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by tharne 5y ago
> Is there a book about how a technological advantage wins wars? Probably not. There are loads of examples of less technologically advanced groups defeating more advanced opponents (or at least forcing them to give up). A few examples: -
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by tharne 5y ago
> A majority of people who stub their toe and blame racism, patriarchy or whatever else, are incredibly boring people. This is spot-on. These folks are essentially 21st century Puritans with all the joylessness and righteous moral outrag
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by tharne 5y ago
You're also assuming that the Chinese government is reporting the numbers accurately and honestly, and that's a big assumption considering how much effort they put into burying the truth about COVID in late 2019 / early 2020.
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by tharne 5y ago
The CCP would gladly watch their entire country burn to the ground if it meant saving face.
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by tharne 5y ago
As others have said, try us. Generally speaking if you're making a good faith argument and doing so civilly, this place is pretty tolerant of all sorts of views even if not everyone shares them.
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by tharne 5y ago
> so i give them the benefit of the doubt and willing to have someone explain why and how i should teach them in a less racist way. I think you misunderstand their motives here. I don't think even the wokest of the woke believes in
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by tharne 5y ago
I agree with most of the commentors here. This is completely insane and the people pushing this stuff are stupid. But the thing that bothers me most is, if these people are so stupid, why do they keep winning?
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by tharne 5y ago
> In the US the division is arguably worse and the masks are coming off. You sure about that? As recently as 1995, Canada was with 0.4% of a vote to split the country in two. In the 1970's the deputy Premier of Quebec was kidnaped a
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by tharne 5y ago
I'd say the first 10 years of the 21st century were a hell of a lot stupider. We blew a budget surplus on tax cuts for the wealthy. We started two wars that lasted the better part of 20 years, one of which was waged against a country t
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by tharne 5y ago
> This thread is the prototypical example of what Haidt is talking about. I have no interest in taking part in this comments section other than to make this observation. One could make the exact same claim about your snarky comment right
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by tharne 5y ago
OpenBSD makes for a fantastic desktop OS. The major issue you'll run into is the availability of software (e.g. no electron apps).
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by tharne 5y ago
> This is entirely anecdotal, but from the little I know from his couple months there, Twitter has no idea what to do with the huge amount of engineers they employ. I wonder why I keep getting LinkedIn and email notifications about engin
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by tharne 5y ago
> Why must every company sustain boundless growth and 24-hour engagement? Change and growth for their own sake can be cancers. I agree with you on this, but I think the parent commenter was implying that if you're going to be employ
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by tharne 5y ago
> I understand your reasoning, however it may put off some good hires because they don't meet one of your bogus requirements. That's fair. I'll freely admit, this is not an issue I found a great solution for yet.
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by tharne 5y ago
The author is 100% correct here, but it's not going to change anything, and I'll tell you why. Companies LOVE requiring all of these sexy over-engineered tools in the requirements for the jobs they post. I've definitely used
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by tharne 5y ago
Good luck with that. In most American cities, try getting even something as simple as a bike lane or a new park built. You're looking at many years, possibly even a decade in most cases. You've got environmental reviews (local, st
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by tharne 5y ago
Given our shocking lack of common sense as a species, if computers did learn common sense, how would we even know?
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by tharne 5y ago
Don't overthink this or spend too much time researching. Improving mental health is very much trial and error. If you're uncomfortable taking anti-depressants, start with therapy and improvements to diet and exercise. For a lot of
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by tharne 5y ago
> Can you explain how being public pushes Twitter to extremes ? Public companies and their leadership face much more pressure to show profit and growth every 3 months. This pushes them toward short-term thinking and easy ways to juice th
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not the salaries that drive costs. It's mostly the long-term underfunded liabilities like pensions.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I'm not sure I'd call unions legally-mandated to hold 33-50% (depending on company size) of the company's board seats "weaker". That's the situation in Germany. I think that's a brilliant policy. It f
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by tharne 5y ago
Watching a skilled organist do their thing is mind blowing.
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by tharne 5y ago
Right on. I've noticed in general, there's a lot of derision towards anyone using non-standard/ergonomic equipment. I use a split (Dactyl Manuform) keyboard with qmk, and there's no end to the ongoing jokes about my &quo
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by tharne 5y ago
Unfortunately, the sale of the building and property is often the owner's retirement plan. You'd have to find a way to purchase at or near market value.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Oh, my lord, everything about this article screams shallow internet marketing. Shallow internet marketing is kind of Ryan Holiday's jam. He's to books what Cheetos is to food.
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by tharne 5y ago
I live in a pretty small town, so a handful of people complaining loudly does tend to get noticed. I realize that this is not true of larger jurisdictions like Austin. Edit: Was asked for an example, here it is. In the aftermath of the prot
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by tharne 5y ago
I'll take high local taxes over high state taxes any day. It's an order of magnitude easier to influence decisions in my town vs. my state. The other thing is that it's also much easier to leave my town if I don't like t
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by tharne 5y ago
> It is easy to fantasize the positive about a new place without living / thinking of the negative. This is very true. I live in a state that I don't much care for poltics-wise, but I have a lot of family and friends here, whic
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by tharne 5y ago
> The best part about my fellow, life-time Californians leaving California is how they simply continue to vote the same way no matter where they end up. I've seen this a lot, and never understood it.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Reading stories like his makes me think I'm probably in the wrong industry because I don't enjoy coding that much and definitely have a ton of other things I'd rather do. You're fine. Comparing yourself to Andreas K

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