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by elfexec 7y ago
The name certainly doesn't help, but neither does their penchant for bias, agenda and lies. Also, "journalism awards" are as impressive as participation trophies. Pretty much X amount of awards are alotted to X number of news
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by elfexec 7y ago
By rise of extremism, is buzzfeednews talking about themselves and their fellow extremists huffpo, etc? The worst thing about social media is that it allowed toxic extremists like buzzfeednews, huffpo, etc to thrive.
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> they might jeopardize their legendary 99% conviction rates Isn't your implication that japan's court system is corrupt. So what would the strength of the case have to do with it? Wouldn't japan have convicted him regardl
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Not sure if this is what you are asking, but Bobby Fischer thought the current chess rules led to boring games so he invented Fischer Random Chess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess It makes the games
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Their revenue is below expectations. Their revenue growth is lower than a year ago. And they lowered expectations for 2020. In other words, the revenue is projected to hit $122B because of the US sanctions, not despite it. Otherwise, the re
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> I live in a Chinese dominated country. Like some other commenters, I'd also like to know which this mythical "chinese dominated country" is. Why not just say I'm from X, rather than being so cryptic? So many anecdot
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Homeland? Pretty sure Carlos Ghosn was born in brazil.
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Then I guess it was a "happy accident" and the US got lucky that the Marshallese got exposed to radiation and we had the chance to conduct experiments on them without their informed consent. It would be like someone wanting to tes
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Not just let them deal with the fallout. These islanders were intentionally used as human guinea pigs for radiation experimentation like other pacific island peoples - including the japanese civilians in hiroshima and nagasaki. Some of thes
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by elfexec 7y ago
Academia was always broken. Despite the current undeserved reputation as academia being open to debate and new ideas, the opposite has always been true. Academia has its sordid history of dogmaticism and hero-worshipping. And progress in kn
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It wasn't rice farmers who took on the US. It was the battle hardened vietnamese army who fought imperial japan and then imperial france for many years. Also, even though they ultimately won, they didn't really kick ass. More than
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by elfexec 7y ago
> We're evolutionarily fine-tuned to live on Earth. We love a blue sky, room temperature, certain levels of gases in the atmosphere, and so on. Yet humans have moved to temperate regions where the weather fluctuates throughout the y
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> Your home, your 401k, is easy pickings for a bankruptcy court. Your 401k and retirement accounts ( pensions, IRAs, trust funds, etc ) are legally protected from bankruptcy or legal judgments. In some states ( like florida ), even your
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You could call it the news industry's equivalent of tv/movie's sneaky product placement. A paid ad pretending to be a legitimate news story just like a product placement is a paid ad pretending to be part of the plot.
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Agreed. Otherwise the story makes no sense. It's always been the case that hedge funds pay more than banks just like silicon valley pays more than government. This is so well known, I knew it when I was a kid and people outside of the
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It has its uses, but you aren't going to speed read poetry, literature, etc and get much out of it. The same thing with memory maps and other tricks. They have their limited uses, but aren't a panacea for learning and knowledge.
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> It should be noted that this research was likely published with a specific agenda in mind: Just like the previous "study" which claimed everybody not part of the corporate media were alt-right. These types of "research&q
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> You know how trying to remake reddit without the censorship But reddit was "reddit without censorship" for a very long time before corporate interests, journalists and government decided to get involved. "Reddit without
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> As I said, despite his actions. And I said since 2003. Before the coup attempt ( in 2016 ), his actions boosted turkey economy 5X. It has slipped since the coup attempt but that's to be expected. Political stability is required fo
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> How is Tse Tsan-tai a western, anti-chinese propagandist? "Born in Grafton, New South Wales, to a "patriotic" Chinese, Tse Yat-cheong (謝日昌), Tse Tsan-tai was baptised James See on 1 November 1879." https:/&#x2
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> There are all kinds of questions with best practices, right and wrong answers. Best practices doesn't mean right or wrong answers. Also, most of the questions in politics is about values and perspective and biases and self interes
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> The fourth such debt wave started in 2010, and is the fastest rising as well as the largest. It's largest because unlike the first 3 regional debt waves, this one is global. US, EU, China, Japan and every major economy just printe
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> If there are no correct or incorrect policies then there is no need to vote. If there were correct or incorrect policies, there wouldn't be any need to vote. If politics was a science or a math, we wouldn't need to vote. We
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SCMP was created by "western" anti-chinese propagandists. "The journal was founded by Australian-born anti-Qing dynasty revolutionary Tse Tsan-tai and British journalist Alfred Cunningham" https://en.wikipedia
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> I follow (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc) What's the point? They are all essentially the same news company. They push the same narrative and agenda. Just pick one and move on with your day. The problem is that a l
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Since 2003 when erdogan came to power, the turkish economy grew 4 or 5X. There are lost of areas to criticize when it comes to erdogan, but the economy really ain't it.
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People immigrate to sweden and canada for jobs, opportunities and generous welfare, not because they want to live there. It's mostly the poor and desperate who immigrate to these countries. How many wealthy native born canadians visit
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> Nope. So an indian immigrant in the US? I'm running out of guesses. > I wasn't aware the Commonwealth suppresses industry in nations outside Britain with tariffs, I didn't say it did. I said it represented a mindset.
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> It's called “labour market”, not “labour community” It's also called human resources, not human community or human family. You are a resource just like a monitor or a stapler on the desk. A resource that the company uses for
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> That's the first time I've ever heard someone say the Commonwealth is an indicator of anything. Probably because you are from Britain, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. > First off, Queen Elizabeth isn't the head of s

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