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by cmurf 6y ago
You may not realize it but you're referring to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. 1951. It is long considered a fundamental human right to be able to flee danger. Because otherwise wars start and atrocities happen. Trum
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by cmurf 6y ago
Combination of decadence, selfishness, cultism and vindictive politics. The first two are self explanatory and certainly cross party lines. Cult of Trump is to merely accept his say so that mask wearing has no efficacy and is merely politic
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by cmurf 6y ago
120,000+ infections and 1000+ deaths per day are negligible?
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by cmurf 6y ago
The Electoral College system effectively subsidizes the Republican party by giving it presidential wins it doesn't deserve, by giving empty land a vote. It's a national election, and it should be one person one vote, not a case wh
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by cmurf 6y ago
The election is a legal process and it's declared him the presumptive winner. Same as Trump on election night in 2016. Everything else that happens are formalities, however important and necessary. Other than the 2000 election, we have
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by cmurf 6y ago
HN has a double standard. One from 2016 election night not flagged, and the other flagged. Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201 [flagged] Joe Biden is the president
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by cmurf 6y ago
Look at a county by county election map. You find the divide is starkly rural versus urban. The cultures are extremely different.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Absurd. There is an identically titled article from election night 2016, for Trump. HN has consistently carried water for Trump by allowing a small number of HNers to flag Trump critical articles, for four years. Donald Trump is the preside
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by cmurf 6y ago
It's flagged why? There's an identically titled one for Trump from 2016.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Seems like firmlinks are like a union file system, such as overlayfs. A lower dir placed on a read-only file system, and merged with an upper dir on a read-write file system. It appears as if they were one directory. Overlayfs will do an ef
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Utah hospitals could start rationing health care at overwhelmed facilities(cnn.com)
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Covid study finds remdesivir doesn’t work–FDA grants approval anyway(arstechnica.com)
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by cmurf 6y ago
Since you've got the data wrong, it's any wonder why you'd think it's hype. Around 35,000 die of flu per year in the U.S. And by estimate it'll be 400K COVID-19 deaths by February. That's 10x in terms of deaths
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by cmurf 6y ago
Deductibles have been going up since the invention of HMO's. The idea the rate of increase had increased under PPACA is nonsense. If you want to complain about PPACA, complain about it expanding a greedy for-profit pay per procedure an
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by cmurf 6y ago
Militias by statute are under the authority of a state's governor. If they aren't under the governor's authority, they are not militias. They might be a gun club if non-violent. If violent, they're an armed gang or a cri
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by cmurf 6y ago
Prosecute them for fraud. They gained financially through deception.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed “opinion leaders” and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies. That's overly diplomatic. Charlatans take people&#x
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by cmurf 6y ago
I see this as an attack on encryption. Break up all these companies and break up their ability to keep fighting governments' long-standing anti-encryption stance.
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Btrfs has separate metadata and data block groups, allocated dynamically since some workloads can be light or heavy on metadata. And the data:metadata usage ratio can change after allocation and freeing space by deleting files. The idea of
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by cmurf 6y ago
This is what corruption looks like. Electing a chaos candidate results in chaos.
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They are largely the same because the alternatives fail in various ways: they fail to finance their campaigns, i.e. they fail to get aristocratic backing, and/or they fail to appeal to the tiny minority of most motivated participants,
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The people are represented by the House of Representatives. The Senate represents the land.
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Merrick Garland was recommended to Obama by Republican senator Orrin Hatch as a reasonable candidate, before the death of Scalia.
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by cmurf 6y ago
They did. Reid's cloture vote to end the filibuster applied to federal judges, not Supreme Court justices. Before the vote on Kavanaugh there was a cloture vote to end the filibuster.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Forest management is in conflict with home ownership and building code in the forests, and it's sufficiently complicated that what's happening is the only way forward. What support is there to say private land ownership within for
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by cmurf 6y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pompeo-fight-battles-raptu... The juxtaposition of gay marriage ruling and rapture in his speech is, to me, identical to saying "burn all gays". The irony is this ideology is
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by cmurf 6y ago
Pompeo and Pence are Christian Dominionists. They believe in the rapture. Armageddon is real, and to bring about the end times and second coming, 2/3rds of Jewish blood must saturate the land of Israel. The other 1/3 become Christ
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by cmurf 6y ago
The FAA's approval process was the outcome of ideology that government should not work the way it had been working. That there were too many regulations and too much oversight, and now it was time for businesses (Boeing in this case) t
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by cmurf 6y ago
It's worked for malware, hasn't it?
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We don't have the Electoral College Hamilton envisioned in Federalist 68. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp They were supposed to be regular people, not politicians. And certainly not the worst p

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