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Goddamnit, dtx1, the people on the other goddamn side of the wire are people. I'm a person, in Colorado, not a party appratchik. I'm a person. I fucking agree with your desire to boycott China in solidarity with the oppressed. Wha
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Smarter people - the type that make good engineers who’d deliver early - think critically about everything, not just their job. What you think of as “woke” is often composed of the compassionate, deeply reasoned ideology that such a smart p
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I doubt it was ever so simple. Maybe for a halcyon moment when incomes were rising and ideology was sparse on the ground - the 50s and early 60s - politics had little part in work, in as much as most people still agreed. But they all agreed
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I believe you missed the “in good faith” part of his comment, and responded with vitriol and the implication that you were parent commentor’s moral superior. Tiresome: do better so we can all have a nicer website to visit.
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Both Eisenhower and Kennedy were moderates who could not get elected in a gerrymandered district because their strategy of appealing to the national center does not work in an idea logically homogenous district.
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The elections aren’t so much less competitive, the competition simply exists at an extreme because there’s no upside to moderation in a partisan primary.
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Let's clone dang and employ the clones as moderators for all forms of social media. We will of course pre-program them for compliance. We can replace one moral quandary with another, much darker, one, which is a boon because it is some
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by w0de0 5y ago
Do you take the same attitude to a rented apartment? A hotel room? Build your own datacenter if you want to own it.
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The are! It's just not an everyday occurrence - and so is worth much more - so most zero days end up in nation state hands.
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What’s the bandwidth problem? Could we modulate the light coming from our star just so?
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Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of a Brain Size Determinant in Homo Sapiens (2005)(researchgate.net)
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Nationalism is rife in this discussion. I don’t particularly welcome that on HN, but I _do_ welcome it in the general discourse of this new space race. It’s my opinion that the first space race served as a proxy for an even more expensive a
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by w0de0 5y ago
It’s bread (that is: pan, wheat or similar milled and leavened) but it’s more a euphemism of the author’s own design. To me it was a reference to - something - in the American millennial zeitgeist that congealed just about mid-pandemic when
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Maybe you'd be better at your job if you wasted less time complaining about women on Internet fora.
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Start adding embryos to the seed vault - I like it.
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I use roads, don’t I.
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I’m sure we can trust the self publisher of a ghostwritten unedited cost-first keyword-selected book to never employ fake reviews. He’s only here to provide what’s best for his customer.
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Ants don't have a pernicious ability to build progressively better technology in an attempt to escape the kitchen work top and conquer the refrigerator. Or, rather, they do, in the sense that they are life and life has this tendency, a
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I’m not sure I believe under banked societies are actually a good use case. I’ve lived in a country without established banking - and what I wanted most for the cash I earned locally was a bank, not a crypto wallet. Crypto might be safe fro
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Yes buts he’s code switching in order to fool an automated panopticon that’s integrated with our most advanced communications technology. That’s a bit unique.
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Jeff contends that '"relevant ads" on a blog about urban planning' solve the problem of funding the blog for you. They allow the blog to not be required to focus on 'fishing equipment' in order to place such ad
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"Per user" implies a relationship between the mark and the platform - a continuation of the fiction of consent that pervades Facebook and Google. So I'd rephrase your apologia this way: "FB's revenue per human datum
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Why are black boxes not buoyant?
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Ah, it must be malaria!
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I think there's a distinction to be made here between sex, the biological facet, and gender, the cultural construct that maps to sex - or more accurately, maps our assumptions, myths, and platitudes about sex to an expected set of beha
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I believe I understand your point. In an important way, I don't disagree. A financial transaction is an inherently honest communication between buyer and seller - the clarity of the signal that buying and selling sends is the mechanism
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Ah yes. It was inspiring when Lucian expressed deep truths of human nature by paying an extra solidus for a sacrificial sheep.
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Good point. They are used by extremely powerful people. We better ban Bitcoin before it’s users and environmental impact are similarly socially entrenched!
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How is banning Bitcoin censorship? Seems like a great law to me; laws are usually the best way to prevent a tragedy of the commons. I’m also pretty burned out on all the crypto fans warning of a slippery slope to tyranny if crypto is not al
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What saddens me is the intellectual waste the study and interpretation of these laws creates. There’s an entire generation with a normal distribution of potential and intelligence, and above average in work ethic - and they are arguing obsc

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