Exofunctor

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by Exofunctor 10y ago
The point is that most of these immigrants are poor, correspondingly prone to crime, and therefore not the sort of people you want to blast into your tiny population by the tens of thousands. Things are also confounded by the fact that most
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> they commit the same amount of crime as poor deprived members of indigenous populations. That's probably why people want to stop importing them en masse.
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Let us consider, for a moment, what biases the Swedish government may have: First, they want to make it look as though their policy choices have had positive outcomes. Second, they want to retain support for the current leading political po
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Personally, I've done a lot of dev work for Bitcoin for foreign nationals. It gets real annoying real fast to deal with PayPal or traditional international money transfer systems when you're talking contract work levels of money f
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> fleeing the earth is not one of them Why not? If a big asteroid is going to hit earth (for example), fleeing is a pretty reasonable response. It's also a reasonable defense against technobiological hazards.
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Having lived for >2 years in 6 different US states (NY, CA, TX, MA, NV, MT) and cities with populations ranging from 2,000 to 20,000,000, I can absolutely guarantee you that rural white areas have the least internalized racism of anywher
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
I did not vote for Trump, but I couldn't help but feel a bit of schadenfreude at the reaction of my mostly very liberal friend group to his win. For months and months, they'd been unfairly denigrating Trump supporters while simult
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
It's hard to be unbiased while being introspective, but I suspect I might be a bit of a jerk. I don't berate people, but I get frustrated easily with what I consider to be manifestly stupid choices. It's worth noting, then, t
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> sometimes hygienic reasons too The idea that circumcision has substantive positive health effects has been thoroughly debunked in the presence of semi-regular washing, and the jury is out in third-world countries without sanitation. Ho
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> The shit we breath and drink and surround ourselves with... Humans are healthier than ever. While nutrition will probably improve in the future, it's actually quite good right now. > Human beings driving cars. The activity that
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
The fact that some people still slice up the genitals of infants for religious or cosmetic reasons.
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> Assuming Berkeley doesn't get public funding though? Last year Berkeley got $370M in federal funding and $108M in state funding. http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/berkeley-research-numbers
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Public universities do not have the right to restrict student activities based on politics. If a student organization is able to host one kind of political speaker, they should be able to host any kind of political speaker. Private universi
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
I read an interesting argument related to this recently, which is that people on the right are aggressively self-policing; if someone tries looting or setting things on fire or attacking people at a right-leaning demonstration in the US,
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
(Using a throwaway, because I don't like putting this kind of stuff on my main account.) I'm an undergrad CS senior signed for a quant/programming job at a Wall Street trading firm after I graduate in a few months. I have sev