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by woooooo 4y ago
But how do you compete with Harvard? In practice, the bureaucracy has captured the brand and the brand is what students are buying. It's more likely that the entire western system is outcompeted than it is that the current set of elit
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's working fine? Who is President right now? The people who stormed the capitol are not being tolerated and approximately noone is arguing that they should be.
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by woooooo 4y ago
There was a different protest at a factory in shenzhen, prior to the lockdown protests.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'm just not greatly affected by a snarky and oblique tweet from years ago. Sorry. Greenwald published the intercept for years, it's not a conservative outlet. He published Snowden. I don't think libsoftiktok would self-id
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by woooooo 4y ago
Joe Rogan supported Bernie, too :) The thing that Bernie understood and most libs don't is that we can be united on class issues or divided on culture war issues. We lose with the latter. I've never seen libsoftiktok and I don&#x
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'm pretty sure both of them voted Bernie and then Biden based on how they talked about candidates. So you kind or are on the same side at the end of the day, Twitter drama notwithstanding. (Unless you voted green)
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by woooooo 4y ago
Yeah, they and I just don't see the "propaganda" thing like you do. You seem to view it as a zero-sum, with us or against us thing. And there may be some validity to that with the realities of politics. But if someone had n
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by woooooo 4y ago
I've never seen either of them endorse a conservative policy? Let me know if I missed one, I haven't audited everything they ever wrote. You're highlighting them needling the democratic line on "news cycle of the week&q
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by woooooo 4y ago
There's "left" (or right) as a set of policy preferences or philosophies, and then there's left or right as a matter of tribal loyalty and the news cycle of the week. Taibbi and Greenwald haven't moved right on poli
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by woooooo 4y ago
But all of the media people and politicians were on Twitter, and not on Bob's auto parts forum.
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's a tiny part of the internet by volume. Dwarfed by breaking bad reruns. It's the whole internet in terms of journalist and politician communications.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Your second rant was what I was talking about, minus the partisanship.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Perhaps, beyond a certain level of monopoly, there's more of an obligation to provide equal access to service for all?
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by woooooo 4y ago
The undersea cables are private property, also. What if all of the layer 3 networks got together and decided to not allow you in particular to demand their resources?
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by woooooo 4y ago
"Build the wall" wasn't about high-skilled visa-having and tax-paying tech workers. Separate issue. Nobody's really campaigned on "the H1B system should be a byzantine nightmare" but somehow that's what w
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by woooooo 4y ago
You may be assuming more connection between voters and policy than actually happens in practice.
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by woooooo 4y ago
That critical interest is short term until we get the Arizona fabs up. Then it'll be back to standard levels of ideology, nationalism and domino theory. And if it's just about power for its own sake, fine. But the records of mil
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by woooooo 4y ago
Worth adding on that McCarthy knew exactly what he was doing and didn't care. It raised his profile. (Source: master of the senate, caro) Those who validate dirty pool in pursuit of the greater good will always be enabling people like
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by woooooo 4y ago
That's it exactly. They don't tell us how we should treat native Americans or Cuba. But we have it baked in that we're the arbiter of what every country does globally, and a history of military action putatively justified by
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's actually a healthy and non-threatening paradigm? If they think they're the best and have no reason to expand because of that, the only threat is to our egos.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Word on the street has been that Alexa was overstaffed for years. Maybe it doesn't have to cost 10B but it looks like there were in fact a lot of costs.
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by woooooo 4y ago
They all locked ranks against Bernie Sanders when he looked like a threat for 5 minutes. The rest of the time, you're right that they never mention anything far left but it's not like that's great for the left.
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's called realpolitik.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'm just a software guy and I don't claim to be saving the world with how I live my life. I like tech is all. Maybe the woke people can go feed the homeless and stop making physics phds write ideological essays about social issue
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by woooooo 4y ago
That's different. Your phrasing is politically neutral and could even be interpreted as centering blue-favored groups. My contention is that any "unbiasing" which said "we are going to lean conservative to counter our i
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's a real thing. UC does it and other institutions. In order to be considered for a job, you lead with a "diversity statement", this is looked at before your job qualifications even, and there are right and wrong opinions t
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by woooooo 4y ago
You're describing a very legitimate sampling error problem. I'm describing forced ideological conformity. Both exist in academia today. If, in the spirit of the proposed "bias declaiming section", a social scientist ma
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by woooooo 4y ago
Explicitly enforcing biases towards a particular ideological project is not "unbiasing", though, it's more bias. Maybe I'm engaging in FUD and these people will be content with some minor efforts towards restraining bias
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by woooooo 4y ago
Five years ago it was just some crazy college kids, pay them no mind, now they have institutional control of HR departments and college administrations. Scientists in academia have to write proper ideological statements about how "woke
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by woooooo 4y ago
Just labeling true things that you don't like as "malinformation" does not encourage more meaningful and nuanced discussions.

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