marcusverus

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by marcusverus 1y ago
The redditification of HN has been sad to behold.
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> Your citations don't really support your claim well, since the sections you quoted don't mention traits or roles much at all. The sections do mention roles very clearly. If you're not capable of making these basic connec
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> Are you saying other male animals don’t perform the tasks usually attributed to human females? No. My claim is that male and female traits/roles generally differ. That can't be read as a claim that there is no overlap between
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by marcusverus 1y ago
Only if you did so in a passive-aggressive way ;) From the relevant Wikis: Chimps: At the core of social structures are males, which patrol the territory, protect group members, and search for food. Males remain in their natal communities,
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by marcusverus 1y ago
The purely analytical professions are dominated by men. The caring, empathy-forward professions are dominated by women. This is purely coincidental.
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> The idea that there are straightforward “female” and “male” traits should seem quite shaky to anyone who is even a little bit into humanities. Straightforward male and female traits/roles pervade the animal kingdom, including the
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by marcusverus 1y ago
Even the Orwell Foundation uses the two interchangeably. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> The all time high equity prices are because it requires more USD(which is decreasing in value) to purchase them. The inflation-adjusted price of equities is still near all time highs. See the Shiller PE Ratio. [0] [0] https:/&#x2
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by marcusverus 1y ago
They agree that corporations don't do things that aren't profitable, their implied disagreement is whether this is greedy/bad or merely rational/amoral.
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by marcusverus 1y ago
1) India does not meaningfully compete with the US and never has. We are not going to actively harm our own people now to stave off some imaginary future threat. 2) Tell that to the 100K+ unemployed Americans in the IT space.
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by marcusverus 1y ago
Yep. There is a huge amount of American talent wallowing in low-level, dead end jobs because corporations have been actively incentivized to hire cheap, captive foreign labor rather than foster American talent. I am absolutely thrilled to w
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by marcusverus 1y ago
How many American teachers or firefighters would trade their own kid's job away to a foreigner in exchange for some hypothetical marginal increase in 401K returns? Not many. The only Americans who like that deal are managers who care m
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by marcusverus 1y ago
https://archive.is/A5TGH
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by marcusverus 1y ago
This is a sorry excuse. If companies were required to hire American students, they would have a strong incentive to foster the development of American talent. It would not be a problem. > Thus, many companies would rather give 150/2
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by marcusverus 1y ago
Public school is a joke. My 5 year old started kindergarten recently. They're currently learning shapes, which she (and every other child I've encountered) knew when she was two years old. Meanwhile at home, she's already rea
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by marcusverus 1y ago
8X by nominal GDP, 9X by PPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
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by marcusverus 1y ago
I find it absolutely disgusting that a mainstream publication would blast the idea of partisan drone terrorism out into the public consciousness. The awful threat of this technology has likely been obvious to the HN cohort for many years, b
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by marcusverus 1y ago
It's good to be skeptical, but if you ignored every news sites that had ever been accused of a single act of deceptive wording, there wouldn't be any left to read from! Having read about the controversy in question, it's hard
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by marcusverus 1y ago
The Epoch Times article[0] cites an article by Apollo News[0]. I'm not particularly familiar with either. This appears to be Mr Vierhous's X handle: https://x.com/ThomasVierhaus , which includes a retweet of a twee
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> Wasteful? also no. Most of that money went back into those economies. If the government 100B to dig a big hole and fill it up again, that money would also "go back into those economies". Does that mean it wouldn't be was
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by marcusverus 1y ago
People want this kind of service, but they generally don't like the 19th century experience that is rail travel. Which leads me to a hot take: Within a decade, Autonomous RVs will be the preferred method of travel (above rail and fligh
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by marcusverus 1y ago
It depends on your oracle. According to the Shiller PE of the S&P 500 it's only November '98! [0] [0] https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
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by marcusverus 1y ago
It's funny, actually. When an anonymous source says there's a scary spreadsheet in the Trump White House, progs are happy to believe the unsourced and unprovable claim on faith, imagine the worst possible implications, and assert
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by marcusverus 1y ago
Accepting an anonymous and unverifiable characterization of a spreadsheet as evidence of fascism is not justified by other equally specious claims you've accepted as evidence of fascism.
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by marcusverus 1y ago
Sure, the Biden admin actively targeted a publicly traded company[0] because their CEO was critical of the administration, but that's not fascism. Fascism is when the bad guys make spreadsheets. [0] https://www.newsweek.com&
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by marcusverus 1y ago
You're an adult. You paid dearly for the convenience of an urgent care, and you clearly learned your lesson. You were not a victim, you were a sucker. In America, we do not reorganize entire industries to soothe the bruised egos of suc
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> It takes about 6 months for me to get an appointment with my GP, and then it takes up to a month for their referral to a specialist to be approved, and only then can I make an appointment with my specialist, which is usually booking a
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> 40 million Americans live below the poverty line of $15,000 per year. Not even close. Census income data is not an accurate measure of poverty, as it excludes all in-kind redistributions (food stamps, HUD, medicaid, head start, etc) AN
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> persistent irritation > went to Urgent care You waited until it became a problem, then went to an expensive option instead of contacting your GP and getting a recommendation for an in-network care? And were surprised that it was exp
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> The question was capacity to sacrifice for the common good. COVID didn't test for capacity to sacrifice for the common good. Sacrifice is voluntary. It tested for capacity to submit to authoritarian control for the common good

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