seadan83

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by seadan83 11mo ago
The 14th amendment: "prohibits states from denying any person "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"" The US constitution applies to all persons (people) inside of the USA regardless of citizenship. The
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by seadan83 1y ago
> UK sent stuff to USSR Yes, but that wasn't part of the "lend lease" program. The quantity of materials sent from the UK to the USSR was significant. Just it was not part of the lend lease program. (Arguably this is somet
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by seadan83 1y ago
> Well, First Amendment protects your rights to obscene speech too, so you just affirmed here the license terms are controlling, not First Amendment Nonsense. Feel free to point out how my comments about just the first amendment is relat
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by seadan83 1y ago
The senate was a compromise to give small rural states unequal voting power compared to the more populist states. The senate is explicitly created to give more power to minorities. It is not orthogonal. The senate is EXACTLY the mechanism t
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by seadan83 1y ago
Sure, but the context is America. It would have been helpful to make clear you are referring to other systems of slavery (for which i would still want to see data for). Again, the resources I found in a quick search state about 5M slaves in
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by seadan83 1y ago
I think you're assuming that dichotomy. There was an observation that Trump supporters derided liberals for loving biden. The observation pointed out a false equivalence, "the other side is doing the same thing", we love Trum
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by seadan83 1y ago
Um, yes. Science is the best epistemology that humanity has discovered, best being as the most effective way to discover truth.
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by seadan83 1y ago
> I have yet to observe an activist practice objective thinking It would be a sampling bias fallacy to draw conclusions based on your lack of observations. Eg: "mountains, never seen them, they don't exist." It is funny
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by seadan83 1y ago
TACO tuesday?
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by seadan83 1y ago
It's worse than that. Demanding that the job creators and company growers be taxed or stay out. If a team is half H1Bs, it is not because there were Americans waiting for those jobs. These are irreplaceable people (if they could be rep
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by seadan83 1y ago
I think a bigger tax on small companies. I worked on one where the co-founder was an h1b. That company grew to employ about a thousand people. It's job creation.. that would not have happened when the company was young with this tax. M
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by seadan83 1y ago
Quick googling (could be wrong), thousands bought freedom, approx 4 million were enslaved. It would have been uncommon, ballpark 0.1% (which still seems high to me. The issue is a very large denominator)
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by seadan83 1y ago
Please explain the senate > No, democracy is supposed to be two wolves and a sheep voting on who to eat for dinner. The senate is exactly the sheep. That the senate is now controlled by the sheep is also wild. The senate is what gives a
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by seadan83 1y ago
According to wikipedia for causes of vote in favor of brexit, one third said immigration.
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by seadan83 1y ago
The first amendment protects speech from government repercussion. So aside from the threat of government repercussion, yeah, I also totally don't see how this is a first amendment issue.
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by seadan83 1y ago
You're seemingly equating "obscenity" with "political criticism". I'll note that "political criticism" is offensive when you don't agree with it. The first amendment is exactly for that kind of
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by seadan83 1y ago
Per " https://www.joerogan.com/ " - Joe Rogan is "A standup comedian for over 30 years, Rogan’s seventh hour long comedy special Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats premiered live on Netflix on August 3, 2024. Rogan’s pr
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by seadan83 1y ago
Indeed, USSR casualties (including civilians) were off the charts. USSR, then China, then Germany and then Indonesia. [0] 'Russian blood' part is something of an understatement. The lend lease part is not correct. Lend lease went
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by seadan83 1y ago
> Yes they are. They are required to compete on a level playing field domestically and they still have to compete with marked up foreign goods. Well, nu-uh! The "level" playing field concept is flawed here. Second, if everyone
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by seadan83 1y ago
Untrue because 'very often' should instead be stated as 'sometimes'? Even if someone concedes "good point", it does not mean they frequently are debating in good faith. My view of the "very often in bad fa
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by seadan83 1y ago
Agree sad, but not because he was reaching across the intellectual divide. Kirk's debate responses/performances were very often bad faith. It seemed more performative than an actual debate - "owning the libs" and not an
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by seadan83 1y ago
Gotta say, you sound hypercritical. > "When it is successfully deployed against a target" is obviously doing incredible lifting here - how is it deployed, and how does The Guardian know whatever details it knows (and isn't
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by seadan83 1y ago
Experience helps to recognize intent sooner. That reduces cognitive load. Getting lost 5 levels deep seemingly never stops being a thing, not just you.
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by seadan83 1y ago
The "rules" for config are different. Code, test code, and config are different, their complexity scales in different ways of course. By way of analogy for why the two configs are different, for example Two beaches are not the sam
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by seadan83 1y ago
Indeed a trap. I'd say DRY is all about not duplicating logical components. Just because two pieces of code look similar, does not mean they need to be combined. As an analogy, when writing a book, it's the difference of not repea
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by seadan83 1y ago
When demand is reduced, you lower prices. Rest of the world suddenly are buyers. Governments can throw subsidies at impacted sectors too to cover the price difference while supply chains adjust. With growing trade relations, economies of sc
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by seadan83 1y ago
Tariffs are protectionist, does not boost competitiveness. Tends to be the wrong tool, there are better. Tax breaks, grants, physical infrastructure, creation of entire markets - those are better tools. The issue with tariffs is non-compete
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by seadan83 1y ago
AFAIK the stats do show Europe passing the US in class mobility as of about 20 years ago. It is notable as Europe of course had low class mobility and the US just dominated class mobility. AFAIK class mobility is measured by class at birth
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by seadan83 1y ago
The pattern I see time & time again in software development: a small set of few and usually very talented senior developers build a software project and they build examples of how everything is done. Junior developers then extend those

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