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by jlongr 2y ago
Who did you vote for in the last election?
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by jlongr 2y ago
Eeek, someone is critical of my fascist idol!! Better censor them!!!!!
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by jlongr 2y ago
Sell your car. You're driving around a swastika with wheels.
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by jlongr 2y ago
Is there any reason to believe what Meta, or any other large corporation, has to say publicly?
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by jlongr 4y ago
"We believe that employees are much more likely to understand our unique culture and become part of it if they are surrounded by other Amazonians in person" This statement strikes me as dishonest. 'Culture', a nebulous a
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by jlongr 4y ago
C = car, G = goat. Column 1 = Door 1, etc. The car could be behind any of the three doors, hence the three rows showing each possibility. C G G G C G G G C You choose a door, say Door 1. Monty opens another door with a goat behind it. C x G
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by jlongr 4y ago
Judging by the article, it sounds like they are reaching for technological parity with other governments around the world: >In fact, among the many countries that have either developed or are in the process of developing instant payment
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by jlongr 4y ago
That's a great one. Habitability implies that we are preventing avoidable dangers. It's also gives a connotation of positive-feeling ownership, i.e. a home, as opposed to ownership of something 'bad' like debt. I would t
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by jlongr 4y ago
Infinitesimally low probability doesn't imply impossibility. If the event is in the probability space then it can certainly happen, no matter how serendipitous we may find it. What is so remarkable about the iPhone or the spaceship? Wh
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by jlongr 5y ago
I'm with you on this one. Constantly reverse-engineering old requirements, puzzling over someone's clever coding trick, it is easy to become terminally fatigued.
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by jlongr 5y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/breakthrough-covid-19-infectio ... “Breakthrough infections are not evidence that vaccines don’t work anymore than the fact that car crashes [that] are still sometimes fatal is evidence tha
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by jlongr 5y ago
From the link you shared: >For most, Covid is a mild disease. Some get no symptoms at all. But it can still cause very serious illness in some people, including those who have not been vaccinated. >[A] massive wave of infections would
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by jlongr 5y ago
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. >Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples c
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by jlongr 5y ago
From the nature.com link that you posted: “The low rate of severe acute disease is important news, but this does not have to mean that COVID does not matter to children,” says paediatrician Danilo Buonsenso at the Gemelli University Hospita
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by jlongr 5y ago
You're making some very large assumptions about the reader's circumstances and motivations: >you have 150k in the bank >no one is stopping you >the only reason you don't... Overall I think your response is not convin
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by jlongr 6y ago
The Economist
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by jlongr 6y ago
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson She is a wonderful writer and her book was an eye-opening journey through the deleterious and ubiquitous effects of caste, which is distinct from class or race, on American society a
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by jlongr 6y ago
Square agreed to acquire Credit Karma Tax.
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by jlongr 6y ago
Lichess will tell you the what opening is being played. It also suggests the 'best move' using arrows. https://lichess.org/
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by jlongr 6y ago
It's just one of the platforms that they are utilizing, not the only one. A campaign will explore many possible avenues in order to reach voters; this is just another means of voter outreach, like the campaign's Twitter account or
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by jlongr 6y ago
How will this system know what due date is 'reasonable', and whom to assign it to? How does it know if someone is 'overloaded'?
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by jlongr 6y ago
Mathematics is a subject that may not be the easiest or most desirable to self-study. In particular, the popular and effective Moore method of teaching math relies heavily on interaction with other students. https://en.wikipedia.
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by jlongr 6y ago
Agreed. Numeracy is a life-long skill whose applications pervade every aspect of one's life. Making decisions and navigating the world become much simpler tasks when estimation, analysis and forecasting are familiar tools at one's
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by jlongr 6y ago
You're being needlessly dismissive and combative, and calling an individual selfish "in aggregate" doesn't even make sense.
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by jlongr 6y ago
Many people are quite talented and intelligent. Yes, even as intelligent as any of the billionaire household names. There are people that could, in theory, do what those billionaires did to achieve their success. But ultimately, some people
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by jlongr 6y ago
The parent comment didn't make any such claims or use any vulgarity. I think you are putting words in their mouth and taking a very uncharitable interpretation of what was said.
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by jlongr 7y ago
I believe that throwing money at the problem is counter-productive. You struggle to commit yourself to so many things, but waving a 100 dollar bill in the air will serve only to attract opportunists who will happily take that money to offer
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by jlongr 7y ago
I don't consider your view extreme. I think it is quite rational and probably what many people believe but are afraid to express in the face of the uncompromising exuberance of those who have children. >I can't think of a time
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by jlongr 7y ago
Firefox Sync would probably be suitable. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/sync
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by jlongr 7y ago
Does the dollar amount of additional wealth given to the least-lazy person matter? Or is it only significant that they earn some marginal amount more than the second least-lazy person?

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