MockObject

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by MockObject 3y ago
Asking about high school is ridiculous, but how is it age-ist? They had high schools back in the old days, too.
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by MockObject 3y ago
It is indeed doing that!
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by MockObject 3y ago
But Trump does this, and he's from Queens. I don't actually think there are regional differences in the five boroughs.
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by MockObject 3y ago
Think of it as less of a euphemism, and more of a specific type of slavery.
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by MockObject 3y ago
> The vast majority of readers can quickly make the connection between 'politically powerful' and 'rich white people' assuming they live in America. It's not on random HN commenters to be egalitarian humanities w
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by MockObject 3y ago
Are we speaking different languages? Read this thread back! Does it make any sense? Not to me. I can barely understand what it means. Do you not agree that affirmative action is a discrimination based on race?
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by MockObject 3y ago
And your "solution" is to increase the amount of discrimination? The doing of nothing at all, which you're accusing me of promoting, is obviously absolutely better than that.
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by MockObject 3y ago
You want me to list specific solutions, but that’s not what I’m here to do. I’m here to limit the set of such solutions to policies that actually decrease the total amount of discrimination. Your positive discrimination increases the total
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by MockObject 3y ago
But you haven’t offered an argument. “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” Do you think it should be eliminated? Then why are you arguing against its elimination? Why do you claim to think it should be eliminated?
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by MockObject 3y ago
Not “suck it up.” End it. The exact opposite of what you just characterized. Your thinking on this topic seems very to contain many inversions.
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by MockObject 3y ago
"Your solution to racism is to treat everyone equally" Yes. This is the logical solution. The way to end X is that everybody stops doing X. It's very clear, simple, and I'm sure you would agree with virtually all values
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by MockObject 3y ago
> Why should the affected groups, or society at large, accept this? Why shouldn't we band together to try to make things fair in light of this fact? That's exactly what the court just did. It prevented universities from being r
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by MockObject 3y ago
People naturally mix. They work together, worship together, and marry each other, unless this natural mixing is opposed by external forces.
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by MockObject 3y ago
> However in my more conpsiracy minded moments I can't help but wonder if the focus on race is designed to keep the power and the middle class fighting each other over things like that rather than fighting against the people that ha
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by MockObject 3y ago
Life is becoming very safe, but we evolved under conditions of deadly risks around every corner. What we can and should ask is that the risk takers only jeopardize their own lives.
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by MockObject 3y ago
In 1988, IRC's competition was a VAX program called RELAY that ran on BITNET, not the internet.
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by MockObject 3y ago
J2EE hasn't been called that in 20 years. It's JEE now, and it's much nicer.
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by MockObject 3y ago
Most of your recent comments are dead, and they don't seem too offensive.
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by MockObject 3y ago
Am I the only one who can't help doing ctrl-F "boffin" whenever I read The Register? I can't be.
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by MockObject 4y ago
We were a more philosophically individualistic society in previous generations, during which children played freely in cities and suburbs.
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by MockObject 4y ago
Exactly true. Race, money, and caste all vanish from existence if nobody continues to use the concepts.
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by MockObject 4y ago
What was he saying, in particular?
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by MockObject 4y ago
How is it useful, if it requires such attention?
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by MockObject 4y ago
The craziness appears when you realize that US governments are no more accountable than US corporations. Nobody lost their job over 9/11, or the Afghanistan pullout, or any other debacle you can name from the past few decades. Charges
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by MockObject 4y ago
Old enough to remember when Google was the plucky newcomer in a crowded search engine industry.
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by MockObject 4y ago
I'd never heard of him, so I looked up his history. His banning causes me to reconsider participation in this forum at all. And it's sad to see the quality of those 2017 threads compared to today. So thoughtful, so many citations.
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by MockObject 4y ago
The American revolution was a succession, and not a revolution in the sense that it wasn't an attempt to overthrow the British crown. It turned out remarkably well compared to most others though, although I'm being noisily reminde
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by MockObject 4y ago
"They" has been used for the unspecified singular in English since long before our births; "ne" is completely unfamiliar and resembles a typo. "The original poster said that their dog bit their cat, and then barked
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by MockObject 4y ago
But we're discussing people being additionally qualified by accident of birth, having afforded them opportunities, and not because Dave met someone in a pub last year. Is it "shit" that Liza Minelli had a great head-start in
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by MockObject 4y ago
The quotes, because luck implies counterfactual outcomes. You're lucky if you miss a car accident by a minute, but it's not clear that you could have been born as someone else, because then you wouldn't be you, and that'

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