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by samtp 3y ago
> I don't have a need to limit myself; I'm good after 1. Maybe in your social circles that is normal, but that is highly irregular from everything I have experienced over the last 20 years across 3 continents. And if you don&#x
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by samtp 3y ago
In what world is a 38% premium not well above market value? If you pay $1.38m for a $1m house, you are definitely paying well above market value.
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by samtp 4y ago
If you think the average person engages in all of the behaviors listed above, you should start hanging around different people.
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by samtp 4y ago
May be a slightly different use case but moving from BigQuery to managed Clickhouse on clickhouse.com has been pretty great. Easy data injection, super fast querying, lots of control over the environment, and a nice SQL console for quickly
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by samtp 4y ago
Either way he is still the guy who publicly mocked his own employee for having muscular dystrophy, offered another employee a horse if they gave him a handjob, called a cave diver who saved a bunch of children a pedo, spread conspiracy theo
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by samtp 4y ago
It's exactly the page I would expect to see if I tried to download a car
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by samtp 4y ago
Then you can end up like Donotpay and be in trouble for giving legal advice by a chatbot that is not a lawyer and has no obligation or directive to be correct.
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by samtp 4y ago
> The amount of unrestrained freedom makes me question why I'm even playing. Well I hope you don't have the same feeling about life. Because we are all free to choose our own adventure (with some choices obviously better than o
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by samtp 4y ago
How is using your legs in an urban area political?
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by samtp 4y ago
Pointing out that there was never a time when everything was all rosy and dandy is not a non sequitur. It's pointing out that their view of history is naive and not grounded in reality. To call these two points unrelated is to not unde
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by samtp 4y ago
I think your self-confidence needs a giant boost if you are a white male who is "concerned about being represented". Why don't you go and check the executive boards for the companies listed in the "Working with stakehold
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by samtp 4y ago
> I imagine you understand perfectly well the meaning of "woke" GP used, and you surely realize it is close to how this word is understood in general by those who don't subscribe to this particular group of ideologies To t
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by samtp 4y ago
He said his wife felt off put by him engaging with them. I said that was wrong, but also put forward a hypothetical situation where her feelings would be justified. That is not the same at all as saying "they are misogynist, racist, an
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by samtp 4y ago
What's pretty telling is that after I mention racism in passing, and you immediately jump in to say "a truly open mind would be open to racist view points". Then you go on giving examples of what you think are "racially
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by samtp 4y ago
> The only thing we know is they were conservative Well no, that's not true. We also know that his wife was "off put" by him engaging with them. And if you re-read my rely, you'll see that I specifically mention her b
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by samtp 4y ago
I only "singled out" conservatives because I was replying to a comment that specifically mentioned conservatives. I didn't think it would be relevant or useful to generalize or list the stereotypical flaws of every political
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by samtp 4y ago
So a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong posted a self-published, non-peer reviewed paper, which was subsequently shown to not be supported by the underlying data cited. She also fled Hong Kong after publishing that paper. Th
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by samtp 4y ago
I think you seriously misread my comment if you thought that everything I talked about was a direct reply to the parent comment and specifically about the person who posted it. I was not upset or objecting to push back. I was, as people oft
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by samtp 4y ago
I wouldn't consider your wife that open minded if she is off put by you engaging with "conservative" friends. There is nothing off putting about that. But if your "conservative" friends happen to drop openly misogyn
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by samtp 4y ago
Using your definition, most people who use the term "woke" as an insult are in fact super woke themselves.
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by samtp 4y ago
This sounds more like the medium/channels that you use for discussion have changed. The type of people who had internet and knew how to use something like IRC 20-30 years ago is a pretty distinct sub-group of people vs the general popu
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by samtp 4y ago
Do you have any evidence that they were actively censored as a conscious decision by employees of the largest social media platforms? Or did their opinions expressed simply lose them following and/or not generate their normal engagemen
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by samtp 4y ago
> trends in "cancel culture" and just generally shaming people for saying something not supported by whatever is the current "woke" / "social justice" viewpoint du jour are a relatively recent phenomeno
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by samtp 4y ago
Well under oath in court, DeSantis General Counsel Ryan Newman defined woke as: “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them” [0] https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editori
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by samtp 4y ago
I'm struggling to see where the harm or injury is here.
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by samtp 4y ago
1. Do you have an example of someone who has been deplatformed (kicked off Youtube, Twitter, etc) for simply saying that COVID came from a lab outbreak? Because I'm pretty sure they also had some strong opinions on other topics and&#x2
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by samtp 4y ago
...then they should be expected to back it up with a reasonable argument and supporting facts. If they can't do that, then they should expect push back. Even if they can do that they should expect push back - because that is how conver
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by samtp 4y ago
So free speech to express any opinion but not free speech to respond to opinions expressed? 99% of the time that someone decries the "death of free speech", it boils down to them not wanting to hear criticism for expressing ignora
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by samtp 4y ago
> I remember years ago you could have a discussion and express your opinion and it was fine. I also remember when racism, xenophobia, slandering women, and generally ignorant talk was accepted and chuckled at. Thankfully, women are now e
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by samtp 4y ago
Accuracy of local business listings on Apple is still far behind Google. And Apple's new business admin interface is only slightly less trash than it's old one.

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