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by reccanti 3y ago
> Burnout's root cause is a mutually-reinforcing school/work/personal environment known as "total work Personally, I would think the solution to this type of millennial burnout is having the economic stability and wor
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by reccanti 3y ago
Has this been the way households have been organized for centuries, or is this just the way a particular upper-middle class or aristocratic families have organized?
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by reccanti 3y ago
He also claimed hate speech was down, so I’m not sure he’s the most reliable source
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by reccanti 5y ago
I think the problem is that we lump all these things together as "politics." This way, it's easy to bring up the specter of "we're too partisan these days," but if you look at the individual issues, it's a
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by reccanti 5y ago
Twitter can be hard to parse, but it's not impossible to understand. If you're having trouble understanding it, you could ask or just not comment? This feels like the equivalent of replying to an argument with "you're&qu
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by reccanti 5y ago
Those episodes were fantastic. It really shows how commentators latch on to the optics of the situation rather than the actual substance of what's trying to be addressed. "We agree date rape is bad, but someone threw together a ki
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by reccanti 5y ago
You can do that and also not date people who are against LGBT rights?
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by reccanti 5y ago
People on this site like to mindlessly parrot the “we’ve become too partisan and divided these days” narrative, but what are they actually proposing? Oh wait… https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/143264390232
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by reccanti 5y ago
These all seem like things that should be dealbreakers
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by reccanti 5y ago
I’d argue that the injustice in this situation is the lack of housing that’s causing people to squat in the first place. These people want to sound like their just “hard men taking justice into their own hands” but they’re really just a bun
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by reccanti 5y ago
A labor shortage = an increased demand for labor. If that labor can’t be purchased at the current market rate, then they’ll need to spend more on labor (increase wages), which in theory would come out of the salaries and benefits of the hig
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by reccanti 5y ago
I think the view that we “just need more market-rate housing” is simplistic. Blindly building lots of housing doesn’t necessarily mean that people are going to move there. In Boston, for example, many of the luxury condos that have been bui
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by reccanti 5y ago
Not used to hacker news commenters being quite so mask-off, but I suppose it was only a matter of time
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by reccanti 5y ago
At least one of the sources in this article, the Washington Free Beacon, is financed by a right-wing activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Free_Beacon So yeah, doesn't really seem like a case of p
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by reccanti 6y ago
Good. Now they should start deplatforming the other world leaders who are encouraging genocide in countries the US media doesn't pay as much attention to.
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by reccanti 6y ago
It’s true that these numbers do matter when it comes to _implementing_ these laws, my argument is that it isn’t a useful barometer for the quality of the ideas. In your example, 60% of people didn’t support gay marriage in 2005. I would arg
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by reccanti 6y ago
From my perspective, it doesn't really matter to me what percentage of the population holds what beliefs, or how many different political stances they're balancing. What matters is the beliefs they have and the outcomes of these b
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by reccanti 6y ago
How efficient would the spending need to be before it's considered "effective"? Personally, I would rather the government spend "ineffectively" and cover everyone than the current situation
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by reccanti 6y ago
On the other hand, statistics can be arranged and presented in ways that can be misleading. At some point, if enough people are saying something, you may need to take a step back and say “what am I missing here that isn’t represented in the
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by reccanti 6y ago
I see this expressed a lot, but from my personal experience growing up in a small rural community, I always wished I lived in the city. Maybe it’s just a “grass is always greener” thing, but I always wonder why people assume kids really wan
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by reccanti 6y ago
I think it’s always good to be wary of relying uncritically on experts. Nobody’s infallible, but there’s valuable perspective that comes from “person actively involved in the process” vs. “Armchair Hacker News expert”
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by reccanti 6y ago
I think I’d still prefer living in a city on the East or West coast. I’m in the LGBT community, and I like living in a state with explicit legal protections against housing, healthcare, and employment discrimination. On top of that, the LGB
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by reccanti 7y ago
I don’t want to discount any of your points because it can be difficult to navigate social situations. I just also want to mention that there are also trans people who are on the spectrum, and they have to navigate situations where they nee
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by reccanti 7y ago
Some of the responses to this article showcase opinions that I see a lot on Hacker News and which make it really hard to be on this site as a trans person sometimes. There’s a lot of attention being paid to the people who resigned, or whose
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by reccanti 7y ago
> In normal companies, people get moved around, demoted or ignored all the time and they don’t always blame it on retaliation for political beliefs or for reporting abuse. They blame it on some asshole manager or decide the company isn’t
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by reccanti 7y ago
> No, you're the one conflating the two. The end result is different. For imperialism, the result is a country under the political control of a different country, or giving up its resources to another country. The end result with U.
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by reccanti 8y ago
If anything, it seems like more of a reason to get more active and involved with Wikipedia. Otherwise, people like this will get more and more control over the site
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by reccanti 9y ago
I also found this to be a really good resource: http://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodmain/dodmain.html