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by bdhe 4y ago
> To be eligible for forgiveness, you must have federal student loans and earn less than $125,000 annually (or $250,000 per household). Borrowers who meet that criteria can get up to $10,000 in debt cancellation. Do lawyers or doctors ty
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by bdhe 4y ago
> It's the old "I'm from the government and I am here to help" joke. What else is the government for? I understand it's a popular Reagan talking point but I don't really grok it. If you assume the govt doesn
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by bdhe 4y ago
No, I think the parent's comment was about cognitive dissonance amongst US people or media, so the discussion is about US attitudes. I think the EU has taken significant steps such as with the GDPR to protect its citizen's rights.
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by bdhe 4y ago
I don't think anyone is joyously accepting US corporations divulging information to the US govt., so that hyperbole is completely unnecessary. I think there is less cognitive dissonance than you think. There is still some belief that t
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Facebook is conducting quiet layoffs(businessinsider.com)
8 points by bdhe 4y ago|0 comments
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by bdhe 4y ago
Integrity? Something the world seems awfully short of, these days.
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by bdhe 5y ago
I'm not prescribing any restrictions. I'm just suggesting to the parent comment that the analogy actually makes sense and is closer to reality.
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by bdhe 5y ago
> I assume that the author will actually be advocating for society wide, extra legal penalties for known speeders; perhaps insisting on a public registry of those known to have had traffic citations, so those people can be denied service
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by bdhe 6y ago
Setting aside the discussion around the responses on twitter, I think his take on algorithmic bias is too simplistic. > Credit-card scoring algorithms may reject more qualified applicants in order to ensure that the same number of women
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by bdhe 6y ago
True. You'll see later that the commenter simultaneously holds the view that covid is overblown but also that we need to move heaven and earth to save schoolchildren, while I bet they're in full support of Trump's asinine &qu
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by bdhe 6y ago
It is simple to paint certain opinions xenophobic when they are! This is not another instance of culture wars under which the right is so fond of painting themselves as victims. > If people are concerned about half a million adults educa
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by bdhe 6y ago
I don't understand why responses of other countries weigh into the US's response. There are good reasons to have restrictions, there's no good reason not to continue to relax their strict interpretation. > Do you have any
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by bdhe 6y ago
You're being disingenuous. They already had an exception through Spring and Summer 2020. No one batted an eyelid. They're removing the exception they had to a stricter by-the-book enforcement for no particular reason except to use
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by bdhe 6y ago
The reason the other commentator thinks your post is bullshit because it doesn't address the clause in the order that requires F-1 students currently already in the country to leave if classes are online-only. This order is not done
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by bdhe 6y ago
Sadly a plausible answer is the political climate we live in. As well as Barr's modus operandi around wielding power for the sake of politics.
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by bdhe 7y ago
That sort of cynicism is needless. Considering that this thread is about private prisons, a very serious issue, bringing up a literal straw man is disingenuous and completely unnecessary.
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by bdhe 7y ago
It's a deeply disappointing realization that to a lot of people, basic human decency, integrity in disseminating truth, and a consistent view of facts has become a partisan issue because of the Republican party.
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by bdhe 7y ago
What about the narrative arc seems contrived to you? Is it the ending? Because I agree with that. Everything else seems plausible does it not? And where does your trouble with authority take you now?
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by bdhe 7y ago
> But choosing sides is dangerous. Not every conservative is spewing hate speech, in fact many from the left (even celebrities) post what could be considered hate speech. I mean, the headline talks about far-right hate groups, and not ab
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by bdhe 8y ago
> and this allows bad behavior to go unpunished and uncondemed. This is interesting, I haven't quite heard this before. What examples of bad behavior go unpunished or un-condemned beacuse of special treatment to a minority group?
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by bdhe 8y ago
> The vast majority of both conservatives and liberals are passive about the vast majority of issues. While this might be true, it doesn't necessarily mean that the views held by conservatives and liberals as a whole are comparable.
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by bdhe 8y ago
What does it mean to be an anti-racist conservative, and what do you think about the conservatism movement in that you have to use that extra qualifier?
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by bdhe 8y ago
How so?
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Google is making it easier for AI developers to keep users’ data private(theverge.com)
2 points by bdhe 8y ago|0 comments
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by bdhe 8y ago
That's neither here nor there is it? The 1996 investigations led to no indictments and if anything widespread criticism of how Congressional investigations wasted time. The 2016 investigations are still ongoing with dozens of indictmen
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by bdhe 8y ago
You make a lot of strong assertions that don't seem obvious to me whatsoever. > but that's what turned NYC from neighborhoods and communities into a hellish wasteland: too many people in a single area can't form a cohesive
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by bdhe 9y ago
Also, beyond a certain point, there isn't anything sacred about the Constitution or its Amendment process in so far as a majority of the collective populace agrees to it and there are powerful bodies enforcing it. Ultimately, as we hav
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by bdhe 9y ago
> Running onto the plane again after having been "dragged off" and muttering "Just kill me" seems to point to possible mental issues, You realize this could be because of the concussion he might have suffered earlier,
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by bdhe 10y ago
I think HN passed your objectivity test with flying colors. The top comment is sticking its neck out and the top reply is a pretty succinct summary of how many people feel (myself included). > Maybe. > Here's the thing. Think abo
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by bdhe 10y ago
> All (100%) of them were found to have been "working" from home Were there other employees who were abusing the system? What was the consequence of this abuse? Missed tickets? Pagers unattended? Meetings missed? How large was

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