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by larnmar 7y ago
I was fourteen once too, kid. I know the world looks simple when you’re out there forming your very first political opinions, but it’s really not. The world isn’t some simple struggle between good guys and bad guys, it’s an incomprehensibly
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If the world goes to shit and the Swiss are the only ones left with coffee, then I’ll be most pissed off. The Swiss, quite frankly, don’t deserve coffee. They don’t know how to make it, and they don’t know how to drink it. The Swiss are goo
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This, but unironically.
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Not that many jobs, especially good ones, are filled by applicants replying to want ads. You should be leaning on your personal network more and on “job applications” less.
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> Why? Because if the government decides that it can, at any point, kill off your entire industry and destroy hundreds of billions in value, then we’re all fucked.
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Sure, unless we also had proper punishments for drug offenders.
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What is a non-“imperialist” nation, and what makes you think their media is any better? The rest of your comment I agree with, but attributing it to “the media of imperialist nations” instead of just being a property of media organisations
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The ideal is to solve the problem with carrot and stick. Give them free housing of a sort, so that it’s an improvement over living on the street, but not so that currently-housed people would feel tempted to downgrade their status to homele
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That’d be great if San Francisco had enough police to monitor for anything. As it is, drug deals happen in broad daylight on Market St anyway because nobody’s gonna stop them.
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Can you give an example of a false claim that’s causing real negative consequences for real people? Difficulty: the claim needs to be one that was made in support of something that you personally agree with.
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Everyone says China is stable but they’ve had two bloody revolutions in the last century-and-a-bit. Whoever the next Chinese government is, they probably won’t look kindly upon those who collaborated with the CCP.
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So what’s the worst thing that can happen? They pull their money out? I’d have thought YC, given their history, wouldn’t have any trouble raising money.
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“Trying to subvert democracy” isn’t really as clear as day, it’s the kind of vague accusation that people throw around about their political opponents.
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Slavery is a really exceptional (in a bad way) example of a political disagreement. In that particular disagreement, one side was clearly (in retrospect) right, the other was wrong. Nowadays we’re all on the right side, the wrong side looks
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If we all got quietly wiped out tomorrow, I wonder how long it would take for the Burj Khalifa to fall down. Probably less than 3800 years. Then maybe some older, shorter, stronger skyscraper in a geologically stable zone would take the cro
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There seems to be an expansion of the meaning of “conspiracy theory” here, to cover just about any form of wacko-ness or crankism. There may be some ways in which earthquake-prediction cranks overlap with conspiracy theories, but it’s not r
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Trump may have been wrong but I doubt he was lying — merely not correctly informed. The exact details of Apple’s supply chain are not something I would reasonably expect the President of the United States to be totally au fait with. Tim Coo
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Not at all! Every year the US and it’s various state and local governments collect trillions... and then proceed to spend it on some other crap.
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An interesting point is that despite the fact that the train line was already built and the rolling stock was acquired dirt cheap, the cost was still significantly higher than a bus. Poor old buses, unloved by politicians, but usually a far
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Seems like the difference between unit tests and integration tests.
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You really don’t see a difference between personally stealing something, and inheriting something that your ancestor stole 963 years ago? If so, we might as well all be hanged.
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And those natives would need to return it to other natives, who would need to return it to other natives, and so on for a thousand or so generations.
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Does being sexist make it untrue? Are truth and sexistness orthogonal axes? If you had to choose between saying something true but sexist and non-sexist but untrue, which would you pick?
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Furthermore it seems to me that investing in a stable company smaller than a certain size is likely to have too much key man risk. If I invest in a small business on the assumption it’s going to keep yielding me stable dividends for the nex
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Apparently, using a five foot fence instead of a four foot fence is enough https://fencing.bekaert.com/en/animal-fence-applications/cat... I guess also you just want to make sure that they don’t feel motivated to
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I think what he’s saying is that cringe humour appeals mostly to those who know that they are pretty cringeworthy themselves. While everyone can enjoy an occasional piece of cringe humour, the sort of person who spends a lot of time on &#x2
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Doesn’t sound that bad. Most of the games I’ve ever bought, I theoretically could but practically couldn’t play right now if I felt like it — I might still have the disc/cartridge somewhere but the old console won’t plug into a new TV
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I want to play RDR2 but don’t have a console, because dealing with consoles is just too much trouble these days. Mind you I’ve also heard that RDR2 is about eight hours of slog before you even get to the point where you can just dick around
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I strongly suspect that if I bought a current-gen console today I’d probably be stuck waiting overnight for it to download and install whatever new updates it thinks it needs, and then if I didn’t use it for a few months it would be downloa
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Legitimacy comes from having been elected. An unelected Government is, as they say, just a group of thugs who just happen to be in control of a capital city. Within that definition there’s certainly some ambiguity as to what counts as a “go

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