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by harrumph 7y ago
>A lot can change in that period. It's hard to imagine Hughes providing a "smoking gun". I see it the opposite way: any forensic examination of the business lines in an IT-only operation can benefit greatly from institutio
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by harrumph 7y ago
https://pastrychefonline.com/take-a-cue-from-little-debbie/ I'm not sure what washing a Little Debbie snack cake will accomplish, outside of preventing its ingestion, which, now that I think about it, is an excell
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by harrumph 7y ago
>“Incredibly dangerous”! Totally agree about how inane and insufferably out of touch this complaint is. As if today's now-totally-normalized tech company valuations, openly built on nothing more than cash bonfires, aren't dange
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by harrumph 7y ago
Thank you. Weaksauce centrism: it's a helluva drug.
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by harrumph 7y ago
You are unsurprisingly incorrect on the history. I say unsurprising, because history is a humanities study, and HN is home to many who are effectively humanities-illiterate, and who tend to mistake a well-rounded education with their own ab
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by harrumph 7y ago
> I believe you will find plenty which negate what you are saying. No, there are no serious counterexamples to the claim "allowing women the vote improved society and made it fairer", nor to "ending official, normalized wh
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by harrumph 7y ago
> Claiming your opinion is absolute fact doesn't make it so. Sorry, it's not an opinion: the examples given in the first paragraph of the article are nothing but left radical ideas that became mainstream. Don't mistake pl
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by harrumph 7y ago
>I have political opinions also. Good for you. The thing is, it's not a matter of opinion: radical left ideas do, in fact, improve the society and do, in fact, become mainstream. >Incremental changes work. Radicals causing destru
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by harrumph 7y ago
> People think they are Rosa Park Rosa Parks gives us a model for behavior, for bravery in the face of institutionalized injustice. We want as many of her as we can get, because left radical ideas make the world fairer when they become m
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by harrumph 7y ago
Amazing, thanks for posting. load "sysres",8,1
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by harrumph 7y ago
Markets such as the US health care market, characterized by ineslastic demand and secret prices, should never, ever be tolerated under any circumstances. This arrangement is here to benefit the supply side and screw the demand side and it h
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by harrumph 7y ago
Has anybody evaluated whole-network hardware filter+VPN solutions that filter cookies ( such as Winston https://winstonprivacy.com/ ) in the context of this article? I was planning on testing Winston at some point at my ho
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by harrumph 7y ago
> We therefore paid an unemployed person > Such brutal honesty would be welcome in other papers. To say nothing of the commitment to employment fairness!
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by harrumph 7y ago
> after it had finished, all those garbage recommendations showed up for everyone to see, making it look like I am secretly some lunatic. This is kind of my nightmare! Condolences. YT, wtf.
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by harrumph 7y ago
> it also seems to massively favour what you have watched once - if that is something especially controversial or perhaps otherwise ‘special’. This is my experience as well. YT thinks I love Jordan Peterson. Four or so months ago, I didn
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by harrumph 7y ago
>taking a number from the firm's name I'm lost as to what is meant here by "number". Are you saying the target firm was randomizing its iceberg order's component order sizes using the same seed? If yes, how coul
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by harrumph 7y ago
Facebook ads in the residential real estate space absolutely allow violation of the 1968 Fair Housing Act on the part of real estate agents, sellers, marketers and brokers. The mechanism of FB ad targeting inherently grants permission to ex
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by harrumph 7y ago
>Hey, you're the one who failed to think things through. No, I'm the one who corrected an utterly insane equivalence drawn between a commercial figure who drives grieving fathers of murdered kids to suicide and a man who was li
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by harrumph 7y ago
>And people should be okay with his persecution by the people who had the political upper hand in that era? No? Then why should anyone be okay with deplatforming Alex Jones (as bad as he is) by whoever has the political upper hand at the
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by harrumph 7y ago
> I can’t imagine fainter praise. Thanks for correctly identifying “good people” as praise (for a vehicular murderer plus a guy firing a pistol into a crowd).
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by harrumph 7y ago
>It is absolutely a choice, both on the individual and community level. Eviction, the gateway to homelessness, is in no way a choice. Inability to accumulate, pay or borrow capital is so seldom a choice, the word is effectively meaningle
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by harrumph 7y ago
>Some moral and economic systems value individual distinctiveness. What better way to express this distinctiveness than one's choice of living arrangement? Did you just equate suffering from typhus, hepatitis, bacterial infections a
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by harrumph 7y ago
Markets such as US health care, characterized by inelastic demand and secret prices, should never, ever be tolerated.
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by harrumph 7y ago
>Let me try another way. Okay, no more weak, baseless and condescending ad hominem? > I understand you're very excited about Marx > I know you feel slighted That didn't last long. You ask: how do we argue? We don't,
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by harrumph 7y ago
Yeah, if I had nothing to counter with on the topic and had my own indoctrination demonstrated so clearly, I might go ad hominem too.
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by harrumph 7y ago
> I'm not claiming that at all. You absolutely did. In fact, you plainly used the phrase "nothing to do with". I'm sorry, but words mean things. >In this topic I've stated that chronic long-term homelessness i
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by harrumph 7y ago
>Because capitalism has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Your position is that the unavailability of housing to those suffering diseases tied directly to their being unable to pay market price for housing somehow has nothing to do w
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by harrumph 7y ago
In this thread: zero mentions of the word capitalism. Which is very much like a conference about pollution that lacks any mention of industrial production.
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by harrumph 8y ago
> A lot of people were in it because they were curious about this new thing and the opportunities to explore something and express themselves. The same way you would in other emerging cultures. Those aren't bad qualities. Can confir
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by harrumph 8y ago
> Since Silicon Valley leans left so heavily I really believe it doesn't. No serious concentration of wealth ever does. Yes, personal attitudes in SV are often liberal, but the economic outlook most common in the place is akin to A

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