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571.
by woooooo 3y ago
Fascism doesn't mean "bad", "warlike" or "current American enemy". It was a specific ideology that Russia does not promote today, whatever their other faults.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Godwins law has existed for a while now. The only thing Putin has in common with Hitler is being a jerk. There's no commonality between Nazi ideology and the Russian state, and beating the nazis is a huge part of their national identi
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by woooooo 3y ago
It's a thought-terminating cliche.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I was with you on the nuance until you said "US" -- we have actual laws making it illegal to boycott Israel in a bunch of states. Its not illegal to boycott anything else on the planet, just Israel. Any politician who steps out o
575.
by woooooo 3y ago
I hadn't thought about it before but starlink's model of "large number of cheap low earth orbit satellites" has some great robustness properties against being shot down.
576.
by woooooo 3y ago
Fine. 30% is a big walkback from the original framing. Clearly the topics in this thread are more of a "university" thing than "private vs public" thing.
577.
by woooooo 3y ago
Billion dollar endowments are not run or financed by the government.
578.
by woooooo 3y ago
It's reality, and as much about mannerism as looks. OP wasn't attacking chomsky on a personal level, just pointing out how he's often perceived. It's sort of unfixable because the taste-makers at NYT and WaPo sorted them
579.
by woooooo 3y ago
Banning people from stupid, harmless stuff is bad news though? It annoys me too to see DEI people make stacks off of weaponized bullshit while us engineers keep the lights on, but that's a free business transaction. Why should the sta
580.
by woooooo 3y ago
Liburing is pretty recent, and it started with a really limited set of syscalls it supports. Everyone is adopting it pretty quickly, actually.
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by woooooo 3y ago
It's interesting to consider the trajectory of ideas/movements. Lots of professional-class liberals today consider "populism" to be a dirty word. Would they have been Hoover Republicans in that era?
582.
by woooooo 3y ago
The New Deal coalition included the entire Jim Crow southern democratic establishment. They weren't the opposition, they were a key part of the coalition.
583.
by woooooo 3y ago
I think your cheapo Chinese/Indian EV is most likely classed as motorcycle.
584.
by woooooo 3y ago
I was with you on the suspension and steering but artificially limiting acceleration to mimic a shift is just dumb. "Sporty" should mean high-performance.
585.
by woooooo 3y ago
Vouched to reply, I have tried local politics, the local politicians don't have the money. It's all in Washington.
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by woooooo 3y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64827885
587.
by woooooo 3y ago
If we had our priorities in order it would be trivial. One fewer carrier group would probably cover it with no loss to national security. Also worth noting that an extra 100B of deficit is no big deal as long as it only buys unproductive w
588.
by woooooo 3y ago
They're mostly the same country they were 10 years ago. Compare the media coverage then and now -- they didn't change, we just ran out of war on terror and needed a new enemy.
589.
by woooooo 3y ago
I saw a BBC story the other week bemoaning how state college students were circumventing firewalls of foreign media using VPNs.. the irony seemed to be lost on them.
590.
by woooooo 3y ago
I wonder how many Chinese-manufactured goods the state of Montana bought yesterday while issuing this statement.
591.
by woooooo 3y ago
They would have amortized the 420/item across one more item. No additional research cost.
592.
by woooooo 3y ago
Which is better/worse, the hack with a plan which is removed promptly or the barnacle that persists forever? The barnacle did provide more lifetime business value after all.
593.
by woooooo 3y ago
The drone strikes are linked to intelligence, which sometimes comes from the faang/natsec relationship.
594.
by woooooo 3y ago
I'm not Chinese, hi. The US is collecting vastly more data from our social media companies and using it to launch drone strikes that actually kill people. Nobody is outraged by this, it's "normal". Why should I be more
595.
by woooooo 3y ago
It's legendary.
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by woooooo 3y ago
It still exists because it's "bad". Very small language initially, with some 1990s warts that we all understand, and new features are only added long after they've proved their worth elsewhere. This means a lot for lon
597.
by woooooo 3y ago
It's a good system for us but it's not like we ask the world for a vote before doing things that affect others.
598.
by woooooo 3y ago
Many people say that. Revealed preference raises its head when it comes to the real world, and it turns out American interest is a better predictor.
599.
by woooooo 3y ago
Movie killings are typically a gunshot at some range and then an extra with no lines or name falls over. Visually, it is arguably less titillating than mild sexual content unless you're taking extra steps to humanize the extra.
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by woooooo 3y ago
There are a billion of us speaking the language. It's a little presumptuous to tell a billion people what to do and there should probably be some amount of default resistance.

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