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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
> Manufacturing isn't returning to the US due to these tariffs. Even if it did, who cares? It wouldn't make anything less expensive or better and unemployment was already basically as close to zero as it will ever get. If wages
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
If you say it's solid, I'll buy it... but the first one is terrifying. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Even if Chris Titus is legit if his site gets owned so does anyone running this as Administrator in the way described.
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
Windows App? Does that let you install Windows inside of Windows via the App store that most companies block?
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
What's wrong with the names? Personally, I love Microsoft 365. It just rolls off the tongue and is clearly more meaningful than a silly name like "Office." Who ever heard of an office? Why mess around with a single, familiar
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
> Francois Chollet, a former intelligence researcher at Google also shares this view. Great, now there are two of you.
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
If I'm following your reasoning the argument seems to be: We should continue to do a bad job of enforcement for everyone because the laws are currently poorly enforced for some. I hope I'm just misreading you.
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
Surgery increases your odds of dying during surgery. It also saves far more lives than it costs. Unless you've seen data that says otherwise, I think this is the same.
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
Enforcing the laws that already exist via technological means instead of with personal prejudice, guns, and high speed pursuits is not fascism. Could it eventually lead to fascism? Maybe, but so could enforcing the law with fast cars and gu
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
> Any intellectually honest observer already knows they face discrimination. Yep, but a significant percentage of the population are not honest observers. This is pretty hard to refute even for those that would normally attempt to hand w
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
The world is now complicated. Simple people can't fathom it, and they make bad decisions because they're incapable of understanding the rules of they game they're stuck playing. Furthermore, not all clever people are kind and
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
You're not wrong.
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I understand and respect your moral position, I just feel that I have an even stronger moral requirement to take care of myself and my family first, and I think that others should do the same. As the stewardesses say, you should always put
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
I can only speculate, but I suspect it's related to our infantilization. A proper democracy requires an informed and rational electorate, and we just don't have that. As I said elsewhere in this post, most adults now read below th
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
We can not change the government without changing the people, and the people do not want to change.
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
Fifty four percent of American adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. The situation in America is not some temporary aberration, it is a permanent change in the status quo. Anti-intellectual populism is the new normal, and
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
It is incredibly relevant. Thomas Payne published "Common Sense" anonymously, and had that not happened the United States may not exist. It is a relatively obvious fact that there can be no freedom of speech without anonymous spee
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
I actually did try this for awhile, and it helped a bit. I tried several other methods as well, but none were really effective for me. However, the thing that finally did the trick for me was something called "brick" ( https:&#x2F
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
The author is largely correct, and I've personally been doing something similar to him for the last few year: purchasing physical media, shunning unnecessary smart gizmos that I don't directly control, and otherwise trying to just
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
I know that my own comment won't add real value to this conversation, but I wanted to take the time to say it anyhow: This kind of comment is the reason I come to HN. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us.
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
I'm not well informed enough to have an opinion at that scale (few are). However, the potential death of Pax Americana implies that trade routes will be different in the future, not that people will inexplicably stop trading with one a
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
It still seems pretty crazy to me. In the wired article the author says he thinks climate change will disrupt trade routes, but obviously society would route around the damage as long as it remained profitable to do so. The only scenario in
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
Some people are afraid the world will end, others are afraid it won't. The latter type actively enjoy thinking about this sort of thing. I think we'll see more of it as the boomers continue to age. Some folks mistake their own loo
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
It gives them (legally debatable) visibility into how customers are using their competitions products. That's part of the reason it didn't happen under the Biden administration. Trump is very much against enforcing anti-competitio
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It doesn't force them to move, it just gets Google the information about how you use competitors products so they can out negotiate them come deal time.
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I have a Boox page. It's quirky, but I love that it has the normal Google play store and a great battery life. Now I can use whatever app suits me, and I can buy my ebooks from whatever store has the best deal. Sometimes I'll find
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by stevenAthompson 2y ago
I can think of at least five reasons to use this that aren't illegal, including the fact that the law doesn't work the way this person thinks it does. The way he phrased it has turned me from someone eager to discuss the potential
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If one state could make something illegal in the other 49 Florida would have already made life very painful for the blue states.
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You could have said this exact same thing without it sounding like a personal attack, but you chose to be unkind instead. I wonder why?
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That's patently ridiculous to anyone who has read the constitution lately. It was even a ridiculous idea to Republicans a few months ago when they argued that forgiving student loan debt was outside of the presidents power, despite tha
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Civics 101 teaches us that Congress in charge of the purse, not the executive branch. Given than any authority DOGE has was granted solely by the executive, any "cost-cutting" he has done is likely the beginning of a long, expensi

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