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by defaultprimate 5y ago
From the abstract: "Drawing selectively on existing cost estimates and augmenting them with new calculations, I conclude that the total direct cost of crisis-related bailouts in the U.S. was on order of $500 billio
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Do you have any that attempt to be unbiased, or hell, objective, that accuse Israel of being apartheid? I don't even care if they're biased if they're objective. The NGO monitor is point by point, sourced, objective rebuttals
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
This is a commonly repeated trope that is completely false and based on very questionable accounting. Namely the omission of opportunity cost and the comparison of static parameters to temporal parameters. https://mitsloan.mit.ed
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
You're right that the border states may not be theoretic ethno states but they are confessionalist states. Palestinian refuges have less political representation and rights on these border states than Israel as well. They're lit
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
It's very difficult not to be if you want truly secure messaging. It seems unlikely that big tech and telecom corporations, whose lifeblood is personal data harvesting, or government, with surveillance states becoming the global norm,
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Requiring a phone number is literally my only complaint about Signal, I used to just use a Google Voice number but then I learned about TextNow and have been migrating away from Google as much as possible https://www.textnow.com&
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Exactly, so why'd you make it?
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Apply your last paragraph to your own perspective of the protestors. The hypocrisy lol.
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Elaborate
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
You didn't read them very closely or pay attention to quotes by Yasser Arafat and his successor or associates. What do you propose the Jews do? Allow another totalitarian theocratic ethnostate to inhabit the land and disperse among the
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
The entirety of the scientific method's pursuit of truth is built on Popper's philosophy of science and inquiry and has been highly effective at establishing objective truth. It's kinda funny because you're making conjec
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Exactly why I specified. Multi-party fatal accidents are rare, but they usually involve drunk driving or gross negligence/recklessness
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Virtually all auto accidents in which a third-party fatality occurs result in criminal liability. It's extremely rare for a third-party fatality in an auto accident to be caused by something other than criminal negligence or intent.
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Anyone want to take bets on how long this lasts?
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Context and consensus is that "elimination of Israel" was obviously not purely as a political entity. Leaders of the PLO have plainly called for the elimination of the Jews, as previous source and following outlines. I'm no f
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
The original PLO charter called for the explicit and complete destruction of Israel. Objective rebuttal to today's report follows https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-amnesty-report-on-israel-aff...
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
You should read Karl Popper's Conjectures and Refutations. You can be open to new evidence defining what objective truth is without dismissing the existence of objective truth due to unknown unknowns.
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Israel is nowhere close to an apartheid state https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29556722 Ask yourself how many Jews live in and could safely become sociopolitically engaged in surrounding Arab nations. It's mind blo
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
This is why I require on camera, screen shared, live coding sessions or discussion as part of my technical interview process for remote developers. If they're junior, the problems are not hard, literally foundational CS things. If it&#
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
>Well, if you say so. I just think it's an absurd and offensive comparison to draw It's absurd and offensive that you don't recognize the ongoing atrocities of the CCP and the pure evil behind their political ideology and
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Also I found the motions regarding the emails. You're lying that the government truncated was dishonest as the response to motion makes clear, and the fact that the motions were denied. The entire email and follow up are available. If
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
>China is not, in any way, even remotely like Nazi Germany. Yes it absolutely is. I checked your comment history. I'm not interested in endless discussions with propagandists that have zero objective views regarding China. Weird how
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
>You don't know what you're talking about here I do, it's my career. >It came out during the pre-trial motions. The government did not dispute the fact that Prof. Chen was paraphrasing someone else, because that was pla
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
>open scientific exchange between American and Chinese scientists There is no such thing. The disparity in open, original research output of US vs China is massive, and virtually all research done "in collaboration" with Chines
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Mate there's CBO, BLS, Journal of Economic Research, IMF, and several academic study citations in the video, post, blog, and all over the internet. It's a myth that the poor get poorer. Market economies are not zero sum. Whether o
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Not being guilty of breaking specific mandatory disclosure laws doesn't mean he didn't break the law or participate in grossly inappropriate and dangerous behavior, especially given the sources and nature of his federally funded r
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
Your hyper focused whataboutism on European cannibalism and refusal to acknowledge the myriad examples and counters regarding human sacrifice, war, technology enabled conquest, cultural norms across the globe, cannibalism, and particularly
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
>It’s clear Dr. Chen does not consider China to be an adversarial government Then he shouldn't be doing research funded by DoD and DARPA, and certainly shouldn't be sharing it with the CCP. You've literally made my point f
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
>Charges can only exist on the basis of legal technicality. That’s how law works. Don't be coy, you know exactly what I mean. If you get away with, for example, sexual crimes like Cosby due to legal technicalities, it doesn't m
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by defaultprimate 5y ago
It is stated in the piece, but not emphasized enough: the charges were dropped on the basis of legal technicality regarding mandatory disclosure, not because he wasn't actually hiding associations with known state or state-affiliated a

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