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by candybar 4y ago
There's no evidence that Twitter removing stories about Hunter Biden (as opposed to the dick pics) was something that was either requested by the Biden campaign or even preferred. If anything, the only Democratic politician that shows
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by candybar 4y ago
When Twitter tried to just apply consistent content moderation policies and right-wing politicians ended up being banned for repeated violations of Twitter ToS, there was a ton of outrage, among much of the exact same group of people that a
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by candybar 4y ago
People aren't focusing on Hunter's nudes - that's what Matt Taibbi shared as an example of the requests made by the Biden campaign. If you actually look at the request, again, specifically chosen by Matt Taibbi as an example
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by candybar 4y ago
Sure but you can turn a dump of emails into statistics easily. Or alternatively, you can release the dump of emails. > This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by peop
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by candybar 4y ago
This is a huge tell,. Matt Taibbi (or Elon Musk via him) is trying to paint a picture that this was heavily tilted in favor of Democrats. But he has access to the actual data - why not just publish that if he feels it's damning? Wha
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by candybar 4y ago
This is a very strange comment - the modern world is historically friendly to a single man approaching women. In fact prior to online dating, a lot of people would've pointed this out as a reason as to why dating is harder in the mode
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by candybar 4y ago
This is a complete non-sequitur - Krugman isn't here complaining about him being judged. And this is a strange reply given that you do not seem to have the ability to correctly judge Krugman. As I had mentioned, GBP/USD has hard
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by candybar 4y ago
You're being far too charitable here - the idea that Krugman has a history of being wrong has nothing to do with anyone trying to evaluate his track record in an objective manner, but everything to do with those who disagree with his p
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by candybar 4y ago
GBP/USD hasn't moved substantially in either direction since Krugman's tweets.
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by candybar 4y ago
No, it's not the correct read. My point here - this has already been made clear to you - is that at least one of the following appears to be true: 1) You misunderstand what people mean by "dysfunctional theory of mind" and i
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by candybar 4y ago
I don't know why you bothered to respond to literally part of a sentence without addressing the hypothetical that renders it meaningful. When you say you have a "good theory of mind" and have "complex models for all the
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by candybar 4y ago
> I'm autistic and I feel like I have pretty good theory of mind. I may have been somewhat late in developing its sophistication as a child but certainly not to the point where anyone ever flagged me as dysfunctional in that way. As
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by candybar 5y ago
Ukraine isn't one of the former soviet states that are doing well and making Putin look bad though. That would be the Baltic states (Estonia/Lithuania/Latvia). Ukraine has a substantially lower GDP per capita than Russia, w
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by candybar 5y ago
The oldest child definitely gets the most parental attention and investment in most families - this is pretty much a universal finding across cultures as well.
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by candybar 5y ago
I don't agree with the GP either but your understanding of what it means to be a "psychopath" is even less correct. Psychopaths are highly impulsive and emotionally volatile. They would be far more likely to lash out in sit
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by candybar 5y ago
I don't think men want sex substantially more than women. What causes an imbalance, IMO, is that women value casual sex substantially less than men for a variety of cultural and biological reasons and women's value in the casua
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by candybar 5y ago
However you cut it, divorce rates are substantially higher among the working class. If you look at educational attainment: % divorced among those married, by age 46: Did not graduate from high school: 58.8 High school graduate, no college:
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by candybar 5y ago
The point is that the types of problems you're referring to aren't considered algebra problems in math education, because students are expected to be able to solve them when they are introduced to subtraction, not when they are in
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by candybar 5y ago
This isn't how that problem was meant to be solved - it's meant to be a straightforward subtraction problem. For instance, this is a US 2nd grade subtraction word problem from Khan Academy: Sparky the dragon was born with 28 spik
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by candybar 5y ago
The page you linked to doesn't have a single problem that requires "setting up equations with unknown variables and solving them." And as I mentioned, even in the US, "Algebra 1" isn't when Algebra in the sens
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by candybar 5y ago
This isn't that different from 2nd and 3rd grade math in the US. There's no algebra in your link, but either way, you're confusing algebraic concepts, which are typically introduced in grade school even in the US and Algebra
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by candybar 5y ago
This is also taught in second grade in the US. Edit: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-2nd-grade-math/cc-2nd-ad...
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by candybar 5y ago
Did you take standard high-school Algebra 1 in 7th grade? Algebraic concepts are often taught as early as 3rd grade, but much of it is considered pre-Algebra.
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by candybar 5y ago
This isn't that different in the US. Algebra 1 to Algebra 2 to Precalculus to Calculus is a sequence that's taught over many years and there's no big dump. Geometry is the only exception from that sequence (unless you'r
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by candybar 5y ago
Warcraft II is a bad example here - it's completely unplayable if you're used to any kind of modern RTS. Terrible unit AI (not computer AI), selection limits, no rally points or queuing. It also has just 2 factions. Starcraft,
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by candybar 5y ago
Fertility is literally just a measure of how many people children people are having. Your data is largely capturing the fact the age at which your income tends to peak and the age at which people tend to have children are very far apart.
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by candybar 5y ago
This isn't how things work - you pay income taxes on RSUs when they vest, not when you sell, and their cost basis is the price at the time of vesting. So it's entirely irrelevant from a tax perspective whether they come in cash o
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by candybar 5y ago
You're a borderline public figure in politics and your role in politics seems to have been your primary occupation over the past few years. Does that ever come up in your conversations with tech recruiters? Given these specifics, I&#
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by candybar 5y ago
Their counterparties are all sophisticated institutional investors and these things are generally traded on a buyer-beware basis. Sure there may have been some actual wrongdoing that went unpunished, but the nature of these transactions is
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by candybar 5y ago
The pay cut mentioned for Connecticut is 15% and that likely doesn't cover the RSU, so the realistic cut in the pay rate may be more like 5-10%, depending on your function and level. NYC marginal tax rate for a typical Google employee

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