rbetts

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by rbetts 1y ago
The claim we are arguing is "anti-DEI stuff is predicated on the idea that civil rights are bad and that white (straight dude) rule is good.". You said this claim is an ad hominem fallacy. I quoted someone in the administration
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by rbetts 1y ago
Uh huh. > U.S. State Department hire Darren Beattie wrote on X: "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minor
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by rbetts 1y ago
I regularly receive responses from my reps here in Massachusetts. They also hold town hall meetings where you can ask questions and listen first-hand. I attended one last night and spoke 1:1 with my Congresswoman for a moment afterwards. I&
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by rbetts 1y ago
There are some US States that participate in solar credit markets. Basically, utilities are required to purchase some number of solar production credits. Solar energy producers can sell their credits to these utilities. https://w
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by rbetts 1y ago
Perhaps we agree that sustaining fair societies is a continual march of institutional and cultural building - not something imposed by a document or stamped by 1800's England. I would never argue that US-Iraq style nation building woul
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by rbetts 1y ago
So easily you gloss over millions of Americans who fought to end slavery, who fought for women's right to vote, who fought for desegregation, who fought for labor rights,... The "comfortable life" in America isn't a 300
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by rbetts 1y ago
They were fired by the administration. Looks to me like the system working. Government agency does something stupid. Congress investigates. Situation corrected. I'm looking forward to that oversight of the current administration. Enjoy
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by rbetts 1y ago
The problem isn't not enough money. It's not enough distribution of money. Income inequality in the US is at 1929 levels.
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by rbetts 1y ago
It seems more likely that the EU will retaliate by taxing (or prohibiting) US services.
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by rbetts 1y ago
It is easy to under-estimate the diversity across US States. I don't think many Europeans look at Hungary, Poland, or Bulgaria's justice systems and extend that to an opinion on EU justice in aggregate. This isn't to excuse t
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by rbetts 1y ago
Diminishing sectarian hierarchy and placing the church above everything else is a clever strategy for an organization seeking to control your thoughts, your actions, your relationships, your financial obligations, and even your eternal fate
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by rbetts 1y ago
A comparison of testing criticality across countries would be interesting to read if someone knows a decent reference. My sense (which I don't trust) is that test results matter at-least-as much or more in other places than they do in
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by rbetts 2y ago
On the topic of the colonization of India, "Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India" is an illustrative book - especially if you want more context to draw conclusions about the scale of wealth taken from India.
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by rbetts 2y ago
Thank you for doing work that makes python better for millions of people.
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by rbetts 2y ago
I'm unaware of ways to prevent abuse of the environment by corporations other than regulation. Do you have some evidence or documentation that these standards are applied differently to Space-X than other similar companies? Can you sho
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by rbetts 2y ago
A quick search finds the environmental impact report that is the basis of this story: https://www.faa.gov/media/76836 . To land a spacecraft in the ocean required a certification by the FAA. That certification required
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by rbetts 2y ago
Columnar storage systems rarely store the raw value at fixed position. They store values as run length encoded, dictionary encoded, delta encoded, etc... and then store metadata about chunk of values for pruning at query time. So rarely can
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by rbetts 2y ago
The United States, by total value, is the second largest exporter in the world, with $1.86 trillion dollars in exports in 2023. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa .
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by rbetts 2y ago
Lately, I feel like I'm living in the William Gibson "Bridge" trilogy meets Douglas Adam's Zaphod Beeblebrox timeline.
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by rbetts 2y ago
I've been using Zed (with python) for the last few weeks (coming from vscode and nevim). There's a lot I like about Zed. My favorites include the speed and navigation via the symbol outline (and vim mode). I'd have a hard tim
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by rbetts 2y ago
> Want anything else? Yes. The Truth. Economy: US economy out-performed the Europe, Japan, India, ... during Biden's tenure. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023... Energy: Production is
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by rbetts 2y ago
Wait time is a function of supply not insurance regime. And in OPs case, he was still referred. Where I live in the US, dermatologists are in high demand. It can take a year to get a routine appointment. My wife recently had a dermatologist
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by rbetts 2y ago
The text of the law is here: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/08/07/19-06.pdf .
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by rbetts 2y ago
This isn't about pronouns or land grants, no matter how hard that excuse is used. It is about Trump's administration destroying future decades of science, about dismantling the ability of the people to limit the oligarchs, about d
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by rbetts 2y ago
Voting a new president into office doesn't grant that person extra-constitutional powers. What they say during an election doesn't create those new powers, either.
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by rbetts 2y ago
Why do you assume the executive has this power? The president has an explicit constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law. The president has no line item veto power. Maybe this Supreme Court will make up this power in the future. But
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by rbetts 2y ago
The interesting contrast, though, is that the blog post demonstrates strong communication skills and self awareness.
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by rbetts 2y ago
Using Github issues as a manager of multiple teams using multiple repos in GitHub has so many gaps, I often wonder if I'm just doing it wrong. The multi-repo issues feature a few years back was a huge step forward but also is very inco
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by rbetts 2y ago
But it’s acceptable to put in the hands of Elon Musk?
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by rbetts 2y ago
I'm glad that darkness is respected in some places. The need to live in constant light is, to me, unnerving. Light pollution, like noise pollution, creates a myopic dome of sensory oblivion, separating us from experiencing the sounds o

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