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by cwperkins 8y ago
The majority are more powerful here because they have a higher number to downvote posts they disagree with. It can only be postulated until reddit removes the downvote button, but I suspect that conservative posts wouldn't make the top
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by cwperkins 8y ago
I completely disagree and think it's very well defined. For instance in r/nyc I was downvoted for leaving a comment saying how I wouldn't vote for a candidate voting against John Crowley in Queens because part of her campaign
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by cwperkins 8y ago
This lack of diversity of media/thought just propagates our current media landscape where people generally fall into 2 camps: Liberal sources (CNN/NBC/NYT) and then Fox viewers. With reddit there's a real opportunity to
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by cwperkins 8y ago
It means different things in different contexts. For instance in r/southafrica there is a majority of Afrikaaners on the subreddit despite being a minority (10%) of the country. Any anti-Afrikaaner content is quickly dismissed and down
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by cwperkins 8y ago
Reddit is quickly becoming a tool for the majority on the site to suppress minority on the site's opinions. Until a viable solution is created to promote diversity of thought it will always suffer from this problem. Reddit is just as b
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by cwperkins 8y ago
I strongly disagree with this. I am a WASP whose family came to the US in 1620 and diversity in America is imperative. I don't think any racial group should particularly have a majority. If I've learned anything recently, a muslim
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by cwperkins 8y ago
Civil unrest around the world. We have peace here, which is a lot more than places in the middle east, sub saharan africa, and places in central/south america can say. Quality of life is high here compared to the rest of the world and
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by cwperkins 8y ago
You can have both, you can have merit based within a group and promote diversity overall.
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by cwperkins 8y ago
Does anyone know of a datasource that analyzes this as the number of people living paycheck to paycheck vs. spending habits?
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by cwperkins 8y ago
Can someone create a bodycam sophisticated enough to let the police know if a suspect is wielding a weapon or not?
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by cwperkins 8y ago
Seems to me like a lot of people in this comment section read the article before responding? One of the things I like about HN is that the commenters more respond to the content of the article rather than the headline.
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by cwperkins 9y ago
I think it's always strange that the media frames this as "threatening" to shift power. On the one hand I agree that I would like to keep America investing in R&D to create the next great innovation that revolutionizes th
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Wow, I didn't see this one coming.
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Absolutely not, I don't see it as protectionist either. If NYC had a problem with hiring native born New Yorkers because out-of-staters had comparable or better skillsets for lower prices than I would have no problem seeing a subway ca
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by cwperkins 9y ago
This could not come fast enough, I cannot fathom how this is not already mandatory as Credit Freeze is the best tool a consumer has to fight against identity theft. I should be able to unfreeze when I know I am going to take out a line of c
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by cwperkins 9y ago
The guy asked a question, can we stop making these assumptions? It's childish, it's more constructive to provide the statistics the inquirer asked for.
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Makes sense, as Amazon gets further into delivery this provides a complimentary service to help keep packages secure and let customers see who shows up at the door. It would be interesting if someday you could also let a courier in remotely
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by cwperkins 9y ago
This reminds me of mid-2015 and early 2016. I believe it's a normal healthy correction and not the ominous beginning of something bigger. It feels like the economy has at least enough gas to keep moving to the end of 2018, but I'd
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by cwperkins 9y ago
I agree that I may be bullish on long-long-term prospects. One of my gripes from the get-go was that even though Crypto was not intentionally exclusive as anyone anonymously anywhere in the world could create a Bitcoin wallet, it is intende
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Crypto has actually made me had a phase-shift in my feelings towards capitalism in general. I think a healthy amount of inequality and competition need to exist for an innovative and inventive society. Crypto has taught me that it's re
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by cwperkins 9y ago
I'm really perplexed as to why people would not want to buy into market tracking ETFs or Blue chips that pay dividends. For a young person a portfolio of this nature provides a healthy amount of risk while having historically good retu
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Thank you
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Thanks, that's useful information
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Does anyone know what happens in the event that a brokerage like robinhood fails? Are the assets insured by a federal agency or is it wiser to switch my portfolio to another broker?
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by cwperkins 9y ago
There's pretty sound reasons why non-accredited investors can only invest in public tradable assets. Accredited investors can get into non-public companies if they earn a high enough income such that they can take that kind of volatili
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by cwperkins 9y ago
There's actually quite a lot of puzzle solving involved that makes it interesting. I think there are a lot of misconceptions of the industry at large and it suffers from bad PR after the global financial crisis. It's an interestin
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Does anyone know anyone from Starsky robotics? I think it would be interesting to deploy the remote technology used in it's trucks to construction vehicles. Imagine being able to have continuous delivery at construction sites. For exam
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by cwperkins 9y ago
This is something I've been trying to understand for a long time. In New York City because of the rent controls it seems like the market rate has diverged alarmingly from the subsidized rents. From my perspective it seems like this pro
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by cwperkins 9y ago
Exactly this - when did Facebook become a platform for everyone I'm associated with to blurt their opinions. I think there needs to be another forum because the only thing I am interested in using Facebook for is to catch up on my frie
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Lord and Taylor Building, Icon of New York Retail, to Become WeWork Headquarters(nytimes.com)
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