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by refenestrator 5y ago
Conversely, American and Israeli politicians constantly talk about taking out Iran, making nukes a necessity for their self-defense. In both cases it's mostly posturing, but killing scientists and saying we had to, it's self defen
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It's not fricking world war 2, no matter the technicalities.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
A key factor there is the word 'war'.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
FYI there is as of now no evidence for genocide in Xinjiang. No mass casualties. Sterilization is a universal policy for exceeding child allotments, which were actually higher for minorities until they raised it to 3 universally. That&#x2
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by refenestrator 5y ago
That's a backwards projection. In the early 2000s we were still blithely confident that China would just slot into a world order dominated by us. The end of history and all that. The record was that the Bush administration came in an
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by refenestrator 5y ago
You can look up the story, it was in the fevered summer of 2020 when lots of people were trying to get other people fired for innocent boring stuff in the name of Justice.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
I'm orthogonal to your points. I'm not as attached to the symbolic online battle, and I appreciate good trolling. > It's more important exactly who is using the phrase and why, than what the phrase is. This is thought-ter
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by refenestrator 5y ago
When that phrase is used to troll people into freaking out at an innocuous phrase, and they do so, that's on them.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Teenage boys' bullying tends to be physical and a lot less socially adept, stereotypically speaking. Social media is less of an accelerant for that sort of thing.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
You'd be surprised. Often that dude will have preferences that go way beyond linters and may even contradict widely accepted best practices. I've worked with the dude who insisted on factoring out functions for unrelated 2-liners
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Sure, but is this existential? The CoC has platitudes, too. Why is this some scary takeover?
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Either air dirty laundry or don't, then. "They are super shady, trust me" is worse than both.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
+1 to taking it offline when it's more than a couple minor style fixes.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
90% of people are fine and code review has tons of benefits.. but the format is an enabler for 'that guy', as you're asking them for approval rather than running it by them as an FYI. I've seen a few different motivated
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by refenestrator 5y ago
How about dealing with "that guy" who will take you through 8 revisions until he basically wrote the PR? I typically just identify and avoid, get reviews from other people instead.. would love to hear more advanced strats. Attem
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Cheers!
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by refenestrator 5y ago
> the idea that the professionals to whom we give vast sums to be excellent at lying, cheating, stealing, killing, and betrayal - spies, in other words - should be given a sort of "Mister Magoo" benefit of the doubt when lots o
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by refenestrator 5y ago
I'm with you on being outraged, but organizational dysfunction is the norm and not reigning it in is one way of "dropping the ball". There wasn't, like, one single person who had all this information and he was personall
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It's very different from your frame, it's normal to them. You and I grew up with American history and civics classes teaching an American view of things. There's context and complexities to American misdeeds. China's a
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Since you're boosting it here, do you have a link to any sort of analysis where the math works out on a land value tax? I totally get the philosophical attraction but I just do not see how you pull trillions of dollars out of that with
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Bride price can be a benign custom in otherwise normal marriages as long as you're not literally buying the woman. If it's accompanied with the bride's family helping outfit the spousal home, it's basically a wash and s
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by refenestrator 5y ago
There's a 'foreign policy grownup' archetype who gets credibility for free whether they're on MSNBC or Fox News. That grownup has a default stance of American global supremacy, and China has gotten too big/rich&#x2
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Maybe that says more about your bias. There's an anti-china thread on HNs front page like 3x a week. Imagine if you were an immigrant and you see that shit. Would it be infuriating? If a comment comes from outside your frame of refe
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Wasn't a King quote I was repudiating. He never said "you shouldn't try to do good on a foundation of injustice", because he wasn't an idiot.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
They can go meta, and have all the links to justify their ratings be fake bs. Maybe the occasional rickroll.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that. I don't think she was a diversity checkbox so much as a 'small world in silicon valley' unmeritorious hire, with the diversity checkbox as maybe a small plus.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
They did play it up quite a bit, I remember being annoyed at the stories of how tough she was with her in-office daycare and support staff for her newborn while other non-celebrity women I know had to order their whole lives around a pump
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by refenestrator 5y ago
After 20 years of war with colonial powers, I'm glad we can agree that it was really the Vietnamese who were the bad guys.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Deng was actually in the middle between the hardliners and reformists, from accounts I've read. He wasn't officially head of the party anymore, and there was stalemate for a few days about how to handle the protests before Deng f
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Yes, that's why we have the secret ballot and should keep it, but let's try to trend away from why it's necessary?

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