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youarentrightjr

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About youarentrightjr

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    Comment #47639030

    > corporate America has been decent to me. But I’m in my 50s and working on my exit plan and have been in the country I plan to retire to now for six weeks. Crazy take to think the…

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    Comment #47638999

    > You said those cities' police wouldn't enforce immigration laws. Please quote where I said that. The point I am making has nothing to do with whether sanctuary cities are "legal"…

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    Comment #47632683

    So is your piling on, not adding anything substantive to the discussions , and raw_anon_1111's repeated strawmanning of my point (the claim was never that sanctuary cities were ill…

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    Comment #47630329

    Oh, thanks Ben. It's not like I said that in the parent comment: > Sanctuary cities aren't contrasted with non-sanctuary cities where a sanctuary city's police officers don't arres…

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    Comment #47622724

    > So you worked at AWS as an SA and never tried to sale its own internal consulting services? Not sure I understand the value proposition here, but then again Amazon is known for h…

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    Comment #47622642

    > Do you think someone on the Alexa team in the retail division (“CDO”) knew anything about what was going on within AWS? Hmm, no? As a solutions architect at Amazon I was very muc…

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    Comment #47622517

    > The average rank and file employee at any BigTech company knows only a minuscule more than the general public. Huh? We're not talking about the custodial staff. > Amazon for inst…

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    Comment #47622357

    Flagging my comments doesn't make you right by the way. > The Supreme Court has just as often struck down gun laws where a city couldn’t do anything about it. You're exposing your …

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    Comment #47622245

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    Comment #47622106

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    Comment #47621921

    > It’s not the city or states job to enforce federal immigration laws. This has never been claimed nor intimated in this entire thread. I can tell you're having a difficult time un…

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    Comment #47621441

    On the off chance you're sincere but not well educated on this topic: > What are you talking about? Kamala Harris was DA for SF during the early 2010s, where she explicitly backed …

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    Comment #47621385

    > Well, the city government is no more responsible for enforcing immigration laws than it is enforcing IRS fraud. Oh, so these Democrat sanctuary cities are in open rebellion again…

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    Comment #47621085

    > This isn't an accurate description of the Democrat party's platform and repeating it uncritically is contributing to the problem. I welcome your critical interpretation of the ex…

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    Comment #47620238

    Sounds like a racketeering operation (not saying it doesn't work).

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    Comment #47620204

    > Those who could but didn't vote aren't blameless either. The harsh reality is that "lesser of two evils" thinking is what got us here. In the 2024 election, the two mainstream pa…

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    Comment #47592423

    > You must attest your age to vote for example. How does this relate here, or to computing generally (barring electronic voting machines)?

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    Comment #47568897

    > If you're consistently getting downvoted in a thread, and the other side getting upvoted, try re-reading it instead of presuming sanctity. Lol, what a humble take. We all know in…

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    Comment #47560562

    Can't respond to your flagged to death comment so I'll respond here: > If the advantage is as overwhelming and deterministic as you claim Nobody is claiming this, you're strawmanni…

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    Comment #47560246

    > Revlon duties concern hostile takeovers [1]. You’re confusing orthogonal concepts. No sir, it was you who were confused - you brought them up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

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    Comment #47559774

    Hey, it's you again! I was wondering if you would pop up in the comments defending private equity as you've done in the past. Continuing our discussion from last time, can you elab…

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    Comment #47536565

    > the narrative is that men are posing as women and competing in an unfair way based on genetic advantage. That's not a "win here and there" situation the way it's framed, that's a…

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    Comment #47536037

    Sorry part of my reply got cut off. > What if it's 0? It's not 0, and anyone engaging honestly knows it. To make another vaccine analogy: claiming it's a small number and therefore…

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    Comment #47535994

    Cmon guy, you can't ask for a source and then dismiss the one provided without critically examining it. You're complaining that it's using publicly available data? Would you rather…

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    Comment #47532573

    > The primary purpose is not usually a list of known defects and many ‘bugs’ are not actually bugs but feature requests IME there are separate mechanisms to track feature work, bug…