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by deogeo 7y ago
Defending the specific act of spying on foreign political influence isn't the same as defending the entire government, or even other actions related to that spying (such as the torture you mentioned). By this logic, if someone 'ba
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by deogeo 7y ago
It never seems to involve open chat protocols, does it?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Surely the approximately million dead and wounded in the civil war go some way to atone for that sin. In fact, for the North, this should not be viewed as a sin, but a source of pride.
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by deogeo 7y ago
You cannot downvote replies to your own posts, so it was someone else's doing.
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by deogeo 7y ago
According to [1] linked by uberman in another comment, that 'plenty' is only 20%. So not much compromise would be needed. [1] https://www.hcn.org/articles/endangered-species-most-america...
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by deogeo 7y ago
No need to apologize, my comment wasn't unambiguous. But that's because it doesn't matter how my sentiment is interpreted - it gets people thinking either way.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Seeing how crucial diversity is to the success of the US, it's a wonder how places like China, Japan, or Korea manage to get anything done.
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Ad Creep(en.wikipedia.org)
20 points by deogeo 7y ago|2 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Some women like extremely assertive guys, but most don’t. [..] acting super confident isn’t a turn on. The post you replied to didn't use the "extremely" or "super" adjectives.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> By artificially limiting user options, Google is creating scarcity where there is none. Does this refer to only the default selections screen, or will users be unable to choose a search provider that doesn't participate in the auc
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by deogeo 7y ago
While I mostly I agree, your post also reminds me of the "dissolve the people and elect a new one" quote. How do we equip the citizenry to navigate the rapidly changing media and propaganda landscape?
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by deogeo 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure - at the more desirable schools, tuition is mostly a function of what people are willing to pay. That is why it increased so quickly.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I watched the video linked in the article. When the professor grabs someone's arm (someone trying to obstruct him), this is labeled (by the video) an 'assault'. When he is dragged out of the building, being restrained by mult
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by deogeo 7y ago
> To be clear, do you really think it's likely that good neighborhoods are shaped _primarily_ by factors independent of who lives in them? I do not - I was pointing out the contradiction. Although to be fair, the way schools are fun
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by deogeo 7y ago
I chose the word carefully - the US is definitely, as you say, very cruel with immigration enforcement (due to all the reasons you pointed out), but it is not restrictive , due to the large legal immigration. For example, if they allowed
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by deogeo 7y ago
If it is indeed the neighborhood itself that affects the opportunity, and not the people living there, then white flight shouldn't be a problem. I.e. even after the white people get replaced, it would still be a good neighborhood.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Giving everyone equal rights and opportunities is a supposedly founding principle of your "democracy". It's not 'my' democracy - I and my ancestors remained in Europe. And lets not engage in revisionist history
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by deogeo 7y ago
So when China acts protectionist, this is OK and in tune with free-trade globalism, because globalism "doesn't lock you in to believing every item should be produced internationally." But when they accuse the US of that very
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by deogeo 7y ago
These kinds of criticisms can ring rather shallow and generic without examples. So here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It's almost like the political thoughs of a leader of most other countries aside from America, are complex and can't really be effectively summed up in a short article A nice way of saying "hypocrisy is politically usefu
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advo
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by deogeo 7y ago
Which raises the question - how do you describe an explanation that justifiably (or at least plausibly) relies on conspiracy?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> He started to put the word “race” in scare quotes, calling it a “dangerous fiction. [..] Boas and his circle confronted a bigotry that was scientifically endorsed at the time, and they dismantled it by showing it wasn’t scientific at a
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Stereotype Accuracy – Largest and Most Replicable Effect in Social Psych (2016)(spsp.org)
1 points by deogeo 7y ago|0 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
'Conspiracy' is not synonymous with 'untrue'. I'd advise everyone in the comments to keep that in mind, and state things unambiguously, to avoid arguing past each-other.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Fair enough - though from my experience (not counting articles on economics), this makes this article an exception.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Just dig up old cold-war era movies and propaganda showcasing the Stasi and secret police, and preface it with "this, but on a computer.".
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's what journalists are for - to give numbers without context. But unlike the woman in the article, they do have education on what they're doing, so they can't blame ignorance.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The Chinese, by contrast, have yet to deploy anything like the full range of tools at their disposal to offset Trump’s actions and hurt his political base. A technically correct but very misleading sentence, given China's unapolog
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by deogeo 7y ago
> how is your example any different from what Google has been doing for years? If the shoe fits...

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