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by outis 8y ago
The guidelines say: "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it." "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information,
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by outis 8y ago
I will obey your decisions as a mod. However, I disagree with the assertion that my comment was about ideology or politics. My comment was about the very concrete conditions of life of someone working in the tech industry in California, whi
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by outis 8y ago
Honestly surprised at how many people are posting comments about this. You know you'll end up on some list, right? Maybe you think it's ok to debate this kind of measure now, but the line will keep moving. In three years you may h
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by outis 8y ago
I took a look at the current top item in "Politics": https://knowherenews.com/event/2471ce59-379e-40fc-87f7-fee77... The impartial version "feels" impartial enough in tone, whereas the other two fee
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by outis 8y ago
Don't worry, we're getting political commissars in our offices too.
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by outis 9y ago
Violence, poverty and deprivation are the state of nature. The way all the evils of the world are laid at the feet of the West has no rational basis. The counterfactual against which West influence is compared is always a blissful utopia th
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by outis 9y ago
Or so you would think, but as I recall her biggest detractors were SJWs complaining about how much skin she was showing. The whole idea of her being just a facade for some male engineer was driven by the feminist notion of "male gaze&q
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by outis 10y ago
DHH: Although Thiel would already have been on a Performance Improvement Plan for his legal wars against the press. So easy move What the fuck.
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by outis 10y ago
> It seems unlikely that the connection between fines and large African American populations—a connection that cannot be explained by poverty—is the result of African Americans across the United States committing more finable offenses. I
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by outis 10y ago
Yes, Jews are overrepresented in journalism, politics, finance and other highly impactful careers. Take the percentage of Jews in such a category, divide it by the percentage of Jews in the general population, and you get a number larger th
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by outis 11y ago
As a H1B worker, I know I am depressing wages for Americans. Not just by increasing the labor supply, but also by having a weaker negotiation position than I would have as a citizen or as a permanent resident. The "STEM shortage"
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by outis 11y ago
You're being dishonest here. Your choice of words paints a certain picture, but we all know what kind of people get people fired for their controversial opinions, and they wouldn't go after a self-described poc for talking about r
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by outis 11y ago
Thanks, I was not aware of that aspect of San Francisco's history. It does not seem to have much of a connection to the present situation, though - or maybe it does? The Democrats used to be the slavery party, after all. Is there a goo
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by outis 11y ago
San Francisco was only ever really tolerant of the right kind of differences, AFAICT. For example, it appears to be a near-complete political monoculture. It even has a prominent road in the largest city park named after a living and acti
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by outis 11y ago
This is the future you chose.
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by outis 12y ago
> He's flat out wrong about what "all the testing" says, btw. I would be grateful if you could go into some more detail about this. There have been articles on HN recently that made a strong case for the genetic basis of I
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by outis 12y ago
I haven't seen much better logic from the other part. It's not just a political view, they're taking away our rights! If restricting the privileges of marriage to a group of people makes those left out "second class h
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by outis 12y ago
I agree that Greenspun's arguments are disappointingly weak. I'd like to try to tackle your point 1, since I haven't seen people do that before. I should preface that I am indeed in favor of marriage equality, yet I think tha