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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Declining to use military force against a riot is not siding with the rioters. By your logic the military also sided with the BLM looters.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
2 good points. Being in the same city as the virus lab is a lot less suspicious than being across the street.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Those millions of peasants living near bat caves would have traveled to thousands of markets all over China, but the virus originated at the one market in China that is basically across the street from a virus lab? It's not impossible
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
There are thousands of wet markets in China, but very few virus labs. Out of all the wet markets in China, the virus just happened to originate at the one right next to the virus lab? That alone is enough evidence to make the lab escape t
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
The only way to get good is practice, and as an employee you only do this once every couple years or so. The company has people who do it every day.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> the people who listen to him and take his every word as some sort of ultimate truth. They don't really exist. At least not in any significant number. This is just a straw man to attack Joe Rogan.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
When you are an institution like the CDC you need to be trusted to be effective. So, yes, the most expedient solution to the mask problem is to lie, but it's not worth the long term damage to credibility when they are inevitably caugh
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Just make it up. This will never go to trial. Google's lawyers will see that the plaintiff is correct and make the change in maps.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> We find that in the absence of credit constraints only 2% of households would be best off doing wage labor, while 97% of households are exclusively reliant such work at baseline. Conversely, only 1% work in livestock when 90% would do
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
The end of your comment seems to imply that meritocracy is intended to generate equality, but actually it's intended to do the opposite.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Nobody moves to SF for the community. They come for the high paying jobs.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
A lot of people on HN believe this too.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> stupid press not understanding data engineering Anybody could understand the difference between data engineering and "AI" in 30 mins of research, which is a lot less time than they have to research a story. Whenever a journa
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Just because it's theoretically possible to fit 3bn people in Europe doesn't mean the Europeans should want to do it.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
I don't buy this explanation. Very few employees are paid in any financially complex way. Wages dropping overall must have a different explanation, which I suspect is an increase in labor supply due to women entering the labor force
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Yeah it's such a dumb argument. The obvious explanation is that all of those companies are ad supported, and advertisers don't want to advertise next to porn. If advertisers suddenly wanted to advertise on porn pages, how many s
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
I mean laws that existed at the time AirBnB was started, which you seem to imply in your comment. I still think it's strange that the government can tell you how long of a duration you have to rent your property for, but it definitely
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
In AirBnB's case were there actually any preexisting rules? It would seem strange to have rules in place governing short term rentals before there was really even a market for that.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
There is no general "character". There is nothing stopping a nobel prize winning physicist from also being a pedophile. These things are just not related.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
I don't think it's that. People have always seen things they disagreed with in the news. The bias now is undeniably real. For example, the NYT has lost its credibility with me by firing its editor for running an opinion that I
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Yeah, but obesity doesn't destroy your ability to function in society. Would you rather have obese parents, or alcoholic parents?
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
If the government changed the law rather than stepping up enforcement, that means that public support was not behind the law. This is essentially civil disobedience, and I say that is a completely legitimate strategy.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
This is why they should be regulated as utilities. The bailouts of 2008/9 ended any argument that the banking system is a fully private sector entity.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
I drink alcohol, and I am all for that freedom, but it's not "broadly harmless."
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Terrible example. What if that was true? You think that we would just shut down the companies that make essential drugs rather than change the regulation?
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
If you want to know whether you are being lied to, learn math and science. The best info on covid, for example, doesn't come from any journalist, but from the CDC. You just need to know how to find and read it. What exactly do human
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
I would say no if: - the effect is scientifically provable and quantifiable - the effect is tangible & physical (not emotional harm) - banning it doesn't violate fundamental/constitutional rights So an example where I would sa
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> Would you then cede your decision making to them if it were demonstrably better? There are, and I use them constantly in the form of domain experts. So does everyone. For example, I would never assume a plumber is wrong and I am right
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Thank god for all of the people at Youtube working on censoring misinformation. They are so much smarter than me and obviously better than me at figuring out what is true and what isn't! And isn't it great that they always act s

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