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by speakfreely 6mo ago
The post-1945 rules-based order was already a slow motion train crash that most of the West remained in denial about until Putin wiped his behind with it in the 2014 invasion of Crimea. To pretend that Trump is somehow breaking an otherwis
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by speakfreely 8mo ago
It certainly was to anyone who has been paying attention. I would highly recommend that anyone who thinks the tariff strategy is irrational to read through Michael Kao's substack and his analysis of the administration's 2.0 playb
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by speakfreely 9mo ago
If you have a source for that I'll be more than happy to go edit my original post to acknowledge being completely wrong on this. But my instinct is that if there was an even mildly credible report of an underage girl performing oral s
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by speakfreely 9mo ago
> Is this really worth it? For some crude which is really high in sulfur and not even that important given fracking? The US doesn't need their oil. It's about stopping China from getting it.
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by speakfreely 9mo ago
> which is what Trump wants after it was pretty much confirmed that he's a pedophile. While there's no shortage of creepy anecdotes about Trump in what's been released, there's been nothing that comes close to showing
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by speakfreely 9mo ago
The problem is that the mechanics are paid fixed hours for a given type of job (according to the dealership's standard for how long a given job should take). They are not truly being paid per hour. While it's supposed to encoura
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by speakfreely 9mo ago
"Up to" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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by speakfreely 10mo ago
> you shouldn't be starting a high speed pursuit over a seat belt violation, or for someone going 5 over the speed limit. That's the thing: normal people don't. Violent criminals, people with active arrest warrants, and p
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by speakfreely 10mo ago
Happiness = reality - expectations
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by speakfreely 10mo ago
The "among our colleagues' households" is the key part. It's not generalizable to the whole of Gaza.
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by speakfreely 11mo ago
Voting seems like one of the few problems that blockchain is actually the solution for.
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by speakfreely 11mo ago
Their position is logically inconsistent. If they are worried about being eventually targeted by the Trump administration, they have done more to paint a target on their back now then they ever could've done by quietly accepting the m
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by speakfreely 11mo ago
There's nothing mutually exclusive about non-discimination and diversity. They won't take the grant money because they want to drive a politicized agenda, to the detriment of the Python community as a whole.
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by speakfreely 11mo ago
Choosing to advocate your personal political beliefs over the interests of your organization should be grounds for dismissal.
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by speakfreely 11mo ago
No one has a problem with diversity as a competitive advantage. People dislike forced diversity in lieu of meritocracy.
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by speakfreely 11mo ago
> Trump truly has no vision for anything we do on the world stage It confuses me how anyone could look at what's happening in the world and see a lack of a plan. Trump administration seems to actually be unusually focused on foreig
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by speakfreely 1y ago
But the equipment is operated by a person, and the diagnostic report has to be signed off by a person, who has a malpractice insurance policy for personal injury attorneys to go after. The system is designed a nanny-state fashion: there&#x2
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by speakfreely 1y ago
I generally find HN discussions pretty interesting, but this particular topic seems to just be two groups who have zero chance of changing their minds hurling misinformation and propaganda at each other.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
New Jersey is probably the most socioeconomically segregated state in the country, mostly based on its school districts. It has crazy real estate prices precisely so parents can get their children into specific, high-performing school dist
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by speakfreely 1y ago
I think his argument is more of the "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" variety. At some point complaining about ethics and morality of someone who has repeatedly shown no concern for either just makes you lo
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Completely agree with you. Which it why I mentioned measuring wealth by income shows a disconnect from what real wealth is.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Capitalism is a morally reprehensible way to distribute resources in a society, but still better than any of the alternatives.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
If you're still measuring wealth by income, you're probably not in the bracket that is being discussed here. $1 million per year is an extremely comfortable income, but it would take 30 years of saving that, post tax, before you
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by speakfreely 1y ago
It's not new. Rabid ideologues on the other side blamed Obama for things that pre-dated his administration, as well. Some people just can't be rational when it comes to politicians they don't like.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Of course, but no one is taking the bag physically so its destination. They're putting them on moving pathways that are matched to ever-changing information about gates, flight numbers, etc. Flights arrive early or late or never at al
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by speakfreely 1y ago
If you think about the complexity of routing bags from a single plane on to potentially dozens of connecting flights and onto the non-connecting carousel, it's actually amazing that the process is not screwed up more frequently.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
"Jobs going away due to AI" really tracks two different outcomes: - The type of job is eliminated due to AI - The amount of people doing a type of job is substantially reduced because AI increases the productivity of people in tha
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by speakfreely 1y ago
That's why I say the war is already over. Hamas won. The Israeli public is too enraged by Oct 7 and it can't pursue a long term goal because it has to feed the need for vengeance. The only group that truly benefits from continu
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Everyone feels this way until they personally have to pay more money for something.
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by speakfreely 1y ago
Yes, you can twist public benefits to mean whatever you want. The commonly accepted definition, also the first result on Google, reads "Public benefits are forms of assistance provided by the government to individuals and families, of

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