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by rjbwork 4y ago
>non-normies I assume can still do black market work. Why do you want non-normies to have gun toting government thugs put them in a concrete box for 20 years because they don't want to get a permission slip to do the same thing you
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by rjbwork 4y ago
The idea of accusing someone of being a drug addict in the context of psychedelic use is absolutely hilarious. You sound completely uninformed and pretty much nobody should take you seriously on this topic.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I think I tend to agree. The place to put the thumb on the scales is pre-k-12, especially early on. If we look at purely merit metrics at the bottom of the funnel at university, then based on the approach these universities are taking, Asi
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>The focus on Asians is because of a doctrine that discriminating against Whites is very good and correct, because they deserve it. Maybe. I think it's because they are a small population being discriminated against heavily, versus
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I don't think it is a minority. In my personal and work life, it does seem to be something like 80/20 or 90/10. You might be right though, it's impossible to tell without doing some kind of vaguely rigorous poll.
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It should, perhaps, tell you something that a community with one of the most highly concentrated populations of technically literate people on the internet are so vehemently against a technology. Crypto is just a paperclip maximizer for sil
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Agree. I have a handful of pinned tabs. My email, messages, and, depending on the machine, a few tabs of research for either my current work task or game I'm playing or project I'm working on. At the end of each day I close all
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I'm sure it is happening, but I strongly suggest you seek mental help. If you believe that an entire political party, whose voters constitute more than half of the country, is a terrorist organization and whose voters must be hunted d
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Indeed. Our institutions are severely degraded, if not horribly broken. I hope it is not irreparably so, but I am not optimistic. The signs of societal and imperial decline are everywhere these days and we do not seem to be able to meet
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Lol. My exact thoughts before clicking the link "Let me guess, this is Chen"
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by rjbwork 4y ago
How is it disgusting? Because they mentioned Jews? Because they mentioned they have low vaccination rates?
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Indeed. As someone with experience of extreme manic psychosis, it is the pattern recognition/dot connection algorithm kicked into absolute overdrive. Spurious correlation abounds when afflicted with such a condition. Thankfully my ex
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Indeed. Author seems like someone who has never used git blame or something. Also, given that I originally used mercurial for the first few companies I worked at in my career, this idea of just blowing away history with squashes and rebas
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Moving Pictures is probably my favorite Discworld novel. Even without considering any of the subtext and commentary it's just so funny.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Reading Joyce is like listening to Prisencolinensinainciusol. It seems like you should be understanding and comprehending it. All the bits are there. You know what the words/syllables respectively are, but you just can't quit
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>I feel like the disillusionment it breeds is intentional. Absolutely. Demoralization of the proletariat is priority number one for the bourgeoisie. You don't have to spend huge amounts of resources fighting them if there is no on
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Which you continue to dance around and refuse to elucidate. Speak clearly.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>The person you are responding to offered an interesting comparison, that of stats from the US versus other countries They did the exact opposite of this. They asserted that it is wrong to examine this issue statistically.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
And the same politicians that those homeowners vote for. And lobby. Especially retirees who have time to do things like endlessly harangue their local councils to implement NIMBYist policies to prevent increasing housing supply in order t
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Fair. I've been told I can be a real asshole when I get to arguing. Sorry.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Yeah, it's really fucked up. I just think that, given the status quo, the best approach to reducing all forms of gun violence is to just generally make life better for everyone, and that the resources spent on trying to wrench guns fro
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by rjbwork 4y ago
They clearly disagree. But they've done so very poorly, as I'm sure you can see.
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Not really deference. Just a cold analysis of the state of things.
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That won't be happening. The second amendment is a thing. Demographics and opinion polls show that we won't be getting rid of it any time soon. Assault Rifles are in common use, thus will not be banned any time soon. The curre
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>Why in the world shoot kids in the first place? I don't know. I certainly don't think anyone should be shooting kids. >US is the only country in the whole universe that has an active shooter problem in schools. Because we
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Okay. I agree that kids should not be preyed upon in schools. Now what?
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Obvious race baiting is obvious. Say what you mean instead of being a fucking pussy and dancing around it by asking pointed questions that we have to then fill in the blanks on. Do you mean to say "people in Africa and the diaspora the
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I see that you have a hard time following an argument and the rhetorical techniques I used. I will break it down. I compared the rate of school shooting deaths to suicide deaths for the purpose of pointing out the outsized amount of resour
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>They absolutely do not, not even remotely close to the scale and frequency in the United States. I thought we weren't analyzing gun violence statistically?
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I elaborated here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163407 But TL;DR: I think that the juice is not worth the squeeze and that it is just another issue for the two tribes to fight about while the ruling class continues

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