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by cnnsucks 10y ago
>> forced There is no force involved; please maintain perspective. There are no debtors prisons filled with 20-something Berkeley graduates. Every penny of every student loan was voluntarily assumed by the debtors. The terms for mu
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Yes, it's real. Lenders have computers that sum lots of accounts; they're expected to do that and disclose how much they've lent. $4.1E12 isn't really that difficult to relate to. Just amortize it across the US populat
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Google News... I follow events in Venezuela. I routinely see teleSUR garbage (Chavista's Pravda) mixed in with credible reporting on Google news. And not just the benign news these state organs always conflate with their agenda piece
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Walther PPQ M2 9mm. We're in the midst of a small arms golden age right now and this pistol is the closest to a local optimum as currently exists. You asked.
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> Did i miss something? I guess; Trump is thrown out in the context of speculating about where this isotope is coming from, as if the US might be conducting surreptitious tests on behalf of a nuclear war mongering Trump. Timing is way o
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>> "patches welcome" Here we are in a topic that actually documents the hostility people encounter when participating in Wikipedia, a topic that provides overwhelming anecdotal evidence among the comments that people are bei
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>> Pensions are delayed payments for work already done. That's your view, not mine. Bankrupt governments are a fact for the both of us.
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by cnnsucks 10y ago
>> Someone did a really crappy job of phrasing. Legal work is an area of life where one should not apply Hanlon's razor by default. Not one comma or period in that work went unscrutinized by highly compensated executive talent a
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>> someone complaining that their local beach is full of trash when they themselves never bothered to help clean it Here you're shouting others down by trying to shame them. Please don't do that. Being unwilling or incapab
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"why do people still work 40+ hour weeks" Mostly it's about upbringing. People are taught to have expectations for themselves and they strive to fulfill them. 15h would be bare subsistence for most, and that's not good
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>> But But, but, but...!!1 Now that they are in the field producing results the haters begin retreating to ever smaller and more qualified hypotheticals. I'm pleased with myself for not having participated in the stupid F-35 fl
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> they don't want their kids being part of a failed social experiment. Indeed. You don't see much investigation on the consequences of these experiments; the state is rarely introspective. If there was any bigger accelerant t
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> more discretion Discretion is a big part of how we ended up with "three strikes" and mandatory minimums. People have not forgotten the outrageous abuses of discretion that were common in the '70s and '80s; activist
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My state has cut rumble strips down the middle of many roads. The Amish are up early and travelling around on Sundays in buggies on the shoulders. It use to be easy to give them room; no traffic that early so you swing out across the line
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Yet we're told Obama doesn't do that sort of groupthink, and given as example his opposition to the Iraq war; talking point #1 when campaigning against Hillary.
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>> after hearing about the Russian hacks of the DNC Fictions built upon fictions. Assange has stated again in another interview, airing tonight, that it wasn't Russia. It wasn't any 'state' actor. "Yes
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>> This "anomaly" caused hundreds of millions... It also produced a large quantity of nonsense. WAPO kicked that off with speculation of "sabotage." [1] By the time that stuff had finished ricocheting around the
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by cnnsucks 10y ago
Ads. YouTube is punctuating every video with ads every few minutes now. It gets tiresome and drives people away.
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>> coordinate to manage patient flow Right there. That's why the costs are so extreme. Where is it written that someone must 'coordinate to manage patient flow?' Show me what fundamental principle of this nation manda
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by cnnsucks 10y ago
You know what else is interesting? The same part of the political spectrum that cites automation as the real cause of working class decline does not hesitate to rationalize mass immigration as necessary to fill the demand for labor. If au
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>> And if you think I'm wrong, ask yourself why GDP growth has been so anemic in the age of the Internet. GDP is the wrong figure. As we've pulled up the ladder and pushed people out of the workforce our net GDP has leveled
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Been to Paris a few times. Second trip someone slammed me into a metro car door and stole my wallet. Each time I went there were more and more immigrants loitering in groups on the streets, facing off with more and more police. Felt like
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by cnnsucks 10y ago
Yesterday I reviewed all the headlines and saw none of the usual political click-bait sprinkled among them with their inevitable 200+ post flame wars. It was wonderful; like having a cast removed or getting a tooth fixed. I hope your expe
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by cnnsucks 10y ago
This is WSJ red meat political controversy stuff. The story devolves into the usual "tax the rich" and anti-welfare state debate as any other political click-bait. I thought HN wasn't doing that for a week... I actually agr
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by cnnsucks 10y ago
Changing the headline on HN doesn't redeem this; you'll still being linking the boingboing story with the same false headline. Just delete it and be more careful in the future. As for my username, that's your call: ban it or
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by cnnsucks 10y ago
This is worse than click bait; the headline is a falsehood designed to provoke outrage. WF is NOT arguing that customers are bound by forged signatures, despite what this headline implies. This is Fake News making the rounds. Good job HN
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They're trying to develop a rationale for the managed decline. They desperately want this to make sense because stopping everything is a necessary condition of addressing the anxieties they dwell on; primarily their worries about the
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Ironically you're both in agreement without knowing it. Yes, trust is important and yes, the 'community on Reddit' still trust Reddit. The bulk of Reddit users don't mind that spez had a momentary lapse of judgement and
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In other words, no, you have no evidence.
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>> since as I understand it the tuition hikes track funding cuts at the government level for higher ed. that is the real killer. No, that isn't the real killer. That's the educrat line you've been trained to regurgitat

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