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by woooooo 3y ago
Consider: 1. The actions of the US and allies towards Muslims the last few decades and/or weeks. 2. This bleeding heart article. I'm just squaring the circle.
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by woooooo 3y ago
This kind of thinking is why we can't build high speed rail in the US. Nobody values the externalities.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Given how late they are to the punch on this, my money is on a recent hire who got really mad about it 2 years ago and found an opportunity at their new gig. Almost seems gauche, really. Mainstream liberalism has distanced itself from the
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by woooooo 3y ago
HN seems immune to VC pressures specifically because it's owned by a VC. Single core process, single server, single moderator. No react, no chasing growth. It's actually right-sized or even undersized because it's intention
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by woooooo 3y ago
Aldo, the CEO reports to the board, and those board members generally are going to own diversified index funds. They have extra-company reasons for RTO.
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by woooooo 3y ago
The sagas using it as a verb have to be the authoritative source here, right? We have actual text written by contemporaneous norse.
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by woooooo 3y ago
There's a long history of people saying this about Scott Alexander in particular. Whenever I speak to them, they've clearly never actually read the 10 page essay they're complaining about. Makes me wonder if they actually re
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by woooooo 3y ago
The Caro biography claims that LBJ basically rescued the civil rights bills with his ability to get things through the senate. Kennedy had been on a path to failure because he didn't pass a budget first.
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by woooooo 3y ago
That doesn't necessarily follow. Lots of people have difficult jobs. Line cooks have to make priority decisions under high pressure, and it's impactful.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Recognizing an isolated demand for rigor isn't necessarily a demand for purity. It's specifically noticing when nobody cares at all about a topic in all contexts except when it gores a particular ox. In both this example and the e
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by woooooo 3y ago
Because it's an isolated demand for rigor and gives away the real game which is "take out the target". If flipping the partisan lens helps, consider the Hillary Clinton 2016 emails thing. Did anyone really care about the ema
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by woooooo 3y ago
Falun Gong is a religion, not an ethnicity, and they are of the cultish variety. It's like believing the scientology center. Not trustworthy, they have an angle.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Islam is external (to America, mostly), Christianity is internal. If you make it about Islam instead of Christianity, the solution becomes "bomb more arabs", rather than "watch out and don't accidentally become this&quot
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by woooooo 3y ago
We need a term for "culture war adjacency bias".
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'd feel the same way if I heard it in food service. Corporate motherfucker who doesn't actually work. If I hear it in the context of both a knowledge job and a high-trust relationship it works way better for me, here is the prob
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by woooooo 3y ago
"Best" has to be subjective here? My personal favorite, combo of 2 listed, would he "I need X to happen"
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by woooooo 3y ago
The movement existed for five seconds, had a really bad idea as their name, and now you're saying it was all a misunderstanding and they are really moderates? Just take the L. The movement messed up.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Maybe you could evaluate the truth of something on its own merit, rather than sorting into "liberal vs conservative" first and letting truth be secondary to allegiance.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Yes, there's a blockade administered by Israel for security reasons. They can't even fish their exclusive economic zone.
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by woooooo 3y ago
The only other neighboring state is Egypt and they get billions of dollars a year from the US as a condition of their peace with Israel. Between that and the blockade of their coast, they're 100% sealed off from any trade, fishing or i
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by woooooo 3y ago
Mock conservative is way funnier than pious genuine liberal.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Nobody's arguing against that or telling you what to do with your money. They're saying its a problem for social mobility when "how much money your parents have" becomes a gatekeeper to homeownership.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Sure. The rules at the place you're trying to sell. Dictating how you sell elsewhere is a clear step beyond that.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Some would say that the way commerce works is sellers can sell anywhere at any price that a buyer wants to pay.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Can't we have some safety for pedantic nerds in computing of all fields? It's also amazing to me that RMS was the only person at MIT to see consequences. All these prominent MIT people had Epstein connections, but the guy who&#
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by woooooo 3y ago
Config languages and build systems are both in a domain of maximum annoyance and minimum intellectual satisfaction. Within the realm of software.. casual murder is wrong and all but it would be config languages driving a build system that d
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by woooooo 3y ago
Zuckerberg said that the FBI pressured Facebook over Hunter Biden, you can look it up if you want another datapoint. Anyone who votes on Hunter Biden's personal habits is a dummy but there was definitely a coordinated campaign to call
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by woooooo 3y ago
Taibbi specifically had tons of meeting notes on "alignment" between twitter's content policy team and people from DOJ, FBI, etc. Yes, Trump was president at the time.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Clips of public figures saying things are fair use, period. How do you think any news media functions?
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by woooooo 3y ago
Name of the youtuber is Matt Orfalea, you can Google him or watch his videos.

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