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by knolax 6y ago
> gay marriage came as the consequence. If marriage has a social purpose, to channel and direct human sexuality in a way that promotes social cohesion and provides for a man's progeny, then gay marriage is nonsense. This is patently
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by knolax 6y ago
> say no to China in the south China Sea. > people will just say "oh isn't that all China's territory?" You're already doing that. I feel like I'm witnessing a bizzare form of doublethink seeing people r
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by knolax 6y ago
I don't wanna be that guy but can we stop with all the namespace conflicts.
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by knolax 6y ago
A city in the US having a large homeless population is actually an indicator of a (relatively) stronger economy. Booming Economy --> Housing Inflation --> Large Homeless Population. I've seen far fewer homeless in Baltimore than
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by knolax 6y ago
> third wave" of Progressive activism, which is based on expanding the civil rights movement. > The first wave Progressives wanted nothing to do with civil rights, and most were virulent and unrepentant racists > All three gro
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by knolax 6y ago
> Economist The economist has some of the worst journalism I have ever seen. Lots of snark and no information.
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by knolax 6y ago
> Seems to me they've been culturally dominant in America (i.e. they control the schools, the media, entertainment, government bureaucracy and now Big Tech) for over a century Explain to me how BLM controlled America in the 1920s.
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by knolax 6y ago
Every time I am reminded of that book I become more and more convinced that humanities people are not fully sentient but are in fact advanced Markov chains.
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by knolax 6y ago
These names are getting more and more nonsensical. "Rocket Lake"?
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by knolax 6y ago
Sums up the HN mentality to me. "some foreign business exec didn't correctly decipher a cryptic technical abbreviation that only exists in my language correctly? What an idiot".
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by knolax 6y ago
But once he gets burned by his first armor trimming scam he'll become much more skeptical no?
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by knolax 6y ago
I never understood this attitude, which IMO is most prevalent in speakers of Romance languages and adjacent languages. What's the point of learning new languages if you're just gonna relearn 50 different varieties of Vulgar Latin.
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by knolax 6y ago
Is may just be me, but I have never been bothered by babies crying. Like it'll make me feel bad for the baby but it doesn't really make me mad.
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by knolax 6y ago
Wait Github isn't open source? The irony.
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by knolax 6y ago
Well I think in this case the iron is feeding a furnace so it's not going through a heat engine, it's just giving off heat.
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by knolax 6y ago
And you know this how? There are plenty of people there who get by fine without owning a phone.
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by knolax 6y ago
Controversial opinion here but I support monopolies. Compare the innovation that came out of Bell Labs when Bell had a monopoly vs. the stagnation that exists with the current telecom oligpoly. Most tech companies are natural monopolies so
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by knolax 6y ago
Yes but we live in a time after social security, where old people, regardless of whether or not they have children, are often completely subsidized by the current SS taxes of young people.
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by knolax 6y ago
When I saw "curating and controlling global information flows" I honestly couldn't tell if they meant that as a bad thing that TikTok was doing or a good thing that Western governments should be doing. I made fun of the conce
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by knolax 6y ago
An American local news network has neither the resources or motive to comply with European regulations.
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by knolax 6y ago
Being unable to engage with certain viewpoints to the point of bringing up foreign infiltrators every time you see it is a sign of brainwashing. I stated that as calmly as possible. I have received far worse replies on this forum. What real
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by knolax 6y ago
I feel like in practice people will just find ways to skirt around the law. Who's gonna scrap a perfectly good BMW.
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by knolax 6y ago
And accusing fellow commenters of being foreign shills isn't a personal attack?
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by knolax 6y ago
Killing hundreds of people with shitty code is not a misdemeanor. Also most executions are carried out by state governments not "Washington".
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by knolax 6y ago
The US still has capital punishments...
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by knolax 6y ago
Manslaughter's a capital offense in some places, so yeah if your bug kills people a la 737 Max or Therac-25 maybe you do deserve to be shot.
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by knolax 6y ago
Again with the blanket accusations of astroturfing without any proof. Crying shill whenever you encounter an opposing opinion is not something a rational and free-thinking person does. What you're basically doing is refusing to engage
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by knolax 6y ago
Sensationalist title made to appeal to stereotypes. None of the source material mentions either "originality" or "creativity". > In this short vignette, a wheelwright known as Pian (扁) tells a duke that the book of sa
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by knolax 6y ago
It does harm to society. Just look at incels. That's a direct result of hookup culture.
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by knolax 6y ago
So if I view murder as bad and I ban MRDR, a hot new SV startup that helps murderers plan their murders, I'm a tyrant? The rest of the world isn't obligated to import every social engineering system SV comes up with.

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