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by rickbutton 2y ago
Correct, doctors do triage according to need and available resources. When you imply that there is some category of care that doesn't deserve treatment (or is too "costly" to provide), you are triaging and choosing economic g
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by rickbutton 2y ago
> I don’t think being addicted to laziness and having a glutinous appetite is exactly comparable to say, being addicted to heroin. Your opinion is that of a petulant child. Many years of research has shown that obesity is not this simple
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by rickbutton 2y ago
There should certainly be measurements taken, costs considered, alternatives approached when building our healthcare system. No one has ever implied otherwise, ever. To imply that there is some level of healthy after which it doesn't m
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by rickbutton 2y ago
Do you think addicts should receive treatment? Do you think that people who make bad decisions deserve to live? Do you extract the exact amount of value from society relative to the amount you put in, or do you take more than you give? Are
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by rickbutton 2y ago
I wrote a few paragraphs of response to this assuming that you are implying that there is a level of death/disease that is acceptable because treating it would not be cost-effective, but I deleted it because it would be uncharitable to
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by rickbutton 3y ago
roll your own runtime does not imply to me `import runtime from "runtime";` but this seems to just be "include deno and use deno"?
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by rickbutton 4y ago
hint: they aren't being honest
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by rickbutton 4y ago
You just linked an insane conspiracy theory website.
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by rickbutton 5y ago
this is nonsense. WebAssembly is strongly typed. either you don't understand type systems, or you don't understand WebAssembly. in either case, I can encourage reading the article, because it sheds some light on both topics!
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by rickbutton 6y ago
why would it be only 1 external display? Can you not plug into a thunderbolt dock and use multiple external displays? I do exactly that with my 2012 MacBook Pro.
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by rickbutton 6y ago
nginx
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by rickbutton 6y ago
I don't have any resources to link, sorry. The weird-power-dynamic-Lincoln statue with the freed black man aside, I generally agree on statutes of the founding fathers. I doubt a statue of Washington was erected in honor of his support
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by rickbutton 6y ago
It's important to remember that the majority of these statues were not created after the civil war in order to remember them, but during the Jim Crow era in order to intimidate black people. The intent was never to teach history.
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by rickbutton 6y ago
source?
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by rickbutton 6y ago
I love the fact that this thread is empty while the one about deplatforming white supremacists is chock-full of people screaming about free speech. Really makes the whole thing a bit blatant.
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by rickbutton 6y ago
Exactly! If you find yourself defending these words, in any context, you might be the problem! It is -not- normal to say any of this, 1000 hours or not.
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by rickbutton 6y ago
I agree that we will have to address the privatization of speech at some point. Ultimately I'm not sure where my opinions lie on that spectrum. However, I find it challenging to have to continuously fight white supremacist ideas on pla
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by rickbutton 6y ago
Are you seriously comparing the struggle of Jews in Nazi Germany to white supremacists being deplatformed in America? If you are, you should really take a step back and evaluate the gravity of that statement. Edit: Saw your edit. You can us
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by rickbutton 6y ago
This kind of half-measure response is exactly why white supremacy continues to thrive in America. You cannot argue with a white supremacist on reasonable ground, their world view is intrinsically incorrect, and I am convinced that you canno
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by rickbutton 6y ago
While those who defend them may disagree, defending white supremacy is in itself white supremacy. They defend it because they believe it. The thing that still continues to shock me is that there are people here that argue on behalf of white
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by rickbutton 6y ago
Do you think it is correct or incorrect to deplatform white supremacists? Do you think white supremacists deserve a platform? Edit: I've asked variants of this question several times in this thread, all without response. I can safely a
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by rickbutton 6y ago
We are talking about two different things. I claimed that purging white supremacists from platforms is a good thing. I also claimed that silence is complicity. These are orthogonal. I am not a decision maker for one of these platforms, and
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by rickbutton 6y ago
That's not what I said. Do not put words into my digital mouth. I said, silence -is- complicity with white supremacy. If you, after all of the injustices demonstrated in enormous detail over the last 400 years, are still silent when wh
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by rickbutton 6y ago
You didn't read a single thing I said. This has nothing to do with the first amendment. The first amendment does not grant you the right to a platform. It simply doesn't. If you want to grab a megaphone and spew white-supremacist
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by rickbutton 6y ago
What free speech? The government isn't preventing these awful people from spewing their hate. Companies refusing to host their content is not a violation of the first amendment. And yes, free speech, so long as everyone in the room agr
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by rickbutton 6y ago
I can't argue in good faith with someone who believes that white supremacists should continue to have a platform. I hope you do some research and look back on this comment with shame. White supremacists do not deserve a platform, flat
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by rickbutton 6y ago
Probably all of the white supremacy in it.
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by rickbutton 6y ago
A purge of white supremacists sounds great to me.
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by rickbutton 6y ago
Why? There is a massive political movement for racial equality happening all over the country. They are responding to pressure from consumers, which they very much should, because all of these companies have ignored these issues for decades
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by rickbutton 6y ago
The equivalent is if a Tupperware salesperson tried to sell you tupperware by showing you a _doctored_ image of your friend buying tuperware while literally holding a sign saying "Hey [Your Name], buy this too!".

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