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by DenisM 6y ago
I think you’re looking for old-school journalism? You might be interested in the list of people who signed “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”, some notable journalists among them: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-a
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> That in your personal bubble, beyond which you don't care to look, everything is fine, so it's fine and you vote accordingly, whatever that means? I didn't say any of that, why do you make things up on my behalf?
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No paywall: https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oa...
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This looks like a rebuttal of something I did not say. Can you clarify which point of mine you’re refuting?
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In two decades I’ve had a handful interactions and witnessed quite a few more in Seattle - zero malfeasance observed. Most people who are happy with the police will never be loud about it, but they do vote.
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> Who is so insecure they need a gun with their croissant. Maybe these guys: ... four police officers of Lakewood, Washington were fatally shot at the Forza Coffee shop ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Lakewo
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So making an argument that “isn’t really addressing (your point)” is how you define “shut down”?
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> shut down arguments about mask wearing How is “shutting down” different from disagreement here?
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Surely one could control for wealth to tease out the effect? There has to be enough overlap between two large groups. Oh wait, here we go: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20560836/ [...] The likelihood of violence asso
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by DenisM 6y ago
On a tangent, but any suggestions for a tool to stitch up drone aerial imagery and use it as a map? Preferably on the phone/tablet.
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How come we hear about dangerous meth-heads and crack-heads, but not about coke-heads?
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After the AppStore launched the app prices underwent serious compression over time, but a decade later the prices have decompressed and inflated way past the starting point - turns out there were enough people willing to pay for the privile
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It's very important to have this conversation out in the open - contempt for meritocracy is a persistent undercurrent of the social strife in the west, and left unattended it will derail most efforts to improve our society.
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> he's calculated Trump down by 3 points right now Do you mean Trump has less support this election by 3% compared to the last election?
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> it seems like the whole this different mobs gunning for each other. What are the various mobs you refer to?
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That's a very interesting idea. Do you think people will be more forthcoming this way?
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> It is increasingly tempting to vote for the Guillotine. It didn't work so well the last few times it was used - the English revolution, the French revolution, the Russian revolution, all ended up in a bloodbath, next one more grue
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It's the same deal tho - the federal government has no jurisdiction over the healthcare system either. The Obamacare, if you recall, in large part hinged on a "tax" created just for this purpose because taxation is the purvie
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Yeah, I was hoping "re-segregation" sort of covers it, but it seems not. I will add "skimming" into the list, thanks for bringing this up.
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>Also, your mask is slipping What are you insinuating?
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These seem to be the "real" reasons: 1) re-segregation 2) skimming[B] 3) de-unionization 4) benchmarking[A] 5) statism preference. The other declared reasons seemed unconvincing to me. [A] Benchmarking - competing schools provide
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> The federal government is worse than useless, The federal government has no jurisdiction over education. The only exception to that is the civil rights (Brown v. Board of Education) and it's quite limited in scope. COVID is certai
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The Los Angelos teachers added a few other requests [1]. The introduction starts with: [...] LAUSD educators clearly want to get back into schools with their students, but the underlying question at every step must be: Given broader societa
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> legitimize the mindset the parent is pushing Is this phrase the same as "I disagree with the parent"?
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I'll start: - Offering candidates their choice of whiteboard vs take-home. I've found that different people have different preferences, and they liven up when they are told they have a choice in the matter.
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Ok, so what can I as an interviewer do to reduce stress for the candidate? Let's make good use of this discussion and compile a list of practical suggestions.
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Thank you for your work, dang. I want to add that the flamewar type of discussion will attract a certain kind of visitors to the site, who will then steer the entire site in the flamewar direction attracting more of their own kind. For that
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> Can you present evidence of moderation not having a one sided bias? Can you present the evidence of manipulation? The data is in the open.
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How do you know what the population thinks? Have there been an polls done?
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In aviation the auto-pilot is a relatively dumb machine that must be supervised, whereas a co-pilot is a human that could be trusted with full operations of the aircraft. I find it rather droll that the common use of the words completely in

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