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by seneca 5y ago
What inside knowledge do you have that indicates it's not true? You can't just assume something is false because it contradicts what you want to be true.
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by seneca 5y ago
> Ok, fair enough. On closer reading, I think I pattern-matched your comment the wrong way! Just want to say I respect and appreciate the humility here. It's easy for a moderator to just shut down disagreement.
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by seneca 5y ago
The possibility of failure is inherently involved in "attempting". Otherwise it's just "doing".
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by seneca 5y ago
Not to discount your experience, it is a useful data point showing it can work, but almost any learning scheme that begins with willing PhDs teaching a group of well-behaved children (with parents that care enough to put them in a special s
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by seneca 5y ago
I largely agree with you up until your last sentence. The mistake you're making is equating the government with the village. That is a fundamental mistake and failure that seems extremely widespread. Civil Society needs to address this
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by seneca 5y ago
Well said. I do think there is a place for state institutions to fund research and public-good marketing campaigns on these issues. Maybe to go so far as campaigns explaining these behaviors are unhealthy and potentially dangerous in option
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by seneca 5y ago
Adorno and his cohort are the ones who created Critical Theory and adapted Marxism for the post-war western intellectual taste. Much of what is now called "wokeness" is a direct result of their work, by way of the New Left.
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by seneca 5y ago
> On the other hand, because of commission, it is in the recruiter's interest to get you as much money as possible so you might get a better offer via them than you would if you went direct. This isn't my experience at all, hav
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by seneca 5y ago
> I find China is useful as a mirror to the US. If they are doing something problematic, it's highly likely the US gov is too but just hasn't disclosed it to the public. You think the US is engaging in systematic genocide? I&#x
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by seneca 5y ago
I don't know that it's Christian sensibilities so much as a political view extremely susceptible to this sort of shrewd manipulation. As the person you're responding to said, the smoke screen is to cast criticism of China as
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by seneca 5y ago
That's a very interesting thought. Given the poverty the South was left with even with Reconstruction, I think you're right that a defeated-but-intact Confederacy could have potentially been an Axis power. It's difficult to e
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by seneca 5y ago
Yes, perhaps so. I suppose what I mean to say is that it seems misguided, in hindsight, to treat preserving the Union as some ultimate good. 150 years later, and all we have is two groups that seem to bitterly hate each other still and a dy
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by seneca 5y ago
Having spent significant time in the South, but not being from there, I have conflicting feelings about the civil war. The divide that existed then is a permutation of what bitterly divides the US now. People outside the South seem to despi
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by seneca 5y ago
It's worth noting that Onyx violates the Linux kernel license, and has a ton of telemetry that phones home to China. Major down sides for otherwise interesting tech.
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by seneca 5y ago
Well, the point is that these jobs don't create that much value. They're only worth so much, and the only skill required to do them is to put up with the misery. If you argue that all jobs must pay a "living wage", then
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by seneca 5y ago
> It seems to incentivize a mentality of "the customer is always right", with workers putting an extra effort to always smile and be nice in the hope for a fair tip. That's exactly the point. It's meant to be an incen
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by seneca 5y ago
You're dead on. This is a "distinction without a difference" and is a classic logical fallacy. It is the heart of "weasel words".
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by seneca 5y ago
> Come on people, that old “and the children?” trope? Australian government is really embarrassing some times There's criticism of the "think of the children" trope because it's used to defend bad ideas using an emoti
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by seneca 5y ago
I agree with yours points in general, but this sort of thing: > OK, grandpa is very much not up to par with what's expected here.
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by seneca 5y ago
Sure, I don't disagree with any of that. I was just taking exception with the claim that the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech are the same thing. I'm also generally on board with Freedom of Association though. I wouldn't
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by seneca 5y ago
> Freedom of speech means the government cannot limit what you can say. A private entity, such as Blizzard/Activision, has no such obligation. This is absolutely incorrect. To Americans, Freedom of Speech is, as the person you'
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by seneca 5y ago
> Engineers have very little say in what to build. That entirely depends on the company. In my experience, the higher the quality of engineers a company hires, the more influence those engineers have.
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by seneca 5y ago
Forgive my confusion, but wasn't Amazon Prime started a good 10 years before that? It seems like that'd the precedent. I'm guessing I'm missing some major detail.
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by seneca 5y ago
I believe what we're seeing here is the left-media machine beginning to try to change the narrative about covid for the run up to the mid-terms elections in the US. They've hung their hat on the authoritarian approach until now an
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by seneca 5y ago
I, personally, find it amazing that so many people were willing to sacrifice nearly two years of their quality-of-life to fight a virus that wouldn't hurt most of them. I know everyone is doom and gloom about covid, but I'm actua
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by seneca 5y ago
> I am trying to think of one way it was useful to tell you that, but I can’t. It's useful if it's a warning that OP isn't meeting expectations. Getting that feedback before a formal review, when there is still time to tur
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by seneca 5y ago
Honest question: do you believe that a contract someone signs with a gun to their head is legitimate? If not, why not? At what point does compelled consent become illegitimate? I think most people agree a person with a gun to their head is
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by seneca 5y ago
This is absurd authoritarian double talk. That's like saying you're free to speak your mind, but you're also free to be executed for it. The government punishing you for an action you take (including indirectly, but purposefu
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by seneca 5y ago
> Norway has been almost all-in on electric for a good while now. According to a quick Google search: "The current population of Norway is 5,483,767 as of Friday, December 24, 2021" and NY state is estimated at 20.2 million as
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by seneca 5y ago
Yes, you're right. I found this example pretty blatant and egregious, and my annoyance with it got the better of me. I should have handled this differently, thank you for the reminder.

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