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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I saw that dead comment too and can't figure it out.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Reminds me of "Operation Chokepoint" where the U.S. federal government was able to persuade (not force) banks to cut off firearms dealers from their accounts in an effort to affect "unsavory businesses". Another reason w
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Buffet talks a good talk, but I can't say he walks it much. I think he's great at PR and keeping a soft image to protect his massive portfolio. If you really dig down into his portfolio a lot of his investments create pollution, a
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Small nit, but I'm not sure I'd prefer one (or a few) investor(s) over a larger, decentralized group of investors. Those are two very different power dynamics. A world with a few super-heavy investors may not be as effective as a
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I'm inclined to agree with that. Maybe if jobs for all skill-sets were still growing (in availability and compensation) it'd be easier to write off a good portion of the population as mentally inferior, but now that knowledge jobs
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Perhaps the reason trafficking is incentivized is because this is a black market in the first place. We don't have the same levels of criminality with alcohol that we experience in the U.S. during prohibition precisely because a legiti
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I'm not really biased one way or the other on the upthread conversation, however I think you'll find the Descartes' thinking continues to underlie a great deal of what we call modern science (or more precisely: our defining i
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I really dislike it as well, as I think a sizable portion of the HN does according to these threads that occasionally appear. You're in good company.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Is google working on opt-in or opt-out functionality, or is that something that might happen in the foreseeable future? I think a move like that would go a long way in the goodwill department.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Well, the post he/she was replying to had a provocative line in it as well, so I think we can excuse the tone a bit.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Yeah, Fresh Air/Terry Gross is pretty caught up in her own bubble, if you ask me. She gets pretty feisty when guests challenge her from time to time, which I enjoy. (Good listening when that happens!)
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Agreed, U.S. higher ed has been somewhat emptied of its thought diversity, in my own experience.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I can't help but have noticed that same thing, anecdotally (very anecdotally, but seems seems so pronounced that I'm commenting). Higher voice registers, smaller frames, more effeminate postures and body language.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Probably forever, yet they could have been right all along. (No way to know subjectively, we weren't alive that whole time! E.g. I hear tales of evening strolls that entire towns would conduct after dinner hours, stopping on those fron
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
[rhetorical answer] By offloading as much economic risk as possible on to producers with the least means of asserting corrective action in case of inequitable decision making. (In other words pass losses on to employees and guarantee [as mu
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
It's also true that youngsters take their own day-and-age as the new-and-improved era in which they live, and have much less ability to compare past circumstances with modern ones. The idea that the modern era is morally superior t
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I'm a millennial myself, and I think there might be a good argument to make that there is an accelerated moral decay happening, and that has been happening for many decades. It feels good to say that this is just old hogwash that gets
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
He's making the same public motions that an office-seeker would perform. I don't think it's off base to connect the dots.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
In all fairness the idea of Zuckerberg running for president is a little extreme (even if true) and is likely to be the subject of ridicule and criticism.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
And /r/the_donald would say just the opposite. The thing about propaganda – why it works so well – is that it's presented as authentic civil discourse. There's no clear cut demarcation between the two types of speech. On
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
> religion and the right to bear arms (this is a generalization, of course). Minor nit (sorry!) but rural folks mainly want limited government – a lot of their other arguments stem from that. They tend to not like power or authority and
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
This is less and less the case, as weird as that sounds. I'm finishing my degree not because I'm learning anything, but too many managers (and academics) have point-blank told me they just want to see that I've been "ini
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
I worked in state and city campaigns for a number of years, and I just wanted to confirm what you've written: that patronage and loyalty testing IS at the center (among other things) of high-level political operations. It's a cyni
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Wait, what's the contradiction? You can definitely have liberal fascism. Italy under Mussolini is considered by many scholars as a liberal, fascist regime. There's lots of scholarly work on the subject.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
The rich have principles. They're just more sociopathic principles, IMO.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Like David Brooks, I'm not convinced. Sure, Russia seeks influence, and has a little. But I have to be suspicious of leaked publicized intel. Brooks' NY Times article from last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2017&#x
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
As far as I'm concerned, both parties are mutually destructive. (Destructive competition.) Two peas in a pod since the 90s.
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
It's simply none at all, right?
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
What a crass thing to say, similar to "they wouldn't have starved if they just ate!"
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by weirdstuff 9y ago
Back to the point: what does any of that have to do with sex or gender? Maybe you will elaborate, if OP won't.

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