Tulip68

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by Tulip68 10y ago
Bravo to Canada. This is how you build soft power. This is how you build goodwill with the global Muslim community. This is how you break the back of ISIS by drawing millions of Muslims onto your aside and away from the voices of divi
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by Tulip68 10y ago
The statistics on these people committing terrorism is literally zero. Not a single act of terrorism within the United States has been committed by a single person from any of these targeted countries. The statistics are unambiguously clear
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by Tulip68 10y ago
Excellent news on an otherwise pretty terrible day. Brian Chesky and the entire Airbnb team are showing America at its very best: forward-looking, innovative, diverse, multicultural and. The contrast with the Trump-type people -- primarily
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by Tulip68 10y ago
This is not hyperbole: if this statement is accurate, a coup d'etat is in progress in which our illegitimate "President" is overriding the authority of the judicial branch and it is time for every American who still believe
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by Tulip68 10y ago
Just as every one of Hitler's cabinet-level ministers was deemed at the very least complicit in that regime's crimes against humanity, so it every single one of Trumpf's cronies guilty for being an enabler of these disgusting
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by Tulip68 10y ago
It's very simple: make it socially unacceptable to promote the ethnic cleansing of a religion comprised of nearly a billion people, 99.999% of whom are decent, peaceful people who share the same types of dreams, goals and values as the
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by Tulip68 10y ago
One other important thing, especially when trying to persuade someone ambivalent or even in favor of this insanity: appeal to their self-interest. People who don't see a problem with ethnically cleansing the country of people based on
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by Tulip68 10y ago
Appeals to majority do not make sense when it comes to fundamental human rights; we have a Constition for a reason. More concretely: majorities of Americans once believed that African-Americans could be someone else's property or that
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by Tulip68 10y ago
What Trumpf has done here is so far beyond the pale I think you have to look toward tinpot dictatorships to find a comparison. This is not a disagreement about tax policy, trade, healthcare, etc. Rather, this is an illegitimate, unqualified
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Refugee Scaremongering Has No Basis in Reality(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by Tulip68 10y ago|0 comments
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The Closing of America(mobile.nytimes.com)
55 points by Tulip68 10y ago|19 comments
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Visualizing the US-Mexico Wall(theintercept.com)
3 points by Tulip68 10y ago|1 comments
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by Tulip68 10y ago
It's absolutely horrifying what's going on in the United States. Trying to dictate what are appropriate avenues of investigation for practicing scientists is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes (see "Deutsch Physiks" in
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by Tulip68 10y ago
I believe he is talking about buying condos; those prices are in thousands of dollars. Based on friends of mine living in London, my understanding is that rent is much more expensive that that (and more or less in line with NYC rental pri
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by Tulip68 10y ago
Damn I'm going to miss this guy. I realize HN deserves a higher level of discourse, but it's just got to be said: Fuck Drumpf.
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Don’t think of a rampaging elephant(salon.com)
1 points by Tulip68 10y ago|0 comments
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by Tulip68 10y ago
That is a very bad idea in general and will lead to enormous memory leaks when large tee'd iterators get out of sync with one another. See here: This itertool may require significant auxiliary storage (depending on how much temporary