ihsw2

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by ihsw2 8y ago
How do you differentiate between genuine grassroots opposition and astroturfing campaigns?
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Lying by omission and plausible deniability are hallmarks of pernicious and subversive agents.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
> In order for device manufacturers to get the Play Store on their phone, they have to give in to Google's demands to add the Google search box on the home screen of the phones. What's wrong with this? The Play Store is subsidi
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Activists in general should always expect to be treated harshly.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
How would you feel if insurers prodded overweight people to exercise and eat better, or else their rates go up or coverage cut altogether? How would you feel if insurers prodded lazy people to engage in healthier lifestyles? Empowering insu
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by ihsw2 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with having a geographic bias in skepticism, Nigeria is not a historical source of innovation. This is not necessarily a bad thing, if anything it elevates this boy's achievements even more and puts his talen
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by ihsw2 8y ago
"Creating capital" isn't an evil thing -- when provided a free and frictionless economic market to roam, made aware of such opportunities to fully realize their ambitions, and inspired to achieve their wildest dreams, people
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by ihsw2 8y ago
It is for domestic consumption, and much like Japan it is generally being held domestically. They are indebting themselves to themselves tremendously and (as is in the case of Japan) it's not necessarily a bad thing. The story looks si
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Using per person GDP when discussing China is a cruel joke. Like most usages of per person GDP in any country, it glosses over regional disparities and (more importantly) economic equality measures like Gini coefficient. Taking Gini coeffic
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by ihsw2 8y ago
How does one reconcile this with jaded cynicism of "regulations for thee but not for me"? Furthermore, does this regulation target the hardware products themselves, the software performing the recognition, the biometric data itsel
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Progressive supremacism is a far more accurate term, denoting the outright hostility towards even tacit opposition or signs of hesitation.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Those uncivilized societies were rightfully left to the dustbin of history -- they embody the nihilism I am referring to.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
One is that empathy and self-control are the internal enforcers of the civilizing process. A lack of one or both is the sign of an uncivilized society or individual. Another is that parents' authority over children is sacred, as well a
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by ihsw2 8y ago
There are absolute rules that we should adhere to, to imply that they are a social construction is to embrace nihilism and anarchy. There is a set of universal standards and expectations have existed for millennia in many forms. There has a
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by ihsw2 8y ago
A problem that Apple faces too -- any product proposal that doesn't derive 10-20% profits out of the gate is derided as a non-starter, so product development becomes stagnant.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Do you believe the US is in a state of civil war?
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by ihsw2 8y ago
There is a difference between exercising your freedom of speech and the social justice warrior crusading that the parent commenter is advocating. Nobody is above criticism, that much is certain, but we shouldn't cross the River Styx in
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by ihsw2 8y ago
I'm not sure of an exact name for that but what you're describing can be considered the theory of marginal productivity[1]. Your argument that the 10% cost in labor (to hire those 100 extra workers) is where the additional cost en
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by ihsw2 8y ago
> There's been progress on that front with several Trump administration officials confronted while dining for example. Normalizing the harassment of elected officials is dangerous and it puts us on a direct path towards politically-
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by ihsw2 8y ago
That's not how language works. Words and terms have meaning, you can't just make stuff up and say "languages evolve/everything is subjective/use whatever phrase you want whenever you want."
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Are they crap because they all look the same? Altimas may look bland as hell but they're built to last.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Leftist news outlets are not known for their integrity or consistency.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with that, considering everybody else is strenuously trying to pull you into theirs. Upvote/downvote brigades abound as well as the institutionalization of power-users. We already build our own echo chambers
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Such an argument is bereft of logic and full of lazy moralization and Utopian rhetoric. It has not always been that incumbent programmers hold back the next generation and in many cases it was absolutely warranted due to shortsighted and
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by ihsw2 8y ago
We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, we didn't stop to think if we should.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
Your wish is granted! There are four chapters. https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/... https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/...
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by ihsw2 8y ago
The US put a god damned man on the moon, they're far from dark ages.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
It would be prudent to let "controversial" subjects stand before the court of public opinion rather than be automatically censored, regardless of how riled up the comments section can get.
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by ihsw2 8y ago
> creative and new The best way to lose money fast -- chasing what's creative and new in the fund industry. To scratch that itch you should devote no more than 5% of your investment portfolio, otherwise you are willfully shooting

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