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by kofejnik 10y ago
as someone born in USSR, I assure you that artificial equality sucks much harder than natural inequality
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Not very complicated, there are universal human rights, plus whatever is guaranteed in a relevant constitution. Everything else is for those who can afford it. Luxurious place in high demand area is one example. (should we strive to make Fe
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by kofejnik 10y ago
People keep saying 'SF should allow for more development' as if it's a universal human right to live in SF; while current residents are being mean by not wanting highrises on their block. SF is nice, more people want to live
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by kofejnik 10y ago
heroin does have self-harm potential, but so do free climbing, flying in wingsuit, etc. Should we outlaw them as well?
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Do you realize your link literally repeats what I said: "Police who pulled over and killed Philando Castile reported they thought he might have resembled a suspect in an armed robbery case." He was not stopped over a broken light,
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by kofejnik 10y ago
it wasn't a broken tail light stop, they were stopped because they matched the description of suspects in an earlier armed robbery
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Wow, congrats, really envious here. May I ask - what industry and tech? And how do you find those clients?
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by kofejnik 10y ago
senior developer salary: 20k-35k. Not cheap at all.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Perfectly good analogy. Not living in the exact place you want does not cause unreasonable suffering ("nearest starbucks is 2 miles away, oh horrors" ?), so it should be subject to market forces.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
and this is wrong exactly why? My buying groceries reduces groceries available to other people.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
There's a very simple real world test - Korea. Russia created North Korea, US created South Korea. So ask any other developing country - who would they rather be allies with?
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by kofejnik 10y ago
now russkies are bombing the hell out of Syria, do you like it better?
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by kofejnik 10y ago
right, I stand corrected, 118 years
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by kofejnik 10y ago
There's forgiveness and then there's stupid ignorance. Germans apologized and changed their ways. Russia did not.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Lie. Stalin is openly revered as an example of real leadership.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
not the same at all, US hasn't annexed territories from its neighbours for 150 years now
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Russia is a schoolyard bully and should be treated as such
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by kofejnik 10y ago
not really opposite imho, the point is 'explained slowly and methodically', seeing professor's face is completely optional
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by kofejnik 10y ago
in the 30s, a lot of European media was reporting about happy life of working people in the USSR (see 'useful idiots')
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by kofejnik 10y ago
To the contrary, I find many of his proposals very rational, and this rationality seems to hurt many people's feelings
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Being able to buy toilet paper was a major win (in the '80s), that was planning economy at its finest, not military spending. Or people who had to commute from countryside to large cities to buy cheese and sausage. Source: born in the
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by kofejnik 10y ago
my link is about liberals tending to think of non-liberals as uneducated unwashed masses
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by kofejnik 10y ago
At first, I thought 'Yeah me too, text is so much more efficient', but then I realized something. Maybe it's only me, but for learning more complex things video lectures work wonders for me, probably because they force me to
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by kofejnik 10y ago
There's very little doubt that Trump is an extremely smart person. Also, see http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...
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by kofejnik 10y ago
The judge shut down the company, not Thiel. Or are you saying the court was Thiel's sock puppet? Then you have a much bigger problem.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Jennifer Lawrence's persona and living are based on being extremely attractive, so was it Ok to hack her iCloud and publish her nude selfies? Strangely, Gawker crowd was very upset that no one went to jail for it.
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by kofejnik 10y ago
by extension, the Fappenning was public interest, too. But somehow Gawker is saying "In the summer of 2014, anonymous hackers flooded the internet with private nude photos of major (and minor) celebrities. Two years later, new details
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by kofejnik 10y ago
ironically, this is what the parent comment is doing - attacking the author and not the message
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by kofejnik 10y ago
otoh, artificially allowing startups to get cheap engineers means that these or some other engineers are deprived of an opportunity to make a lot more money at Google/Facebook. Engineers are thus being exploited by unethical employers
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by kofejnik 10y ago
Probably the only thing you can do is to have a separate secret email or phone only for account recovery, which are not linked to you in any way, or recovery codes printed out and stored in a secure location

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