heylook

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by heylook 19d ago
Your plan is to vote third party but it has zero to say about First-Past-the-Post voting, and so it is obviously completely useless and naive.
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by heylook 19d ago
> They knew that if they didn't play ball Trump would use government power against them. And that friends, is capital-F Fascism.
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by heylook 19d ago
> What part of "lowercase p" was unclear? The whole thing. I spend way too much time in the politics/political-philosophy rabbit hole, and it still whooshed right by me. I bet you got like a 2% hit rate on people understan
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by heylook 19d ago
What on earth are you talking about? Trump invaded multiple American cities. He created an $85 billion federal goon force. He's kidnapped or killed TWO DIFFERENT heads of state. He's destroyed our trade relationships. He's ta
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by heylook 19d ago
> So he will anoint a weakling and the base will fracture. Prediction: he will never anoint anyone. He is pathologically incapable of stepping aside, sharing, or caring one iota of what happens to anyone after he dies. He may not even be
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by heylook 29d ago
They also didn't say whether or not they like electric lightbulbs. Or hot showers. Or clothes. Or the wheel.
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by heylook 1mo ago
Your simplification itself is compressing away the meaningful point, and then you're confused about your own over-simplification. Stripe is not a "credit card processor", and that's not the point of OP's comment. Th
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by heylook 1mo ago
You're missing the trees for the forest. The Industrial Revolution was terrible for the people who were working during it . Their jobs got eliminated and they only sorta sometimes were able to retrain for the new jobs, and the working
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by heylook 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
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by heylook 2mo ago
> Mickey Mouse is not handing you over a legal agreement with guarantees on the ingredients of the candy yes he absolutely is. that's literally the law.
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by heylook 3mo ago
"It seems more likely..." "It might not happen that way..." "someone does need to check..." "seems entirely possible..." "I'd want more like 5 years to be confident..." Lot of different
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by heylook 3mo ago
Small governments don't deploy thousands of military troops into their own cities.
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by heylook 3mo ago
> Whether or not the SovCit practitioners understand that's what's happening is anyone's guess. Probably more of them don't understand. I am very unfortunate to have one in my extended family, and they have fully lost
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by heylook 3mo ago
You tax the everloving hell out of the rich, so they can't just buy whatever policy or judiciary outcome they want or build mega "just in case, i promise uwu" bunkers.
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by heylook 3mo ago
Now you compare the all-in cost of living across salary, taxes, housing, healthcare, and everything else.
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by heylook 3mo ago
The intuition is that they are not truly independent statistical events. Each trial reveals more information about the underlying "quality" of the resume (for passing this trial, not necessarily real world "quality" of t
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by heylook 3mo ago
> But I doubt the impacts of rent control would appear in the market this quickly, it'd take years for the market signals to be measurable. Hard disagree. Rational investors have no problem whatsoever projecting the impact to future
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by heylook 4mo ago
Yet another moment where Strangers in Their Own Land[0] is prescient. From an interview[1] given by the author: "I think the next most important reason they distrusted the federal government is their experience with protective agencies
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by heylook 5mo ago
This has been the historical cycle for as long as we have records of human history. Power begets power and greed. Eventually either everyone else reaches a breaking point and "eat the rich", or an external group takes advantage an
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by heylook 10mo ago
This is the laziest, most egregious "WeLl AkShUaLlY!!!" comment I've seen in a little while. Like, really embarrassing. > According to the regulator for Ontario doctors, Jamal initially tried to place all the blame on her
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by heylook 11mo ago
Periscope was in closed beta when Meerkat launched. Neither was a clone of the other. Just two teams with the same idea at the same time.
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by heylook 1y ago
This is exactly the main lesson of Finite and Infinite Games. There are finite games, in which the goal is to win, and there are infinite games, in which the goal is to continue playing the game. Using this framing, one can account for quit
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by heylook 1y ago
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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by heylook 1y ago
You're being obtuse. There's an obvious difference between "state-level actors can produce misleading films" and "anyone with an internet connection and 5 minutes can make anything they want".
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by heylook 1y ago
> I don't understand what reality you're living in where this is something to defend. Hacker news has become a much more depressing place post-Covid. Musk, Zuck, the All-In guys, Bezos, Altman. All of them role models for the p
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by heylook 1y ago
There are plenty of places where this is the standard. Anecdote time: I joined a not-quite-FAANG in an acquihire. Some of my teammates negotiated hard on the way in; I did not. After I got into management, I learned that they're perfec
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by heylook 1y ago
> What's the rationale for funding those niche sports? You've been capitalism-pilled. Sometimes it's worth funding things that "aren't worth funding". Not everything needs to return an easily measurable 10%
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by heylook 1y ago
> It's not about "the white mans burden", whatever that means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden I'm not reading the arguments closely enough to make a judgement, but the ref
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by heylook 1y ago
Focusing on "nations" specifically is a waste of effort. "Power structures" generically are enough. It doesn't matter whether it's technofascist fiefs, nation-states, the Illuminati, or an up-jumped HOA.
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by heylook 1y ago
Exactly. The President of the United States held up a terribly photoshopped picture of some tattoos and claimed it clearly showed membership in MS13. Half the country immediately decided that was good enough proof for extrajudicial renditio

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