yrimaxi

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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Sorry. I meant strong states. Not inter-nationally speaking but in its own territory.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Powerful states were a prerequisite for capitalist development. How’s that for dissonance? Actually that doesn’t pose any kind of cognitive dissonance to more mainstream economists since they know what role the state must play in a capital
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Why is that ironic?
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Do you really think that nations intervene like that out of a genuine desire to spread freedom?
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Many people are fine with it when the centralized power is in the form of a corporation.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Can confirm. Right when my wife got pregnant I convinced her to listen to classical music and the binaural beats extracted from world-class chess champions for optimal early-fetus neuroplasticity. We weaned them off of breastmilk at one
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Yes. For example I don’t buy cereal because of my ethical stance of not wanting to feel bloated from a bowl of milk-and-starch.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I have to hand it to Kelley. I didn’t believe in this project when I first read one of his initial “I want to make a proglang” articles. Just one guy? And he doesn’t have a programming language background? And he wants to make a languag
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
It’s an interesting dichotomy: many say they want to make the world a better place but also (1) have a personal philosophy of “the regular user is always wrong”, and (2) will do their damndest to argue how developers and IT corporations are
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
This isn’t so much a counter-argument as it’s a disjointed muddy-the-waters statement. Muffin recipes...? Of course a paragraph-long comment won’t provide a rigorous critique of the media. And I might disagree with that commenter with reg
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> It tends to be a stabilizing force for society, despite the malevolence (eg Iraq war). Brave words. Stabilizing for whom?
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> The odds of the events in question actually happening as describe are nearly zero. And if it did happen the comeuppance is cheapened by the fact that the author was a person with some kind of authority over the other person. You don’
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
This article reminds me of those clips from Aaron Sorkin shows where the protagonist goes on some rant while the room goes dead silent around them. They so clearly crave some foil so that they can do their soapbox act about their pet peeve
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
It wasn’t really elitist. He was an elite (e.g. refer to his paternal grandfather) with folksy affectations. But you are right that a person’s actions (and policies in this case) is much more important than whether they happen to say silly
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
tl;dr: prosperity + inequality. But for some reason “inequality” gets glossed as “skepticism”. It’s apparently all in their heads—comparing themselves to others on social media—even though getting laid off and having no short-term prospect
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> You guys are forgetting another part of the chain, which can make decisions - consumers. Bad idea. The market is supposed to process information for us. Consumers are just individuals who know what they need and what they want, but n
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
We see research all the time about how poor people are more likely to have bad life outcomes. Not in the circular sense of “continually becoming lower class”, but in terms of things like health. You could go live in the woods in which case
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
This submission is about you.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I don’t know if I would consider living a long human life a hot streak.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Irrelevant. Here’s the original comment: > I wonder how many people have been forced into a "sedentary" life style by COVID-19... You are not forced into a sedentary lifestyle if you have the time and space to do bodyweight ex
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I’m sorry. It’s terrible that people have to suffer from this kind of thing and get so little help from the supposed state of the art.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Avoid $ success at all costs
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Edit: whooshed by his royal cleverness.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
So a company that, in your own words, uses dark patterns and addictive engagement, could possibly be this [rose-tinted glasses conception of] Wikipedia? That’s ridiculous. That’s not even alternative history as you are reimagining the who
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> Given that most people seem to care more about free services, than they do about privacy, What a backwards analysis. A social platform that is not already popular is worthless to most people. They have no use for it. Hence they are d
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
In his defense, he only wanted to impress someone so much that they would want to impregnate themselves with his seed, not do something impossible like impress the HN readership.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Don’t know why this obvious satire was downvoted.

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