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by uniqueid 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24697610 Well, that was a poorly-timed quip.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
"Who needs the Fourth Estate?" Sigh
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by uniqueid 6y ago
"holy shit, look how much time our drivers are spending not paying attention at all, we need to do something about this." "Quick, man, contact PR straight away to write a belligerent, categorical denial! There's
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Certainly, and, to the extent that it (ie: separating into classes according to aptitude) doesn't railroad disadvantaged students into bad schools, I have no issue with that.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's probably a bit too dismissive in my case, but I don't want to turn the thread into my personal travelogue. You could ask tupputuppu whether his/her opinion of the Finnish system is the norm within Finland itself, thoug
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by uniqueid 6y ago
There is definitely some kind of miscommunication here. I know the area well enough (Sverige lite bättre än ditt land men iaf...) that your comments puzzle me. I know that you know that poverty in your country, compared to the US, is a non-
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I've heard people use the two rebuttals — but America's bigger; but America's more diverse — to justify many of America's failings. They're effective, not because they are clearly correct, but because a good counter
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by uniqueid 6y ago
It's relative. America's disadvantaged are not like Finland's. There's an underclass in the US straight out of Oliver Twist. The essay stresses the unfairness of depriving a subset of that underclass — ie: strivers — of
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I disagree with the way the article frames the issue. It would help America more to have universally "pretty good" schools, than a few great schools in a sea of "pretty bad" schools. So, like many other American issues,
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I don't know if it's applicable to the spate of car attacks, but there have been a number of articles about leaked far-right group chat logs. The impression such articles leave me with is that the people involved care alot about P
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by uniqueid 6y ago
This seems relevant... Commodore "Deathbed Vigil": https://youtu.be/BaTjwo1ywcI
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Westphalia is a blip in history. The world has gone through cycles of war and peace, borders or no. Meanwhile, there are more separatist groups than there are countries, and some of them enjoy blowing things up. How did borders work out for
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Germany is not a poster-child when it comes to avoiding border disputes.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
you can't really argue with the results of Westphalia. In which modern nation does one find Westphalia?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
they just insult those who vocally oppose their ideas. It's fair to call me out for insulting the author. The remainder of the comment is misguided because, as I replied elsewhere in this thread, I see open borders as a long-t
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I've always wondered how people who advocate for more open borders justify their position. To me, it seems like the default position, as long as one believes in liberty and, obviously, doesn't hold essentialist views ab
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I wanted to like this essay, because I also worry about the loss of privacy today, but the goofy paragraph about borders turned me off. To believe that borders are conducive to peace sounds like a bad case of internet-brain.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I replied to a request to "make a case" that Costolo's tweet doesn't violate Twitter’s TOS. I made a case. I didn't say I subscribe to it. I don't. That's what I tried (and apparently failed) to convey by
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by uniqueid 6y ago
It's a violation of less importance than Trump's, since Costolo neither has a military nor informally controls any vigilante groups, but it's a violation, all the same. I agree the author did an excellent job of describing th
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Well, an explanation can't transform my wisecrack from being inscrutable to being hilarious now, but nevertheless I'll add one: it's not holding a full time job at two companies , I find evil; it's holding a full time j
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Why? Why would someone do that? Does Hell have a VIP area?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
This one is fascinating, also: https://youtu.be/ujGnc94qrjo
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Highschool Foreign Exchange Students answer questions from Americans (1955)(youtu.be)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'm torn. On the one hand, whatever HN is doing with the forum clearly works, in terms of fostering polite, rational discussion. On the other, if the outside world goes further to pot, we may regret having missed opportunities to addre
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Isn't price competition good? Having a lower price than a competitor is not always the same thing as price competition. Ie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Yes, something like what you wrote would do the trick. The sentence in the article warranted more explanation.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Let's say you run a company and your government offers you, for some insane reason, a fat, juicy contract to boil kittens alive. If you accept it, does that make the company apolitical? Is that a good thing? The world hashed the issue
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by uniqueid 6y ago
“A U.N. panel probed the last phase of the war [and] has estimated that around 40,000 died while other independent reports estimated the number of civilians dead to exceed 100,000.” If it's 40,000+, the author can only be refer
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by uniqueid 6y ago
This essay includes a list of bad actors (intelligence, political parties,trolls,others). I suspect, based on nothing really, that the list should dedicate an entry to "shady investors". Social media is perfectly suited for pumpin
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I caught that, but I still appreciate your taking the time to explain. The point I was actually at with that comment was about the ubiquity of a handful of companies on the internet. That probably sounds like I'm need of an explanation

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