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by modwest 6y ago
the fact you're asking means you wouldn't understand the answer
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by modwest 6y ago
Trauma is poverty's handmaiden. https://www.keranews.org/post/kids-living-poverty-living-chr... Based on the abstract in the OP, the study seems to focus on acute war-related trauma. Poverty can be a kind of slow-
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by modwest 6y ago
Another aspect to consider is dealerships make much more money off used than new. Sometimes they'll even cut a deal on a new car just to get the trade-in. A used car price collapse will have big impacts on dealer franchises. I know the
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by modwest 6y ago
That is a very efficient mechanism for building cognitive structures that entrench oneself in orthodoxy, in my opinion.
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by modwest 6y ago
I think it's a built-in cognitive pattern in the brain to create categories for sure. But organizing those categories into a hierarchy? I don't know. How I model it, personally, is that as we learn more about the world, or learn
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by modwest 6y ago
The most interesting applications of this idea lie outside software development, in my opinion. Often, I find, hierarchical taxonomies are “the box” I need to “think outside” of.
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by modwest 7y ago
not the same thing, no
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by modwest 7y ago
Look man anyone trying to convince you in 2020 that "plastic is not a significant pollutant" is not arguing in good faith. Please, for the love of god, learn about the climate and the impact of human industry on it.
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by modwest 7y ago
Yeah this essay is a mess. Smacks of sociopolitical myth-making, not credible analysis. The thing it seems most like is a vehicle to lump scientists into the same category as religious figures. Bare tribalism wearing the clothes of public i
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by modwest 7y ago
This essay is a total mess. This “neo-clerisy” thing to me smacks of tribalism dressed up, ironically, as public intellectualism. It’s a fractal of cognitive dissonance
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by modwest 7y ago
> US fundamentally won’t take strong-arm approach I disagree https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri...
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by modwest 7y ago
This is correct
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by modwest 7y ago
people are bad & should be avoided
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by modwest 7y ago
Don’t think they were speaking metaphorically
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by modwest 7y ago
Oh shit I didn’t know about remapping. My iPad Pro is my main personal computer now but I’m constantly toggling capslock. Next up, assignable hotkeys for switching between apps??
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by modwest 7y ago
Last time I saw a pg blog post on here there was a lengthy discussion about whether it belonged on HN. One of the comments was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21894583 On one hand, you gotta hand it to pg (insert dril
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by modwest 7y ago
> most people no longer believe in the nobility and glory of war Sounds like you live in a nice bubble. > Much of the modern recruitment efforts I've seen focus on benefits like paying for student loan debts, workforce training a
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by modwest 7y ago
Aliens land? Monsters emerge out of the ocean? :P There'd be a big war and after that who knows what the world would look like. The fact you still see the world as necessarily dipole, a tension between great powers vying for control ov
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by modwest 7y ago
That question is essentially impossible to answer, IMO. The world we live in, our perceptions of it, the language we use to describe it, is deeply anchored in the technocapitalist empire America was empowered to establish in the unsettled w
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by modwest 7y ago
Yes. War is a racket ESPECIALLY in the post-WWII era, when America became both the world’s armory AND the world’s bank. Every single conflict that America has been in since has been a war of choice designed to pursue capitalist interest. Ou
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by modwest 7y ago
The American economy captured the American government in part, at least, due to the booming defense industry in the post-war era. (Not to mention becoming the world’s banker in the same era.) So maybe it’s good Canada never really got lift-
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by modwest 7y ago
EXACTLY. Nailed exactly. Strong individual performance, ime, is a product of the right conditions allowing me to do my best.
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by modwest 7y ago
> As the only tissue that modifies its consistency when under stress (it’s your body’s shape-shifter, of sorts), fascia is [...] the cervix also modifies itself under stress (child birth), stimulated by oxytocin (aka cervical ripening) o
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by modwest 7y ago
Thanks for restating it, because that’s a very useful reframing I’ve not heard before.
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by modwest 7y ago
In that case, in my defense, I don’t have the option of downvoting anything, even comments! So I’d do my part but I don’t have that tool
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by modwest 7y ago
Are you saying this post is being artificially maintained on the front page by moderator intervention? edit: sincere q, I have no idea how these things are handled
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by modwest 7y ago
The burden on you is to explain why it would be “censorship,” a word with a specific meaning that does not have any relevance in this context.
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by modwest 7y ago
The fact that poverty exists at all when there is unfathomable amounts of wealth[1] is a glaring sign of capitalist failure. Pointing to a reduction in the rates of poverty is not proving capitalism’s success. It’s pointing out capitalism’s
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by modwest 7y ago
There are alternatives. We in the U.S. simply choose not to exercise them.
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by modwest 7y ago
No, this argument you’ve made is question-begging. What I was referring to has more to do with the labor theory of value https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value I understand why I got downvoted, it seemed

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