MsMowz

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by MsMowz 6y ago
To make it more alarming, this news comes only a few months after reports of forced sterilization in migrant concentration camps[1]. [1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914465793/ice-a-whistleblower...
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by MsMowz 7y ago
Since it's true at least in orientation, they're probably not trolling
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by MsMowz 8y ago
That's not a popular opinion because it's functionally the same as saying only the people who can afford to buy a home or enter a long-term lease should have access to affordable, stable housing. Since politics is about who gets w
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by MsMowz 8y ago
Minor in what sense? It’s still one of the largest in terms of industry revenue and viewership.
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by MsMowz 8y ago
Historically, it’s been the task of intellectuals to try to take complex issues and make them understandable by non-experts. That’s how theory gets connected to practice in democractic societies.
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by MsMowz 8y ago
Why would the Kushners be stifling right-wing voices?
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by MsMowz 8y ago
>All this Germany bashing and his constant condescending remarks remove a tad of his credibility I think it’s the exact opposite. He’s speaking from the experience of being in the Eurogroup and negotiating directly with Germany. Anything
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by MsMowz 8y ago
Let's just consider this for a second from a political standpoint. What does Cuba have to gain from sabotaging the improving relations with the United States? The embargo is still a huge, huge burden for them, and they have no major al
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by MsMowz 8y ago
Political pieces aren't appropriate for Hacker News.
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by MsMowz 8y ago
You're not including payroll, sales, or property taxes, though.
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by MsMowz 8y ago
That source doesn't say anything that adds credibility to your point. It's just waffling about the US's involvement in the civil war. By contrast, the WikiLeaks dump of the 1973 diplomatic cables undermine what you're sa
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by MsMowz 8y ago
Which war? The US backed them in the civil war.
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by MsMowz 8y ago
Wow, what a story. It's great that he told it, too. I've seen in thrown around that 1 in 7 American adults are functionally illiterate, and I can't imagine what kind of life that must be.
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by MsMowz 8y ago
The US-backed Khmer Rouge was propped up to defeat the communist movement in Cambodia. They certainly weren't communists by any post-1848 definition.
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by MsMowz 8y ago
It really, really doesn't matter. That's one great thing about a distributed SCM.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Another option is aggressively tutoring students who fall behind. Finland does this to great success. I'm not sure what the ratio is now, but at one point there was a tutor for every 7 students on average in Finnish schools. You'r
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by MsMowz 9y ago
If these students go through a process like Project Bright Idea, as I mentioned, they would get the resources and mentorship they need. If they can't demonstrate it after that, they probably don't have it.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Despite going through gifted education programs myself, I'm deeply skeptical of the concept of them in general, and I've only become more skeptical as new research emerged. Here's a good example for why I'm skeptical: &g
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by MsMowz 9y ago
If the major releases were slowed down to once annually to keep up with TC-39, that seems frequent enough.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I really don't enjoy using MySQL. Compared to almost anything else, it's like stepping back in time. But I'll be damned if it doesn't work. We use a single MySQL instance to do a couple hundred million writes each day, a
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Those are not the only two options.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
You're reading way too much into fizzbuzz. Whenever I get a problem like this on a white board I know that it's just a screening question, so I solve it. Solving this toy problem is nothing like solving actual problems in the real
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Their concept of productive labor vs. unproductive labor was ultimately not that useful, but I really think it's interesting how critiques of classical political economy revisited the idea. Regardless of all economic activity being &qu
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by MsMowz 9y ago
The most interesting part of the cryptocurrency phenomenon has been the rise of pseudo-academic writing to support individual coins or the concept itself. Every time a new coin emerges, there's a detailed advertisement that's styl
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by MsMowz 9y ago
That will never happen on hacker news, certainly.
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by MsMowz 9y ago
This is a great win for German labor. Individual men have their privacy protected, and all workers can still benefit from seeing the median earnings for their fellow men and women. If a country is serious about resolving their pay gap, this
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by MsMowz 9y ago
What's most fun about anti-pomo hit pieces like this one is how decidedly postmodern their polemics are. More frustratingly, there is no unitary postmodernism, because it was a broad confederated movement, so undoubtedly there are post
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by MsMowz 9y ago
I know hiring is hard, and the truly qualified candidates for any posting are sparse, but startups throw out way too many potentially-decent candidates before giving them a real look. Bigger companies can afford to use more blunt heuristics
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by MsMowz 9y ago
Peterson is probably the most talented sophist around these days. This particular lecture series, like most of his other lectures, is full of ad hoc historical revisionism that just happens to line up exactly with his enlightened Christian
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by MsMowz 9y ago
It took several years before I really felt generally competent. I don't think there's a mastery stage, in the same way that artists never master a medium.

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