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by beaner 6y ago
IMO, states choosing to enter an agreement like this of their own free will, is the appropriate way to get a popular vote, if that's what the people want, while still retaining the right of the electoral college. I personally disagree
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by beaner 6y ago
It is certainly something to recognize, that minorities generally held up that pattern. But the point I'm trying to make is about how peoples' minds changed after 4 years of experiencing an actual Trump presidency. Minorities move
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by beaner 6y ago
This thread: https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1323975456668979200 Which pulls its insights from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elect
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by beaner 6y ago
That means it sometimes is the case in practice.
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There was certainly an "anyone but Hillary" contingent, but I think you'll find by actually talking to these people that the venn diagram overlap between that circle and the "actually likes Trump's policies" ci
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by beaner 6y ago
States having a voice is the whole point of a state. If states shouldn't have a voice, they should be phased out.
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by beaner 6y ago
Federal law overrules local law, so they are intertwined. A vote at the federal level is in many ways a vote on local laws, too.
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The senate is one mechanism, but its mere existence is not reason enough to consider it sufficient.
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When considering a person of "awful character," a lot of people make the rational decision to nonetheless value the benefit of 320 million people as more important than retribution against that one person, if that person's po
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They already are. Russia & China's tactics are not so much disinformation, but simply taking our own talking points and pushing them to us even harder.
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by beaner 6y ago
Open minded question: Maybe yes? If states don't have an ability to have a voice for themselves as states, what's the point of them at all? They gain this small but important nudge towards autonomy from the electoral college.
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by beaner 6y ago
I think you're the pot calling the kettle black, I'm sorry. We are not estimating anything about average retractions about papers. We're talking about a specific story. As it stands, there is no evidence that the specific sto
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by beaner 6y ago
The core value of crypto and its anonymity are not gone, you simply have the same old option of not utilizing them, in a new package. If you want those things, go ahead and use them. Coinbase Card isn't stopping you.
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Coinbase to launch debit card in the US(techcrunch.com)
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It would be more helpful if the logos were encased in circles, sized to represent the reach of the publication. This chart is part of the equation, but it says nothing about which of the publications in it have more influence.
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by beaner 6y ago
How about [user flagged] and [mod flagged]? Just throwing 'em out there.
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by beaner 6y ago
You're really not. How can you call the lack of a retraction a lack of accountability, when there is no evidence that a retraction is necessary?
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by beaner 6y ago
Fox news only exists as a balance to the left-lean of most other corporate media. And since it's existed, the others have felt free to embrace their partisanship more deeply. As a result, today, CNN is just as partisan as Fox.
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by beaner 6y ago
This is a clever shift from discussing the respectability of the reporting at hand, to discussing the respectability of the reporting institution. Your claim that a failure to issue retractions is an admission of failure in accountability i
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by beaner 6y ago
This is a very roundabout way of expressing inability to accept that such a paper may still be more accurate in its reporting than other papers that you prefer.
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by beaner 6y ago
Ah, I always figured flagging put it in be a queue for review by a mod. Didn't know it happens automatically.
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by beaner 6y ago
Your comment contains no information about the veracity of the content in question. It's a straight-up ad hominem.
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Sure, but people mostly only say this when they don't like that the other guy has written better software.
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Why is this flagged? Even if you disagree with the assessment, the relationship between the press and big tech described here seems very relevant to HN. Isn't removing it making its point?
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That, or, of course, the Post's original reporting has been more accurate.
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by beaner 6y ago
You're not making sense. Reduction in mining rewards is not correlated with centralization. The Bitcoin ledger does not grow exponentially, it grows linearly. Higher hash rate is also not correlated with centralization. Despite exponen
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by beaner 6y ago
What's the evidence this is happening? That miner centralization is continuing?
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It shouldn't matter if it seems fake, it should matter whether or not it is fake. As it stands, there is no reason to believe that it is fake.
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Ask Twitter, they're participating in disinformation by falsely claiming - without evidence - that these emails were hacked.
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by beaner 6y ago
Disappointed in this statement, it comes off as very fake. People are not upset that this event could have been communicated better, they're reasonably pissed that Twitter is very obviously filtering news on its platform for political

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