anewguy

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by anewguy 14y ago
I have never heard an academic in a race-studies, Sociology, or Communications department seriously grapple with criticisms of the "systemic racism" hypothesis for the white/black performance gap, and nor have I heard any other hypothesis o
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by anewguy 14y ago
"Underrepresentation does not equal racism" contradicts the academic party line ("systemic racism"). If a white person said something like that, they would get a lecture in "denying privilege". If an asian person said it, he would be ignore
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by anewguy 14y ago
What is the evidence that this is true? How much would it cost? (Coal provides ~30% of US electric power. It's not a trivial inconvenience to shut that down) As I recall, environmentalists went all doom-and-gloom after hurricane Katrina, an
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by anewguy 14y ago
No, it's absolutely fuckjng deplorable when a government stops the free flow of goods, services, and information to protect archaic business practices.
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by anewguy 14y ago
Imagine if people could sell goods and services to each other without the resident government doing a quality check. What a hell that would be. Wait a second, is this a certified political opinion that I'm replying to? Do you have your Inte
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by anewguy 14y ago
Where do you think the post office makes most of its money? It's basically a spam operation that subsidizes a useful service.
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by anewguy 14y ago
I'm glad you've found a pocket of the company that you enjoy working in. But the CEO is a sociopath, and that's bound to cause some trickle-down unpleasantness in the future. It already has, the company just changed its ways when it got bad
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by anewguy 14y ago
Equivalent is 3 years of work for every one year of bachelors degree missing (so partially college helps)
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by anewguy 14y ago
The marginal utility of college is declining. Our near ancestors got a lot out of a college degree. The author is noticing that we won't get nearly as much.
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by anewguy 14y ago
Okay everybody - time to change your pitch decks.
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by anewguy 14y ago
Becoming familiar with dozens of esoteric APIs that may change next month is not the fun kind of learning. The practice of programming is full of a lot more busywork than it looks like from the outside.
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by anewguy 14y ago
If the western world (re)colonized all the dysfunctional nations run by warlords that prevent relief from getting to people that need it, that would be very helpful. Strangely, nobody seems to consider this solution. Imposing order and good
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by anewguy 14y ago
Honest question - what does modern slavery have to do with white guilt? According to the wiki entry on modern slavery "Most are debt slaves, largely in South Asia, who are under debt bondage incurred by lenders, sometimes even for generatio
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by anewguy 14y ago
SNL had a good training video to help you. Google "Tom Brady sexual harassment"
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by anewguy 14y ago
Why do people think it's useful to import badly fitting, emotionally loaded labels from politics into software? Behold the stampede of engineers running away from the "conservative" label!
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by anewguy 14y ago
That's not true. As a former cashier, I can say that cards are about the same speed as cash for small purchases, and much faster for large ones.
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by anewguy 14y ago
Presumably the company has plans to invest the cash raised in the IPO to generate positive returns.
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by anewguy 14y ago
Can you quantify that?
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by anewguy 14y ago
Could you quantify that? I don't believe the subsidy per megawatt for fossil fuels is anything like what it is for renewables.
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by anewguy 14y ago
Read the link. The fracking revolution has led to a substitution of gas for coal in the US. Meanwhile, pressure from green activists in Europe has led to obstacles to fracking and nuclear power and an increasing reliance on coal imports. Re
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by anewguy 14y ago
The United States has an abundance of cheap natural gas and the will to drill it. Incidentally, substituting gas for coal has allowed the US to lead the world in reducing CO2 emissions[1]. Yes, that's right, the US has reduced its emissions
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by anewguy 14y ago
I am merely responding to the bullshit conspiracist alarmist link of the parent, nothing more.
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by anewguy 14y ago
That nicely fits leftist preconceptions, but it's 100% bullshit. The biggest anti-climate change organization I know of (and the worst quality), Heartland, gets about $4 million/year from corporations. On the other hand, climate change rese
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by anewguy 14y ago
It's fascinating to see how supposedly objective institutions are invested in selling environmentalist panic. The greens have certainly won the PR battle.
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by anewguy 14y ago
Psilocybin does wonders for me, one dose keeps me positive for three months or so.
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by anewguy 14y ago
How much do you think it would cost to buy reddit?
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by anewguy 14y ago
How do you know the "true value" of natural assets in your non-economic framework? Is it automatically infinite? That would seem impractical - we would never want to exploit any natural asset.
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by anewguy 14y ago
What kind of startup is willing to move to Chile for $40K? Two answers: startups that will benefit from being located in South America, and bad startups that have a really hard time raising a few thousand dollars and/or haven't thought thro
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by anewguy 14y ago
Because that would endanger their monopoly.
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by anewguy 14y ago
It's not victim blaming per se. When a male has a problem, he is trained to keep it to himself. If he shares it with anyone, he is most likely told to suck it up and fix it. To live a male existence is to live without sympathy. It is little

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