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by basetop 7y ago
The government is in a tough spot. The largest retirement asset for most people is their homes. The second largest is their 401k. With baby boomers starting to retire in droves, the government has no choice but to keep housing prices and st
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by basetop 7y ago
We are not in as bad a shape as japan, but you are right. The stock markets around the world have been propped up by central banks since the financial crisis. The FED stepped in with a few trillion in QE to save wall street. The ECB impleme
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by basetop 7y ago
If they are fed up, they can just sell the shares and move on. Honestly, what is newsworthy about shareholders being upset with a CEO? There are shareholders upset with every publicly traded company. Considering the stock is up nearly 60% i
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by basetop 7y ago
What about their OS, Office Suite, DBs, etc? Do they turn down sales of those on human rights concerns too? Will Microsoft stop taking "telemetry" data with its software? Would they reject any sales to saudi arabia, china, israel
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by basetop 7y ago
What a great article. Loved the mix of historical references mixed with statistical data. Easily better than any news article I've read on college admissions issue. It's so rare that an article exceeds my expectations.
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by basetop 7y ago
I think Grant Hill said he grew a couple of inches in college. People say Kevin Durant is still growing. The guy is tall as some centers in the NBA now. I suspect you can keep growing a few years past 18. I suspect you can stop growing a fe
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by basetop 7y ago
It's not social media per se, it's the authorities or people in power. 10 or even 5 years ago, you could have debates on every controversial topic online from abortion to atheism to lgbt to healthcare. In comment threads you would
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by basetop 7y ago
I noticed that too. Particularly articles based on reddit and HN posts/comments. Maybe it's because those two are the primary social media platforms I use or maybe those are popular with media workers. The one that comes to mind
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by basetop 7y ago
It's funny when you watch it as a youth. It's get even funnier and more poignant and insightful when you watch it as an adult. You catch so many historical, political, cultural, linguistic, etc references that you missed as a kid.
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by basetop 7y ago
Doesn't sweden ban "hate speech/blasphemy" today? When conservatives are in power, they love to ban "hate speech". Now that liberals are in power, they also love to ban "hate speech". This makes me th
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by basetop 7y ago
My god, it's 2019. I can't believe QCOM and APPL were still ligitating this. How many years of lawsuits and counter-lawsuits has it been? I bet their lawyers are some of the happiest people of this decade.
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by basetop 7y ago
I don't think pointing out a potential conflict of interest is the same thing as a conspiracy theory.
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by basetop 7y ago
But the Disney and Fox merger got the green light? Seem like we are in a neverending era of mergers and consolidation. The big players get bigger and the number of competitors and options for customers decline.
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by basetop 7y ago
Yeah, the post is very odd. What math professor doesn't know how to get his proof/work validated or published?
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by basetop 7y ago
Until these whistleblowers expose EU beauracrats. Everybody claims to love whistleblowers and truth until they are the target of the expose. Take Assange and Manning. He was loved and praised by the left when he exposed war crimes primarily
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by basetop 7y ago
Socialism, communism and capitalism are all "amoral". I think you are confusing "amoral" with "immoral". I'm not saying capitalism is immoral. I'm saying it's amoral : "Neither inherently go
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by basetop 7y ago
How about just letting the users have control over their own social media accounts/etc? Why did social media go from a simple platform where people followed other people or interests to a place where they have to manage everything? How
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by basetop 7y ago
That isn't capitalism. Capitalism says nothing about how many hours to work or freedom. Capitalism is an amoral system. Neither inherently good or bad. It's about power and who gets to wield it. In monarchic systems, the monarch h
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by basetop 7y ago
I wouldn't credit the religion ( fundamental or not ). After all, much of modern science was created by "fundamental" priests, clerics, adherents, etc ( from copernicus to newton to mendel ). Rather, the jewish scientists ben
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by basetop 7y ago
You can thank their redesign. Try using "old.reddit.com" while it last. And stop using reddit once that gets taken down. Reddit was once a great site. Now it's a corporatized, censored mess that sold its soul for short-term c
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by basetop 7y ago
The mythical man month ( required reading for most CS programs ) goes into a historical and production aspect of why software projects take longer than what you think and what you expected. Also, there is a law named after author called the
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by basetop 7y ago
As far as I know, op-ed stood for opinon editorial. To say it is "opposite of the editorial board" doesn't make sense when the editorial board themselves contribute to the op-ed. For example, the editorial board endorsed hill
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by basetop 7y ago
There are specific taxes for specific projects. I'd say specific taxes are a good thing. For example, gas tax for roads, healthcare tax for health insurance, etc. What most people are opposed to is income tax ( which historically was o
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by basetop 7y ago
What does the article have to do with incels. People who blame everything on incels aren't any better than people who blame everything on feminists. It's just toxicity and no substance. Why reach for the lowest common denominator?
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by basetop 7y ago
I don't get why you are being downvoted. Mueller said there was no russian collusion. And The NYTimes even published an "apology". https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/mueller-trump-n
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by basetop 7y ago
Agreed. Lets wait to see whether it is truly a success before hyping it. Especially since lebron's school opened in fall of 2018. I say it takes a generation to see if an education system is a sucess, not half a school year. Can we rea
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by basetop 7y ago
Sadly, employees are just another resource ( human resource ) in the modern world.
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As a minority, I hope this isn't another "minority schools do well turned scam". Seems like we have these "amazing successes" turned to "scams" every couple of years. https://www.nytimes.com&#x2
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by basetop 7y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. The famed neuroscientist ramanachandram had a story about how psychiastrists were assigning woman with all kinds of disparate diagnoses for her occasional erratic behavior. Turns out neuroscien
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by basetop 7y ago
Perhaps one part curation, two parts crowd source and three parts algorithm? I don't think you can entirely automate this because there are nuances and issues of categorization. I'd like to see it user/community driven. A use

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