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by matt4077 8y ago
He really hasn’t given them any, has he? I mean, besides buying it. The Post has even been quite critical of Amazon, regarding HQ 2, for example.
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It’s generally not blackmail to threaten someone with some action that, by itself, is legal. See, for example, the many civil settlements where rich people stop the people they raped from going to the police. And I’m unsure what the status
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by matt4077 8y ago
It’s really not a scandal to split up with your wife. Or to have sex. That Pecker and his ilk seem to think it is, is the reason they misjudged this situation so fatally.
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No. The argument was, specifically, that these people are not taking a hit in pay by working for an NGO, and that they are therefore not acting altruistic. The comparison with similar positions is the only one valid, because those are the b
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by matt4077 8y ago
Can’t you just admit you were wrong, instead of moving the goalpost to some (also wrong) median vs mode argument, and then repeating your other impossible-to-disprove opinion on NGO worker’s character flaws?
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by matt4077 8y ago
NGO jobs are not better paid than equivalent jobs in industry. I have plenty of friends in those jobs, and each one of them could easily triple their salary by, for example, going to McKinsey instead. To give more than anecdotes: it’s self-
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Prostitution in Haiti, during a major crisis, is bound to involve morally dubious or illegal things such as underage prostitutes, women being forced into it, and inadequate health care. Even in a best case scenario, it is debatable how free
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iTunes is probably central to the ecosystem in the same way that the NEw York Times drives the national political conversation although only about two in 100 Americans actually read it: it’s an authoritative source and the people who do rea
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I’ll actually use this as an example how that saying is wrong. ISPs may be better in some regards because they are smaller. Some of them may also just not be competent enough to seriously harm you. But not for a second do I believe they car
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The Machine Stops (Oliver Sacks)(newyorker.com)
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Don’t go down this road of destructive cynicism. This issue is a good example: not “all politicians” are selling out citizen for company profit. There is one party that restricted predatory practices in lending, and the other party is now r
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by matt4077 8y ago
If you still believe the big bad government is afraid of cryptocurrencies, you must have missed the last five years where governments generally adopted positions from just not caring to genuine curiousity to some mild action against the wor
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The trend of lower birth rates depends on increased development and education. The net effect is you could have a third of today’s population, and still more specialized elevator music backup vocals mixing engineers than before.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I’m somewhat surprised by the tone of surprise in this article/interview. While I still frequently see references to “out-of-control population growth” among laypeople here on HN or on Twitter, often in reference to Africa, I have long
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Next you’ll be saying they didn’t even speakesth in rhyme!
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It’s rather common for journalists not to have a degree specific to journalism. Many have a liberal arts degree, which focuses heavily on history and philosophy. But there’s also a significant number of lawyers, business majors, or even MDs
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by matt4077 8y ago
I love how you’re making fun of people by making up quotes they never said.
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It’s this sort of frothing hyperbole that gets the tech community laughed out of the room in the places where decisions are made. It’s not helpful.
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That’s sort of a truism, then. Because obviously building a large international organization is sufficient to consider you part of the elite.
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The idea that the German military was somehow separate and therefore immune from the moral fallout of Nazi atrocities is a right-wing myth. The separation of party and state was porous at best, and later dissolved completely. The military r
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It’s preferable to have somewhat equitable outcomes while preserving a mostly bottom-up market economy. Because that remains the unchallenged champion of organizing an economy, both in terms of productivity as well as dynamism. It seems, ho
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Cities tend to have more air pollution, but the difference in CO2 and O2 are neglible. I once ran the numbers for O2, which is proportional, and it came out to roughly 10m of high in the atthmosphere. I. e. climb a tree in the countryside a
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The basics of photosynthesis are more or less identical across green plants. All the cool evolutionary shit has been going on in preserving water and capturing light, pointing at CO2 probably not being a limiting factor. Even the one neat C
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Im sorry but everything you write sounds like a verbatim quote from a fascist dystopia. Please consider why several people here have expressed bafflement at your position. Criminalization of homelessness, as but one example, is a rather abh
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by matt4077 8y ago
That’s a mischaracterisation of at least one side of that particular debate. In the specific case of homelessness, the left’s position is more or less to reject any attempt to assign blame or adjudicate fairness. Could homeless people have
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Wow, this is... quite something. It just doesn’t make that much sense: if homeless life in London is so excellent, have you ever considered taking it up? And because, of course, you didn’t: if you really believe it’s just their lazy choice,
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Civilized societies generally subscribe to the theory of human dignity, saying roughly that everyone, even annoying people, remain humans, with inherent rights and to be considered with respect regardless of their actions. Among the consequ
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I have no idea how anyone could look at homeless people and think, “what they really need is a bit more suffering to finally get their act together”. As an actual attempt to convince you of the value of even poor people’s lives, I invite yo
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The article seems pretty upfront about the fact that we are nowhere near a solid theory. One of many quotes to that effect: “ […] beginning to build the rudiments of a theory of neural networks.” The main point seems to be why such a theory
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This has tripped me up as well. I’m somewhat sure now that only the bulbs matter. I have also had higher success rates when not marking tiles that contain only a very small part of what they are asking for. They are sort of teaching me to b

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