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by ng12 7y ago
There are a ton of hidden taxes tacked onto ACA but everyone I know with a marketplace plan hates theirs. I'm really not sure where that money is going.
782.
by ng12 7y ago
Your above post was awfully inflammatory for someone not interested in discussion.
783.
by ng12 7y ago
If your political beliefs change based on how their presented I don't think they're very firmly held.
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by ng12 7y ago
I'm beginning to hate this term. It's recent popularity has a tendency to turn everything into a reductionist argument. It shuts down discussion about the bigger picture or broad ideals in favor of a very narrow band of discourse.
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by ng12 7y ago
So why don't we want to help ICE do their job? We can provide better living situations for people waiting for their case to be processed and better IT solutions to improve our ability to process cases. Taking petty stabs at ICE (like m
786.
by ng12 7y ago
I think it is reasonable to point out the hypocrisy. By the numbers, Obama was just as tough on our southern border.
787.
by ng12 7y ago
Fair, although I don't exactly think it would surprise the feds that a bunch of people living in San Francisco disagree with their goals.
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by ng12 7y ago
I feel like it's worth recognizing that a company can be as morally ambivalent as they want as long as the particular brand of moral laxity isn't politically unfavorable at the time.
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by ng12 7y ago
Obviously. Same thing with Palantir -- ICE could just move their data to a different solution. This isn't about affecting change, it's about feeling good about ourselves.
790.
by ng12 7y ago
This is the territory we get into when we pressure tech companies to not work with very specific politically unfavorable customers. Does helping ICE with their CI/CD stack do more damage to children than advertising freebase sugar to t
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by ng12 7y ago
Fair enough -- and if I claim that my statement doesn't actually apply to specific future circumstances in a way that supports my current personal beliefs feel free to ignore me.
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by ng12 7y ago
I don't think you can retroactively change the meaning of a point you made decades earlier.
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by ng12 7y ago
I really don't see how, could you elaborate?
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by ng12 7y ago
I think that's reasonable -- but also the reverse is reasonable. "Company decides to continue working with US government" should not be news.
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by ng12 7y ago
The lazy mis-characterization of our border facilities as concentration camps is exactly what I'm talking about, while also being a wildly inappropriate comparison in a country with many Holocaust survivors.
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by ng12 7y ago
Ok, but in this example the Japanese Americans are not Americans and they traveled thousands of miles to voluntarily join the internment camps.
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by ng12 7y ago
Godwin's Law is supposed to demonstrate the reductive nature of comparing everything to Nazism, it's supposed to be a logical fallacy.
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by ng12 7y ago
Good. Every company which refuses to work with ICE makes their job more difficult. That's not going to make ICE go away, it's just going to increase the likelihood that they make beaurocratic mistakes (e.g. detain US citizens), in
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by ng12 7y ago
The problem is the witch hunting. Invariably the wrongthink gets "leaked" to the bottom-dweller clickbait outfits like Vice or Slate who then feed it into the court of public opinion. I agree that there are a great number of thing
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by ng12 7y ago
It was the grandparent's example, not mine. Also, I dispute your characterization as "rape apologia". It's a fairly ironic description given RMS's original issue was mischaracterization of the issue in the media.
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by ng12 7y ago
Drunk driving has a reasonably high likelihood of physical harm, as does yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre. Posting opinions about current events on a message board is not likely to cause physical harm.
802.
by ng12 7y ago
Only because your words caused actionable harm. If you didn't intend to cause harm and there were no harmful consequences should you still be punished?
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by ng12 7y ago
I've never heard that phrase used in a positive light.
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by ng12 7y ago
That doesn't really mean anything to me. It keeps talking about "other frameworks do this" or "other frameworks focus on this" -- but all of the examples in the docs would be basically 1:1 rewrites into React or Vue
805.
by ng12 7y ago
It seems like React without the JSX. Why would I want to use it?
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by ng12 7y ago
The error in your logic is assuming the bank is going to want the same % down payment for a 2% and a 10% mortgage.
807.
by ng12 7y ago
> Moreover the US actually had more or less open borders for a long time Well, what's changed is that the US is rich and traveling is pretty easy.
808.
by ng12 7y ago
A lot of companies don't take front-end seriously. They don't invest in hiring the guys who will ask these questions and will prefer to pad their ranks with fresh-faced college grads.
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by ng12 7y ago
How? Good luck conducting an ICE raid on a business in 2019.
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by ng12 7y ago
> Why should people that just happen to be born in a third world country live a shitty life with no way out What about someone born in a Mississippi housing project where everyone around them is illiterate? Or in some rust belt slum with

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