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by starkd 4y ago
I think the HN karma is subtle enough not to take it too seriously, and yet it's still there to give you the signal your comments may be out line. When I first started reading HN, I didn't even realize there was a karma feature.
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by starkd 4y ago
yes, somethingawful was a very unique site. Especially under clever writes like Frolixo, whose humor I still miss. It was a kind of humor that was mildly abrasive yet not too much as to be toxic. You just sort of knew it was humor. I gue
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by starkd 4y ago
Oh? This is news to me. The media are all claiming he waived it, though I tended to doubt it. That he would waive it does seem kind of odd, since even waiving due diligence should not absolve a company from lying about its assets if foun
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by starkd 4y ago
The twitter board has already announced it intends to litigate this. And they are not after just the $1B fee. That might be what Mr. Musk had in mind when he mentioned he was lawyering up in a few tweets awhile back. Even though he waved
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by starkd 4y ago
Many people use the phrase with the assumption of extraordinary greatness or superiority. Like in that aaron sorkin video clip the article references. Exceptional can mean better performance or better results, but it can also mean that it
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by starkd 4y ago
Then what you are thinking of is not so much a country but an economy.
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by starkd 4y ago
A lot of that is just patriotism, which is perfectly necessary for any country that hopes to thrive. But it's not just a matter of paying your taxes, as the government is a very different entity than the country itself, though they do
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by starkd 4y ago
Well, any successful nation cannot be successful without believing in itself. True.
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by starkd 4y ago
Yes, I understand that. But it's very different from its origins. When America was founded, it consisted of mostly farmers. Basic agriculture. It produced nothing extraodinary and in relation to other countries. Britain was the fin
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by starkd 4y ago
This is a common misunderstanding of the meaning of the word 'exceptional'. The origins of the phrase "American exceptionalism" had nothing to do with greatness or thinking one country is better than another. It is exc
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by starkd 4y ago
Or maybe less people agree that it is really as dire as you seem to think it is.
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by starkd 4y ago
It is a signal that oil and gas are not going anywhere for a long time. Even if they were buying it for the sale of its assets, those assets would not be worth very much if oil and gas industry were in terminal decline. He is making mass
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by starkd 4y ago
Wow, that was a lot of really tough decisions. Now I'm wiped for the rest of the day. Gonna have to take a nap. Good job on the site.
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Toyota’s Chief Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped (2020)(wsj.com)
34 points by starkd 4y ago|95 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
Thats an extremely negative view of people's ability. There's a point where you have to realize you can't protect people from themselves. A video that simply provides knowledge in an accessible way without preaching and con
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by starkd 4y ago
I wouldn't worry about it not being recognized. Much of artistic inspiration is not attributed, as cross pollination is the norm. Once an artist makes something, it ceases to be theirs and becomes its own creation. Most of the time
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by starkd 4y ago
That's the "magic" of commerce. That a transaction can bring two parties together who ordinarily would not agree on anything. And they BOTH walk away from it with a net positive.
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EVs Are Becoming More Expensive, Not Less(thetruthaboutcars.com)
12 points by starkd 4y ago|2 comments
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by starkd 4y ago
Also, not having a viable substitute for fertilizer when trying to move away from the use of fertilizer. Sri Lanka has collapsed with widepread food shortages following such a policy.
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by starkd 4y ago
Wrong. Read the decision. They specificaly rule it out.
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by starkd 4y ago
Read the decision. Kavanaugh and Roberts were very specific that the reasoning doesn't affect other issues.
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by starkd 4y ago
You've lost the thread of the discussion. I said the reason the Democrat party is so protective of Roe v Wade is because its a cornerstone of their powerbase and how they give their supporters and fundraisers the impression they are g
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by starkd 4y ago
Most of the legislation either includes or is eventually amended to provide for those exceptions. 12 to 15 weeks is generally should be more than enough time.
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by starkd 4y ago
There are inconviences behind everything you go to do. Simply saying "not everybody can afford something" is not an argument. It's a convenient escape hatch. If people spent half the effort to actually help any women in s
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by starkd 4y ago
My beef is with politicians in general. No one is indebted to a party, republican or democrat. But at least republicans aren't claiming credit for giving you your "rights". Sorry, for not capitolizing Democrat, since you se
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by starkd 4y ago
What powergrab has ever relinquished power? It's literally the opposite of a powergrab. What power do Christian conservatives now suddenly have? This was a democrat party talking point to show supporters and fundraisers how indebted
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by starkd 4y ago
It's also not 1970 anymore. There's a prophalactic pill, there's morning after pill, and there's freedom of movement between states. Women are capable of exerting self-responsibility over their reproduction, and they a
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by starkd 4y ago
There was a time when the democrat party stood for abortions being "legal safe and rare". None other than Bill Clinton said this. Perhaps this decision will now allow state legislatures to pick a reasonable time limit. This d
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by starkd 4y ago
Except that the court relinquished its power to decide on these matters. It may not seem like it now to you, but it actually gains credibility by the courts, because they are not put in the middle of such a consequential decision. It allo
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by starkd 4y ago
They are not all "crackpots". Many environmentalists have come forward stressing the importance of walking back some of the verge-of-catastrophe alarms that have been pulled. (Shellenberger, Bjorn Lomborg, and one former Obama ad

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