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601.
by vkou 8mo ago
> This seems unlikely. It is absolutely likely. The hiring market for juniors is fucked atm.
602.
by vkou 8mo ago
Is a lawyer working on a case allowed to short the stock of his client? Why not? (Hint: it creates a perverse incentive to see your side lose the legal argument for your own personal gain.) And in this case, it's the actual secretary d
603.
by vkou 8mo ago
> That only matters if expression of the original project really does end up in the rewrite, doesn't it? If that were the case, nobody would bother with clean-room rewrites.
604.
by vkou 8mo ago
No. ... But the government flooding cities with thousands of masked thugs with a license to do whatever they want... has so far been an entirely Republican thing. There are more colours to the world than pure black and pure white. There are
605.
by vkou 8mo ago
The problem with the health insurance bucket is not the number of players, it's that you're buying a pig in a poke. Between ghost networks, death panels that deny you treatment, and the nature of deductibles, you have no fucking i
606.
by vkou 8mo ago
Killing a murderous tyrant, while maybe cathartic for a few minutes, when done in isolation, rarely results in better outcomes.
607.
by vkou 8mo ago
How much of the destabilization of North Africa and the Middle East is America's responsibility, and how much did Europe pay in absorbing refugees from it? Should Germany be sending DC a bill? If I recall correctly, America didn't
608.
by vkou 8mo ago
If views increased, there'd also be more pressure to make more money from them. The direction of views is irrelevant. What's relevant is the forward passage of time. As t -> infinity, shitty monetization -> infinity.
609.
by vkou 8mo ago
It became L4 ~5-7 years ago, but who knows these days.
610.
by vkou 8mo ago
His regime needs the benefit of the doubt, but his behavior makes it clear that it doesn't actually warrant it.
611.
by vkou 8mo ago
I mean, money can serve a similar purpose. ...Which is also why people who control a lot of it are an existential threat to civilization.
612.
by vkou 8mo ago
You shouldn't celebrate the killings of heads of state, that would set a bad precedent.
613.
by vkou 8mo ago
He could drop a bomb on a school in Ohio, and still enjoy 40% support. There is no red line for these people.
614.
by vkou 8mo ago
The insider has perverse incentives as an employee.
615.
by vkou 8mo ago
16 months ago, he was campaigning on no new wars. Presumably, what he meant was 'No, new wars!'
616.
by vkou 8mo ago
Did that happen to a lot of people? Do you have a source?
617.
by vkou 8mo ago
> Her father died as a direct result of Chinese Covid policy. Is it generally normal to hold countries accountable for every person that dies due to their COVID policies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandem
618.
by vkou 8mo ago
He chickened out on the extra tariffs, too.
619.
by vkou 8mo ago
Catholics are a minority denomination in America, and an especially small minority in the relevant states. Russian Orthodoxy, on the other hand, encompasses ~95% of Russian Christians, and there is no organized alternative to it. ... Also,
620.
by vkou 8mo ago
> There are bakery sections at grocery stores There are, and most of them don't have good bread. (Baguettes are about the only good bread that you can reliably expect to find in them. Sometimes they have San Francisco-style sourdo
621.
by vkou 8mo ago
MAGA is just United Russia with a different supreme leader. The end-game is the same - a vaguely lipservice-Christian[1] autocracy. When they tell you of all the insane shit they want, believe them . They are an existential threat to the r
622.
by vkou 8mo ago
> The world collectively just decided the end-all be-all of baking was… sourdough. I can't speak for the world, but: 1. Good bread is really hard to come by in the United States. Unless you're going to a bakery twice a week[1],
623.
by vkou 8mo ago
A lot of employees are really stupid, and will believe (or close their eyes to) all sorts of bullshit.
624.
by vkou 8mo ago
The answer is that responsibility is diffused. Very few people are actively building the 'Genocide Palestine' or the 'Illegally detain and torture immigrants' system, but a lot of people have submitted CLs to microservic
625.
by vkou 8mo ago
The average Seattle trip would be so much faster if bus coverage and frequency were increased, and they got dedicated travel lanes. The reason 'Race the 8' is an event isn't because there are too many bus stops on Denny, it&#
626.
by vkou 8mo ago
We should also quadruple the road space, so that these buses don't just sit in gridlock all day.
627.
by vkou 8mo ago
What is the appropriate term to describe something that would do such a thing to a human being? What should be done with it?
628.
by vkou 8mo ago
Nearly 0% of humans will get this question wrong if they have a car that needs to be washed.
629.
by vkou 8mo ago
> As it is, Grokipedia is not a threat to Wikipedia because relative to Wikipedia, almost nobody is using it. For now. With a little collusion, and a lot of money, it can be pushed as the front page of the internet. What are you going to
630.
by vkou 8mo ago
> The only thing that can make Russia "western" is if you equate white and western. The thing that makes it western is similarity of culture, philosophy, religion, social structure, historic exchange and cross-pollination. [0]

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