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by tharne 5y ago
> It always seems like a bit of a cop out to me. "Life is empty and meaningless, so I'll just have kids, let that fill up all my time, and maybe they can figure it out." I suppose that could be the history of humanity in a
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by tharne 5y ago
That's a silly statement and likely purposely obtuse. Practically any reasonable person talking about a free market does not typically mean a market with precisely zero laws governing it.
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by tharne 5y ago
> How many people are effectively managing the disease now who would have died 30 years ago? Perhaps you should be less glib out of respect for their lives. I don't think the parent commenter was being glib. Treatments are great, bu
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by tharne 5y ago
> You do realize "defund the police" means diverting funds that would usually be spent on tons of military grade gear they don't need, and using those funds on community improvement programs, right? That's not what it
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by tharne 5y ago
It's true. More often than not, the body cams corroborate the officer's side of the story.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Getting children used to your hardware and software is a major investment in the future. I disagree. Apple tried this in the 1980's in the U.S. It was a disaster, no one bought Apple computers for home use and the company almost w
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by tharne 5y ago
I always surprises me how few people are willing to pay $5 a month for a piece of software they use everyday, but will gladly spend $3 a day on a Starbucks Coffee or happily drop $8 on a single beer at bar.
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by tharne 5y ago
> This is a similarly over-simplified take. Is it though? There are plenty of examples of businesses or even entire industries trying their level best to slow down changes and innovations that will hurt their profits. And in many cases t
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by tharne 5y ago
This is my experience exactly. Very well stated.
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by tharne 5y ago
> There is a very vocal, very small minority that's ruining it for everyone else. You're both right. Unfortunately, that very small minority is culturally dominant, so it is the case that: 1) >> We have reached a point wh
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by tharne 5y ago
Where were you the several years? There was quite a bit of outcry over Trump's supreme court picks.
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by tharne 5y ago
I see this a lot where I work. It's bad, but it does seem to fly under the radar.
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by tharne 5y ago
This reminds me of the old Nixon quote, "When the president does it, it's not illegal". It sounds like the universities aren't opposed to racial discrimination, they just don't like it when they lose their monopoly
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by tharne 5y ago
This would require universities to admit that people who aren't of European ancestry can also be racist. I'm betting we're going to see a serious effort on the left to start categorizing South Asians as white.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I vividly remember visiting NYC for the first time and being shocked that while starting to cross 8th ave and 15th st, that a yellow cab was already making a turn the second I put my foot in the intersection and was slowing creeping to
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by tharne 5y ago
> In the Netherlands the car is always at least 50% at fault in accidents with squishy traffic That's a fantastic term, "squishy traffic". In the U.S. we often use the term "Vulnerable users", but "squishy t
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by tharne 5y ago
> It is a MORAL issue. Technology stolen from the US companies is advancing the national security agendas of countries with no regard for human rights and the rule of law. It is immoral to turn a blind eye to this very real threat. This
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by tharne 5y ago
> ... is this level of industrial/scientific espionage even a critical factor in our current world? Yes
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by tharne 5y ago
Big $CORP employee here. This is a pretty solid take in the parent comment. Big companies offer good pay and advancement opportunities. But, that does come with a heavy dose of corporate theatrics and organizational bullshit. At small compa
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by tharne 5y ago
If FAANG world, yes. In most other areas of the economy, no.
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by tharne 5y ago
Did anyone say it was dumb to select a black women? Nope, nobody did. What's dumb is automatically ruling out over 90% of potential candidates on basis of race and gender alone.
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by tharne 5y ago
I'm the one who originally asked for a source - there was no name calling, nor should there be. If someone is going to make a bold claim about something generally considered to be safe, actually causing a significant number of injuries
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by tharne 5y ago
> We don't all have to like the same things, we don't have to all use the same tools, we don't have to belong to the same communities. This is one the main reasons I have a hobby computer just for playing around with openB
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by tharne 5y ago
I'm really rooting for this project. Sure it's probably over-idealistic and not entirely practical, but I think that's part of the appeal - a group of folks trying to build a better web and having fun doing it.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Obama is already 60. They will probably go for someone younger. 100%. Ever since O'Connor they've been leaning heavily toward younger nominees.
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by tharne 5y ago
Point taken, but there's a big difference between saying, "We're going to take hard look at candidates from groups that have historically been passed over so we can get a great justice" and "We're only going
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by tharne 5y ago
> What's your point? Trump limited himself to young white Christian conservatives with proven far-right agendas, that's more limited than 7%. My point is that I don't want Donald Trump to set the bar on what is right and a
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by tharne 5y ago
> Not to mention all of the vaccine injuries that do exist but are rarely reported on. Source?
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by tharne 5y ago
> Stealing candy from a gas station is wrong, but stealing an article from behind a paywall is right, because.... The latter is easier to get away with They don't give you the option to pay for an article. The only two choices are p
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by tharne 5y ago
> If you hate the ad-driven web, bypassing paywalls seems wildly backwards. I don't think that's totally fair. I would love to be able to pay for a single day of the NY Times or Wall Street Journal, the same way I can buy a cop

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