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How long have human societies existed? How long has the concept of paid parental leave been around? Compare those two numbers. > you are not a parent, and probably thats good for society > old ass xibalba You really undermine your cre
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> So most governments, even the American ones, give grants and support to new companies to prop them up To what grants, specifically, are you referring? As someone who is active in the business formation space in the U.S., I’d absolutely
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You’ve really bent over backwards to make this about rape, unplanned pregnancies, and abortion. I don’t disagree about abortion, per se, but it’s a separate issue.
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> forcing women back into work This is not what happens. No one is being "forced" to do anything. Rather, free individuals (speaking from a U.S. centric viewpoint) make a choice to become pregnant and birth a child. It seems re
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> antithetical to human dignity and people's freedom This is an extraordinary claim and thus requires extraordinary proof. Speaking for myself, I feel absolutely no loss of freedom or dignity through the presence of cookies, pixels,
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> There is also an argument that when GDP and energy consumption diverged I've not encountered this concept before, but it sounds very interesting. Can you share a good resource for reading about it?
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> “ failed to provide evidence of financial damages and mental distress being caused to any individual iPhone users.” Glad to see some reason exists in the world. To read HN comments, one would think cookies and tracking pixels were robb
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> This describes an incredibly miniscule number of people Citation needed
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It's amazingly "on brand" that HN commenters upon the Munger quote at the top of this article. Being a fellow HN'er, I'll follow suit: The most obvious response to Munger's critics is, "Then don't liv
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What is the objective then?
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> moral sense This suggests a (perceived) place of moral certainty and absolutism. It seems pretty clear to me that Google is not all immoral. In fact, it isn’t hard to argue that it is mostly moral. Same goes for the military. The U.S.
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People are entitled to their opinions, but I personally just can't take the pearl clutchers seriously in their offense-taking on this one. The framing on this as a demonstration of deep misogyny in tech is just way, way too morbidly ab
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> Quant firms for the stock market in the early 90s False equivalence. The real estate business which Zillow failed is massively capital intensive, whereas figuring out a quant strategy is not necessarily so. In other words, it is very p
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Sci-Hub is accepting crypto donations.
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Perhaps the phrasing is imperfect. However, there is a trade-off in the opposition of allowing Ring owners to voluntarily share their video footage with law enforcement organizations in support of solving crimes and administering justice. I
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Wow, what a strange article. A profile which attempts to paint an unrepentant serial thief and drug addict as the woeful victim. Also, I can’t imagine anything more noxiously racist than perpetuating the view that certain groups of people c
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I'm a Neuralink alpha tester. I configured it to open an HN tab on every device when I wink my left eye. Do I win?
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1 minute of Googling: "81% of Americans agree with the sentiment that their car reflects who they are...59% consider themselves as someone who is passionate about cars, trucks, motorcycles, or other vehicles" [1] 78% of Americans
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There is not faster to way to discredit oneself than to offer a pat, single variable explanation. As others point out, Americans like and want to transport themselves by car. Let's accept this, work with it, and build around it instea
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I’m increasingly convinced that vast swaths of “higher ed” should be made ineligible for federal student loans. They are more and more religious-ish, spread divisive and noxious ideology, and they churn out massively indebted people with ve
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It’s crazy how often these activists footgun. Deleting google drive off a work phone during an investigation?
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USD still dominates foreign exchange reserves: https://data.imf.org/?sk=E6A5F467-C14B-4AA8-9F6D-5A09EC4E62A...
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So what happens when your currency is no longer a reserve currency? After all, currencies don't exist in a vacuum. Are you not then highly constrained in your currency creation ability? I would think there might be disastrous implicati
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This info is out of date. It's started rolling out early morning October 11 (USA timezones). Update: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1447472059152408578
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Postmodernism: "Everything is a construct. Everything is relative. There is no base reality or ground truth." Marxism: "Everything is class struggle. There is always, everywhere and in everything an oppressor and an oppressed
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I define Marxism broadly as the initial poisoning of the left-leaning mind with the concept of the ubiquitous class struggle. It has mutated into a belief system under which there is always an oppressing class and an oppressed class. It can
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Because liberal arts higher education has been completely usurped by Postmodernism and Marxism, and it indoctrinates students with the belief that everything everywhere is politics, always. This mentality has infected "liberal" in
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It's pretty easy to dunk on people when you divorce their words from the surrounding context. This statement was within the context of advising organizational leaders who are trying to "keep the peace" (and thus, inadvertentl
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Why don’t you trust him?

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