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by tharne 5y ago
The NYT isn't woke per se, it's simply the newspaper of the establishment, which is exactly what it always has been. The establishment happens to be woke at the moment. When that changes, I'm sure the NYT will change with it.
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by tharne 5y ago
If twenty years ago you had told me, "One day we'll live in a world where the NY Post is a more intellectually honest and insightful paper than the NY Times", I'd have laughed in your face, but here we are.
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by tharne 5y ago
I used open BSD for a little while. It's very simple, clean, and elegantly designed. If you're looking to learn more about Unix, then you'll have a lot of fun with OpenBSD. If you want to use it as a daily driver, you're
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by tharne 5y ago
> there absolutely needs to be a balance between privacy and not creating a platform that allows sexual exploitation to occur without detection. There already is. It's called go 'ole fashioned policing, and in most western coun
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by tharne 5y ago
I think that's it. After a certain amount of feeling helpless, people just throw up their hands and say, "f-- it, I guess this is just how things are".
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by tharne 5y ago
I had never hear of Vanadium before. Thanks!
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by tharne 5y ago
These articles always fall short at the end by suggesting we be more mindful when it comes to how we use smartphones. It's about as easy to use a smartphone in moderation as it is to do heroin in moderation. There are trillion dollar c
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by tharne 5y ago
> Imho, another point for the European GDPR - it says its US only As an American, I find it really embarrassing that the Europeans are doing such a better job at protecting individual privacy in this space.
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by tharne 5y ago
This is really unfortunate. For a while Firefox was really differentiating itself via the privacy space. If it's just going to be another Chrome, I might as well just use Chrome.
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by tharne 5y ago
I'm an Austrian myself, and that's an interesting take on MMT I hadn't considered. I'll have to noodle on that one for a bit.
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by tharne 5y ago
> They moved on from Keynesian economics a long time ago This 100%. Keynesian economics sees debt as temporary to be used to fight a war or stimulate the economy during a depression, with the expectation that the debt is paid down during
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by tharne 5y ago
The money printer works great until it doesn't
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by tharne 5y ago
It's getting better in a lot of smaller cities. In the 80's and 90's, that were a lot of things you could only get in the biggest metros. Access to things like niche books, the latest fashions, great restaurants, etc. could o
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by tharne 5y ago
There's nothing dubious about this. Companies and individuals frequently have an address in high-profile locations while most of the work gets down elsewhere. You're forgetting that a lot of clients want to tell their clients th
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by tharne 5y ago
You know you're failing politically when you start resorting to punitive measures to keep people from leaving. During the cold war, Ronald Reagan correctly pointed out that one of the clearest indicators the Soviet Union and their alli
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by tharne 5y ago
I'm starting to think pushing more decisions to the state level is the only way to cool things off in the U.S. Rather than having these life or death battles for control of the federal government, letting people eventually self-sort in
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by tharne 5y ago
> The bigger one is the growing gap between income and cost of living right above time and energy. I've never bought this one. If this were true, you'd expect richer people and richer geographies to have higher birthrates, when
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by tharne 5y ago
That's a good a point, and something I honestly hadn't thought of. They could be ethical folks who got sick of the BS.
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by tharne 5y ago
Anecdotal, based on personal experience with these folks
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by tharne 5y ago
> Doesn't McKinsey frequently work for different clients in the same industry even? They do. It's a well-known way for companies to get inside info on their competitors. You can't legally/ethically hire an employee aw
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by tharne 5y ago
> I'm sure they did tell the opioid makers though. That was probably one of the big selling points they highlighted in their RFP PowerPoint.
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by tharne 5y ago
If I see McKinsey on someone's resume, it's a huge red flag. Similar to "Head of marketing for children's sales at Phillip Morris". Sure, all companies do some bad things, but the complete lack of ethics required to
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by tharne 5y ago
> Facebook is morally dead. It's also just about the least cool thing out there now. In the early days of FB, old people would sign up b/c FB was where they could get in touch with their grandchildren. Now 20 somethings keep th
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by tharne 5y ago
Try invidious, it's basically a filter over youtube that protects your privacy and gets rid of the junk: https://iteroni.com/feed/popular
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not the flexibility that encourages bad habits. Lisps are incredibly flexible, for instance, but do not generally encourage bad habits. R encourages bad habits because the language itself and its libraries are not very well-design
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by tharne 5y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I was one of the data guys you mentioned who learned R first and resisted python. There are a lot of things about R that leads users to develop very bad habits. The only reason R caught o
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by tharne 5y ago
Wokism is precisely about being an asshole, and using the language of social justice justify bullying and intimidating people. I think we're a little late to the game recognizing this because historically authoritarian and bullying beh
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by tharne 5y ago
>I've developed a fragile and basic rule which I try to follow: Don't be an asshole. Give yourself some credit. There's a lot of precedence for this rule. One of the original versions of it goes something like: "So in
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by tharne 5y ago
We need to start treating social media the same way we treat alcohol and tobacco - something potentially harmful that's okay when used moderately by informed adults, but off limits for children.
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by tharne 5y ago
Prelude is a nice lightweight config for emacs. https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

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