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by yibg 4y ago
I agree, and this is more of what many other developed countries are doing with things like cheap or free education, social safety nets, wealth transfer etc. But the US seems to be allergic to all of those.
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by yibg 4y ago
If there is an unfairness in obtaining opportunity, either lack of education opportunity or whatever, that seems like the right thing to address. Not at the end of the process and then trying to tilt things.
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by yibg 4y ago
What's the proposed solution? Put a finger on the scale against the privileged group? By how much? for how long? Lumping any race together and treating it as the same is a problem in my view.
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by yibg 4y ago
How do you know this? You think this is true for every white person? If so that IS racist.
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by yibg 4y ago
And what do you imagine the effect of that "factor" would be? Taking offense to unfair firing practices also doesn't mean one doesn't take offense to unfair hiring practices. But the topic at hand is layoff, not hiring.
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by yibg 4y ago
And who decides what the right times and places are?
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by yibg 4y ago
Or "describe all your past sexual encounters". Granted, some might be ok with it, but most won't feel comfortable.
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by yibg 4y ago
Unlike mountains, people are not nailed to the ground waiting to be carved out, they move when they get pushed by a slow but massive object. Only a tiny amount of the train's momentum will get transferred to the person, roughly 1mph x
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by yibg 4y ago
That doesn’t sound right. A 1mph train hitting you won’t kill you, it’ll just push you along. The sudden acceleration of all or parts of your body is important.
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by yibg 4y ago
It's also how selfishness works.
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by yibg 4y ago
I've had this type of person on my team before. Reading through the questions and rationales I can just picture that person asking the same questions and expecting the same answers. Technically capable and a pain to work with. Everythi
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by yibg 4y ago
I think the road systems are pretty badly designed pretty much everywhere. Cross walks that cross 3 lanes (each side)with traffic going 40mph and no signal. Stop signs that doesn't tell you if the intersecting direction stops or not. H
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by yibg 4y ago
I’ve found keeping expenses well below my means provide a great sense of freedom and autonomy. I don’t need to stay at a job I don’t enjoy and not having work means it’s not a big stressor. It also means I can be selective in the job I do e
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by yibg 4y ago
Yeah, let me just dig the old rocket stove out of the basement and fire it up.
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by yibg 4y ago
You're wrong. Now prove me wrong.
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by yibg 4y ago
If you claim there is a flying spaghetti monster in heaven watching over us, the default position isn't "well maybe it's true maybe it's not, so let's call it 50/50". The default position is that's si
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by yibg 4y ago
Why do people need to prove you wrong? Onus is on you to support your assertions.
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by yibg 4y ago
Problem is who determines if it’s a smear campaign? The author claims it was, and I tend to believe him but I haven’t investigated. Have you? And then, how determines if it’s extreme enough to warrant some action? In the ideal world sure th
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by yibg 4y ago
I'm not questioning that part. I don't know if stating that we'll never know about the origins of the universe is correct. I tend to agree personally that it seems premature. All I'm saying is that making (nearly) absolu
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by yibg 4y ago
I don’t know if the statement is correct in this case but in general saying “we will never know” about a subject which we have incomplete knowledge isn’t a contradiction. I can say, we will never know what the first human that got to North
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by yibg 4y ago
We have example of other countries where this works better, or at least can look at to see what the results are and if they are better or not. We don't need to guess and hypothesize.
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by yibg 4y ago
Is it? If you saw me smoking would you say "you are a smoker" or "you will become a smoker"?
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by yibg 4y ago
What you just wrote is violence, since it caused me to feel defensive and anxious and also think about it more than I'd like.
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by yibg 4y ago
But with say software, you can verify yourself if you wanted to whether something is true or not. And if you can find sufficient evidence that something isn't true it'll get corrected. With religion you're expected to believe
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by yibg 4y ago
One difference with religion is it requires some level of suspension of critical thinking and you have to take many things on "faith". This seems like a great way to dodge accountability and hand wave away things without being que
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by yibg 4y ago
That’s quite the straw man. Can you point to a case where that actually happened?
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by yibg 4y ago
And how many concurrent users did you have?
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by yibg 4y ago
This is exactly the type of comment OP is referring to. Have you build a steaming service at this scale? Do you actually know what’s involved? Or are you just looking at the surface level, making a bunch of assumptions and reaching a gut fe
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by yibg 4y ago
Serving Netflix streaming traffic from AWS would be… unwise. One the bandwidth cost would be enormous even if they can handle it. And two I doubt they can handle that much traffic.
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by yibg 4y ago
And break the profit and also probably legal constraints. Good job now you don’t have a company anymore.

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