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by tdb7893 2y ago
I think that while not surprising it's still interesting and useful to know exactly how they are doing it and what tools they are using. In the US protests are a constitutionally protected right and visibility into how they are monitor
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I don't have clear context on this but I also want to say you could cherry pick PRs from my career to make me look however you want. I think especially for outlets with a wide variety of writers and editors and a huge backlog of storie
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The inaccuracy was disappointing to me. If the point is historical trivia it's hard when the historical trivia isn't right. I have done some fencing and I noticed it especially for weapons and armor (though that might be just beca
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My experience there was that good tech was held back by an inability to have a consistent long term vision. My and many of my friends were on lots of projects that would get abruptly "reprioritized", often after yet another re-org
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I liked to bike the lake there, the lakefront in Chicago is pretty underestimated by people who don't live there. For hiking there's the dunes or Starved Rock but those are super busy a lot of the year (and at this point I've
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Tavern style is what I always saw there (though I like deep dish). Also I'm surprised people always talk about deep dish pizza and not the clearly superior Chicago food: dipped Italian beef with hot peppers. This is a bit of my own bia
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I just moved away from Chicago but it took me a few years to appreciate the city (and I never found visiting that compelling). I miss it now though, I think the best way to learn to appreciate the city is to go out and do things in the city
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Honestly even if they had super high executive pay like current tech companies do but then used the profits for good that's still like 100x better than tech companies now.
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A good friend of mine has a PhD in labor economics and is now a senior management consultant for a big firm and I've been told that in general just cutting people is bad for businesses and most businesses will be worse off by just cutt
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Having a good revenue stream is also a pre-req for staying private long term. I think the fear here is that a public company is going to optimize heavily for profits to the detriment of the service itself, which public tech companies seem t
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No one thinks that civil service doesn't have bloat and inefficiencies. This org (and many of the other cuts) wasn't bloat or inefficiency though, they were a good and cost effective service for the American people.
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Well if you want a balanced budget I have very bad news about the Republican budget. There's much more in revenue cuts than there are spending cuts. They are upping the debt ceiling by literal trillions to pay for it. Also if you want
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I am okay letting Ukraine make their own decisions about their people and their land and willing to help them fight for their country. If someone invaded the US I would definitely fight before I gave it up so I don't begrudge someone w
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I don't really view Zelensky here as picking a fight. He was not really belligerent, if I was him I would've been livid at the things they were saying for the exact reasons Zelensky pointed out (and that's if ignoring how the
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You don't even have to go back to WWII, we let Russia take part of Ukraine in 2014 and look how that worked out. The idea that letting other countries annex parts of their neighbors is a recipe for lasting peace would be laughable if I
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One thing that gives me hope is that politics has always been a mess (there are some times of stability but they never last forever). Though I think a big thing we need to do is strengthen democracy in the US, get rid of first past the post
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I've watched the whole video and Vance was asked a question about diplomacy in the Ukraine war, the idea that Zelensky doesn't get to respond to that while he's sitting in the room seems absurd. Why have him there if he can&#
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I'm less convinced this was planned because I've met people like this in real life. Criticizing someone for showing disrespect while being incredibly disrespectful yourself seems like abusive parent 101. Also, the fact they talk d
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What did Vance say addressed to the media that Zelensky shouldn't have responded to? I've watched the video a few times and I don't really get what you're talking about https://youtu.be/O_BhxA1WDQY?si=7Ov
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I'm gonna ignore the first part because I've found on the internet people don't agree on what "free markets" mean. For the second part you don't need a business to be free. As a simple counterexample: I wouldn&
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As humans we've shaped the lives of most animals (pets, livestock, and wild animals). I don't think it's a bad thing to have changed their evolution, every animal is molded to their environment. What I feel bad about is that
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by tdb7893 2y ago
I think not getting too enmeshed in their politics is still generally a good idea though I doubt that George Washington of all people would be unsympathetic towards people fighting for their own independence and liberty against a foreign po
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In the US large companies in rural areas also often use apps in the same way as they do in the city (at least they did the last time I visited) and at least all the people I know in rural areas have had smartphones for a long time and use a
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The "identity politics" stuff is just exhausting. Not to get too political here but I'm only aware of one presidential campaign running a lot of ads in swing states on trans issues and it wasn't the Democrats. Then with
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Being smart or academic does absolutely not mean these people aren't gullible.
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It's interesting to see someone who seems to describe themself as anti-woke try desperately to convince the generally anti-academic movement to fund academics. Sadly I don't think he'll succeed in this. I don't agree wit
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It's semantics but I like to separate money from profits. You need money to pay people and to survive but you don't need to be raking in endlessly growing piles of it. This is something that was really demoralizing about working f
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I'm also not a chemist but I've heard that at least some lead test kits are meant only for paint. I recently was looking for lead free solder and I ran into a lot of reviews about how the solder triggered a lead test but apparentl
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I actually know people who get punched regularly at their job and like it. Obviously there are boxing coaches but I also know someone who works with disabled and troubled youths (I'm not entirely clear on exactly what he does) and they
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As an American I don't really deeply understand VAT but I don't get why an American car would pay more overall VAT than a domestically produced car. My impression is that VAT will be the same for items that cost the same, no matte

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