jhp123

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by jhp123 1y ago
of course he was talking about the "Unite the Right" protestors. The violence occurred at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, what other "side" could he possibly have been referring to?
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by jhp123 1y ago
The articles you linked actually confirm my point, did you mean to link something else? As Snopes and politifact confirms, Trump made the following statement about the "Unite the Right" protestors, a group of racists, anti-semites
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by jhp123 1y ago
Please take a look at the transcript in its entirety. Shortly after the part where he says Nazis should be condemned, he goes on to say that there are "fine people on both sides", undercutting his earlier claim.
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by jhp123 1y ago
You don't seem to understand why the "very fine people" remark was unacceptable to many of us. Like I said, he was excusing political violence. A woman had been murdered by neo-Nazis and he went out of his way to minimize, ju
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by jhp123 1y ago
when right wingers killed Heather Heyer, Trump called them "very fine people". When they killed Brian Sicknick, he called them heroes and pardoned them. If even 10 percent of the right had drawn a line against political violence a
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by jhp123 1y ago
Rabin and Abe seem to be examples where the assassin more or less got what they wanted (derail the peace process and damage the Unification Church respectively)
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by jhp123 1y ago
if the debt ever causes actual problems, e.g. we can't sell our treasury bonds, then our politicians will suddenly remember how to tax rich people. In the mean time the impossible, unsustainable, terrifying national debt will be used t
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by jhp123 1y ago
there are many indirect effects. Imagine a factory employing 80 low-wage "takers" (line workers etc) and 20 high-wage "makers" (managers etc). The owners of the factory make $1 million in profit every month as a taxable
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by jhp123 1y ago
Progressive taxation will generally mean that anyone under the median income has a negative net impact on the government's finances. All this study is doing is reflecting the obvious fact that immigrants are by and large working class.
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by jhp123 1y ago
> I don’t even know what to call someone who thinks the government should give private parties discretionary grants and contracts, but shouldn’t be able to use those to influence private actors. The idea that the sovereign should be limi
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by jhp123 1y ago
this is a largely meaningless distinction, immunity covers all the most concerning Presidential misbehavior (i.e. abuse of the powers of the office) while leaving him vulnerable to prosecution for petty personal crimes like getting in a fis
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by jhp123 1y ago
I watched the video with surrounding context and it looked like a Nazi salute. Did he ever deny it was a Nazi salute?
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by jhp123 1y ago
we should have talked about it back in 2001 before we sent these young men to risk their lives and health in a misbegotten crusade. The rise in costs for veterans care was predictable: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/s
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by jhp123 1y ago
PEPFAR, discussed in the link I posted, is aimed at the HIV epidemic. The HIV epidemic is in fact being solved by the approach of international cooperation and aid: transmission rates are already down by 50% from their peak in the late 90s.
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by jhp123 1y ago
> Given the enormous amounts of resources the west has poured into the poorest places on earth, when do we see the positive results? The impact of aid programs is well studied. Here is one of hundreds or thousands of studies showing a me
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by jhp123 1y ago
> through a neutral lens, it's a clear positive for humanity that these rockets are being developed Musk's cuts at USAid have caused an ongoing humanitarian crisis and some 300,000 deaths, mostly children[0]. I think if you&#x2
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by jhp123 1y ago
the test asks for a very significant amount of work, and makes it clear that they are looking for more effort than the minimum ("Do the project in a way that shows off your skills as a developer", "see what kind of extra feat
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by jhp123 1y ago
Asking candidates to put in disproportionate amounts of time and effort is abusive. The hiring manager here seems to have taken all of 5 minutes to reject the candidate's multiple hours of work. edit: commenters here are also missing t
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by jhp123 1y ago
How did manufacturing adjust to the rise of 3d printing and the new world where 90% of consumer goods were printed at home, replicator-style? How did the finance world adjust to a world where financial transactions were automated on the blo
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by jhp123 1y ago
I'm not the first one to see parallels to the Cultural Revolution. Policies like purging the intelligentsia and sending educated urban people to go work in the fields weren't motivated by any thought out plan, but by an irrational
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by jhp123 1y ago
The premise of DOGE is accountability to the personal whims and judgments of Elon Musk ... when we talk about accountability in government we usually mean, accountability to the public
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by jhp123 1y ago
Sept 2024 was when OpenAI announced its new model - not an LLM but a "chain of thought" model built on LLMs. This represented a turn away from the "scale is all you need to reach AGI" idea by its top proponent.
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by jhp123 1y ago
The thing about AI is that it doesn't work, you can't build on top of it, and it won't get better. It doesn't work: even for the tiny slice of human work that is so well defined and easily assessed that it is sent out to
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by jhp123 1y ago
I wouldn't think you need any deep insight or analysis to understand that a media site privately held by a government official is propaganda
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by jhp123 1y ago
> no amount of discussion is going to change their minds It's a slow process. A MAGA extremist isn't going to read "LGBT rights are human rights!" and say "Ah, I didn't realize! Of course!" and become a
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by jhp123 1y ago
the money is for research not education. A lot of modern industry started as academic research. Things like semiconductors, EUV lithography, mRNA vaccines, or AI originate in government-funded academic research. The health effects of smokin
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by jhp123 1y ago
You're incorrect, this is the normal way that the reddit algorithm functions, it promotes highly-engaging content from niche subreddits. The top post of all time on r/toledo is about a police officer harassing a woman. It's h
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by jhp123 1y ago
If a submission appeals to random people browsing r/all, i.e. politics, sex or memes, then it can get way more upvotes than a niche topical submission. For example one of the top r/aviation posts is a meme about airbuses with &quo
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by jhp123 1y ago
First of all, thank you for conceding my second point, that you were mistaken when you said "Incorrect." > “Withheld” has a specific meaning in this context okay, but the person you replied to didn't say "Garcia could
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by jhp123 1y ago
> Most of that is false What is false specifically? The fact that an immigration judge determined Garcia was deportable does not contradict the fact that the same order was withheld later on, much as you try to imply it. >> the Tru

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