Ben White
@ape_detective
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Can I combine all these software parts to solve a problem? Preferably without doing very much actual work?
Joined July 2023
@Maarblek I keep pointing this out, but women value your hobbies -- and everything else in the world -- based on whether they will gain or lose social status talking to their friends about it. There's nothing else going on.
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@wanyeburkett He says he’s empathetic, then immediately dismisses everyone else’s perspective.
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@memeticsisyphus If they actually cared about other people, they’d listen and converse and try to understand instead of lecturing and signaling and making demands. They only want you to care about them.
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@anammostarac I thought James Cameron wanted us to understand that if you have the good skin color, you don’t have to help destitute people. No need to share resources — even resources you’re not using — with desperate outsiders. Heroically send them back to starve instead.
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@BenMullin Note how none of them have anything to say about NPR's mission or NPR's audience. They think the purpose of NPR is to serve the feelings of staff. You see this all the time.
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@eyeslasho How can an American be a "manager" and not be able to speak English?. Even when you’re writing fantasy fiction stories, they need to make sense.
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@DavidSacks @LauraLoomer @sriramk Wish you guys wanted to help Americans more. We don’t want Americans to be relegated to being janitors and baristas and waiters for foreign tech workers. It’s not some 16-19 year old American kid's fault his government school education was bad. Help him out a little.
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@EricRichards22 Migrants and criminals don’t pay for insurance, so everyone else pays more.
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@JulieLovesFluff @Jeannehope Minnesota nice is fake anyway. It disappears as soon as someone wants something.
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@zerohedge Wrong. Also the AI doomers about coding are extremely wrong. Learning to code is a step to learning other things — like how to prompt an AI to write your code, and how to understand whether you succeeded or failed at prompting it. Learning valuable skills always wins.
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@DaSkrubKing Answer:. actually caring about how people are doing instead of instructing the public to dutifully applaud.
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@Tweetorelli Lots of risky behavior has an inverse correlation with scores on standardized tests. That includes risky driving behavior. You know that, right?.
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@PanasonicDX4500 Illegally living in a foreign country means you risk being deported …. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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@wanyeburkett I think the kid should have three of these in case two of them break. That makes me morally superior to everyone else in this discussion, right?.
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@yacineMTB It’s not about the guys. She’s complaining that she’s lonely. She is lonely because she decides to be lonely. If you can’t understand posts, you can ask Grok to explain them to you.
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@therealcliffyb Cliff, serious question:. Do you think that complaining about the audience is what game designers should be doing?. Are game designers too self-important to care about what the audience wants?.
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@realchrisrufo … then, after they’re earned through risk and accomplishment, those rewards get taken away and given to foreigners. While pundits gaslight you with fake employment numbers.
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@notch You should build what you want. I assume you don’t need the money too badly. If it’s good, you’ll be happy and people will enjoy it. I suggest telling a story in a million little lore hints. More interesting than "numbers go up".
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@wanyeburkett We could have a really nice society if we merely insisted on it. Progressive activists have a criminal mentality. They may not have verifiably committed punishable crimes yet, but they chose their side against civil society.
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@Goldrushcomic Bigfoot shown to be exponentially smarter and better at hiding than giant squid.🦑 . Megalopod 🥇 .Cephalopod 🥈.
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@wanyeburkett My car keeps getting stolen with my kids in it. Every 3rd time I leave the kids in the car to take the grocery cart back, the car gets stolen. I used to have 9 kids. Down to two now. It’s a really big problem, Wayne.
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@jftrent @michalnowakow I like how all the replies to you are "so what? It’s awesome that CDPR does all this DEI stuff that the CEO denies they do!".
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@YayAreaNews Thinking about why my garage is so full of junk that I park the cars outside. Seriously people, throw away that stuff in your garage.
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@IdiotsInCamera If I’m the guy in the camera car, I slow waaaaaaaaay down as soon as this starts happening and let these guys get like 1/4 mile ahead of me.
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@getnormality Disney makes bad movies and apologizes for when they used to make good movies. That’s their identity now.
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@memeticsisyphus She wants to talk to her friends and thinks they won’t like bird watching and she’ll lose social status. That’s 100% of this list.
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@reddit_lies They want to lecture you so bad. Your role is to listen and applaud. Didn’t you know?.
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@wanyeburkett Regulations and unproductive nonsense often actually help the biggest companies. They have lawyers and HR staff and administrators. Having to hire lawyers and HR staff and administrators for unproductive nonsense raises the cost to fund and establish a new competitor.
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@wanyeburkett If the goal was to help out the people of the US, we would only let in people who would help out the US. So the left's goal is very obviously not to help the people of the US.
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@captivedreamer7 I hated school, but I think the absolute worst thing is that I don’t have a single happy memory from anything that happened at school. It’s the focus of a kid’s life for 12 years. Zero happy memories. Zero.
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@tracewoodgrains @KevinF_26 @upstatefederlst The "you’re not Too Good" argument needs to die. This is America. We get to have aspirations. Only enemies of Americans would disagree.
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@wanyeburkett Like most things, the opposition to home schooling is motivated by:.- those people who do it are THE OTHER. Not our type of people .- money.
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@wanyeburkett Wanting immigration laws to benefit Americans used to be a centrist position. Now it’s far right because Democrats don’t want immigration laws at all. And the way immigration affects Americans is, at most, a complete afterthought to them.
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@BenTelAviv They saved money by hiring someone at that salary in San Francisco. That’s the type of thing that needs to be improved: bidding down salaries. (For people who don’t know, SF is crazy expensive.).
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@wanyeburkett They should do a study. Did it matter? How much did it matter?. Personally I think police enforcement of laws against _very dangerous_ driving helps, but enforcing laws against ordinary but technically illegal driving is just another tax that makes life worse for us all.
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@wanyeburkett Also, if you want a guy in Texas to make an extraordinary effort to drive a fuel tanker two days to the disaster zone, you need to pay extra for that effort. Give him the same, barely worthwhile wage he normally gets, don’t expect extraordinary effort. People there NEED the.
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@joshgondelman If airlines overbook flights on purpose, they’ll try to cheat you out of using your $1700 voucher for the same purpose.
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@wanyeburkett The argument is to open the door for good people who will make things better and close it for bad people who will make things worse. That requires a door. One that closes.
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@eyeslasho Getting water to people is merely an engineering problem. We’re not at the mercy of rains and watersheds. We can simply move water wherever we want, whenever we want, as much as we want.
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@wanyeburkett Unless today’s weather is the most extreme it’s ever been in history, it was always colder and warmer and drier and wetter and every other weather condition in the past. Old timer stories aren’t enough to conclude anything. No one tells a story about medium weather.
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@asymmetricinfo @Animal5pirits @vimrich If you let people charge 4x or 6x for them, guys in the whole southeast and midwest will take time off work, buy as many as they can, load them in a truck and spend days driving them to Florida.
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@XVanFleet The subway on the left is run by a government that actively dislikes the people they govern. Evil comes in more than one flavor.
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@Jason "Moderate Democrats" never seem to say no to radicals though. You say "slower", "later", "same but with a different tone", etc. - Ruinous spending is totally cool if we go bankrupt in 2046 instead of 2038. - Or let’s spend a lot less without any big changes in who gets money or.
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@Duderichy She’ll end up writing a bill that lets daycares hire lawyers to sue regulators. Then, after 5 or 6 years, judges will say daycares can peel a banana, but they can’t peel a carrot because peeling carrots requires a tool.
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@wanyeburkett She’s just lying. She rewrites it into a little morality play for likes from other similar middle-school mean girl types. None of them care about facts. It’s merely social positioning. Don’t you want the fashionable rich girls to like you, Wanye?.
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@Stone_tossers Except the guy in gray is a lawyer and knows he’s lying. He went to law school to get good at it.
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@wanyeburkett They’re praising themselves. They’re saying they personally wouldn’t have that problem. Because they’re personally better than anyone who could ever have that problem.
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@DeveloperHarris It’s amazing that people will just blindly believe any estimate numbers anyone writes down.
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@Alkibiades_ Same reason businesses are closing down in crime-ridden places in the US: you can’t build anything or make any systemic improvements in places where criminals steal and destroy. All your efforts get stolen or destroyed.
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@wanyeburkett No, in fact they don’t "…know how when you’re watching the World Series or the Super Bowl …".
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@DavidKPiano Honest question for everyone: did you need to invert binary trees in real work in the last 10 years?. Do you manipulate binary trees at all? What time in history did binary tree manipulation peak? 1986?.
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@politicalmath They were prevented from changing the rules to recount the ballots in a few specific counties using new rules. They were hoping to adjust the statewide totals together with other counties that were counted using the regular rules. That’s what the court rejected: two different.
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@wanyeburkett A lot of the eviction nonsense is because courts basically don’t even try to serve the public. Eviction should take less than 30 days. No one needs (or has a due process right to take) any more time than that. Fast evictions would lower rents and increase supply of housing.
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@financeguy725 Infrastructure that supports older houses was already paid for long, long ago.
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@wanyeburkett Their job isn’t to just escalate. If we wanted maximum escalation, we could just hire a street gang to go kill people who seemed troublesome. Or get together and do it ourselves. Police protect a civilized society. Protection of civilized society is distinct from escalation.
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@tszzl If they wanted kindness instead of cruelty, they’d have modeled kind behavior towards us during the pandemic. They chose cruelty because they had a broader objective. We have a broader objective.
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@j4567r @goldscience77 You can look at the one car garage. This house is small-ish by American suburban standards.
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@VioletFlame23 @wanyeburkett Democrats opened their 2024 national convention with a land acknowledgment.
The opening of the DNC Platform is an “acknowledgment” that America is stolen land. Of course if the land hadn’t been “stolen” the Democrats would be having their convention in the woods and the speeches would be sent out via smoke signal.
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@the_transit_guy Aren’t you the guy who wants airports to be worse? Make our experience so bad we’d take a 4 hour train ride instead of a 50 minute flight? . We’re not going to ride trains if air travel is actually good, you know.
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@wanyeburkett I want the factory owner to face a labor shortage so he has to hire locals, even when locals aren’t as good as he wants. Because otherwise the locals will be unemployed and on some form of welfare, lurking in town all day. Government policy should be trying to help everyone.
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@thomasmetcalf @wanyeburkett The purpose is to return to an orderly society where laws are obeyed and we decide laws using a legislative process. In this case, immigration laws.
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@wanyeburkett It’s important to remember that they make up rules to condemn and censor you whenever they want. All meanings are entirely fluid. Also good to remember you can and should entirely disregard complaints like theirs. We didn’t ask for their approval and we are very happy not to.
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@wanyeburkett The amazing thing is that you guys apparently didn’t learn from what happened to Brendan Eich and Palmer Luckey and were still shocked in 2017. If they can blacklist the guy who invented JavaScript (2014) and the key guy at Oculus in 2016, then what chance did Damore (who is not.
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@JTLonsdale Americans shouldn’t be relegated to being janitors and waiters and baristas for foreign tech workers. Not welfare recipients either. Help Americans more. To the real opportunities, not the scraps left over. US policy can help out Americans without compromising top line goals.
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@The_Chillton All those countries who voted yes can just buy food for whoever they want. They don’t need the UN's permission or anything.
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@f33dthedrummer @GKBesterfriend No, working class families of 5 did not go on annual overseas vacations.
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@bariweiss The people you're talking about think they should have been sneakier, trickier, more underhanded, and controlled and manipulated events with more care. They understand that letting people see the truth yesterday was a big mistake. They will resolve to never make that mistake.
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@SullyCNBC Don’t worry. They’ll hire more deputy assistant principals and a Manhattan agency to create an awareness campaign with a lapel ribbon.
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@esrtweet Disney shareholders should sue. It’s an obvious breach of duty to keep spending money making this garbage.
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@samswoora - It’s expensive. - You get tired of it after a couple years but it’s still there long after you get tired of it. - When you sell the house, the buyers might not want it. Houses on the market have neutral looks to appeal to the most buyers.
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@wanyeburkett This pretends that some bureaucrat’s decision to put a number on a sign is somehow a physical law of the universe. Some of those signs are 20 or 30 years old, the numbers are the same, but the roads and cars have changed dramatically.
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@cafreiman If you want to gatekeep your label, you can have it all to yourself. The American people matter infinitely more than any philosophy or label. "I’m a [insert label here]" was always lame and a rhetorical trap.
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@SullyCNBC @politico Good thing no politician who changes a position for an election would ever change it back once in office.
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@IMAO_ People will name-call you now. Because they think bullying the audience somehow works. Or making excuses somehow gets audiences to buy entertainment products.
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