simple-thoughts

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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
I’m reading it a bit differently. Yes the censorship of political speech related to political figures is bad but we’re coming out of a period where much more fundamental rights were violated due to a slightly stronger than usual respiratory
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Human rights are really important to me, and it was quite shocking to see what are supposed to be inalienable rights violated for something that’s much less than catastrophic.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
A warrantless search that’s a cronjob? Seems that for some people, if the tech is simple then that’s ok! To me, that’s still a rights violation whether it’s a cronjob or not.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
A lot of countries did not have much restrictions and seemed to get through without a catastrophic population decline. Are there any countries that saw more than 10% of their country perish? Keeping in mind that the policies included human
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
It’s great to see not only this ruling but balanced reporting on it from NYT. I’m optimistic that the turn towards accepting tyranny is finally ending.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
A place to start would be the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. Of course this didn’t prevent slaves from being born in the USA nor did it prevent internal slave trade. But there was a non violent movement to end slavery through g
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
The confederacy could easily have prevented the war by not attacking union forts. And as you say the war did not end slavery. So all we’re left with is a thirst for blood.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Most settler colonial states under British rule gained independence without death and murder, unlike the USA. It’s unlikely the USA would have been different if it’s population had been less bloodthirsty. US Slavery as an institution was gr
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
I know several blockchain projects that would love you but none that can afford you. Market is terrible especially in web3 gaming. I myself have taken a 97.5% pay cut with my most recent position compared to 2020. Edit for the haters: it’s
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Thanks for the invitation to join your club, I appreciate it. I’m quite familiar with security clearances from close contacts. It’s also inevitable to run into controlled information in the types of work people like me do. The real secret i
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Me to, twice. Which is where my opinion of jurors was formed.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Jurors by definition aren’t the brightest, since they don’t know how to get out of jury duty.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Something about this smells like a bad attorney. Especially the part where he didn’t know that he was free until his card stopped working. But who knows, and it doesn’t matter anyway since the legitimacy of the court system is supposed to r
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
If the FBI actually operated in the open and stopped keeping secrets, the mystery would be removed and they would no longer have any power. Once the mystique is broken, the mundane reality of the FBIs daily ineffectiveness would be revealed
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
The idea that people who are close to power are “in on the secret” and thus are more correct that people who aren’t doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. It’s a religious idea that extends back to the earliest gnostic cults. I’m sure it feels good
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Make officers personally liable for civil and criminal penalties when they break laws or violate rights, even if acting on orders or in accordance with their departmental policies. Simple fix.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Or, just enforce laws and follow the proven “broken windows theory” of policing. Which worked in cities such as NYC.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Advanced Asian cities which combine rapid zero tolerance policing with the resulting social conformity don’t have these issues. There has been a rise in drug abuse but it tends to stay out of the public view, again due to policing. I rememb
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
You’ve hit it on the head. A well written react app will have a lot of code that isn’t in hooks or components and is instead imported by those. That said anything to do with the presentation of the app should be within react, with important
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
I was pretty late to switch from jquery to react- I didn’t switch over until after react hooks were released. The reason is simply that jquery works great and the issues with scalability can be solved with proper design. Of course once reac
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
For code I’ve found LLM mostly useless, since if I don’t understand something I need to read the docs anyway, and the generated code tends to be buggy even in react. Where I have found LLM useful is in generating text. Where I used to use a
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
No idea. Open source seems to come and go in waves. It has pros and cons as a business model. Personally I prefer working on open source because my GitHub becomes my resume, whereas in closed source interviews are needed to determine basic
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Most hacker news people aren’t experiencing any positive effects from inflation, since the tech industry is fundamentally about future growth rather than present income. Higher interest rates means less funding for ventures. According to th
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
It’s certainly true that branding as morally pure isn’t usual beneficial, but even businesses that brand themselves as sinful or evil have internal processes to maintain moral principles. Often to a greater extent than non profits that are
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Minimal state is absolutely compatible with leftist philosophy! Anarchism itself is a leftist movement. What’s incompatible isn’t ideology, its praxis. Mainstream leftist movements rely on state power to further their goals. That said there
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
Do you seriously believe everyone who use’s cryptocurrency is a fraudster? Your claim is ridiculous, in the USA alone over 34 million people own cryptocurrency and approximately zero of them have stolen billion of dollars of assets.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
His level of stupidity has been shocking even to people who has a low opinion of his competence. Contrast his case with Do Kwon, and you can see why people thought he would escape imprisonment.
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
There’s no inherent conflict between morality and logic. Even with the vaguer definitions you seem to be using related to business processes, running a business that others (customers, regulators, outsiders) view as morally clean will alway
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
A good place to start would be with this text on Rothbard’s leftism, which connects ideas you may already familiar regarding libertarianism with leftism: https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_2.pdf However the roots go much deeper. No
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by simple-thoughts 3y ago
How does someone get such a job? It’s not like the nyt puts out an online app, screens thousands, then picks a random individual. It’s always going to be through personal networks.

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