson 7y ago
I said absolutely nothing about race. I resent the implication that my opinion is somehow racially-based. Nor have I done anything related to a "flame war". I insulted no individuals and I attacked no groups. Nor has a "flame
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by jlawson 7y ago
Really not. Spend some time in China. It won't take long (hours to days) before you notice the utter callousness with which people habitually treat strangers and the environment around them. It can't be believed until it's ex
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by jlawson 7y ago
> If this isn't violence, then why shouldn't I stigmatize you? What do you care? ..... If speech, association and the implication of violence are so trivial that it cannot constitute violence You seem to have the idea that any
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by jlawson 7y ago
Their power and privilege was based on and justified by the ideology, is what GP said.
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by jlawson 7y ago
Calling words 'violence' is like calling a restaurant recommendation 'eating'. A call to eat is not eating; A call to violence is not violence. It's simply nonsense. In fact there's no area where people are try
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by jlawson 7y ago
Wiping away the out nuance from words to remove important factual distinctions is not advancing the conversation.
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by jlawson 7y ago
Allied countries get treated with less suspicion than enemy countries - it's not complicated or unjustified. In one case, the company might be doing something wrong to consumers. In the other case, the enemy government might be making
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by jlawson 7y ago
Is there a way to figure out if an existing install was the compromised or real one?
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by jlawson 7y ago
Lots of jobs can't be offshored: domestic workers, farm workers, retail, drivers, food service, janitorial, hospitality etc. These are huge portions of the workforce. Not every job is manufacturing or call centers.
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by jlawson 7y ago
Lots of jobs can't really be moved offshore. Millions of these jobs are filled by illegal immigrants at illegally low wages. Farm workers. Domestic workers. Child care. Food service. Retail. Drivers. Massive portions of the labor force
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by jlawson 8y ago
>a run-down neighborhood with lots of broken windows will normalize behaviors that would be stigmatized elsewhere. Of course, but... >... as if replacing all the broken windows might somehow reduce crime. Of course this is pretty dumb
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by jlawson 8y ago
If you apply the theory that any conquered land still eternally belongs to whoever it was conquered from, then almost everybody on Earth owes their land to someone else, since everyone is descended from conquerors. This includes the America
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by jlawson 8y ago
To attach this to stability is to implicitly assume that what's important is that the wealth itself was passed down between generations. This would require stability, because if the wealth was all lost in one event, the chain would b
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by jlawson 8y ago
I think English would be fine. It's hard to imagine a scenario where future historians can't even translate 2019 English. That's either an apocalypse layered over an apocalypse, or a length of time beyond any human comprehens
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by jlawson 8y ago
"Slippery slope" is not a fallacy. Life is full of slippery slopes in terms of behavior.
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by jlawson 8y ago
"One of the largest" is different from "the deciding factor"; let's keep those goalposts pinned down please.
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by jlawson 8y ago
I like these jokes. The government is a health and unemployment insurer that also has an army. Your body is a child factory that has a brain.
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by jlawson 8y ago
>At the age you're agreeing this you are very unlikely to correctly judge your own value. I think that's the point, isn't it? Even if the student overestimates his potential, investors with more neutral incentives and more
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by jlawson 8y ago
It's not the only example, there's also the Polygon DOOM video. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4k4mt7/what_i... How can there be anyone in the entire office of such a website wh
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by jlawson 8y ago
Money is not the deciding factor in American elections. Hillary Clinton spent twice as much as Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.
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by jlawson 8y ago
All terrorism is political. Also, I tire of the constant politically motivated attempts to inflate the usage of words to try to attach awful connotations to relatively innocuous things. Please stop.
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by jlawson 8y ago
If by "caused problems" you mean "killed millions by starvation", then yes. They had a habit of killing local technocrats who didn't report strong numbers, though, so I can understand why someone would say their sta
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by jlawson 8y ago
I'm pretty sure "getting old" has always been a big part of the collapse of civilizations. I can think of few that were truly destroyed by unstoppable external forces (maybe the Byzantine Empire being attacked by Muslims?). M

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