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by tdb7893 1y ago
Trump has been a pretty different politician (both in how he's talked but also what he's done) so I don't think it makes sense to view things he does slightly differently. Also the issue is less that a specific company is tar
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by tdb7893 2y ago
So I think the best argument against this is that the US has done massive infrastructure projects in the past. Some cities had (and some still have) decent public transportation and we've done large canals and even the interstate highw
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by tdb7893 2y ago
What's to humor here? Do you have a passion for laundry and dishes? Do you spend your free time gleefully dirtying dishes just so you can wash them again? Is art or music something you feel forced to do but don't want to? I am str
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Your purchasing decisions are one of the more significant ways you impact the world and it makes sense people want to be cognizant of how they are effecting other people. Though I recognize depending on people's mental health it can be
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Not to be overly pedantic but what he described isn't communism, monopolistic private corporation is pretty much the exact opposite of communism.
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by tdb7893 2y ago
The US has made at least hundreds of billions of dollars from it's tech companies and has had a dominance over global tech for a long time. The tech industry has brought a crazy amount of money and power to the US so it makes sense the
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by tdb7893 2y ago
The scores were never going to be that accurate across people's environments (IDK how much other places relied on them, places I worked never did that much) and issues with the scores don't seem to be a good justification to torch
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Even in engineering it's important for people to understand what people want and to make sure people feel heard and validated. I've found that especially when dealing with people up the management chain understanding what they wan
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by tdb7893 2y ago
This lines up with the experience of the people I know who have worked in factories, there seems to be a disconnect with all these pundits and economists (and many people on the internet in general) talking about basic manufacturing work an
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by tdb7893 2y ago
So firstly if this is the theoretical underpinning the White House should be messaging that instead of what they've been saying. Also I've read that report before (this and some other reports have been referenced in media I have l
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by tdb7893 2y ago
I think there's no hard power stopping them but in general they've been reluctant to openly defy courts (they have defied lower courts some while claiming they haven't). I think at least adhering to some pretense of American
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Who would be doing the shielding? The current US government has been operating under the assumption of an incredibly expansive executive power, even over "independent" agencies. I'm not a legal expert at all but so far the mo
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Subsidizing specific manufacturing and having at least some consistency was a big part of the US strategy until the last few months. Most notably, the US passed huge subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing in 2022. I don't know how e
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by tdb7893 2y ago
I mean yeah those are influenced by tariffs a bit (I think it's a safe assumption that the writers of the article know that). It doesn't change the fact that those are mostly driven by things besides US tariffs.
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Yeah, it sucks and I bet these countries won't forget this for a very long time.
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by tdb7893 2y ago
It's not just that the axes are wrong, there's a fundamental problem with the idea of the graph in an article about considering viewpoints and overcoming tribalism. Fundamentally the author put a graph in the article about tribali
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by tdb7893 2y ago
The graph isn't "agrees with Republican" and "agrees with Democrat" as the axis (I also would say you can agree with people and still be a free thinker, viewing positions as independent doesn't really make sens
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Sure I mean a lot of people on every political leaning don't have practical policies but that's besides the point (people can even have bad independent thoughts so impractical policies aren't inherently relevant). The graph i
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by tdb7893 2y ago
The graph in the article of "what the political spectrum actually is" where independent thought was only found in the middle was so funny to me that I had to do a double take. Maybe this is a joke or April Fool's prank or som
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by tdb7893 2y ago
He's very very much not the source of this. It's been ascendant literally my whole life, my first foray into really thinking about politics was trying to convince my friends that humans caused climate change and there wasn't
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by tdb7893 2y ago
I think it's a mistake to think people are just oblivious. It's not a majority but there are actually a lot of people aware of these things and celebrating them. One thing I don't see mentioned a lot but Trump has made being
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by tdb7893 2y ago
I think we're seeing right now that at least a decent fraction (even if it's not half) would be for it as long as it targets the right people. I think it's a mistake to think people in general are very tied to specific civil
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Only one presidential candidate had "DEI" and trans people as a major part of their campaign (and now have made those things a major part of the first two months of their presidency) and it wasn't the Democrats. It's kin
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Linux isn't a Windows clone but compatibility and parity with Windows are the biggest blockers to adoption for a lot of the potential userbase. This thread is specifically about compatibility with Windows so talking about how it's
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Yeah, I know multiple people running Linux at home and Windows compatibility us a critical feature for them. For the people I know not in tech about half would switch if Linux got up to par in: 1. Ability to play any video game 2. Compatibi
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Are the datasets in the study calculated the same way as the census? It looks to be satellite data and remote sensing (which I'm not aware of the census using) so this doesn't seem to imply anything about the census
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by tdb7893 2y ago
I haven't read this particular blog but the solution I remember seeing is you randomly swap the colors each edge verification so each is independent. All the edges are numbers that are required to be different so when you verify they a
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by tdb7893 2y ago
One thing I will note is that both of these can be true. Google is a huge company run by a lot of people and unless the specific claims are contradictory there's nothing stopping Google from doing both. It's not like we can expect
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by tdb7893 2y ago
To some extent this has always been the case in the US fairly broadly. From living in cities in the Midwest I've heard stories from people I know and their interactions with police and luckily the stories aren't this bad but they
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by tdb7893 2y ago
Humans will inevitably change the world but there's also lots of things that humans do that really increase their impact (global warming, farming that emphasizes really high land use foods, industrial pollutants, poor stewardship of l

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