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by wernercd 5y ago
The problem isn't "woke college kids"... it's intolerance way PAST the point of intolerance. Racism in the name of fighting racism. Hate in the name of love. It's the religious fervor by the Woke Crusaders who are w
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You should place an "Only a Sith deal in absolutes" in there... I'm a Christian and have no problem with Atheist's or what have you. There's a strong chance that there isn't a heaven/hell/72 virgins&#
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"it would end up like paypal" Am I mistaken, but doesn't Google/Youtube do this already? I mean they aren't a payment processor like PayPal, but they shut down accounts all the time for little to no reason and most
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by wernercd 5y ago
because there's a difference between a business blocking someone... and someone blocking someone. You realize a business isn't a person?
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the implication... without backing evidence. Plenty of routes to responsible use - and there needs to be evidence to back accusations: especially against an individual who's presumably done nothing wrong.
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[citation needed]
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by wernercd 5y ago
> naturally caffeinated Isn't there ways to cross pollinate stuff? I've been out of school for awhile and I never got into biology... but why couldn't we get caffeine in, say, apples? or wheat? caffeinated bagels would ro
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> often run with slave labor Can that be an excuse to stop any industry? Might as well stop selling phones, books, shoes, clothes and... really any industry. I'm sure they can all be traced back to "slave labor" somewhere
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by wernercd 5y ago
> why bring race into something Because making everything about race is how we fight racism... somehow...
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its early and the caffeine hasn't set in (still hasn't). I guess this is a better comment if I read it with a sarcastic twist?
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I have issue with both the restrictions AND the cut. Arguments are made along the lines of "don't like the app store? make a web app"... but because of the restrictions, you are limited to a second-rate Webkit base web browse
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by wernercd 5y ago
This has nothing to do with black swans, the birds... this has to do with unexpected results that are easy to explain in hindsight after the truth is known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory "Taleb&#
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"actual black swan, not the concept" 2nd paragraph of article, first sentence: "This defect is like a black swan—something special going on that isn't typical," So how is this an actual black swan - a bird with wing
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Taiwan is a nation with a functioning government and actual borders it controls. Unlike Palestine.
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Well, truth be told, I didn't bring up the politics of it.. just the simple truth. WHY they made the decisions is a rabbit hole... but the facts are simple.
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And, I'd argue, it's willing to negotiate in good faith. The PLO, over the decades, has turned down anything that doesn't give it 100% of what it wants (basically, the destruction of Israel).
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"what would become" and that changes my statement that Palestine has never existed how?
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This has nothing to do with "recovered NHs (nursing home) patients"... this has to do with housing COVID patients in NHs. This ain't "grandma went to the hospital and got sent back to the nursing home" and it was ne
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I'd say "Florida secured their elderly population more quickly and carefully than in New York" misses the fact that New York ACTIVELY put its elderly in harms way by requiring nursing homes take patients. If New York ONLY ign
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They forced people to use subpar options within their environment - just like Microsoft forced IE to be used on theirs. If you want to reach millions of customers, you are restricted to the Apple Payment options... even when better options
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As opposed to Apple forcing you to go through their gated options? When better payment, ad, search, email, browser, etc, etc, options exist? Apples OS is decent and their options are "solid"... but for each of their offerings, the
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by wernercd 5y ago
> contradicting My main assertion is the stronger the push to end inequality, the more it does the opposite... the strongest pushes like Communism and Socialism are easily viewable through historical examples - or using present examples
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Inequality growing in sweden says hello https://nordregio.org/nordregio-magazine/issues/state-of-the... "From having the second-lowest level of inequality in 2000, by 2017, Sweden had the highest level of inc
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"stalin reduced inequality" There was still inequality... the ruling class lived like kings and everyone else lived in squalor. "new deal reduced" and didn't remove. Inequality has grown steadily with a wider range
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Inequality still exists and is growing worldwide... so I'd say... Yes. And the harder its pushed for "equality", the more it turns into bad times. "binary" I never said it was... I said increasing efforts generally
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by wernercd 5y ago
and that 10k will be worth less in 20 years. How many loaves of break could you buy 20 years ago? how much land? how much gas? You can buy less of it today with $10k than back then. You'll be able to buy less again in 20 years.
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"he is wealthy and connected" He still doesn't speak for all wealthy people any more than any individual speaks for any "group". I don't speak for white people any more than a Mexican speaks for all Mexicans or
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and there is no solution to it. Why? because there's uneven skills, uneven effort, uneven luck, uneven work ethic, etc, etc, etc. As long as humans are involved... in all human history, in all societies, in all things there has been in
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"a billion never happened by accident" Being successful isn't an accident. Why should people feel bad for being THAT successful? Going to be a great world where success like that is "punished" in the name of "e
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And those things are outweighed by things JavaScript got so incredibly wrong... like === vs == and some of the weirdness when you GASP use == as any other language would do. JS is like PHP... only a popular language because it's been

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