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by syshum 5y ago
>you check on Umberto Eco's scale I will freely admit I am not versed on that, however in my very very brief reading of the idea's I think there is a lot of subjectivity in application, and one it seems to me right now one wou
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by syshum 5y ago
>>- exhibiting a number of traits typically attributed to fascism Only if you actively misunderstand, or more likely only listen to selected clips by mainstream media >>- friendly relationships with many authoritarian/dicta
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by syshum 5y ago
Both assessments were clearly wrong, Out side of Harse words on twitter I would love to have anyone point to actual policy positions / actions that the Trump Administration took that put the world or the EU in greater danger?
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by syshum 5y ago
Please cite specific policies that are examples of this "exercise of naked power, without any mask of moral pretenses"...
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by syshum 5y ago
I would agree that US has socialized medicine but not because of the ER, but because most of the Healthcare spending is now under 3 government programs. Medicare, Medicade, and VA. ER is often a convenient target for explaining the high co
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by syshum 5y ago
I do not believe it is the proper role of government to dictate to me what foods I can and can not consume, or to manipulate my behavior on what they feel is the "best" diet today, that will change tomorrow Remember the US govern
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by syshum 5y ago
No, compared to the Rest of the world the US is on the Libertarian / Federalism side of politics. I like that I like liberty, I like freedom, I like federalism. I oppose central government, I oppose social democracy, I oppose autho
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by syshum 5y ago
Soo much wrong here.. One the "better outcomes" is actually debatable due to a whole host of factors, including that American are generally less healthy not because of our healthcare system but because we have large amounts of hig
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by syshum 5y ago
I think that is likely going to happen anyway, The political leadership of the US has no desire do to what is required to keep power. They like the business world are too focused on the short term, in the case of politicians it is the ne
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by syshum 5y ago
>> but it needs to remain in EU's good graces, if it wants to maintain its hegemony. I dont think that is true, and in reality hitching our (the US) future to the EU's idiosyncrasies will likely lead to the US losing power
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by syshum 5y ago
These days "far right" has lost all meaning when people commonly label even people that share what was mainstream 1990's democrat policy platform views as "far right" What is considered "right" in US Polit
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by syshum 5y ago
The US has begged for years for the EU to take their national security more seriously, even just the bare minimum required under the NATO treaty which most nations have not actually done. instead they used that money to increase social spen
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by syshum 5y ago
I dont think it is contempt for the users, It is more that consumers (i.e non-enterprise editions of windows) is the Beta Test group for windows Microsoft has always been, and will always be an enterprise company, they do not care about C
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by syshum 5y ago
The fact that people believe mandates are good public policy is honestly unbelievable to me. To be clear I not debating the effectiveness of mask but the effectiveness of mask mandates which have shown many many many times to be unenforceab
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by syshum 5y ago
Not every lot, or every location is good for PV, further lots of utilities are working very hard to make net-metering very unattractive. They do not want to pay home owners Retail prices for electricity (and I do not blame them)
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by syshum 5y ago
You also have to plan on saying in the home for decades, when most people dont. Currently spending that money will not really increase the resell value of the home that much, so you like you will recouped it if you sell your home say 5-7 y
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by syshum 5y ago
That depends on the cost of your utilities which very by region and even company, for example you may have a for profit gas vendor, and a coop for electric or vice versa that would change those economics. For me my electric rates are pretty
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by syshum 5y ago
The winds are shifting on that... The fed actions are a large part of why. It is extremely arrogant to believe that the world will continue to allow the USD to be manipulated by the fed with no action by other nations. It is a denial of hi
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by syshum 5y ago
Large Corporations will often have government enact laws they know would be unpopular policies for a variety of reasons... Many times companies will even publicly opposes the very laws they actually support behind the scenes. Not saying tha
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by syshum 5y ago
I have never understood how pointing out another unethical policy justifies the first unethical policy It seems we as a society have lost the axiom of "2 wrongs do not make a right" as it is not just this area were I see people at
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by syshum 5y ago
>You can also look at the past, back when black people weren't allowed in white businesses and black schoolgirls had to be escorted by the state to be allowed to attend school. I always find this argument ironic given the Jim Crow l
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by syshum 5y ago
>>because the first thing that should come to people's minds when reading this article is the social good that will come of it Wishing does not make it so, and human psychology does not work that way and never will. if you contin
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by syshum 5y ago
We do not know the full story of that comment. Remember all stories have 2 sides we only have one. Even taking the story at face value all we really know is the one employee of the bar was an asshole. Asshole exist in the world and no am
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by syshum 5y ago
>> some other boogeyman lawyer is after them or you know there really could be... There is entire sub-group of lawyers that are ADA Trolls, just like there are Patent Trolls, and Copyright Trolls. They exist not to make business more
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by syshum 5y ago
>>saving on food I did not experience this. Even though I did eat out less, I seem to be eating more over all, and with the massive inflation in food costs I seem to be spending more than ever on food. In the office it took effort to
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by syshum 5y ago
I think it more a changing demographic of HN, as well as people that dissent from the WFH support seem to be blasted so they just do not speak up anymore. 2 years of "if you do not want isolation you want to kill grandma" will do
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by syshum 5y ago
No it is far far far less useful than it was a few years ago, I routinely now have to use a couple different search engines to find solutions to technical problems because google tends to weight sources it thinks I should be using for and
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by syshum 5y ago
I dont believe I did that, The only time I mention sex was in regards to sexual education in schools, which is current event given the new law in FL, incorrectly dubbed the "dont say gay bill". To equate my statement to being &quo
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by syshum 5y ago
>>much of America, for example, thinks the right to existence of LGBTQ folks is up for debate. I would love for you to expand upon that, why you believe that? I am not aware any wide spread opposition to the "existence" of
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by syshum 5y ago
The concern is will MDN still be good in a few years now that Mozilla fired all of the professional technical writers that made MDN good and instead is going for the Wikipedia approach. I have my doubts the quality will remain

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