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'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (Lionel Shriver)(theguardian.com)
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NYPD Seizes $18,000 During Pocketknife Arrest(villagevoice.com)
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Discovering Cuba: Economics, Entrepreneurship, and the Future(brianmayer.com)
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Realtime Wind Map of the World(windyty.com)
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The Farmer's Manifesto (1973)(context.org)
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Robby Leonardi – Interactive Resume(rleonardi.com)
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
Why does it matter? Having a cardboard license plate and an uncommon political belief doesn't make someone deserve to die.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
On what charge? "Being banker during a financial crisis" is not a crime.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
It should never be a law to compulsory lend money to anyone. Aside from being morally reprehensible, such a law would almost certainly be met with either A) widespread noncompliance or B) widespread closure of lending institutions.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
You forgot that in America, the punishment for lending someone money they can't pay back is getting free money from taxpayers.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
The key here is we need a culture of skepticism. That's the fundamental core philosophical trait of the enlightenment: not belief in what anyone says (just 'cause they say it or have authority to say it) but doubt in claims until
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
The real question is whether GDP is a good measure of economic performance (hint: it isn't)
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
This quote from the article seems to say the opposite: "By the 1920s the need for company towns had declined significantly due to increased national affluence. Despite income inequalities and a relatively low standard of living conditi
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Pokémon Go: is this the future, or is it killing America?(notes.brianmayer.com)
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
I actually didn't know the employer qualification of Title VII. Thanks for the tip. However, the second part of my statement still very much applies. This blog post can easily become Exhibit A in an employment discrimination lawsuit in
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
"Next couple of new employees are going to be women up until we balance our team." The CEO should have run this blog post, and particularly this sentence, by a lawyer. It seems pretty clear that the above statement, if reflected i
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
That's really not an appropriate tone to take with someone who learned something new. There are probably lots of things that you don't know that are obvious to other people.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
A better way to approach this situation: "That's great! Love it! Out of curiosity, what inspired you to choose those colors and fonts?" Then, they still have ownership, but they also are given the chance to justify their choi
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
> like China, the oppressive effects of Communism could have been lessened (even if just a little) under the benefits of trade with a Capitalist democracy The oppressive effects of communism were lessened because China lessened communism
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
Wonder what Obama's Erdos number is now.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
It's completely plausible that the post-Brexit Deutsche Bank is undervalued by the market due to panic and uncertainty, and Snapchat is overvalued by the market due to hype.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
It seems the question we should be concerned with should not be 'is there racial bias in policing', to which the answer would surely always be 'yes' because there's one bias or another in everything human and police
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
Technology is gained but so much intellectual capital is destroyed. And there's no good A/B test with war to see how much technological progress would have been gained from the intellectual capital if it hadn't been destroyed
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
> "emigrated to the United States in 1943" It's always sad hearing about great minds who fled Europe shortly before or during World War II. It's a reminder of all the great minds whom we lost in the last war, and of h
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
The sad thing about this is that said young people didn't get paid anywhere near the $250-500 million paid to the contractors and cronies[1] who built the broken healthcare.gov in the first place. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
Unless the rest of the world did do him wrong, and he wasn't involved. Then it would be an outrage for him to have spent any time in prison.
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
If you want to help, the US-based organization supporting the efforts in Timbuktu (that I volunteered for a couple years back to set up their website and digital fundraising) is T160k: https://t160k.org/campaign/librari
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
This is a serious security threat for many Muslims abroad, given that premarital sex is severely punishable in several Islamic countries (including Pakistan mentioned in the leak), and even within countries where it isn't punishable by
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
Don't more subsidies put upward pressure on prices?[1][2][3] Also, how would a head tax improve the cost of education? [1] http://college.usatoday.com/2015/08/20/report-federal-aid-ri... [2] https:/&
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Facebook facing criticism after removing major atheist pages(dhakatribune.com)
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