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Reverse isn't always available on snowmobiles. Even if this one had reverse, in this loose snow it would likely dig in and bury itself. I guess you've never ridden a snowmobile?

Comment · 3 years ago

> aside from the occasional famine

At least 50 million people have died due to famines in communist countries. Brushing that aside as "occasional" is intellectually dishonest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

Same-sex hand-holding isn't possible in capitalist countries? South Korea has the same hand-holding culture: https://www.quora.com/Is-holding-hands-a-big-deal-in-Korea-i...

Comment · 3 years ago

Are we talking about influencers, or “the world’s brightest minds”?

Comment · 3 years ago

I'm saying ads aren't "addictive", because they're pretty despised. They might be effective, when people see them, but I don't think anyone is "addicted" to ads.

Comment · 3 years ago

> the most brilliant minds in the world are researching best ways to make internet advertisements as addictive as they can be.

They're doing a great job, ads are so addictive I've even turned off my Ad blocker so I can get more of them! Won't someone save me!

Comment · 3 years ago

Not the person you're replying to, but you can calculate the "implied volatility" using the current option pricing vs the current stock price. As the consensus of price movement (up or down) increases, the option prices go up.

https://www.optionsplaybook.com/options-introduction/what-is...

Comment · 3 years ago

Standard democrat playbook:

1) "Look what they're doing and how bad it is" 2) "We would never do something like that" 3) Do something like that. 4) "What do you mean we're doing that? This is 'whataboutism', we were talking about how terrible the other group is!"

I hope you will come around some day. I'm equally worried about the authoritarianism of both parties, and can't decide which dystopia I'd rather live in. Option A: No right to self-defense but having abortion rights, letting violent criminals out on $0 bail. Option B: A right to self-defense but living in a country which wants to legislate based on religion.

Comment · 3 years ago

> minor painting around the edges of trying to implement sensible gun restrictions to mitigate the onslaught of mass murders is somehow implementing authoritarianism.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. Just because it doesn’t affect you it’s “not that bad.” It is that bad. It is not “minor”. NYS is openly defying a Supreme Court Order, infringing on constitutional rights, saying “I don’t need data to prove (these laws) will change anything”, while citing racist laws from the 1800s as proof that their restrictions have history.

Antonyuk v Bruen: NYS Defense of the “good moral character clause” is “ From the early days of English settlement in America, the colonies sought to prevent Native American tribes from acquiring firearms”. But that’s fine justification for you, because you don’t like guns. NYS literally defended its requirement for character references with a CT law from the 1800s that said “any free negro who wishes to carry a firearm must obtain character references from several white neighbors, attesting to his character and temperament”. If this was any other topic, the dems would be decrying this racist rhetoric, but instead they’re the ones pushing it forward and standing behind it, while pretending to be the arbiters of racial equality.

I’m not disagreeing with you on the republicans poor behavior. But if you think the dems are the saints here and are “upholding democracy, law and order” or something, then I don’t think you can be helped. You’re just as blind as the republicans followers, and doing the same “frothing at the mouth” that they do about how bad the other side is, while ignoring pretending your side is the savior.

Also on the gerrymandering, here, also from a source you’ll probably like: https://www.vox.com/22961590/redistricting-gerrymandering-ho.... Don’t pretend the dems would change anything about this.

Comment · 3 years ago

No, I don’t think I will stop it, until people start to realize the democrats are doing the same thing. Also, what an authoritarian response for someone claiming not to be authoritarian.

The Democrats are actively ignoring Supreme Court rulings (Bruen case and the Hochul administration in NY doing exactly what the Supreme Court told them they could not do, which was to declare the entire state a “sensitive location”).

The Democrats also redraw voting districts as they like, just as they accuse the republicans of.

You have states like CA intentionally leaking the names, addresses and purchase lists of gun owners.

The entirety of “social authoritarianism” belongs to the democrats.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/561825-comedians-are-ri...

Comment · 3 years ago

> Indeed it's on the cusp of a full scale fascist take over.

From the democrats or republicans? ("Both" would be closest to correct, if we assume your statement is true.)

Edit: oooh did I make the left or the right angry with this comment? Both sides are authoritarian and infringing on your rights wherever they can, while simultaneously convincing their followers that only the opponents do it.

Comment · 3 years ago

Or there are programmers who write both. Something that I want to write once, have run on several different platforms, handle multi-threading nicely, and never have to think about again? Rust. Writing something to read in some data to unblock an ML engineer or make plots for management? Definitely not Rust, probably python. Then you can also churn out things at 10x the speed, but by writing the tricky parts in something other than python, you don't get dragged back down by old projects rearing their ugly heads, so you outpace the python-only colleagues in the long-term.

Comment · 3 years ago

I think Meta does reviews every 6 months, which makes it basically perpetual.

Comment · 3 years ago

You will never be _sure_ that it's limited to that age range, because what's appropriate for a given age is pretty subjective. I don't know why people are obsessed with making perfectly isolated bubbles for kids, it's just not possible.