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by trentnix 5y ago
> Based on YouTube’s reply, seems they took his video down for promoting dangerous medical misinformation. If that’s what happened, I don’t see an issue. After the bang up job they've done dealing with copyright strikes, demonetizin
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> I have a theory on why we're seeing so much "bad management" for software engineers: most leaders at workplaces have not been engineers themselves at a company with a great engineering culture (I wrote about what I think
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> Look, there are plenty of things that the media at large deservedly gets criticized for, but trying to pretend calling it the Wuhan coronavirus early on in the pandemic is the same thing as specifically emphasizing it as "the Chin
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> I wonder if there's a bit more nuanced way to make this argument, I'm amenable to it, but...it reads more as American culture war than a discussion That's a fair critique, but I'm inclined to leave a more nuanced ar
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> The clips are a compilation of health experts in January 2020 Did you watch the video? Christiane Amanpour is not a health expert. The media joined the outrage mob only when the wrong people started calling it such. That's more
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>In my recollection, the very first "politicization" I heard of Covid's origins were politicians insisting that the virus was man-made. I'd like to see some evidence that politicians insisted it was man-made instead o
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> It is immensely unfortunate this issue became politicized. This comment is over a year too late. Almost immediately after COVID became the topic du jour the technocrats and media were aggressively shutting down anyone who noticed the c
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> At least until the revolution comes and a living can be provided for all. Unless revolution comes and things go the other way.
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You described my situation precisely. Weekends are long and chaotic when you have small children (and I've got three with the oldest being 5). Mondays are a return to normalcy - they go to day care and I go to work. And like you said,
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> It’s about time that as society we open up about mental health and how to deal with our issues There's exhaustive discussion of mental health issues in every corner of society. In some corners of society, people announce their men
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A state’s dysfunction is not diminished by the relative largesse and power of its government.
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One way to address that problem is to prevent "state institutions" from being so powerful as being able to do anyone's bidding .
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disaster capitalism Taking egregious sums of state aid is crony capitalism and is market manipulation. And wherever you find egregious market manipulation, you'll almost always find government doing the steering.
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It’s all about the narrative, comrade. That their enforcement is so incredibly in sync is where more scandal resides.
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Well yes, aptitude generally correlates to one's ability ability to provide value that demands more money. But that doesn't mean it's unfair.
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Yep. It enables discrimination because it enables college admissions to become almost entirely subjective. It's a way to get attaboys for banning legacies while simultaneously opening a back door to let them in without scrutiny. And
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> You're saying that like people on unemployment are only those about to enter the job market. That's not going to be the case - there's lots of people with existing experience who lost jobs. Well of course, but that&#x2
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> It's easy to hire people, you just have to offer better wages. The issue is that they can't find anybody willing to work for the wage they are offering, which is very different from not being able to find people to hire. ..
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I know you play the game!
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Hubris of title and its correlation to being dead-ass wrong is a time-honored tradition.
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Otherwise known as "the people who employ and invest". In the same way corporate taxes trickle down to the consumer (otherwise known as "everybody else"), the same is true of taxes on wealthy incomes. And even our discus
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> I, the middle class engineer get fucked by the taxes, and I get fucked hard, and not in fun way. And predictably, the responses are whether or not you are actually middle class. Because somehow if you're not, you deserve to be f
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Of course the problems are solvable if you have desirable incentives. But as Pournelles Iron Law of Bureaucracy points out that the incentives to solve the problem are ALWAYS eventually replaced to preserve and grow the bureaucracy. And tha
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If you’re arguing our elected officials receive exorbitant benefits on the taxpayer dime, you’ve got a friend in me. But unfortunately that is but a drop in the bucket of the grift involved in entitlement fraud, tax fraud, foreign aid fraud
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“normal taxation levels” - a word salad without peer. Those tax breaks happened to catalyze massive tax receipts nonetheless, but taxes are politically justified by who they poleaxe, not by the consequences that result.
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And the taxes they take from you get spent as poorly as possible. And the solution is always more taxes.
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> Worthless paper, administrative costs is only a piece of the many issues with US "Healthcare". Medicare For All is the better and cheaper way forward. As frustrating and arcane as the current system may be, the government ful
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> it also makes me face the reality that I would not want to work with many of the people that resigned I totally get it. Toxic people tend to clump. And they eventually aim their toxicity at each other. You don't want them in the w
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Countries competing on tax rates is exactly why Janet Yellen has floated the idea of a 'Global Minimum Tax'. Countries competing gets in the way of the grand vision she and her ilk share for how they want to organize society.
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Comparing diversity coaches to vampires is absurd and alarmist. That was a sentence I thought I'd never see written. To your point, I'm glad you found that training to be helpful. The times I've been subjected to similar, I

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