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by benten10 11y ago
saying 'a bot did it' doesn't make it right. Just as having an app doesn't make a company an 'internet company' automatically. To put it into different perspective, imagine any number of things I could do to hu
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by benten10 11y ago
Sorry, the 'Destruction of Baghdad destroyed the learning' is categorically false. If you will look at history, Islamic scholars kept churning out knowledge quite a bit after the destruction, and in terms of academic achievements,
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by benten10 11y ago
I believe the issue was that the 'white man' demographic had been given special reservations in the first one. When they asked him if a bunch of white men had (unknowingly to him) influenced him to overrepresent by a laaarge margi
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by benten10 11y ago
Meanwhile, we have this: https://github.com/ecprice/newsdiffs Hoping to make some contribution myself...
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by benten10 11y ago
Haha, love it! There's definitely a space for forced animal anthromorphization humor. Smart, funny books! Like Madagascar, et al. but adults. In this case, for example, the first 95% of the story would be from a touching documentary-ty
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by benten10 11y ago
I like to call this the 'plantation owner defense'. Any mistreatment of other peoples can be justified by 'but they would be even WORSE without us.' The original plantation owner justification being that the 'worker
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by benten10 11y ago
...so how many women are actually commenting on this post? Raise your hands please? Hahaha, this is a classssic hackernews discussion. "There is absolutely no discrimination. Women are held to the same standards as men. They just com
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by benten10 11y ago
Pro tip: It is often a good heuristic to identify a sexist by their use of 'male' and 'female' for humans instead of 'men' and 'women', because it sounds dehumanizing. Call them 'women', nev
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by benten10 11y ago
>>You f\ king w\ \ re, I'm going to ra\ e you, and kill your family and pet, and tort\* you till you beg for mercy, and I'm going to feed your pieces to your dogs, if you dare talk anything on this issue again. As you see, t
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by benten10 11y ago
The money-quote for me was: >>"When you force the industry from a well-equipped infrastructure like the Valley, with not only traditional sound stages, but a large number of easily rented homes where adult filming is permitted an
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by benten10 11y ago
So sick of the knee-jerk 'paying by data' argument for EVERY.DAMN.THING. Google does not do whatever analysis you're claiming on education accounts, btw. Sure, they may be leveraging education accounts to get other 'paid
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by benten10 11y ago
Pretty cool! I'd also want to know what kinds of certain vegetables to get. For example, the difference between sweet tomatoes and sour tomatoes is the difference between a loved friend and a great cook, and an idiot who shouldn&#x2
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by benten10 11y ago
1. Duude, I'm all along with you except your hate of the "PC crowd". Stop complaining, start working. Not helpful to the conversation. 2. I used to be uhh a foreign national in the U.S (as I still am), and assumed it was a kn
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by benten10 11y ago
1. What study? Show 3 examples from reputable sources. 2. Soo... how do latina/white women magically end up in a lesser-paying profession? The counter to the 'but they like women's studies and teaching' is to remind you
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by benten10 11y ago
Naaahh, those OBJECTIVE TRUTHFUL REAL Vulcans have anecdotal evidence to accuse "bullshit PC research". I would like to challenge the GP to post THREE pieces of research published in a journal that you would otherwise consider pre
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by benten10 11y ago
Are there any more popular twitter-like alternatives? I'm aware of Ello, but from what I'm told, too much of the uhh 'artistic community' for me to truly enjoy (my artist friends have unsuccessfully tried persuading me t
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by benten10 11y ago
...my strategy on the other hand, is to drag one conversation over days/weeks, with several hours/days of (not intentional) gaps in between, and act as if it's a single ongoing unbroken conversation. Not the optimal strategy,
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by benten10 11y ago
Hopefully all the child posts will see this too. TO edit the hosts file, you need to have admin privileges. That means closing whatever editor you're using, reopening it with 'run as administrator', and then opening the hos
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by benten10 11y ago
Naah. As I mention in a comment elsewhere in the thread, this makes twitter into more of a popularity contest from a 'creator' point of view. Right now, you're pretty much guaranteed your friends will see your feed no matter
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by benten10 11y ago
As the resident Twitter fanboy, I'd like to point out something most people here (and elsewhere) who support the change seem to be missing out. We (Twitter users) are not as much worried about our stream being polluted, as much as OUR
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by benten10 11y ago
Yeeshh. I should to see a therapist for _that_ if nothing else. All that meta-ness, which I guess might(?) arise from insecurity, often makes me stop saying things other people would say, because I'm too conscious about the 'meta-
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by benten10 11y ago
As usual, the trick while reading these is to replace 'millennial' with 'people younger and more attractive than I am'. Also applies to people who begin sentences with 'I am technically a millennial but..'. Wa
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by benten10 11y ago
Nice! May I ask if you collected those manually? Perhaps they should be sorted/divided according to the genre they're from? Books/Movies/Tv-shows, etc? This list made be realize a sort-of annoying (sometimes) tendency I
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by benten10 11y ago
Here's a question I've always wanted to ask someone about electric cars: Why don't the companies make cars with detachable batteries, and basically do a battery 'swap' in the charging stations, so that the charging
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by benten10 11y ago
> 538 and other sites that just do stats can easily just have a giant number database that output correlations for click's sake. Ahh, there you see the problem! you can also output all harry potter novels from digits of pi, but that
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by benten10 11y ago
Chris Blattman quotes this really nice research that says that employment by itself does not explain inclusiveness. Link: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/ide... Here's the money
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by benten10 11y ago
I meant Chris Blattman, oops! Money quote from the link: Here is Verwimp: Belgium has a very elaborate welfare state. All citizens have health coverage, schools and universities charge no or few fees, child benefits, unemployment benefits,
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by benten10 11y ago
Here's the link (I meant Chris Blattman, not Tyler Cowen. Sorry for misleading, people!): https://chrisblattman.com/2015/12/01/this-graph-says-the-wel...
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by benten10 11y ago
A really good example to look at is (apparently) the case of how Arab migrants feel 'included' in Belgium vs. in Canada. Apparently, in Belgium, the welfare system is targeted towards providing financial incentives to less-fortuna
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by benten10 11y ago
I wanted to post this as a child to @gist's comment, but since there are a lot of comments similar to yours, I'll put it as your child. >"I've never encountered a problem big enough that would want me to do this and r

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