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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Great article. Australia has the best animals. Even a mammal with an extremely painful venomous sting (the platypus), a pain that's not relieved by morphine. And the Tasmanian Devil, one of the nastiest looking little creatures on 4 le
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> Please don't mistake free speech for hate and spite if you'd put this some other way, I'd be down with it. However, people who say "hate speech is not free speech" are just plain wrong. Yes, it is.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
The Southern Poverty Law Center is ideologically committed to certain positions. If you read a poll sponsored by Breitbart, would you inclined to believe it? How about Media Matters? Stick to organizations that do polling for a living.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I don't think you want the word "literally" there. https://topnews.in/ten-most-boring-videos-youtube-revealed-2... Over 1M views! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOPygVcaVE
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
ok, so how about we set up a webcam in your bedroom and livestream it on the Internet?
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I've never lived in NYC, but I've both driven and taken subways there. Not real recently, though, so this could be out of date. On "finding parking": it's all a question of $$$. If you're willing to pay through
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> High speed rail is a different story of course. You must be talking about Japan or Europe. The California "bullet train" was / is going to take 4 hours to go SF - LA. Less than driving, but about the same as flying, even
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
"Privacy"?? Once you get charged with a crime, all you have is the presumption of innocence. You don't have a privacy right anymore. He IS being well-advised not to talk to anyone, though.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Unfortunately, if you read about real spies, they're quite often abandoned or sacrificed by their own side. Everyone in the business lies, just to keep in practice. This applies to both sides. Sometimes a compromised agent is "exf
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Yeah, I don't think most editors would think a pun about First Nation graves would be a clever idea.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Don't get too dizzy from all that spinning around. So do you really believe everyone in Canada read that and thought "Oh, they're using the word in a figurative sense! Never mind." If something is, by definition, in t
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Strong disagree on your strong disagreement. As the term has been corrupted, it just means "Code that isn't the way I would have done it." You won't have to fix it a year from now -- you'll just be cursing at havi
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
"Scary" -- today's leading Condescending word. "Change is scary" coming along right behind. How TF do they know what you find "scary" or not? Or does it just let them weasel out of the fact that you just
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
The answer to "how do we fix science?" could only be some committee or bureaucracy, and that will probably work about as well as getting a bunch of HR people together to decide "how do we fix Engineering?" The author&#
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
As someone who's read Anna Karenina three times and yet despises anyone in Russia who puts up a Z, or who idolizes Stalin. The cleanest way out is to separate them. The work of art stands on its own, and you can't critique The Ep
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Actually, no. Only the top layer of bureaucracies can change every 4 years. The vast majority of them are civil servants, who basically can't be fired.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Re solutions: now do Project Veritas. If you're a whistleblower and you're not getting shunned by "respectable" people, you're probably doing something wrong.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Speed of change is not an argument for the administrative state. If anything, it's an argument against. Laws delegating powers to executive agencies are done all the time, some successfully, some not. I've never heard anyone say t
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
A fascinating question. Are you worried?
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
You might want to study up on legal drafting & construction. It IS possible to write laws that are reasonably broad without just saying "the agency will do whatever it wants here." Maybe it's not easy, but that's wha
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
you & the other poster are right, of course -- SCOTUS only deals with Federal controversies. They do set a (non-binding) direction for state Supreme Courts, though.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Very true. People did drink a lot more back then (even John Adams had some hard cider with breakfast), but also, the alcohol content of their wine or beer was probably pretty low.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
So "commerce" takes place even when you don't buy or sell anything? Is that what you're saying?
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
You are throwing up a false and dishonest choice: it's not "conceive of every loophole and edge case" vs. "let bureaucrats do whatever they want."
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> In a country where Congress has been deadlocked for decades So your answer to the problem of a government you don't like is: invent another one? A better answer is just to write laws more carefully, broad enough to cover unforesee
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
There's a SCOTUS decision, nickname Chevron deference which is due to be overturned, and I think most of the posters here should be in favor of overturning it. In AZ, I'm pretty sure the Legislature and Governor never intended t
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I haven't been to Japan, so I'm not arguing. Just curious: have you been to Mt. Shasta in northern CA? Their water is awesome.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Good point. I say, have the regular stuff (w/sugar) but just go easy with it.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I'm being a killjoy here, sorry: Just drink water. Much healthier. Carbonated, if you like. With some lemon or lime juice, maybe.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
Indeed. When you find yourself inventing TLAs for simple concepts, you might ask if it's just to obscure that you don't know what you're doing.

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