vitajex

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   by vitajex 8mo ago

   > satire has to have some basis in truth In order to be funny at least!
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   by vitajex 1y ago

   PG has written in public about this for over 20 years. See "I admit it seems cowardly to keep quiet" in https://paulgraham.com/say.html .
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   by vitajex 2y ago

   Dumb question here: How do they know what he googled? Is it a matter of serving Google with a warrant?
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   by vitajex 2y ago

   I don't think anyone takes it as a positive. It's just not what voters vote on. If they support one candidate's policies more than another's, they won't flip because of that issue. The example of Bill Clinton demons
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   by vitajex 2y ago

   You're more confident about that than I am. I find it easy to imagine how a person who produces the first kind of analysis could be technically useful in analyzing government data. He presumably didn't know anything about ancient
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   by vitajex 2y ago

   What he did to win the scroll competition had to do with data analysis, not ancient history, so of course it could be relevant. But none of us, including the author of the article, knows what they're specifically doing, so it's no
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   by vitajex 2y ago

   Experienced enough to win this though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861
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   by vitajex 2y ago

   Just "ask" and take no action to protect themselves?