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by ralusek 6y ago
His social commentary is some of his most important work. If you had to isolate Sowell's most repeated, potent point, it would be that disparities in population outcomes are nowhere near sufficient to infer discrimination as a primary
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by ralusek 6y ago
I mean any anarchist that means it in the leftist sense will always fall into the same trap: that they're attempting to describe a system with very specific social and economic outcomes, while either failing to describe the apparatus n
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by ralusek 6y ago
Isn't your criticism of libel/slander/tort laws? It's not as if, given that these laws exist, that media organizations should be able to exist outside of them.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Cost/benefit analysis. Leaving cities often comes with substantially lower rent.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Some infinities are larger than others.
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by ralusek 6y ago
If spreading rock dust on the ground serves some function, then it is itself technology.
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by ralusek 6y ago
I also have a strong desire for a community tolerant of nuanced conversation, but any attempts I've seen to do so (bitchute, gab, parler, voat), seem to almost immediately be taken over by precisely the worst parts of any other communi
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by ralusek 6y ago
On the surface, your logic is "I think there are concepts which have been made taboo to discuss, and this is a good thing, therefore making topics taboo to discuss is a good thing." To be charitable, let's change this to mean
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by ralusek 6y ago
Yes. Even just the existence of different subreddits with different moderation policies is already close to a perfect solution. I don't understand why people are so hellbent on getting subreddits that exceed their tolerances removed fr
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by ralusek 6y ago
I don't think HN outcompetes Reddit... Also, Reddit has more moderation than Reddit. Subreddits exist for a reason.
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by ralusek 6y ago
In regards to the quarantine: I actually don't mind at all. But I understand that by already having been working from home, as well as being rather introverted, I am less affected than most. In regards to everything else: Heartbroken.
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by ralusek 6y ago
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by ralusek 6y ago
Infrastructure spending is in many ways just a large social safety net that happens to produce very useful things as a side effect. The cost to build these things doesn't just go into an abyss, it gives an enormous amount of workers jo
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by ralusek 6y ago
Can you please elaborate on the caveat, I don't follow.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Pretty sweet. Is anybody using Lambda to run huge MapReduce jobs? Do people still use Hadoop? Doesn't this basically just let you have something like HDFS for running large distributed computations with some shared state, without havin
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by ralusek 6y ago
They can do whatever they want, and so can investors...
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by ralusek 6y ago
That data would be nowhere near sufficient to imply any causality in either direction.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Expected the answer communicated through song.
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by ralusek 6y ago
No, it's not. It's actually a way of shorting something, you are effectively betting that the covered entity will fail. If priced appropriately to risk and the value of the entity, it can be thought of as low-risk hedge, but it&#x
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by ralusek 6y ago
America needs to start investing seriously in infrastructure and research. Infrastructure and research are both essentially social safety nets that also happen to make the country better. Look what infrastructure spending has done for Asia.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Correct, but then the subsequent question, as the other user pointed out, is WHY? The default position to fill in the gap seems to be that "racist discretion on the part of the police is responsible," but is that actually a reaso
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by ralusek 6y ago
That would involve them not sitting at home doing nothing...
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by ralusek 6y ago
Antifa is, in practice, a collection of people whose most notable and consistent actions are preventing people that they perceive to be right-wing-radicals, i.e. non-left-wing-radicals, from speaking at universities and other events. Warren
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by ralusek 6y ago
Starlink, for one.
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by ralusek 6y ago
All the people forced to buy contracts with them. All the people forced to work with them. Pure. Tyranny.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Yes but do we have to build houses for them in one of the most physically constrained places (partly geographic, partly zoning) on Earth? There seems to be this strange idea that people put forth that your options are simply between living
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by ralusek 6y ago
I wonder if whatever the last item they bring before the beach opens back up is going to be strongly associated with the return of humans. "Wow, it was that boot that did it, huh?" Years later we find a crate of boots stashed away
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by ralusek 6y ago
It's not even necessary to remove New York. Without removing New York at all: US Tests Per Million is 42k. Netherlands: 17k Sweden: 20k France: 21k Finland: 28k Switzerland: 41k Germany: 42k UK: 43k Italy: 52k So the US isn't uniq
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by ralusek 6y ago
AFAIK the US isn't faring particularly worse than most European countries. Especially if you remove New York, the perception of the US as having had uniquely bad outcomes seem pretty unfounded. And if you focus on individual states, st
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by ralusek 6y ago
If something is notoriously difficult, it isn't up to what one individual thinks. That's what makes it notorious.

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