raclage

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by raclage 5y ago
Can you give an example? I’m assuming you’re not referring to this Netflix competitor as an example of something equivalent to making it illegal for non-whites to eat at certain restaurants.
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by raclage 5y ago
Are you being serious when you say America has a relatively monolithic culture? Relative to whom?
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by raclage 5y ago
> In short- the best way to help Black people in America isn't to perpetuate our separate identity, but to remove the power and significance of racial identifiers entirely. And you think the source of this power and significance is.
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by raclage 5y ago
I didn't really see anything in the design I saw as exclusionary! > because we appreciate the HN community taking time to hear our story, for a short period of time, we’re making some of our original black TV shows available for fre
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by raclage 5y ago
"divisiveness inherent in the title" seems wildly overblown to me. Isn't identifying an underserved audience and marketing to them like a cornerstone of business? Do you feel that hair products marketed toward Black people ar
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by raclage 5y ago
> It’s not the “melting pot” idea of America that I was raised with, where everyone contributes their own unique culture to a unified American whole. Then I don't understand why your response to someone trying to create a platform t
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by raclage 5y ago
Sufficiently advanced robots would leave a lot more of value behind than a nuke which makes deploying them much less costly to the person that wants to actually control the territory.
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by raclage 5y ago
I think this is a good analysis and I think too few people consider it this way. I'm not convinced that changes in culture are driving this as much as changes in how information is shared and spread and I'm disappointed how few pe
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by raclage 5y ago
Consider that maybe people agree that being confronted with challenging ideas and perspectives is valuable but they don't find the same value in Jerry Seinfeld's comedy as they do in, say, a lecture by someone with radical beliefs
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by raclage 5y ago
I don't understand why Damore is the hill people are always trying to die on. He didn't publish that in the marketplace of ideas. He sent it to his coworkers, using company resources, on company time. Your workplace has never been
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by raclage 5y ago
I haven't really followed this since the initial blowup. Did more information come out about her conduct there?
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by raclage 5y ago
> I'm not sure which outcome is better for Canada, the USA, or the world. I'm pretty sure neither Obama, Trump, not Biden had any accurate idea either. > Or because you think any of those politicians actually have a solid, f
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by raclage 5y ago
I think you're mostly right, but his writing never says or really even directly implies that it's relevant specifically to founders. That would be very easy to do, but by not doing so he lends an air or universality and depth to t
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by raclage 5y ago
> If the purpose of writing is to be read and to provoke thought and action There's a LOT more to good writing than that, and in any event it's not that big of an insult to say someone isn't as good a writer as Bertrand Ru
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by raclage 5y ago
Why, because bias and prejudice wouldn't exist in such a world?
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by raclage 5y ago
Is this really the type of thing where an anonymous author can't have any credibility? It's an analysis of bitcoin and its energy use not a claim about personal experience.
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by raclage 5y ago
Wait how can you make that claim?
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by raclage 5y ago
Yeah that's a good point. And I may be a little bit guilty of scapegoating Fauci for the official response generally. But while that full explanation was out there in March I think of Feburary as being the most confusing time when advi
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by raclage 5y ago
I think you've confused cultures where people have a relatively high tolerance for discomfort because they consider it to be worth it (the examples you gave) and culture where people simply do not care about others' discomfort (ho
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by raclage 5y ago
I'm shocked I haven't seen any journalists questioning Fauci on why he chose to lie. Was that a decision made under pressure from some political entity in the government? Does he believe part of his job is to determine what the pu
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by raclage 5y ago
> I don't much care if people around me feel...make me feel comfortable This doesn't seem consistent with the commonly accepted meaning of "comfortable." By their very nature things that make someone uncomfortable are
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by raclage 6y ago
The worm is great but I love the meatball. It feels so distinctive and unlike any other well known logo.
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by raclage 6y ago
People can be genuinely toxic though. Personally I've met and worked with lots of people that were in many ways friendly and genuine but had some weakness or quirk that induced them to mistreat their coworkers.
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by raclage 6y ago
> Also, the "offensive things" in his talks were only offensive to a small vocal minority by his own account. Is that really something we should take at face value? There are plenty of instances of people getting unreasonably o
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by raclage 6y ago
> I began racking up my HR complaints. I used a four letter word, my analogy was not PC, my language was not PG… I actually stopped speaking at events where the majority appreciated what I was saying but the minority that was offended by