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by zorpner 4y ago
You've chosen to focus on suicide in the GP's post, and are phrasing your post: > I think you're pushing as true things that are not demonstrated, and may well be untrue. As if this refutes their entire thesis, which it do
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by zorpner 4y ago
> Even when defensive use of guns is effective in averting death or injury for the gun user in cases of crime, it is still possible that keeping a gun in the home or carrying a gun in public—concealed or open carry—may have a different n
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by zorpner 4y ago
As all statistical evidence indicates, your family is far more likely to be killed by your gun than by any other. Your gun ownership endangers your family.
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by zorpner 4y ago
Can you be more specific about what you mean by "woke"?
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by zorpner 4y ago
How, specifically, does this explain their opposition to masking and vaccination?
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by zorpner 4y ago
> If you can’t steelman any topic, you don’t understand the topic. This fundamentally misunderstands the actual Republican position, and it does so in the way that they are intending to trick you into doing. If they cared about lives, th
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by zorpner 4y ago
The relevant quote on the subject, from David Barnhart ( https://www.facebook.com/dave.barnhart/posts/pfbid0qt4dXV6kK... ): ---------------------------------------- "The unborn" are a convenient group of
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by zorpner 4y ago
There's no need for speculation -- the individual in question is not only a licensed amateur radio operator, but holds additional licenses for commercial microwave links. They are well aware of the rules, and chose to violate them, re
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by zorpner 4y ago
It's still under copyright. The Internet Archive owns a physical copy of the book, which they have scanned, and if you believe in Controlled Digital Lending ( https://controlleddigitallending.org -- to be clear, I do) this
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by zorpner 4y ago
Is the assertion here that people who have a troublesome family history, or a stalker, or debt, or who wish to change their lives, or are from a place where their social or racial group might be persecuted, or who simply wish to write code
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by zorpner 4y ago
Bear in mind that this is the man who made his name on a hypothesis that would have been equally true, and totally wrong, at every previous point in human history. At some point one should admit that the problem is the experimenter and not
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by zorpner 4y ago
You weren't using metaphor, you gave a _specific and untrue_ example, the revelation of which completely undermined your argument!
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by zorpner 4y ago
Ah, so by "craft" you mean "make up something untrue that would have taken ten seconds to verify". I feel like I suddenly understand "Hackers and Painters".
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by zorpner 5y ago
Because it was immediately obvious from their post that they are engaged in political posturing rather than legitimate debate? It's really not hard to tell.
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by zorpner 5y ago
I mean, roughly, there's no such thing as an ideal free market, and in all real markets all the ways in which it's not an ideal free market are being exploited by people to collect the margin. The concept of an ideal free market
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by zorpner 5y ago
The people who provide the funding and the labor which perpetuate the existence of employers who exploit workers aren't innocent -- simply complicit. Or, at best, negligent.
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by zorpner 5y ago
ah, understood -- thank you for the clarification!
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by zorpner 5y ago
Why should the maintainer not have the freedom to write the software they wish? The users of their software aren't being denied their freedoms to control and repair the code.
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by zorpner 5y ago
Yeah, you can even Google™ to find many other such stories.
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by zorpner 5y ago
It's a contract that the company has agreed to -- if they violate that contract, the consequences apply. Or should they be able to violate contracts negotiated between private parties?
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by zorpner 5y ago
You have already accepted it, by continuing to work for a company that does it (regularly -- this is hardly a unique story).
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by zorpner 5y ago
Ok, so the union has negotiated a contract with the company, and as a part of this negotiation the company has agreed to specific terms of employment. Should they be prohibited from engaging in those negotiations, or agreeing to those term
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by zorpner 5y ago
The company can hire you. Your unionized coworkers can decline to work with you, or for the company, if they do so. Would you deny them that right?
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by zorpner 5y ago
Downdetector relies on user reports, so e.g. if a user's ISP is down and they can't get to Facebook, they might report Facebook being down (or vice versa). DD spikes are typically indicative of _something_, but it's not alwa
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by zorpner 5y ago
I counted four technically incorrect usages in this comment of yours. Nothing worse than an inconsistent pedant.
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by zorpner 5y ago
The founders repeatedly promised (and in at least one case I know of, convinced someone to work there based on that promise) that they would not sell. Perhaps the implication is that we should not believe the promises of founders.
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by zorpner 5y ago
The idea that an individual has "[the] right to protect oneself and one’s property" is fundamentally inconsistent with the existence of slavery throughout most of humanity's history.
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by zorpner 5y ago
Do you think that shortages reduce revenue for logistics operations with fixed movement volumes?
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Apple Card account verification considered harmful(waldo.jaquith.org)
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by zorpner 5y ago
Rare to hear such a direct, strong argument for a union on HN.

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