walkhour

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by walkhour 4y ago
What does a revolt look like? People can live in unimaginable conditions and not revolt. The idea that if things get bad enough "people" are going to do something about it can just occur to someone that hasn't seen enough of
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by walkhour 4y ago
As a juror you're not being asked whether she should go to prison considering she's a mother of two children, that's s different question. You're being asked whether she's guilty of the crimes she's accused of.
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by walkhour 4y ago
The FBI interfered in an election and apparently you want to discuss whether censorship is the right word to use or not. Of course it's completely irrelevant whether what happened qualifies as censorship or not. The issue is a supposed
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by walkhour 4y ago
Fine, use another word then. The FBI interfered in an election, call it censorship or not. That's the issue, not the specific semantics you're worried about.
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by walkhour 4y ago
The increase in money supply may not be bad but it's obviously bad now, when inflation is so high. So even if you're in favour of these policies you must think the timing is bad. The fact that's it's happening despite in
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by walkhour 4y ago
Yes, now that you don't have debt yourself you can help other's pay theirs. Meanwhile you'll be informed of how fair this is.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Allowing local efforts is not how you win federal elections.
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by walkhour 4y ago
Transfer payment from the debtor to the government? If the government pays it printing money, then printing money will happen, if it's payed with tax payer's money, well then the tax payers will pay it. Given money is fungible it
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by walkhour 4y ago
> You’re conflating truth and opinion This thread is discussing conflating popular opinions and truth.
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by walkhour 4y ago
What's popular is truth for most people, since humans are herd animals, and being a contrarian can mean being marginalized. In the antebellum South slavery was morally right, and it required to be a true outlier to speak out against it
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by walkhour 4y ago
That fifth one may be friendly though
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by walkhour 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to your spirit but the Romans slaughtered whole tribes because they thought they weren't tame enough to be enslaved. I fear the same would happen, and the graveyard would be filled with the brave, while the ones wh
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by walkhour 4y ago
I don't see it as clearcut as this, I agree with your second point. But I think the press - that of course is not a single entity - can be unfair when they dislike someone and show a heavy publishing bias. This is not a conspiracy theo
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by walkhour 4y ago
I was thinking of Tesla when mentioning climate change. You may be right EV aren't the solution, but then there are barely any (or simply any) mainstream politicians who aren't very confused [0]. Even if EV are not scalable, would
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by walkhour 4y ago
I think you partly agree with me then, you accept there's a publishing bias, the difference is you think it's good. I don't think the press should fawn over him. Maybe you're fine with the publishing bias because that he
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by walkhour 4y ago
I agree, it seems ridiculous to me as well, who has defended his labor practices on the notion he's a climate savior? Can you quote or provide an article link?
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by walkhour 4y ago
Maybe you're right, but EV is definitely the direction USA is going [0]: > The president is restoring and strengthening tailpipe emissions regulations from the Obama era and has set a target that half of all vehicles sold in the Uni
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by walkhour 4y ago
Simply mind blogging that you have managed to find a connection between both situations, when in one case an autocratic state has decided homogeneity is the end state; and mass detentions, forced sterilizations, and genocide is the way.
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by walkhour 4y ago
There's no contradiction between desiring free speech in the public sphere - which is what Musk claims he wants - and not wanting to associate yourself with people who support certain speech, which is what Musk has done. The comment I
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by walkhour 4y ago
The fact that this comment is upvoted and is taken as a gotcha argument or something with any validity when it requires five seconds to realize it's easily refutable is not a good show for HN
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by walkhour 4y ago
Favoritism is rampant in some teams at Google, but it's harder to detect when you are not hiring your fellow cult friends. Unconscious bias hiring training is there for a reason, but there are many situations when the bias is conscious
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by walkhour 4y ago
Isn't TikTok itself already occupying that space?
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by walkhour 4y ago
This is indeed the relevant question. There are similar scenarios where the answer is the 100 guys, like some markets, that when organized centrally by "smart" people, they stop working.
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Voting is supposed to represent the will of the people The will of the people is always discovered within some rules, otherwise we could vote for many more things, instead of every four years. The rule in this case was to vote now, and
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by walkhour 4y ago
The referendum was justified as once in a generation, and this phrase was repeated ad nauseam, and this deal was partly why the referendum happened. It wasn't said "once in a generation unless there's a big change", big
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by walkhour 4y ago
I expect some European countries like Spain to firmly oppose them joining the European Union, to send a message to inner regions that may also want independence. This idea that Scotland is going to vote for independence from the UK and stra
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by walkhour 4y ago
These kinds of votes would happen more often if the independent country committed to running referendums asking whether they should join the original country after they became independent. Many countries fear a referendum every twenty years
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by walkhour 4y ago
Confirmed former conspiracy theories are all usually big lies: - The battleship Maine was blown up by the Spanish government, therefore we must go to war with Spain. - There's isn't any famine in Ukraine, this is the 1930s. - Ther
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by walkhour 4y ago
It's inconceivable an article tackling these topics had examples that represented the norm, instead, it will have examples where the victim is what's generally perceived as the weakest side. It's really hard to get a grasp of
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by walkhour 4y ago
> Despite having a later wakeup time, I think most teens will probably not get a whole lot of extra sleep. Kids are kids and will stay up later to play games ... This needn't be true, the natural time for teens to go to sleep is 10-

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