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While I mostly agree I think this one is more about older people in government simply not understanding tech and data in the age of IoT. I know they do have some small understanding because I have recently read up on SOX, HIPAA and Graham Leach Baily act which all have to do with protecting data and securing IT in some way. What they mostly boil down to is, write stuff down, make sure consumers know it, and protect your computers, and then we will make another group of qualified people who oversee the enforcement usually under the FTC or FCC and make more recommendations.

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BTW, that was literally the joke Dave made. That progress on LGBTQ rights was so fast that they can still use their white privilage against people who look like Dave if they are both white and LGBTQ+. Meanwhile people who marched with MLK jr had to march again in 2020 after Geroge Floyd's murder and in the 90s after Rodney King and again recently due to voting rights and racist redistricting laws. Dave's mistake was he didnt take into account people who were part of both minority groups and face opression on two counts.

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I agree with your points but his particular joke was about transphobia vs racism. That trans and gay people can turn on their white privilage in a second to attack black people, including using cops to attack black people, knowing cops are trained to fear black people and use excessive force against them.

Of course he isnt taking into account people who are both black and trans but in only this one case, you need to actually understand the joke first.

All that said, Netflix is also wrong because as employees of Netflix the people will be linked to this content weather they like it or not and it doesnt matter what content you are talking about weather its The Bodyguard(Islamophobic), Dave Chapelle(Transphobia), Squid Game(anti capatilist or anti communist depending on whi you ask) or probably the worst, Cuties(GOP and Qanon has diluted this word, but pedophilia). If you are an employee and this is original content, your name is forever linked to it and so you should be able to have a say in it. If it was purchased content, maybe you could say you weren't involved.

Overall this is a complex issue with multiple layers and I say this all as a hardcore leftist.

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I think we really need to limit how many one can own. Start taxing very very very heavily for anything beyond a second home for individuals and and anything beyond another number based on statistics for a company. Also add attitional tax for every two months a property is owned but no one is living in it or using it for business. This should cut down on hording and incentivize companies and people to get rid of any property that is just lying there waiting for prices to go up.

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My team just does a weekly virtual meeting specifically for those social aspects, we could discuss anything in those meetings but it usually turns into TV, games or movies. As well as occasionally doing office appropriate games like Jackbox and Mario Kart. That might potentially help you and it helps morale and creates team bonding.

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I am totally ready to read rational discussions that in no way is colored by hatered of either side or belonging to a particular religion or political beliefs or consperacy theories you have read about either side. I am also totally expecting everyone here on HN to be expert historians and masters of international relations.

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There are some typos and of course I meant world war 1. I am typing on a phone keyboard that isnt very accurate.

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No this is colonial social conditioning. Those same white Europeans werent scoffing at Arab, Persian or Indian scholars in the Renaissance, Romans and Greeks intermarried with Egyptians and Indians, even in the midst of the Crusades Brungandians were making alliences with Siljuks against Italy and the Fatimids didnt fight the crusaders because they were allied to the Bayzentines. And the Ottomans were alloed with Britain at some times and with Germany in World War 2, Boris Johnson himself is a descendent of an Ottoman official. The Ottoman sultan even offered to help with the potato famine in Ireland but was rebuffed by the British queen for giving more than her. There IS kinship, there IS massive history but since the colonial era and probably propped by Darwin and the the Nazis, Europeans have got it into their minds that they are genetically superior and should not even fix the mess they made when they took down the Ottomans and divided the middle east in a compeletely nonsensical way. This isnt even going into the even more messy Cold War history.

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Not many good games these days. I recently played through Age Of Empires 3 and 4. I just dont like stuff like Elden Ring that is popular these days due to Dark Souls or every third person game being turned into an RPG with stats and inventory and side quests.

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There is the CS's famed eletism and gate keeping. Just because its not Harvard or Stanford its not relevant? I am a CS grad myself but there is so much toxicity in the community when looking at places like HN. And I am not saying anything about your point. Maybe you are right, I just hate that you start off with 'b-school bad' argument.

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"Arab mujahdeen"? That word just proves you know nothing and arent interested in learning because a tiny fact check would tell you that you meant Afghan mujhadeen let alone knowing that off the top of your head when making your intellictually dishonest point. Another proof of you lack of knowledge is the racist anti immigrant sentiment. Pakistan and Iran accept the largest number of refugees in the world mostly from Afghanistan. And I am guessing your hostile attitude has nothing to do with the fact that its AlJezera and not Fox News, which btw sided with Putin up until very recently, saying this. I am not sure if you are a right wing grifter or have conditioned into one by the likes of Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and CS grad's favourite Nazi, Jordan Peterson but I reccomend you diversify your news sources. Try Some More News, Renagade Cut, or The Damage Report for once if you cant stomach Ari Melbar, Racheal Madow, or John Oliver.

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Also long covid which can render people unable to work or issues like taking care of people who are sick or immunocompromised people who used to work outside but can't now.

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Yes. In most discussions I see about the resignation people on both sides seem to forget that those numbers of infections or deaths were actual people who had jobs but now can't work. And many of these were essential workers who made very little.

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Some censorship needs to be accepted as anti terror measures. If you white people were ok with random brown people being pulled aside by TSA for random checks after 9/11, I as a brown progressive am ok with your Christian white Taliban organizing and propaganda being censored after 1/6.

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Just do stuff. The world has a lot of terrible problems and being in your unique position, you could start to tackle those that are close to you. Eg,climate change,public transport, homelessness, hunger, etc. E.g. If I had that kind of money and time, I would buy up land to do build a vertical farm and research hydrophonics and aquaphonics as replacement for traditional farming.

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I think the problem is CLRS is extremely dry and can easily put you to sleep so people do just enough to pass or get a good grade and forget about it. As a math grad, I think you had the advantage of having a lot more theory. Ideally more algo classes would combine with practical stuff like the youtube channel Coding Train or thr book Nature of Code by Schiffman to make things interesting for people who like to see things happen immediately.

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I am surprized no one me tioned we could just limit home ownership to 2-3 for individuals and lets say 20 or so for a company. The actual limits can be decided based on discussion and metrics but just having a limit, any limit could stop companies or rich assholes from buying real estate as "assets" as opposed to a place where people live. Also a limit on just holding property that is meant to be rented out. Either use it, or rent it out to someone who will use it and keep increasing the fine until they rent it out to encourage a real free market.

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Then get a pi-top instead of this. That takes a normal rasbperry pi 4 and puts it into a huge case and takes away part of the use case for the pi being so small