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U.S. Supreme Court curbs affirmative action in university admissions(reuters.com)
55 points by seneca 3y ago|39 comments
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by seneca 3y ago
The US had golden years after World War 2. We had abundance, effective institutions, and high trust. We've been slowly coming off of that high for a while, and are returning to what is arguably a more typical state. Our institutions ar
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by seneca 3y ago
> I’m curious how other vegetarians and vegans feel about eating lab-grown meat? My gut reaction to this is “yuck, meat”. Interesting. I am very much a meat eater, and my gut reaction to this is "yuck, fake meat". I am totally
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by seneca 3y ago
> You still need resources to grow the meat, and many animals will be harmed and killed in the process of extracting those resources. This is an absurd stretch of the definition of veganism. If this were accepted, you couldn't call
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by seneca 3y ago
I suppose if that's the kind of thing you go looking for it's what you will see. I actually see a lot less hate on Twitter. I struggle to see how there could be more than there was in its prime, since that was most of the content.
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by seneca 3y ago
I don't know if elegant is the word, but I often refer to the Hashicorp repos for Go, and specifically admire Mitchell's own. Very clean, well written code most of the time.
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> What does that make spez relative to the constituents in his community? It makes him just like many authoritarian dictators in history. Taking something of value away from the people who actually built it, and claiming it's for th
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> And people who have jumped on the right-wing bandwagon trying to censor and control libraries have siezed on this, blaming libraries for endangering children. Really shameful behavior. When shared social resources are turned into polit
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by seneca 3y ago
While that sounds like a nice summer drink, it's not a mint julep. Liqueurs can also be fairly approximated as "sugar and a little water" with flavoring. So, not all that different. From https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by seneca 3y ago
> Palantir is politically involved enough that I don't think we can raise any hackles about PRC that don't apply equally in practice to USA. Absolutely absurd statement. Palantir doesn't run concentration camps.
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It is literally exactly what it means. Tipped employees can not legally be paid less than the standard minimum wage.
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> An extraordinarily privileged and tone-deaf response. Well done. Responses like this degrade this community. Ad hominems add nothing to the conversation.
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> The better societal rule is to disallow tipped employees from receiving less than minimum wage. That's already the case. Tipped employees have to be paid the normal hourly minimize wage if their reduced wage plus tips doesn't
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by seneca 3y ago
You're basically correct. The frustration many of us have, largely people slightly older than the core HN crowd, is that for a brief moment in the 90s and early 2000s we didn't have any of this dogma that could demand you nod alon
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by seneca 3y ago
> This is the kind of problem that Epictetus’ version of Stoicism is designed to address: a privileged man is disturbed by the idea that he does not have complete control over every element of his existence. The gall of a modern academic
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by seneca 3y ago
This is entirely theater. It's arresting the kids breaking windows while you let the murderers roam free so that you can say you're tough on crime. The USPS is so low on the list of government agencies violating your privacy that
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by seneca 3y ago
Why is it easier to filter through the agendas of journalists instead of the experts themselves? As professional mouthpieces, journalists are more likely to have agendas, not less. Recent history has show that journalist are more interested
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by seneca 3y ago
The difficulty here is figuring out a definition of "significant news" enough people agree on. For example, you've missed my definition for the same reason many mainstream outlets do: I don't care about the Russian/
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by seneca 3y ago
It's called The Law of Merited Impossibility. It's a popular tactic for authoritarians in the last 30 years or so. Deny something is happening, and anyone who claims it is is paranoid. Then quickly do the thing, and smear anyone w
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by seneca 3y ago
> Yes, we all hate their support structure (it goes through SADA) SADA (and their competitor DoIT) are just resellers. Support doesn't inherently go through them. That's a decision your company makes. It's generally not a
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by seneca 4y ago
I would be even more worried, because then they have a bigger excuse to kill off product lines for real computers. The problems isn't just the form factor. It's primarily that phones and tablets are significantly dumbed down, clos
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> Plain disagreement ends when people start to die. Yes, if you inject enough hyperbole you can justify any sort of behavior. Luckily no one is actually "literally murdering" anyone, and these arguments are nothing but emotive
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> In other words: DEI is just performative at Stanford. They say the care just to get people off their backs. > Stanford is happy to lend their voice to racists, classists, anything, in the name of free speech. It doesn't matter
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by seneca 4y ago
Yeah, exactly this. Spend some time doing initial technical screen interviews. You'll quickly realize most people with years of industry experience have barely any clue what they're doing. Think about the average quality of engine
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by seneca 4y ago
I think something like this would be really beneficial. The tough thing with the rationalist sphere, and its dark cousins, is that critical material is spread across multiple forums and blogs, many defunct and difficult to search for. An in
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Scott used to write some fantastic content. The classic SSC posts, this amongst them, were so thought provoking and original. Even when I strongly disagreed with it, I was always glad to have read it. He has lost his spark in recent years,
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What an absolutely bizarre way to interpret them. It shows that the internet was accessible to a very small segment of the world
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by seneca 4y ago
> Says who? My prior is that all, or at least most, of the symptoms of long covid are caused by covid. Why is your prior better than mine? It's called the burden of proof. The person(s) making a claim is the one obligated to provide
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I've been hiring fairly steadily. The level of talent that is applying has definitely increased. My hiring managers are able to be way more picky, and people are accepting first offers at a higher rate. There's toug competition fo
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by seneca 4y ago
This is literally describing, and endorsing, the ad hominem fallacy. Your point isn't wrong in this case, the roots if modern new-left ideology are unsavory, but that doesn't make it a sound general approach.

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