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by tdfx 5y ago
Low-impact racism is nonetheless racism. Saying that white people cannot experience racism is logically and demonstrably incorrect based on the universal definition of the word. There's no magnitude threshold that has to be met, on
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by tdfx 5y ago
There's a non-trivial number of people who will tell you with a straight face that white people can't experience racism. People have redefined the word to mean what they want it to mean, which may have very little in common with
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by tdfx 5y ago
The idea of this makes me shudder. Not because of any sense of fairness about the idea, but rather that government never seems to understand that their well-intentioned ideas always have unintended consequences. Cue the footage of politic
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by tdfx 5y ago
COM Library has a ranking system for news organizations that seems to line up pretty well with my personal observations [0]. They show CNN as centrist but left-leaning. This agrees with my personal experience, except for news stories in t
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by tdfx 5y ago
It's ironic you would accuse someone of being unable to see "shades of gray" and then compare the security features of a piece of slightly rigid paper with the CDC logo on it to a state driver's license with holograms, a
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by tdfx 5y ago
> It's more meaningful than using the honor system. It is the honor system. Anyone who wants a blank CDC vaccination card doesn't have to look far to find one. Requiring them as proof for anything is just a bureaucratic check
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Suicide attempts among adolescent girls surged by more than 50% during pandemic(cnbc.com)
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Ask HN: What are your tips/tricks for escalating your issues with big corps?
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by tdfx 5y ago
I don't think the ban had anything to do with genuine care for society or the participants. It was virtue signaling to a Muslim political base by a government, selling the idea that their government and by extension their society is m
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by tdfx 5y ago
I think the big change hasn't been on the male side, but rather on the female side. There's always been creepy men willing to do this... the big change has been the mainstreaming of the acceptability of this among females. It us
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by tdfx 5y ago
I've been guilty of doing this to my German friends, as well, but it's because I consider their English almost native level. It's the same to me as pointing out to a Texan that I find their pronunciation funny. In a strange
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Ask HN: What would you use today for a greenfield mobile app?
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by tdfx 5y ago
Two reasons: (1) They are being sold fantasies about how wonderful the US is, which don't reflect the reality of the life they will experience when they get here. There's a massive industry built around smuggling, fake documentat
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by tdfx 5y ago
That's the problem with extreme leftist arguments in general. If you don't have the same opinion, or even hold an opinion that falls short of the furthest left possible on the spectrum, you are either bulldozed into submission or
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by tdfx 5y ago
> and tinged as it is with racial and xenophobic overtones This appears to be a kneejerk reaction that's separated from the facts of this situation. According to DHH: "It's not a list of, say, primarily Asian names. Out o
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by tdfx 5y ago
Well, everyone is the good guy in their own story. While the policy seems reasonable to me, I'm sure they have their own internal justification for why their departure is a reasonable reaction. If there was a cascading series of event
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by tdfx 5y ago
That's actually exactly what I've done in these situations. You can't lose if you don't play.
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In my experience, those channels are usually dominated by people with the most extreme views who use it as a place to bully anyone with opposing views. I've worked with a few people who I enjoyed immensely but my perception of them as
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by tdfx 5y ago
> Any employer that abruptly told me I needed to watch what I said at work would lose me, too. You don't already feel this way? There's a long list of things that would have you packing your desk if you discussed them at any o
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by tdfx 5y ago
Yes, this reads like it was written by someone who has never run a real Facebook ad. Facebook routinely accidentally blocks legitimate advertisers from running normal, compliant ads, and there's a massive underground devoted to beatin
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by tdfx 6y ago
> The long term damage to those who catch it seems high in many cases including the young. > While your generation may struggle with the isolation by preparing the next generation those issues will disappear reaping larger economic be
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by tdfx 6y ago
There's a term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year And the fact that the majority of COVID-19 deaths are people with very few quality-adjusted life years remaining is almost entirely
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by tdfx 6y ago
It wasn't possible before because companies couldn't figure out how to effectively manage a workforce remotely. Now that they've been forced to learn, this will be explored with renewed vigor. There are a lot of highly tale
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by tdfx 6y ago
> I'd say Americans have very well tolerated this new way of life and could do so in perpetuity. Except for the horrific acceleration of radical politics, rioting in the streets (and Capitol), effective abandonment of the education
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by tdfx 6y ago
There's nothing libertarian about the US healthcare system. If anything, it's a great example of regulatory capture by the AMA and insurance industry.
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by tdfx 6y ago
Very similar in developing countries, as well. I've gotten stitches in Mexico and Colombia for less than $40 USD each time which healed comparably or better to the stitches I've paid >$500 for in the US. Consultation for an e
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by tdfx 6y ago
I only use Discord for a very specific group interaction. How is it used more generally?
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by tdfx 6y ago
> Everybody I know is on Whatsapp/Signal I wish I could say this. It seems the US is the only country where everyone wants to continue using SMS/iMessage for everything. It's literally the only way to communicate with mo
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> If Zuckerberg really had a problem with what Facebook was doing, but didn’t feel he could ethically risk the company’s growth and financial performance by changing its direction, he could quit and sell all his shares. He might take a f
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by tdfx 6y ago
> That is what the data shows, plain and simple. I'm not really interested in quibbling over vague claims that racism has little or nothing to do with it, as that's clearly false. I understand why it feels that way, but all thi

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