kbelder

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by kbelder 2y ago
I see what you're claiming is the problem.
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by kbelder 2y ago
"My inability to make reasonable comparisons is worse than slow death from starvation."
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by kbelder 2y ago
And that was good. Workers being replaced by tools is good for society, although temporarily disruptive.
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by kbelder 2y ago
My case exactly, except I'm still in denial.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Krugman was enlightening, in that he made me realize that even Nobel prize winners can be obviously wrong even in their field of study. Political partisanship sure is a mindkiller.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Both? If the guy worked for free, it would have increased margin by about 0.002%.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Ironically, the net result may be an increase in CEO compensation.
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by kbelder 2y ago
>(male) non-fathers reporting satisfaction vs dissatisfaction with having kids How would that work?
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by kbelder 2y ago
From their temp folder, which is completely reasonable.
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by kbelder 2y ago
It's where oil comes from that caused the CO2 that the trees are collecting; it's just closing the cycle.
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by kbelder 2y ago
You're making a different point than you think...
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by kbelder 2y ago
There's a balancing act here. Each individual Chinese citizen is innocent, but their government isn't; how much should each citizen suffer the consequences of their government's actions? On one hand, it could be argued that
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by kbelder 2y ago
> ...does this mean that we can effectively block certain websites from China as a form of denial attack? I believe this is known. I have a file saved somewhere with a list of terms that allegedly trigger Chinese blocking. I won't
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by kbelder 2y ago
The proper amount of spaces after a period.
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by kbelder 2y ago
The fact that early computer storage was basically a co-opted audio format led to a lot of strange hacks. You could broadcast code over TV and radio, and I think there were some services that did this. I think I also recall some program ca
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by kbelder 2y ago
>Are you under the illusion that nuclear would have helped I am.
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by kbelder 2y ago
He's optimising for (kids) over (himself). It's noble.
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by kbelder 2y ago
>Also remember that the guilty power-mongers' first defense is always "deny, deny, deny". That's generally the first defense of innocent people, too.
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by kbelder 2y ago
If martial law was declared in the US, I expect there'd be a story on HN about it.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I'll judge the person. Someone wanting to die because they lose an arm is nuts.
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by kbelder 2y ago
>That leaves Intel with the fraction of the non-mac laptop market that’s made up of people that haven’t been paying attention for the last ten years, and don’t ask anyone who has. Evidently, that leaves Intel the majority of the market.
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by kbelder 2y ago
The Department of Education was founded in 1980. Are you worried we'll lose all the massive improvements in education we've seen since then?
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by kbelder 2y ago
You shouldn't want to control every aspect of a child's life. You control what you can and should control, and the kid is aware of that, and you let them decide the rest. They will do things you don't want them to do, and t
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by kbelder 2y ago
Those professing unpopular beliefs and belonging to unpopular religions were the very first 'protected class' listed in the constitution. Not really a 'class' though, since the protection applies to everybody.
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by kbelder 2y ago
That was my immediate takeaway as well, although it's important to remember that we don't have any certainty either way.
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by kbelder 2y ago
> if I’m a racist that’s bad but if I believe in the political concept of a whites-only ethnostate is that protected? Bad views are protected. That's the point of it. Not difficult.
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by kbelder 2y ago
> that's well beyond the expected useful lifespan of even a modern TV, let alone an older model like these A modern TV may have an expected lifespan of five years. TVs from several decades ago had lifespans of... several decades.
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by kbelder 2y ago
A person standing at the north pole wouldn't be in orbit. They would fall directly down. (Wouldn't they?)
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by kbelder 2y ago
SciAm was transformative to my life, I think. My father brought home a stack of them, maybe a couple year's worth, for me when I was twelve or so. I read them over and over again during my teens, slowly puzzling understanding out of
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by kbelder 2y ago
If you sell your house, would the new owner be able to sue you, then?

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