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by lotharbot 10y ago
to clarify, most forms of feminism are about equal treatment of the sexes. Some forms are not. (Personally, I identify with about one and one-half waves of feminism, and see a lot of overreach coming out of other waves.)
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Christianity is both personal and communal, and ultimately traces historically back to the nation of Israel, the person of Jesus, and the teachings of the Apostles. Someone claiming Christianity as a personal identity which does not corr
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> "people who can't afford these right now" ... but are still getting those things through means-tested programs, for the most part. The UBI doesn't mean more people get fed; it means fewer strings attached to wher
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by lotharbot 10y ago
> "attempting to cloak itself in free market rhetoric" ... Friedman and Hayek both advocated for a UBI. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-aren...
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by lotharbot 10y ago
One major point of a basic income is to simplify and streamline the "state assistance" part, to eliminate the "cliff" between that and a job.
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by lotharbot 10y ago
I see you've been on Hacker News for a long time, but haven't been very active, so I just thought I'd point you toward the guidelines, linked at the bottom of the page. Of particular note, name-calling is off limits, even if
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by lotharbot 10y ago
> "twice ... pick a candidate who's lost the popular vote" interestingly, those two elections were massively different. Gore won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote both by tiny margins. The election was stati
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by lotharbot 10y ago
I just want to emphasize something you hinted at: "expected return" usually involves an additional discounting factor which relates to risk and risk tolerance. An investment with a fixed return of 5% (a predictable $76 equivalent
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by lotharbot 10y ago
> "I suggest you get out of your bubble" That's a rather aggressive and insulting way to attempt to make your point. Disclosure -- I am married to Dove. We live in 80219 [0]. Median income here is a little under half o
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> "Show me a union that functions like a "guild" where it polices it's membership extremely well, and people strive to be skillful enough to join" Pro sports players' unions. It makes sense -- owners must
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by lotharbot 10y ago
the divorce rate has actually been falling steadily since about 1980.
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by lotharbot 10y ago
Great comment. A partial answer comes from something I've sometimes heard said about racism (which I don't fully agree with, but I recognize as having some value): that when those with less power disdain those with more power, it&
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by lotharbot 10y ago
This is so important. One of the reasons Trump won is that a lot of people in this country feel like they're being smugly dismissed every time they open their mouths. That the "elites" have no interest in getting to know the
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by lotharbot 10y ago
There is a "chronological" option on facebook.
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> "Many of the people who were fired, blacklisted, or persecuted were only suspected communists" would it have been OK to fire, blacklist, or persecute them if they had been actual communists, then?
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by lotharbot 10y ago
if you read Citizens United carefully, you'll see the point of the decision is actually the opposite. The wealthy can afford whole media companies, and otherwise have a great deal of ability to put information out into the general pub
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by lotharbot 10y ago
> "Sam Altman and PG have both been very vocal in their denouncement of Trump, so keeping Thiel as a partner ... seems incongruous at best, and down right spineless at worst" When people you know to be both intelligent and co
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> "I have met people that are labeled as introverted ... my son avoids parties because he gets sensory overloaded very quickly" All through my childhood I was labeled as introverted. As an adult, having gone through a lot of
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by lotharbot 10y ago
Of particular note on the "more professional" front -- many HN members are here because they're connected to a YC company in some way, and many others are here because they work in the industry and want to build connections w
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by lotharbot 10y ago
The comment I found most useful: We believe a signal when It is persistent. It appears at the same spot in the sky in multiple observations. It only comes from one spot in the sky. If we reobserve the target, the signal is still there. Thi
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by lotharbot 10y ago
sure, that's one of the tradeoffs. For some types of software, that's a dominant consideration. For others, it has little or no relevance.
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There were several other conditions that would cause the game to crash, which were more reasonable to just play through, aside from the malformed packet handling. The overall point here is that there is a real cost to making your software c
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by lotharbot 10y ago
> "cleanly crashing is probably the best option" Except that it's also possible to gain an advantage by causing a game crash. Ultimately, "crash the game" is among the worst possible options. (Also ultimately,
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by lotharbot 10y ago
Exactly right. Test builds can crash; production builds should log errors (and perhaps inform the user).
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> "A crash which results in someone tracking down and fixing the bug is far better than quietly doing something which is 100% guaranteed to be wrong." Not necessarily. Wrong is relative and can have either small or large cos
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> "Google's policy seems to be radio silence in all cases" This may be an intentional decision to cooperate with law enforcement. If they only go silent in the case of ongoing investigations, then "Google went sile
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by lotharbot 10y ago
Google is in competition with a lot of other companies, and they've decided they're in a stronger position if they don't set off a firestorm of criticism that gives people an excuse to move to a different service. Even if you
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by lotharbot 10y ago
instead of feeling "sorry for autistic people", perhaps you should treat us like human beings. Many of us love who we are and how we think, and don't need your pity, and certainly don't need you acting like our identity
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by lotharbot 10y ago
Sometimes I'll vote on a comment, and then as I'm reading the replies and clarifications, or other comments elsewhere in the discussion, I'll realize I misunderstood something and will want to go back and change my vote.
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by lotharbot 10y ago
How long does the "unvote" option last? Permanently? If I accidentally bump the "unvote" button on a comment that's years old, can I re-apply my vote, or only if it's an upvote?

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