lsiebert

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by lsiebert 5y ago
0. There's no singular leftist philosophy in a world where anarchists and socialists and moderates and centrists are all ostensibly on the same side, but there are points of agreement (nazis are bad, every human being deserves equal di
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I appreciate the clarification. I don't however agree with you that that's the logical extension of what I stated. Can you explain? I don't feel it particularly relevant to take an idea and carry it to an extreme to judge it&
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Wow are you barking up the wrong tree in describing me. This is some strange strawman version of what some left wing people believe, not a description of my philosophy. Did you read this on Brietbart, or in The National Review, or what?
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I tend to take the view that laws like this are attempts to reduce existing racism and sexism in corporate governance. For example, and I'll link to an article for all of this at the bottom, Hispanic people are the biggest ethnic group
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I've never seen anybody suggest that you can't be bigoted against a dominant group. I have seen it suggested that specific terms like racism and sexism are not generic terms that apply to any sort of discrimination along racial, e
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Well, first off, when the courts are able to hold people individually accountable for their actions, they behave better. One of the reasons that police officers can't be held accountable is qualified immunity. If you don't know wh
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, as the saying goes. Any system is going to be imperfect. The question is, is it better than things currently are?
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by lsiebert 5y ago
If you care about an issue, any issue, the answer is to find like minded people and build or attend a meeting, a coalition, a movement, or some other form of solidarity between individuals to pursue it. Maybe that means you get elected, may
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I'm pretty sure you are well compensated and all that (though probably not as well as your bosses), but also just personally, thank you to you and everyone in your lab. Cancer killed my grandfather, my best friend, my aunt, and so many
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by lsiebert 5y ago
So the biggest complexity is in terms of capital investments as opposed to income. Basically if you are paid money and put that money in the bank, you pay yearly income taxes on the income the money earns. If you are instead given a bunch o
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Think you mean defacto :-D
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Yes it's true that states want to reduce alcohol consumption; drunk driving, alcohol related illnesses and crime are all tied to alcohol use, so there is a public health aspect. But like many things that are opined on on HN, it's
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by lsiebert 5y ago
While many Democrats do support it, Biden doesn't support medicare for all.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
On a lot of things, universal health care, how strongly they are in favor of nuclear disarmament, gun control, etc. Remember President Biden is the head of the Democratic Party, And the US itself has been pushed further to the right by a co
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by lsiebert 5y ago
This is all accurate and detailed and I appreciate it, but I'm comparing them directly to US parties, hence center left, not centre-left. It's possible I'm just splitting hairs though.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
For US folks, The Liberal Party is Center Right and further to the left than the Republicans, Labor is Center Left and further to the left of the Democrats.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
America fixed it's British Colony issue by doing just that.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Yes, depending on where you buy. Many homes are much cheaper outside of major cities.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
It's a privilege to be able to ignore people who don't agree with you, one that people who can get pregnant in Texas don't have atm.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Union leaders are all elected by the workers, so at least they are accountable at some level. That definitely isn't true about your boss.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Yeah but only one tech company has a union, right? And the workers there seem to think it's valuable. Here's the oral history I've been listening to. https://engelberg-center-live.simplecast.com/episodes
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I've been listening to the Oral History of the Kickstarter Union and I don't believe the charge of rent seeking or the implication of close ties to organized crime is accurate. Rent seeking usually refers to creating new income st
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Old iphones become faster if you reboot them, like most devices. This is true whether or not you change the region. There's no qualitative difference when you test repeatedly. https://knowtechie.com/want-to-speed-up-you
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by lsiebert 5y ago
They can also be changed by a voter referendum approved by the legislature.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Let me break this down based on my understanding after reading the opinion and the law. I am not a lawyer. From the judge's opinion "The Court finds that Section 7451 is unconstitutional because it limits the power of a future leg
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by lsiebert 5y ago
This links to Doug McKenty's twitter, where he is retweeting people saying that Covid-19 is a hoax. Make of that what you will.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Generally my sense is that people are not good at measuring their expertise about topics. We infer a lot of data into our world views based on paltry facts and analogy to our own experiences. We think we understand because our minds paper o
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by lsiebert 5y ago
The very fact that Republicans continue to deny the existence and threat from anthropocentric climate change leads to simple understandings of what Dems actually want to do. The Democratic party has a wide range of opinions on how to deal w
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Please cite your source for that? My understanding, based on studies like the one discussed here, is that misinformation does tend to be concentrated along partisan extremes. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/974
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by lsiebert 5y ago
It's centrist, it's just that looking at facts instead of simply accepting what politicians say at face value often tends to lead to support for political talking points from the left. This isn't intrinsic to left or right wi

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