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by nomat 3y ago
hey yeah chatbots are kind of like the text version of mobile UIs. Amazon, threads, instagram, offerup, facebook. They hide any useful navigation options and present you with a list that must be navigated in order, therefore ensuring ads pl
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by nomat 3y ago
Yes it is a bit backwards. The McDonalds stop afterwards makes more sense.
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by nomat 3y ago
The harms from slavery didn't end after the civil war. We had to pass laws a century later in the 1960s to outlaw the racist policies implemented by federal and state govts after reconstruction. The social (and legal) structure of amer
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by nomat 3y ago
you keep saying that but your set of facts is clearly missing many pieces (you admit as much) so to keep repeating it doesn't make it any more true and is really revealing a lot.
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by nomat 3y ago
i think since reddit gave the finger to its older users, HN has absorbed some of their people and interests.
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by nomat 3y ago
> the best signal for poverty remains income and wealth, right here and right now. i am having a difficult time understanding this sentence. Poverty by definition is a lack of income and wealth. Why are you saying it's a signal?
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by nomat 3y ago
you know the reason that we don't have those things is precisely because politicians campaigned on the narrative that black people (welfare queens, etc) would unfairly take advantage of a system like that and they won. So it seems like
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by nomat 3y ago
I think the numbers tell a convincing story. The median net worth of Americans in 2019 was $121,760. In 2019, the median net worth of white Americans was $189,100. The median net worth of Black Americans was $24,100 I forget how to link on
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by nomat 3y ago
Hey not sure why you felt it was important to reply to this line out of that entire paragraph when the next line is more than clear. just kind of seems like concern trolling.
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by nomat 3y ago
slightly off topic but there is a lot of usage of "DEI" and other.. buzzwordy terms used in specific circles. is this the norm for HN now?
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by nomat 3y ago
students definitely are not all equally capable in one aspect for sure: their ability to hire or provide private tutoring outside of school hours. Cutting access to state-funded programs (such as algebra classes in middle school) just mean
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by nomat 3y ago
the mods abused the sticky functionality to get posts pushed to the front page for a long time. other subreddits were tired of t_d users brigading. they spread misinformation on purpose. Engage in good faith in online spaces or get banned.
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by nomat 3y ago
same. wish there was a shortcut i could place on my home screen as a toggle though.
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by nomat 4y ago
Ken Liu's "The Perfect Match" is a sci-fi short story about this topic. https://gizmodo.com/lightspeed-presents-the-perfect-match-by...
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by nomat 6y ago
Hey I'm on that website! IRC used to be so fun and weird back in the day. hanging out on slashnet took up most of my free time in junior high.
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by nomat 8y ago
the people who read HN are a self-selected tribe of a certain bent and it would be strange if YC's reading list didn't have an underlying theme to it. i dont think there's anything wrong with a "this is what guys like me
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by nomat 10y ago
Cross border electronic payments are a pain because many US companies won't ship internationally because merchants are the ones that are liable in cases of fraud.
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by nomat 10y ago
I'll take a stab at it. In the US, the protectionist/isolationist policies (building a wall to keep out undesirables, bringing jobs back into the states in order to re-greatenize our economy, heavy tariffs on imports) that some pe
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by nomat 10y ago
I will mash two sayings together here in order to summarize my interpretation of the author's point: A rising tide lifts all boats, but some boats are more lifted than others. And that's fine. Not sure if I agree with it but the N
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by nomat 10y ago
That is a good point, and I agree with you when the case is that the idea or person you disagree with is a necessary part of the curriculum/class. But in the case where it's an extracurricular activity or student organization that
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by nomat 10y ago
I assume people like Shapiro collect fees from the school for speaking, so would it be correct to frame the issue as students not wanting their money to go into the pockets of a person that they don't support?
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by nomat 10y ago
Perhaps I didn't get across what I was trying to say. My point was that legally, it's going to be easier for the courts to convict a poor person with a public defender on murder/non-neglient manslaughter charges than a rich p
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by nomat 10y ago
Would love to see socioeconomic status included in the analysis as well.
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by nomat 10y ago
Blacks are convicted of committing higher rates of murder, rape, and other violent crime. Considering that nearly 40% of homicides go unsolved, it's entirely possible that the actual rate is much different.
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by nomat 11y ago
I didn't down vote you but I assume the people that did have some kind of value system that doesn't involve culling the underperforming subsection of humanity during their annual review. The implication in my original post was tha
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by nomat 11y ago
I can't tell if this is a serious comment or a facetious one. Do you know me from somewhere else? Very strange. If serious, I believe that it would be categorized under the "appeal to nature" group of fallacies. Secondly, who
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by nomat 11y ago
Then it seems like the minimum wage is not the underlying issue. If there are too many people and not enough jobs, fiddling with the minimum wage won't have any real effect because regardless of what it is, there are always going to be
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by nomat 11y ago
They would just revoke it because they are the issuers of the license in the first place. You can't take something that you already own from yourself by force.
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by nomat 11y ago
Let's say that you make $50,000 a year. There's a bill that cuts taxes by 5% for anyone making under $1,000,000 and 50% for anyone making over that. Do you vote yes on this because "I'm going to be a millionaire soon any
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by nomat 11y ago
I think it's quite telling that only one top level comment mentions the race of the drug users, and is at the bottom of the page. Even the article itself avoids the topic although it includes statistics of all kinds.

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