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> The poor do not elevate the poor out of poverty. What a bizarre, paternalistic take. This is the same sort of narcissistic logic that led to Reagan's golden showers^W^W trickle-d…

It's not a "no true Scotsman" argument because "help" is a vague term to begin with. Lots of churches say nice things while extracting maximum revenue from their congregation. Can …

They really don't. You're misusing the word "lobby". Churches and charities don't lobby politically for poor people, they take them on as a righteous burden to bear. Some churches …

"It's everybody" just does not capture reality. I got a tax benefit semi-recently by buying an electric car, about $7500. It was the largest I've ever gotten. Compare that to one s…

That was a lot of extra words around the crucial bit: > It is based on incentivizing behavior through tax breaks/credits. Who do you think has time and money to spend lobbying for …

In sane countries, the "popular view" holds, as it should. Not so much in the US, though. The IRS knows how much I make, I want them to send me a form that says "we think you made …

When using tooling that accepts YAML (or JSON) configuration, I always want something to say "this is what you can write that will have an effect". As a specific example, when I'm …

If sucking cock gave you antibodies that helped protect you and your community from a pandemic, you'd have a valid comparison.

You cannot seriously be trying to advocate for hospitals being run with unvaccinated staff. > We treated your asthma attack, sorry about the covid that you got while you were here,…

This is a pretty lazy dismissal that doesn't even make clear the connection you're trying to make. How is open salary information the same as paying everyone $1M/year?

THC is still illegal at the federal level, if that's what you mean. The federal government is just being dragged kicking and screaming into sanity by individual states that are leg…

I think you're looking in the wrong places. I recently bought a nice bike for $600 that worked great on a 100 mile ride. If I hadn't gone to the fancy, trendy bike co-op, it probab…

Since I can't edit the above comment, one additional thought is that your criticism is valid for a language like Python, which has a much higher tolerance for abstractions such as …

> But 10 years out it's not entirely implausible that if Rust had stuck with fibers that it may have driven the required OS improvements ... Rust would've been a language nobody ha…

I don't have an deep source on this, but it looks like this is not something new. https://www.etymonline.com/word/milk says: > Of milk-like plant juices or saps from c. 1200.

IDK, I think this quote from your link sums up my attitude towards that: > Linked lists are as niche and vague of a data structure as a trie. Few would balk at me claiming a trie i…

I would interested in seeing an example of what sort of type errors you mean. IME, the Rust compiler does a great job of catching actual mistakes in the type system, such as with S…

I'll admit that I like Rust, but this seems like an odd take to me. "Not distracting me with type errors" seems directly at odds with "safer overall", especially for a missile laun…

I suspect the segment that I'm in is pretty huge. I recently got Starlink. I got it mostly because it was alright internet and I really fucking hate Comcast. They're the only landl…

> it was either execution or abandon them to starve on the desert on their own Yeah, that's cruel and unforgiving. Surely an all-powerful deity could've sprouted a few plants and l…

I think this analogy doesn't quite hold, as you don't have athletes saying "I can't throw as far as you because of gravity", whereas you really do have people making ridiculous cla…

> it's pretty obvious the second half is false It's really not. As I said above, people are not identical. Yes, evolution doesn't produce perfectly consistent results. However, abs…

CICO is 100% backed up by science. The point of repeating CICO is that there are people that legitimately try claiming "I ate only an apple a day and I can't lose weight!". This is…

From your own link: > “That was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica, but there were Palantir staff that would come into the office and work on that da…

> it’s attaching a cryptographic voucher to every photo uploaded to iCloud that, if some number of photos represent hash matches OK, but what if Apple silently pushes out an update…