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by rrhd 9y ago
Damore wasn't fired for political beliefs. That's a narrative spread by conservatives because it gets people riled up and lets then act like victims. He was fired because he made statements that pissed off a fair number of his cow
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by rrhd 9y ago
> low-risk way Unless it goes bankrupt or has some other issue and you don't get paid or get fired. I do not like this idea that startup employees aren't taking a risk. It encourages extremely one sided behavior.
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by rrhd 9y ago
The left likes to play victim about other things. Conservatives love to push the idea that they were targeted purely for being conservative. Look at the reaction around Damore, for example. It's all about how conservatives are being op
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by rrhd 9y ago
Yeah, they want to go advertiser friendly and are being ridiculous about it.
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by rrhd 9y ago
The boundary for what gets demonitized are arbitrary and ridiculous. It's not just people dropping racial slurs or showing graphic violence. It's comedy channels, science channels, etc... It's probably the only thing they can
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by rrhd 9y ago
> it seems like the prevailing opinion is that YouTube is specifically targeting them based on political bias That's because they like to be victims. It's all about the narrative. If you look around you see this happening broad
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by rrhd 9y ago
Youtube is built entirely on their content, but they have to censor themselves because otherwise youtube might screw them.
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by rrhd 9y ago
Some starving to death might agree to work for me for just room and board. It doesn't mean that I can target disadvantaged people for slavery. Uber needs to be held to proper standards.
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by rrhd 9y ago
but not even close to all of these apply. Some big ones don't apply, e.g. pricing.
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by rrhd 9y ago
Uh no, we don't have the power to live without nature. We have a lot of power but we need to be careful wielding it.
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by rrhd 9y ago
> Many of the same people who get angry about the complex tax acrobatics used by big corporations also deride people like Rand Paul who have suggested a one page tax code. because that's equally absurd and harmful.
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by rrhd 9y ago
The alternative was nothing. A flawed system that leads to single player is still a victory.
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by rrhd 9y ago
> This is why things like the "flat tax" or other simplification schemes are perennially floated, and also why they continue to get shot down because a flat tax is a terrible idea.
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by rrhd 9y ago
which is why I hand them cash.
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by rrhd 9y ago
> I support the replacement of centralized hierarchical structures by distributed democratic structures is bitcoin democratic? Isn't a "might makes right" system?
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by rrhd 9y ago
which is why people call it a bubble.
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by rrhd 9y ago
> It's all about immutability and finite money supply. and why do we care about those? Finite money supply, I get. I'm not I agree but I get it. Why exactly do I need an immutable record that I paid some guy 10 bucks for a souv
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by rrhd 9y ago
I actually dislike it mostly because it seems to be full of people like you. The community seems full of people I just don't want to associate with.
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by rrhd 9y ago
> Why would you be afraid of Trump voters? Do you really want anyone to answer that question on HN? and king county was 72% for Clinton, and Seattle was even more tilted that way.
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by rrhd 9y ago
No, because it got nothing to do with technology. They aren't cool enough to be a tech company.
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by rrhd 9y ago
Totally deserves billions for running a money losing operation thats getting eaten alive by the competition.
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by rrhd 9y ago
That alone is almost enough to make me want to see them crash and burn.
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by rrhd 9y ago
Have heard they are working hard on that, which makes this more surprising to me.
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by rrhd 9y ago
> his Tuesday win makes a Democrat-packed statehouse the only obstacle. They aren't an obstacle. They wanted it done and Christie was the obstacle.
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by rrhd 9y ago
Does the UK not have consumer protections for delivery mistakes like this? Should have had every right to tell them to get fucked and keep the switch the second they threatened him. They sent it to him, they can eat the loss. if they don&#x
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by rrhd 9y ago
> A censorship resistant digital cash No, a way for a few people to get rich has been built.
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by rrhd 9y ago
> attempt for the suits to take bitcoin away from the engineer meritocracy. because it's not totally controlled by suits already? Who do think is pouring money into mining this stuff.
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by rrhd 9y ago
So if I send a faked message from this guy saying "we changed out minds, fork now" it's not going to be an issue at all? Ridiculous.
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by rrhd 9y ago
the harmony works with my firetv as well. So now I need to figure out how to get some bluetooth protocol to work. I need a good remote for the raspberry pi. I'd like alexa integration too. Now this just sounds like a project. sigh.
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by rrhd 9y ago
I think you just invented the bus.

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