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by ralusek 6y ago
This has Big Hikikomori written all over it.
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by ralusek 6y ago
"Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally supp
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by ralusek 6y ago
There are obviously some conservative elements to the Republican party, but it is fundamentally a liberal party. Democratic party, obviously, is not remotely liberal, but that has been the case for some time. That doesn't mean good or
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by ralusek 6y ago
The stock market is more and more detached from the underlying companies that stocks represent, and more and more based on network effect. Most countries currencies are just based off of network effect. Try getting people in Argentina to bu
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by ralusek 6y ago
You mean a new cryptocurrency altogether? Sure, but it's not worth squat unless you get tons of people on board. With Bitcoin and Ethereum, they already are.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Hasn't the last year very clearly demonstrated that the ability to lower interest rates and print money has had far more of an impact on the market than anything else? Stocks are practically moving up and down in unison, the market i
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by ralusek 6y ago
> I won't indulge what kind There's only one kind considered too controversial for mainstream.
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by ralusek 6y ago
I understand the challenges coming from trying to decide if users are genuine people, or genuinely motivated to behave the way that they are. I also understand that the motives imparted onto Facebook here may or may not be accurate. However
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by ralusek 6y ago
"t" "o" "r" "i" "l" would've exceeded hexadecimal. There were no capitals or numbers, so I just assumed base 26.
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by ralusek 6y ago
I wonder if knowing too much about Pokemon counts as Big Data.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Unexpected base 26 factorial!
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by ralusek 6y ago
Cry evertim
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by ralusek 6y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, are you saying that untreated ADHD is more likely to result in suicide?
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by ralusek 6y ago
This is why I hate the notion that communism could be state-less. It is a prescriptive ideology that is concerned with describing systems and ensuring outcomes. Any mechanism that enforces that will be an authoritarian state, regardless of
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by ralusek 6y ago
That just means that economics is a useful lens, which it is. The stratified model of classes, however, is absurd. I work as a developer, with some developers under me, with some stock in the company I work at. Am I labor, managerial, or ca
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by ralusek 6y ago
This is the exact opposite of my experience. When I click on a link, or click to submit something, and I realize that it's NOT an SPA, my immediate thought is "this is going to be a nightmare." When I click a button, and it h
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by ralusek 6y ago
> If the government was a willing partner in explicit discrimination based on race from slavery > Jim Crow > New Deal > mass incarceration, then it should be a willing partner in righting the inequities created. The claim is tha
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by ralusek 6y ago
That exact text is from a draft by Ocasio Cortez. The finalized bill is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolutio... I've included highlights of the sort below. > providing resourc
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by ralusek 6y ago
I specifically mean controversial issues being tacked onto the bill that are at best tangentially related. The Green New Deal literally has a stipulation within that guarantees "economic security to those unable or unwilling to work.&q
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by ralusek 6y ago
If the math doesn't work out in such a way that POC are disproportionately benefited by helping poor people...then that would mean that POC weren't overrepresented amongst the poor.
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by ralusek 6y ago
If politicians, left or right, thought of climate as an emergency, they would behave _completely_ differently. Just look at the Green New Deal. If they truly thought of it as an emergency, they wouldn't pass highly controversial legisl
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by ralusek 6y ago
I don't understand how this is a demonstration of a color-blind policy mitigating systemic problems facing communities of color; it's not a color-blind policy. In what way is this policy meant to overcome distrust of color-blind s
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by ralusek 6y ago
> So the fact, not assumption, is 6/6 poor people of color are being targeted. If this is how the demography played out when just filtering by economic criteria, so be it. I have no issue with something disproportionately affecting
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by ralusek 6y ago
Stupid people seem incapable of understanding how color-blind solutions are able to still address racial disparities. If you were to, say, implement a program to help poor people, rather than "people of color," then to the extent
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by ralusek 6y ago
Nobody, which is why I said my example didn't apply to the situation, but rather to the broader hypothetical.
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by ralusek 6y ago
No it's not. If I walk into SF with 2 million dollars, there are more than a few people who would give up their 1 million dollar house for that amount of money. My desire and means to live there would just have to exceed their own. If
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by ralusek 6y ago
That just turns the city into a firt-come-first-serve lottery, in addition to all sorts of perverse incentives/disincentives for landlords and tenants alike, rather than a place where the people who are most willing/able to pay to
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by ralusek 6y ago
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by ralusek 6y ago
I mean, a police officer in every bedroom wouldn't be great. Not saying that applies here, just thought your question was a strange hypothetical.
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by ralusek 6y ago
The character of humanity*

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