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by zarkov99 6y ago
I agree with most of your assessment. However I am myself an immigrant and, warts and all, I still think that comparatively the US is still a great place to live and I am grateful for the opportunity I was given to settle here. If you do no
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by zarkov99 6y ago
It was a very tense election. What do you think Democrats would say if Trump had won and you polled them? Do you think they would politely accept four more years of Trump? What do you think would be the odds of violence in the cities? Say i
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Couldn't Facebook just put more effort into giving users the power to filter content on their own? They have an interactive, infinitely flexible medium, tons of money and some of the brightest people in the world working there. Perhaps
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am sorry, I really am, that you see the country that way. I humbly suggest that you might be shocked at what you find out if you hang out with some of the people you think are so bad. I think you will find they want the same things you do
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes, that. Simple things like a little stats, a default position of skepticism, an understanging that the message and the messenger are separate, would go a long way.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes, but whatever one you are thinking about, rest assured the other would do the same. This idea that half the country is bad and the other is virtuous is as infantile as it is dangerous.
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I have a highly customized emacs setup that works best on the server.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am thinking about getting thing mostly to ssh into a linux server. I would like to run emacs on the server and have its display bounced back via X to the Mac. Is this practical? I tried Quartz on my wife's Mac but the fonts looked li
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes, but I do not think it had to be this bad. Thoughtfully mediating the communication of billions of people is a massive challenge but one that could be tackled by the sort of highly intelligent and well funded teams that abound in places
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think that perhaps we have not yet adjusted to the full implications of the democratization of speech. Extreme opinions, held by the tiniest, most unhinged minorities, get amplified precisely because they are so unusual. In other words, i
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Does anyone actually advocate that? insane mis characterization of the other side is another reason politics should be avoided at work. People who would otherwise get along just fine become enemies because they are fighting the most despica
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Jesus, how many people have you ever met that openly stated that X people do not deserve to be alive?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You would be surprised as to how many of these people would pity and politely dismiss most of richer and softer types of human that inhabit tech.
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Is this only available if you have a Mac desktop?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I made the same choice, but I am rethinking it. I run Linux on my desktop and would love to control my iPad from the desktop, using it as a second screen or a drawing pad. Apple makes this uncessarly hard.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes. Even at home it's so much nicer to be able take the laptop anywhere without worrying about wires.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Sure, but morality aside there is something to be admired in people that do dangerous, frightnening and difficult things for a living.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I would argue that American males are closer to the warrior archetype than any other democracy. We certainly have fought more actual wars than any other advanced nation, we have the best combat athletes in the world, many of us hunt, shoot
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I feel exactly the same way, with respect to "going to battle". Things got much more real after kids, its you they look to when things go wrong and you better have it together.
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Why? What is your culture's cultural ideal?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
It just strikes me as odd that NPR should have positions at all, other than "our mission is to inform the public to the best of our limited ability".
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Can you elaborate? How did they do this?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Now we just need a conservatie NPR alternative. Could this article be written in a more biased way?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
These parasites got to MIT as well? Good luck with the next generation of nobel winners if this nonsense takes root.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How much of the blame do you think is Otellini's? I got a really bad feeling about Intel when he became CEO.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is the future for the globe if China overtakes the US as the dominant power. This is why its so critical for the free world for the US to treat China as an opponent rather than a trading partner.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
They probably are smarter than Engineers, on average, but that does not make them more valuable to society at large, though it might in their academic habitat.
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Insurance looks really odd until the unlikely occurs. Then it looks very wise.
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And got paid as such. Just kidding, of course they did not.
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That is rich after 4 years of non-stop Russia colusion coverage. As to racial injustice, no one is arguing it should be swet under the rug, but neither should cherry-picked examples of bad interactions between police and black people be use

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