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by leftyted 7y ago
> A big difference is Bloomberg currently is 100% self funding his campaign while the '16 Hillary campaign had a lot of money yes but it came from donors supporting her. Bloomberg is self funding and is only where he is because of t
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by leftyted 7y ago
The "competitive process" is getting people to say they'll vote for you in polls. So he has been participating in that process. Bloomberg -- rightly or wrongly -- has a broad appeal.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Or is it only "buying the election" when it's a candidate you dislike? You could have just said "yes".
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by leftyted 7y ago
Yes, she outspent him 2:1: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidentia...
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by leftyted 7y ago
Was Hillary Clinton "buying the election" when she outspent Donald Trump roughly 2:1? Or is it only "buying the election" when it's a candidate you dislike? My vote isn't for sale and I assume that's true
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by leftyted 7y ago
Hannah Arendt claims that loneliness was necessary for the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century. She writes: > Loneliness, the common ground for terror, the essence of totalitarian government, and for ideology or logicality, the p
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by leftyted 7y ago
They do now.
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by leftyted 7y ago
My team hired a guy like this. At this point everyone knows he's a fake. He's not involved in anything technical despite being a "senior dev". It was quite uncomfortable when he was programming and we had to review his
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Does all art I enjoy have to hang on my wall? No but I think "would I hang this on my wall?" is a fairly good metric for "do I like this". I've been in situations where I lied and said "I like this art&qu
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by leftyted 7y ago
Would you hang it on your wall?
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by leftyted 7y ago
> We do understand that you do not like Walker's art, and seem to be trying to make others feel bad for liking it. Maybe we can just critique the art itself? My theory is that people don't actually like it, they just understand
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by leftyted 7y ago
I was reading Plato recently and this stood out: > When they meet together, and the world sits down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theatre, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar, and they prai
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think that burnout has more to do with existential questions and less to do with labor questions. If you don't have a good answer to "why am I doing this job?" then it doesn't matter if you work 40 hours and have exce
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think you're correct that there's an "Amish bias" at work here. I don't see that as a negative either -- I have a bit of that perspective myself. I certainly prefer a "calm countryside". Overall I&#x27
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by leftyted 7y ago
> I can't possibly imagine how one can both treat a source as holding profound and transcendent views and be uninterested or unsure of what the author meant when writing it; at that point it seems that the literary work is merely an
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by leftyted 7y ago
> We need to stop untethering the text from the historical and cultural milieu of its origination The reason we still read these people at all (Thucydides, Machievelli, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, etc) is because their work transcends "the
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by leftyted 7y ago
"Buy local" is not xenophobic. Everyone knows that "buying local" is about supporting local jobs/industry. There's nothing xenophobic about caring more about your neighbors than some people you'll never m
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by leftyted 7y ago
The quote clearly says that the new company is "not run as a cooperative".
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think this is true. I think it's because we intuitively understand "being good at something" to be relative to "the people who are the absolute best at it," not on the total set of people who do it. I disagree wh
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by leftyted 7y ago
It only fails to be encouraging if you're ideologically opposed to the theory that "personal efforts matter".
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by leftyted 7y ago
I'd expect them to screw up much more often than they succeed. But if 25 people take a risk and found a company and 1 of them succeeds, that one company might employ 1000 people. The 24 failures may be worth it. That's leaving
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by leftyted 7y ago
> As a sibling comment pointed out, it would by no means be impossible for Arabic cultural items to have found their way into Viking possessions, given the vast trade networks. And even so, how in the world does 1000-year old interaction
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by leftyted 7y ago
The assumption here is that all children who enter schools are capable of being curious and creative people but the system crushes it out of them. I don't think so. I think schools transform students into parrots because that's t
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by leftyted 7y ago
If you clicked the link, why quote it out of context? > In addition to reporting hate crime , please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate
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by leftyted 7y ago
Hate speech is illegal in the UK. This means you can report social media posts and the police will knock on the poster's door (I guess if they can figure out who it is) and "investigate". https://twitter.com/
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Tinder isn't about "mating", it's about hook-ups (primarily) You can separate sex from mating in your conscious mind but most of your mind is not conscious. Your view of human behavior is overly simplistic/idea
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by leftyted 7y ago
"Men would have an easier time dating if they behaved more like women" is such nonsense. If men could increase their mating prospects by obsessively cultivating their appearence, they would do it. But it doesn't, so they do
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by leftyted 7y ago
That's nice but -- in democracies at least -- politics is about persuasion and most people find 100 year old scientists more persuasive than schoolchildren.
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by leftyted 7y ago
Oh I don't know. I think it's refreshing to hear someone call global warming a serious threat while at the same time dismissing activists as noisy children participating in a fad.
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by leftyted 7y ago
All of this is widely talked about in the United States where we debate the legitimacy of drone warfare, the history and legacy of racism, and the missteps of American foreign policy. We read Howard Zinn in my (public) High School history

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