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by spectramax 5y ago
Disagree. News orgs exist to inform of facts. Positive facts allow us to double down on what works. Negative facts allow us to inspect what went wrong.
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by spectramax 5y ago
Don’t. Think fearlessly and don’t lose the kernel of independent thought.
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by spectramax 5y ago
This is a distraction and diversion from the original comment. Hollywood is not at the scale of the internet. Some privileged people got cancelled in Hollywood, who cares. When a hard working person gets cancelled by saying something stupid
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by spectramax 5y ago
I think all wars are fucked up in unique way. I see a lot of bashing of US Military here with knee-jerk reactions based on Afghanistan withdrawal. I'd suggest what a successful war, Operations Desert Storm, looks like from an extremely
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by spectramax 5y ago
Lot of discussion around here is knee jerk and not nuanced. Criminal law is complex and there are areas where it should be reformed and other areas where we need better enforcement. We've seen the criminal justice reform as they have i
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by spectramax 5y ago
That's been my general observation. I see the following hypocrisy: Murderers and violent crimes should require rehabilitation, better lives in the prison and discussion here tends to be more around pro-forgiveness ideology; whilst I al
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by spectramax 5y ago
I thought we, the liberals, are mostly aligned that non-violent climes should not be punishable by prison time.
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by spectramax 5y ago
I can digest your take. I’d say that governments shouldn’t be on Twitter. I have conflicting internal voice - on one hand, I don't want any of these social media companies to allow populist movements to rise (that includes people like
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by spectramax 5y ago
That's known as hindsight bias and if anything, you're naively glossing over. The 2008 fiscal stimulus dwarfs COVID printing machine. Here is the actual data: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronav
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by spectramax 5y ago
I don’t understand HN’s obsessive love for TikTok. It’s almost universally praised here.
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by spectramax 5y ago
Here is Twitter CEO promoting a dictatorship as a place to go for meditation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/09/latest-...
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by spectramax 5y ago
I fundamentally disagree with Twitter's ideological position. Banning the president, allowing Taliban leaders, it is a censorship extravaganza and the selling point is ecochambered short blips of outrage. What you're pointing out
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by spectramax 5y ago
IMO this argument isn't all or nothing. Sure, popular things are hated but Node is especially eggregious. There is more to it than "its just popular". In my experience, the entire JS ecosystem does not respect robustness, sta
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by spectramax 5y ago
I’d say Twitter has done more damage to the society than FB. Twitter is a pure outrage machine. I might be in the minority but Instagram is still awesome. It’s gotten more ads but most of them are quite interesting. I’ve found made in USA g
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by spectramax 5y ago
I think the government policies for COVID which were supposed to help the poor backfired and made things worse. Those that didn't invest, got shafted as commodities are becoming more expensive but it won't be perfectly clear until
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by spectramax 5y ago
Everytime I learn Awk, I forget it. It is an infrequently used tool for me.
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by spectramax 5y ago
I should start paying attention to these pesky plots then ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle#/media/File...
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by spectramax 5y ago
Absolutely not. “Sharing resources” doesn’t work when there is not enough to share. A civilized society works when supply and demand intersection determines the price of goods and services. Governments should interfere for specific cases (l
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by spectramax 5y ago
> Finally, the ban on misinformation would be temporary, because the crisis will pass. Coronavirus is here to stay, don't get your hopes up: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how
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by spectramax 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to put this all together and further your points. Jeez, the future looks dark when it comes to inquiry of truth. I've had discussions with other engineers who are supposed to be sufficiently trained about
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by spectramax 5y ago
Ask liberals or conservatives and they will quickly point out their it's not their side that's misinforming. The fact is that they are all misinfoming. Just yesterday in the congressional testimoney, Gen Milley, Secretary of Defen
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by spectramax 5y ago
> But it's something like 1 in 17,000. 1 in 500 Americans have died from covid. This is true but misleading. You need to account for age as the primary factor that determines the risk exposure. Edit: Surprised that someone downvoted
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by spectramax 5y ago
Slaves? Like employees are forced to work, they have no choice in the matter, they're chained and cannot leave Amazon? Either you're diluting what Slavery means or proposing the former which is false. Every single employee at Amaz
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by spectramax 5y ago
These are stories few and between. Literally hundreds of thousands of employees wouldn't remain quiet for not allowing bathroom breaks. You're pursuaded by anecdotal evidence of certain incident that may have happened. It is diffi
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by spectramax 5y ago
And all the vendors and suppliers that supply to these companies. The number of suppliers very well would exceed into thousands of small and midsized companies scattered around US.
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by spectramax 5y ago
I didn’t mean any personal animosity. Most men in 1930s were sexist and it was accepted in the society. Even, Switzerland allowed women to vote 1980’s . The point is to let go of the decades old past.
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by spectramax 5y ago
A lot of things your grandpa did in 1930s was probably deeply sexist. Are you going to also look at your granpa with vengeful attitude? Society evolves. Forgive the wrong doings of the past, and move forward. Look ahead.
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by spectramax 5y ago
Oh yea, I also had HOPE scholarship I remembered now. It required minimum GPA from highschool if I recall. Here is some more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_Scholarship
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by spectramax 5y ago
How true is this "Pee in a bottle" thing? It sounds like a single anecdotal evidence widely used as a prop for arguments. Is there a systemic "pee in a bottle" problem at Amazon? I have a hard time believing this.
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by spectramax 5y ago
I went to college (University of Georgia) with Pell Grants for free. 100% free including lodging and dining, both Bachelors + Masters in Physics. My parents were unemployed at the time and we interviewed at the deans office for the grant, I

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