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by xibalba 5y ago
Wow! For my money, this might be the most beautiful footage ever recorded. Which makes me wonder, what do others think is the most beautiful video of all?
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by xibalba 5y ago
The CCP has long been building a database on people in all countries of strategic interest (U.S., UK, Austrlia, India, etc etc). And not just the prominent people. All the people. [1][2][3][4][5] But hey, tell us again how China is only int
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by xibalba 5y ago
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by xibalba 5y ago
So then just say “poor people”. I’m always surprised at how many well meaning people actually project racist views unintentionally. And by the way, many “people of color” groups outperform white people both academically and economically. As
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by xibalba 5y ago
> Know any people of color? They're screwed Uh what? Do you really not see how racist this is???
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by xibalba 5y ago
He broke the law. He fled the country to avoid the rule of law. He sought refuge in a country run by a criminal syndicate that is presided over by a madman ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by xibalba 5y ago
The key distinction is that they own a lot of Apple stock, but not enough to call people who work at Apple their own employees.
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by xibalba 5y ago
I don't think that is sound logic. As disgusting and insane as this invasion of Ukraine is, the current state of European treaties would not necessitate a world war as an outcome. Putin, the evil war making scum that he is, has been ex
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by xibalba 5y ago
From the article: > * Ukraine is not a NATO ally, and the alliance is not treaty-bound to protect it.* I suspect risking a military engagement between NATO and Russia would be to risk a world war.
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by xibalba 5y ago
This is a case of people putting their conscience before their wallets when it really matters–a true act of bravery. People of JetBrains, I salute you.
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by xibalba 5y ago
I think you're not understanding. While a bunch of people losing money is bad, it wouldn't create another Great Depression, per se. A huge investment bank with millions of counterparties going under absolutely could cause massive,
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by xibalba 5y ago
The difference (systemic vs non-systemic) is not just about magnitude, but also in who Lehman's counterparties were and the effects when those counterparties (those who were exposed to Lehman) could not get their expected capital (and
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by xibalba 5y ago
Hi, could you please stop marketing here? You've posted a bunch of replies in this thread linking to your employer. It's nice that you're (sort of) disclosing your biases, but we really don't want HN to turn into marketi
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by xibalba 5y ago
How is crypto a systemic risk? From my recollection of the 2008/09 financial crisis, systemic risks were those in which entities were deeply intertwined with one another on a massive scale, such that there failure would potentially bri
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by xibalba 5y ago
You seem to misunderstand me. I don't make an argument for its "rightness". Rather, war crimes will always occur in war. And the primitive instinct to stay alive, at almost any price, is programmed into us. When faced with
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by xibalba 5y ago
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by xibalba 5y ago
> Somewhere between 1:1 and 10:1? Are you asking a question? > Going any further (e.g 200:1) You're engaging in pseudo-intellectual quantification that is meaningless and unbound by anything objective. But that's besides
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by xibalba 5y ago
> you can't seriously be saying it's justified to kill 200k Japanese civilians to save a small handful of allied lives I absolutely would argue in favor of this. In fact, I would argue that it would have been morally just to ki
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by xibalba 5y ago
> the military dictators of Japan did not plan to surrender The U.S. was on solid ground in its conduct of any form of bombing up until a Japanese surrender-including massive conventional bombing campaigns and atomic bombings. Japan la
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by xibalba 5y ago
Then all of the greatest scientists in human history were arrogant (by your judgement). So what? Progress and truth are much, much more important than fitting in and pleasing others’ sense of propriety.
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by xibalba 5y ago
Society will feel more free if more criminals are caught and punished and thus more potential criminals are deterred.
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by xibalba 5y ago
What do you do for a living? Whatever it is, I will say to you: that's a paid hobby or a side gig. Then I will take the product of your efforts without paying for it. See how that works? Perhaps it would be worth thinking through the c
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by xibalba 5y ago
Yes. It is human work, aka labor. [1] What would you call it? [1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/labor
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by xibalba 5y ago
> if I could pay these folks by article Ah! This is good logic. Next time I'm at a restaurant, after service and food have been rendered, I will say, "You won't let me pay in the amount and manner in which I want, so I&#x2
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by xibalba 5y ago
Did you mean “free labor”? This “free information” you speak of requires the labor of humans in many forms to publish.
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by xibalba 5y ago
> obviously silly No. You've drifted into believing your opinions are facts. Reasonable people can disagree. Having hired many people, I understand that everything in the hiring process, no matter how well calibrated and tightly loo
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by xibalba 5y ago
> downleveled from senior to mid ... because I didn't have enough years of experience in tech-specific jobs ... I was disappointed in Shopify for using such a reductive metric to determine levelling I'm confused by this. Isn&#
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by xibalba 5y ago
Whether you realize it or not, your oblique approach is undermining your claims. What is your claim, specifically? Who did Thiel bankroll? For how much? Why? What did they do with respect to Jan 6?
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by xibalba 5y ago
> perhaps even more extreme views such as neoreaction Evidence? I have and listened to Thiel extensively and see no signs of neoreaction. In fact, he has been pretty consistent in his claims of pursuing a less violent future.
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by xibalba 5y ago
> Going from this hellscape to whatever is going on in Stockholm would definitely be an improvement Are you sure?: "Sweden has not built enough rental(s) ... meaning long queues for rent-controlled housing ... average waiting time w

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