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I apologize if my comments before were a bit on the scathing side. I really am just a bit shocked that this way of reasoning had become commonplace. I would like to ask you, do you…

I would argue that the concerning thing is that when accused of dogwhistling, while plausibly deniable, is also completely irrefutable. How can I show you that the text is not secr…

I really hate this dog whistle crap that I keep hearing. It's like a more intellectual version of 'so what you're really saying is '. I don't know how it ever became a legitimate t…

Yeah, it was this one: Thank You for Arguing: What Cicero, Shakespeare and the Simpsons Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion From chapter 23. Recover from a screw-up ```Don’t a…

I wouldn't be so sure. I read a book about rhetoric (basically the bread and butter of politicians, marketing and PR) and it strongly advocated never( or almost never) apologizing.…

I think pursuing an idea or project with wreckless abandon can be a beautiful thing. The risk of getting injured in the attempt to push limits is the cost of doing business.

That's arguable. You could say, not everybody loves is delighted that the value(to themselves) of their work goes down, the more they do it. I think most people accept some form of…

maybe something like: 'cases that asked the court to _return to the practice of: preventing lawsuits against police, unless the law was clearly broken (therefore indefensible)_

Im currently reading a book on this exact topic called Rain Making, pretty good so far. Maybe a little old/outdated, can't really tell because I'm not actually in the business yet,…

How do you even show that systematic racism exists? -edit to assuage the presumptuous- Assuming systematic racism does exist in US industry(I'm not from the US or live there) and a…

Chiming in just to say that I do this too and would suspect it actually is quite common

Those low effort questions are often extremely popular though, which would imply that they are useful to a lot of people.

Don't know what to make of this but all trains of thought seem to lead to This Is A Bad Idea

It bothers me that your comment is written well because it lends credibility to a comment that essentially amounts to 'don't stand up for what you believe, it won't work! Be a weas…

I tried reading catch-22 twice before successfully getting through it. I felt the same as you did. I think my problem the first 2 times was that I was looking for the 'hook' or wha…

You're characterization of these people simply as deadbeats trying to avoid responsibility is both extremely insensitive and simple minded. How deep a person can gets caught up in …

I regularly see comments on HN where people say they no longer wish to participate on the internet due to lack of anonymity and profiling. I can completely empathize with this. Som…

Not a discussion I really want to have but fewer wars is most certainly not a consequence of 'people becoming better'. Regarding voting, I completely understand that my stance is n…

I'm fetching this from 3 year old memory here but I think it was in the race vs Coke Stevens, they had trucks of Mexicans brought over the border and were given $5 per vote or some…

I learned about this stuff from the Robert Caro series. After reading these and the Power Broker, I find it hard to believe that it would be any different nowadays. I don't know wh…