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by ewmiller 2y ago
You wouldn’t call a room behind a locked door “obscured.” Even if it’s technically correct in the most stretched definition (which I’m not convinced of), either way it’s not how people actually use the word.
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by ewmiller 5y ago
That's fascinating, thanks for the insight.
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by ewmiller 5y ago
I work in fintech; we use a mix of Scala and Node. Scala for heavy data processing pipelines, Node for our client API, due to Node’s very fast cold start times in lambda.
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by ewmiller 5y ago
There’s obviously much more nuance to our choices in the modern world than “live in a work-till-death society” or “live as primitives in the woods.” For instance, many other developed nations take twice as much time off (or more) compared t
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by ewmiller 5y ago
That’s why I don’t trust any of these new trendy banking apps; better to stick with established institutions IMO. Not that they’re great either but at least you won’t be in a situation like this, or at the very least they’ll have better cus
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by ewmiller 5y ago
One party in the equation is a very powerful, profitable industry, the other is a huge but atomized group of people. To assume that the only power dynamic at play is consumers making individual choices as fully rational, considerate actors
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by ewmiller 5y ago
> an agenda to smear the whole American nation, including its people, and including its current government I think this speaks to a sensitivity on your part, to which you're overreacting. OP never alleged anything of the sort. You i
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by ewmiller 5y ago
You don't need to get insurance through your employer anymore. That's what the ACA did. You can buy it on a marketplace and choose from dozens of plans, employed or not. It costs hundreds a month for an individual - thousands for
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by ewmiller 5y ago
I suppose what I'm saying is that in order for a country to have the resources the US has and the political motivation to pursue empire, they'd have to have been on the path to empire for the last 200 years and come from the same
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by ewmiller 5y ago
You said a lot of words and strawman arguments without actually addressing any of the events in the article. Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran, Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala, several leaders of Laos, Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic, Joao Goulart
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by ewmiller 5y ago
Not sure Iran is the best example - it is effectively surrounded by nations who want nothing more than to topple its leadership in favor of another West-friendly regime. Look at all the confirmed CIA activities listed in OP's article t
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by ewmiller 5y ago
1. Have you observed that almost every other developed, first-world nation on earth has some kind of nationalized health care service for its citizens, rather than leaving them to fend for themselves? 2. Have you considered that Adam Smith&
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by ewmiller 5y ago
I don't see how you can look at the many coups against democratically elected foreign leaders who sought to nationalize their countries' natural resources being anything other than protecting the interests of American/British
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by ewmiller 5y ago
> That’s to say were China to emerge as the world power, I don’t think they would take pause and just let things be. I've heard that a lot, but I actually wonder if that's true or if it's just American paranoia projected o
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by ewmiller 5y ago
> certain important things like housing, education, and healthcare have gotten far more expensive This is what classist "but they have refrigerators" arguments love to obfuscate. Yes, a poorer person might still have a roof ove
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by ewmiller 5y ago
And yet, if they or a family member have to visit the emergency room, they will likely be financially ruined. I recently visited the ER for some chest pain which amounted to nothing and was charged $4,000 for it. Imagine what that would do
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by ewmiller 5y ago
I'm not denying that. Of course average standards are better now than they were in the 1950's. But that argument is frequently used as a distraction to avoid talking about very achievable ways that we in America could improve livi
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by ewmiller 5y ago
Yes, except there has been a concerted effort by monied interests in the upper strata of society to convince those below that organizing to demand better wages is useless at best or un-American at worst. It's an uphill battle. > Sta
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by ewmiller 5y ago
My dad has a friend who owns a bus-sized camper/RV in addition to multiple cars and a beachfront home, but doesn't consider himself rich because he can't afford a large boat. Point being, I think people are more aware of the
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by ewmiller 5y ago
That's very true. Widespread, high quality public education is a must.
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by ewmiller 5y ago
I can't help but read this as a kind of "let them eat cake" argument. Sure, some cars have electric starters now... how does that matter? Plenty of poor, working class people do not own cars. They're getting priced out o
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by ewmiller 5y ago
> valuing education means people succeed. So why didn't the parents succeed then? Picture a first-generation immigrant family in America where the parents are older, don't speak English very well, and spend almost all their tim
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by ewmiller 5y ago
Project Veritas is great at getting low-level scoops and inflating their importance for views. Almost like the mainstream news sources they transparently claim to be "above." During the 2016 presidential race they promised to drop
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by ewmiller 5y ago
Does anyone have an archive link to the original "avoid news" blog post? Looks like it's a 404 now.
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by ewmiller 5y ago
Thousands of years is a VERY optimistic estimate. In the meantime, that's quite a few human generations who will have to live in a relative wasteland (compared to peak biodiversity). And that's IF you're right and we can just
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by ewmiller 5y ago
Well you can still empathize with the pain that other feeling, conscious creatures on Earth experience as a direct result of our actions. It's one thing if a meteor strikes the earth and you simply witness a mass extinction, it's
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by ewmiller 5y ago
Agreed. Why do all electric cars also need software updates and tons of bells and whistles? Just because I want electric doesn't mean I also want a touchscreen console etc.
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by ewmiller 5y ago
What if you could work on things you love AND be compensated more fairly for it, through something like... collective bargaining? There are other creative careers, like acting, that have union representation for exactly this reason. If ther
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by ewmiller 5y ago
That is an excellent example. Given a situation where labor supply is in excess, one could say "let them work for pennies because they love the craft, i.e. let the company pay them nothing because they're easily replaceable."
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by ewmiller 5y ago
It's probably true that media companies tend to report more objectively on the affairs of other countries, because the country they're based in will exert more political influence over them. The BBC is incredibly biased in terms o

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