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by manfredo 6y ago
That guy is almost certainly police, seeing as he's shouting at the people to leave the building: https://i.imgur.com/teOuPwU.png https://i.imgur.com/kJZnAHc.png https://i.imgur.com/zzQ
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by manfredo 6y ago
Support for Trump was understandable in 2016 when it was unclear how he would actually behave in the Presidency. Most Republicans I know saw it as a faustian bargian: have a Republican wacko in the White House or a Democrat. But I really do
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by manfredo 6y ago
I agree we should take them seriously for what they are: a group of agitators that aren't going to actually effect any change. No amount of protest or agitation among these groups is going to alter the outcome of the 2020 election. The
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A tantrum. Nobody serious is under any illusion that Biden will not assume the Presidency. In a way, I think this kind of rhetoric empowers these kinds of protests and inspires people into thinking these actions might actually work. In real
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by manfredo 6y ago
Where are you reading that the protestors are armed? The linked NPR article does not say so. The NYTimes coverage [1] mentions that people posted pictures of weapons on Facebook on Tuesday, but does not mention that the people in the Capito
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by manfredo 6y ago
What sort of "quirks" are we talking about? > interrupting me/talking over me, talking down to me, comparing their last junior position to being Steve Jobs, being sing-songy, inappropriate jokes in any way/shape/
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by manfredo 6y ago
You stop the sanctions by meeting the new demands. The US decided the original deal did not offer inspectors enough leeway to ensure Iran was actually halting nuclear weapons development, and so it added more stringent inspection requiremen
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A couple strikes per month [1] in response to Syrian missile batteries shooting down Israeli planes is not particularly comparable with threatening to wipe a country off the map. Most of these aren't even direct attacks, Iranians are k
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by manfredo 6y ago
Can you elaborate on how this amounts to telling Iran to "shoot itself in the head"? The 12 demands as per your article are: > Declare to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a full account of the prior military dimens
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South Africa, among others, have had large changes in direction prompted through sanctions. Cuba has also gradually allowed more economic freedom over the past decade. I agree, cooperation is what is needed not blackmail. That's what t
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The sanctions are meant to put pressure on Iran to stop development of nuclear weapons. A regime change is not a likely consequence of sanctions, it's much more likely that the Iranian government looks at the economic toll of it's
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I'm saying both user preferences and search algorithms change. Even absent an algorithm change, it's not reasonable to expect search traffic to stay high over time. A drop in search traffic is always a potential, and one that ex
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This is one of several posts I've seen on HN lately following a similar trend: sudden and unexpected drops in search engine traffic. On the one hand it must be jarring to suddenly have a drop in traffic. But is it necessarily indicativ
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Right, and forcing balanced outcomes when there's very unbalanced inputs is not justice in the eyes of many people. Consider the fact that Asian students in the US spend on average 110 minutes a day studying as compared to Whites&#x27
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Often "welcoming environments", especially when paired with progressive dogwhistles, really mean an environment that is hostile for those that are not on one end of the political spectrum. The threshold isn't just conservativ
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This was not a chat tool. It was a security extension that one person used as their political soapbox.
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This idea that America is so heavily skewed conservative that the average American liberal is really a conservative by international - or as you put it "western average" - is not so clear cut. Fiscally the US government revenue as
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Again, if you're categorizing acceptance of capitalism as a conservative view, then easily 90%+ of the country is conservative under this... let's just say alternative political boundary. A tech worker (or anyone) who supports g
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> Your typical tech worker will tend to be neoliberal, espousing socially liberal values but having much to lose economically and practically from touching the existing power balance or decreasing inequality in any meaningful way. You sa
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If you (and the above commenter) do believe that democrats are a center right party then sure, the claim that most tech workers aren't liberal holds water. But that is a very non-standard delineation of political leanings, and making c
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by manfredo 6y ago
The A-29 is functionally not all that different than armed drones like the predator or reaper. Except the latter have an even longer loiter time, and take pilot losses out of the equation.
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The F-35 also has a better (lower) radar cross section than the X-32 which had exposed turbine blades. And crucially, the prototype X-32 failed to demonstrate simultaneous VTOL and supersonic flight, while the X-35 did. Seeing as this was t
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by manfredo 6y ago
Tech company employee donations are overwhelmingly democrat: https://www.newsweek.com/big-tech-employees-donate-overwhelm... They are indeed putting their money where their mouth is, at least as far as political donations g
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by manfredo 6y ago
Reading the article it looks like we do know why: > Neurons... transfer information about sensation and motion from peripheral parts of the body to the brain and back. By sending electro-chemical signals in the form of atomic ions, neuro
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Desalination can be done effectively with thermal cogeneration. It's still inefficient, but since it is using waste heat it's "free" energy so to speak. Saudi Arabia has built such plants. The Soviet Union also built a f
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The California aqueduct system has a total length of 444 miles and the main branch is 300 miles [1]. More important is the demographic impact of water management: Rome's largest population center was ~1 million people, the Hohokam ~80,
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Human civilizations have built population centers close to sources for fresh water for millennia. Cities like Los Angeles that require moving vast amounts of fresh water long distances to be viable are a recent phenomenon - appearing only i
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Why, though? Even in the case that it's the same safety self driving cars would yield huge productivity gains as people can work or sleep while commuting and truckers can have 1 or 2 self driving trucks following them cross country. An
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Sure, but... > If the city won't allow enough housing to keep your area affordable, you have a right to feel aggrieved The city is not the one preventing more development. It's overwhelmingly these xenophobic residents that a
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Rent control ultimately increases the cost of housing by suppressing supply. Price controls don't work. And how is rent control supposed to follow tenants? They just show up to a unit costing $3,000/mo and say "my rent contro

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