siphon22

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by siphon22 7y ago
I wholly agree with you in sentiment that context matters, but how the hell is that article equivalent to the one here lol, I have to ask Your article has to do with white farmers specifically targeted by the black government of Zimbabwe, l
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by siphon22 7y ago
By all means you're right and I would agree. It's just that, if we are going to go with the diversity thing, we should uphold it equally and fairly. There is no avoiding natural majorities where we can't help it. But in the r
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by siphon22 7y ago
That sounds nice and all but the DMV analogy does not hold up. Think about if there were no limits by country population, India has more people and therefore the most applicants, so we would be mainly giving limited numbers of work visas to
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by siphon22 7y ago
>the next Zucc That's more of an insult nowadays than a compliment, no?
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by siphon22 7y ago
You can't go wrong with any of the thicker Thinkpads like the P series(I personally use a P50 now), but that does come with lesser portability. With the thin and light models like the X1 Carbon, there's probably some level of comp
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by siphon22 7y ago
Even if you're right, I don't think people want a system that benefits a group of people just because they have a bigger population than others. It's the same reason why diversity quotas are pushed for, because we can't
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by siphon22 7y ago
Well said. Another factor is that not everyone, especially women, do not want to leave themselves open to strangers to bother or even harass them. The best way to do that these days is to be busy on your phone, or to put on some ear/
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by siphon22 7y ago
I think most patients are ultimately making the best choices for them in good faith and we should assume so unless provided evidence otherwise. I have a Vietnamese friend with an older, non-English speaking parent who can only be helped by
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by siphon22 7y ago
He's probably saying if prostitution was legal and normalized in our society, there could be an outlet for men who can't get sex any other way, which could curb their tendency to go shoot up innocent people.
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by siphon22 7y ago
It's easy to become emotional and not realize that 8chan != one of it's boards. Going after 8chan for that one board, is like going after Facebook because one of it's users goes on a rampage. Or blaming a whole group of peopl
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by siphon22 7y ago
No, you need to do a ML-powered "This Anecdote Doesn't Exist" instead. Could provide a lot of amusement for HN.
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by siphon22 7y ago
I like the spirit of the article, but being poor does not resolve you of personal responsibility. You do not have a pass to commit crime because you make under a certain amount a year. There are definitely a great number of poor people in t
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by siphon22 7y ago
You just need a normal container with vents which are fairly common and some tape that tears when the container is opened.
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by siphon22 7y ago
Maybe this is one problem that VR can solve. Virtually simulated suicides? Virtually simulated anything. You don't have to die or hurt yourself, try X in a safe simulation first to see if you really want to go through with it.
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by siphon22 7y ago
>UV damage is scary. Can you expand on that? Curious to know through your experience.
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by siphon22 7y ago
I'm from California ;). I'm just saying, urbanites have no one to blame but themselves for the influx of shitty, uncivilized tourists everywhere. After making fun of people for not being traveled and not having a passport, did y
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by siphon22 7y ago
You are right. People typically won't know how good they have it until they are separated from it, either temporarily or permanently.
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by siphon22 7y ago
Why buy lavender if you can just be a photographer/instagrammer and steal them? Pretty fields are what brings potential buyers to their farm in the first place, no?
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by siphon22 7y ago
Uncomfortable is an understatement. Being smart/geeky is their identity, the "self" that they see within, and it is something that separated them from the jocks. Seeing someone who looks like a jock but is smart/geeky mu
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by siphon22 7y ago
Personally, I am with you and don't believe they are entitled anything. But essentially this basically comes down to gentrification vs preserving culture. Do we value cities as money-making assembly lines where all the workers are repl
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by siphon22 7y ago
I wonder if Elon's facial hair is also a transplant.
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by siphon22 7y ago
>Instead residents write open letters about how they moved here in 1976 and under no circumstances will allow their neighborhood to be different than back then. I think this is the hardest thing to reconcile. I mean it's easy to get
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by siphon22 7y ago
It's a meme to make fun of Americans in "flyover countries" for not having passports. People who have only lived in the place they were born are made fun of for not being traveled, and therefore not cultured. Is it a surprise
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by siphon22 7y ago
We need to make it so cringe to behave like this that people will stop doing it naturally to distance themselves from those people . I already look down on people like this myself. People in the West do not utilize societal shaming eno
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by siphon22 7y ago
Thats the equivalent of asking girls to dress unsexily to prevent harrassment/rape. Those farmers have a right to maintain their beautiful and appealing environments without having them messed with by tourists and other idiots.
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by siphon22 7y ago
>"Goof programmer" What did you just call me?!
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by siphon22 7y ago
Sounds like a brand of instant ramen.
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by siphon22 7y ago
Bicycle theft thing is just one example. I was giving various examples of how culture played a role in influencing the environment. I never said Japanese people are Not Like Us and "therefore don't steal". Your personal belie
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by siphon22 7y ago
And you are here, blaming the customers instead of DoorDash for taking money intended for the dashers?? Might as well go pick up the thing myself, or hell, just make my own food at that point, then neither you or the company will receive ev
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by siphon22 7y ago
You are one American. Generally, in American culture, the things I described are commonplace and par for the course while in East Asian countries (or other smaller, homogenous countries) not so much. If it does happen sometimes in those pla

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