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Having read the paper ( https://gofile.io/d/WfcxoF ), I can't take the idea that Google wanted to suppress it seriously (as the article argues). In the paper, another paper is summ…

Coal mines should be unionized because the miners have their backs against the wall. If I felt I was being under-compensated, working in poor conditions, and had my back against th…

Working at Google while complaining about "labor exploitation" is like being a rich white kid in a Che shirt

The idea of Google exploiting its programmers is an insult to actual exploited labor. These aren't coal miners. There's no factories. The programmers where I work have too much pow…

Yes, the parent comment was about "lack of administrative rigor". The cheerful acceptance of that situation was the topic of my post. There is no reason why someone can't support t…

Because, as I said in my original post, "[shoddiness, etc] represents the best objections to the welfare state". In other words, blithe dismissals like "I accept some inefficienies…

I should have said "supposed shoddiness". My point was not that the welfare state is shoddy but that, if you support the welfare state, mistakes like this should bother you more, n…

Ironically, the idea you're pushing, something like "this doesn't really matter, the important thing is the government giving people money, the more the better, who even cares if t…

I identified his interest. Are you getting all the way through my posts? > Horne's writings aren't about history: they're a form public of agitation so that "the USA will do less r…

Just because you view all history as the result of a "secret cabal of evildoers" (in this case, plotting to preserve slavery) doesn't mean I have to. As you let slip here, Horne's …

Horne is a clumsy propagandist and you've been thoroughly propagandized. In this kind of history, all nuance (like Adams' views on slavery) is lost and all historical events are ma…

The DHS was established in the panic following 9/11. If they're knocking on doors trying to intimidate dissidents, it seems clear that it has outlived its usefulness (if it ever ha…

> Do you? Not to over simplify things, but freedom, liberty, and equal treatment were pretty much empty words and applied only to white American men (see: treatment of Native Ameri…

> Don't you see the contradiction there? First he says it isn't helpful if foreigners criticize Russia, because Russians need to learn to criticize themselves. But later he says th…

Here's an interview of Solzhenitsyn from 2007: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview... Der Spiegel tries to pin him down as a reactionary Putinist and anti-…

Unless "geopolitical theory" can be used to predict the future then I see no reason to assume it's the correct way of interpreting the past.

Your post shows how significant events are stripped of their meaning by the dictum that there must be some material end behind every act. But it's a decision to look at history and…

I think you're partly right but I also think there's something a bit deeper at work here. These days science is viewed as a means to various ends. These ends are all wonderful...el…

I understand what you're saying but I disagree: atheism is not a religion. The verb "is" does not mean "fulfills the same function as". Just because atheists have to answer the sam…

None of this makes his research "pseudoscience".

Let's run an experiment by moving cameras into the Supreme Court -- actually all courtrooms -- and the rooms where juries deliberate and all Cabinet meetings. We'll be able to tell…

Without the cameras they have no reason to posture. They posture so they can cut a clip, publish it, and say: "Look! Here's me standing up to the evil Republicans|Democrats|tech CE…

> I'm curious what other people think the informational value of these hearings are. It seems like it is either posturing and grandstanding, or reasonable questions to which evasiv…

Whether or not "10x programmers" exist, I can say for sure that 1/10th programmers exist. I know a few in that category. And it really amounts to the same thing.

We're talking about supreme court justices...