nixon_why69

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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
I respect the BBC's independence actually, I don't think they're meaningfully worse than CNN. It's just a funny detail that they completely gloss over their own status while saying "communist party media" this
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
No, they actually do have a paternalistic drive to keep things healthy and pro-social above and beyond some Bond villain stuff. I mean, yes, you also can't get away with organizing an opposition, but they really do care about social co
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
> They join with idealism and probably don't get very far in terms of real impact. I can't disagree with that, reminds me of the quote from the movie Rounders: If you've been at the table for 30 minutes and you don't
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
Your point was true prior to 1980 or so, but it's a cultural average. We've had multiple generations of business leaders now trained on seeing the corporate legal entity as only caring about shareholder value and being proud of i
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
I'd just be really skeptical of thinking I have the true understanding and solution to this issue. Like, do you know many addicts or seriously mentally ill? Have you tried pressuring them into being better? How did it work out?
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
You said "there are homeless people everywhere", which is technically true but omits quantity, and especially quantity compared to wealth. I'm not as positive as you are about what makes California (and Seattle) create/a
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
No, it's actually very unusual to have tons of homeless people next to spectacular wealth, California is a global outlier in this phenomenon. There are many, many places in the world that are much poorer and don't have homeless en
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
Any ethicist for a corporation is clearly a PR move, right? Like, a pure researcher for a corporation might have some genuine overlap and shared interests where breakthroughs in the research benefit both parties, but an ethicist?? For a le
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
In the EU's case, dependence on Russian gas is already a national security nightmare.
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
This is a great comment on a post about people going ideologically crazy.
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by nixon_why69 2mo ago
Set aside the mania, OP said: Food, oil, rare-earth elements, sugar, airplane frames, etc I put "food" and "airplane frames" in the "worth it for state intervention" category personally. Memory is obviously no
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
China is continuing to build a shitload of coal alongside being the world's leader in renewable. It takes time.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I hear what you're saying but memory ultimately is not infrastructure, it's a commodity that's shipped over infrastructure. The arguments for infrastructure being managed more tightly by the government is because it's a
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
They're heavily tuned but I think having the generational hypothesis and copying longer-lived objects is still standard? As is allowing a fair amount of garbage to accumulate to increase throughput and reduce copying at the cost of me
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Also there is a ton of debt flying around, its not just equities hurting VC funds, real banks are facing risks now.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Different campaigns, you're comparing a presidential general election to a senate primary. You're also ignoring superpacs in those presidential runs. You know how many NRA sponsored ads about "her emails" I saw in 2016
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Check out these 2 maps: https://nitter.space/ettingermentum/status/20852027930783992... Measurable, double digit swings based on which counties got TV ads in a $70m vs $10m spending campaign.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I don't think they could have been productively used, I'm more saying that they have always been a waste of money.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
The point is that stereotypical beauty standards, while they matter, they matter less than one would think when it comes to a hetero man approaching a hetero woman. Give women some credit. Confidence and fun are way better heuristics than
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
That's what I'm trying to help you understand. My goofy friend was plowing a trail of pussy through NYC at that time with his fun and confident antics. Below 6 feet and definitely not rich back then. There's a point past th
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
BEING fun and confident matters. Saying you are is, well, not fun or confident. A friend of mine, well below 6 feet, once had a dating profile where he went into a weird tangent about loving mac and cheese. A weird, sexual and hilarious t
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Since I'm feeling generous, the words you missed are "fun and confident". One could expand to "comfortable and happy in one's skin", very much not a synonym for cockiness which is prickly and challenging. Yo
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Ok but it's still a really basic evolutionary signal, taller is better, especially for the hunting/fighting gender. Some dogs get up on their hind legs to piss higher on trees.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
It doesn't have to be designed, can be an emergent survival property. Wholesome and helpful dating advice just never builds a cult of loners.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Exact opposite of the point they made, brother. Worth a reread and think depending on your headspace.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Really, it should be, they should volunteer for measurements.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Actual shout out to Oracle inexplicably moving Java forward a ton while also not strangling it with fees and suing their own customers. Wonder if there's a story of some genius, unsung internal salesman who made that happen.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Google could have bought Sun for less than they wound up paying in a decade of legal fees anyways over Android Java.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
I hate that phrase. There are billions of people who can't code and also aren't teaching it. And plenty of people who are good at something and enjoy giving back and sharing in the form of teaching.
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by nixon_why69 3mo ago
Sure, just like CDN or rarely-used excess capacity could be separate roles to the bulk of your compute. If you're racking up 750/hr putting big law on routine corporate tasks then you are probably messing up. Hire an admin.

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