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by facepalm 10y ago
I think it is not quite as easy as that. There are also stories of people who got shut down by PayPal. So at some point you'll be dependent on somebody, at least a payment processor - at least until Bitcoin becomes more prevalent... An
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by facepalm 10y ago
I have to chuckle at the thought of Trump introducing such a tax on foreign house buyers. Imagine the outrage!
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by facepalm 10y ago
Not even sure if that is true, as most measurements seem to be relative, like "x% are poorer than y%". Even if income has stagnated, it seems possible that buying power has increased. I guess many measures try to correct for that,
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by facepalm 10y ago
Misleading headline: she threw the match to protest against the tournament setup, having to play against too many women.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Thank you for the recommendation, looks great indeed. Can't wait to try with my kids :-)
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by facepalm 10y ago
"The point is value can be derived from experiences uniquely tied to race and gender, especially given how we're taught race and gender. It often doesn't coincide with reality." I can barely understand what you are sayin
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by facepalm 10y ago
Ugh - come on, you seriously suggest only a feminist would have listened to a fellow human being and have been able to come up with a solution? She (Valeria) framed it that way because she is a feminist. That is just an anecdote, not scienc
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by facepalm 10y ago
I think science might be overstating it a bit. There are some indicators for some things. For example the first article unfortunately doesn't include a link to the actual paper, so we don't know what tests they used on the groups.
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by facepalm 10y ago
I didn't mention any laws. That said, I think the general assumption that racism must be the reason for unequal outcomes might not be based on reality in many cases.
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by facepalm 10y ago
A lot of talk is about hiring practices (like blind assessments), or retention. But that ignores a question that should be easy to answer: are there a significant number of qualified "diverse" applicants that could be hired with t
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by facepalm 10y ago
Traffic is already the biggest killer of kids (afaik). You can only teach kids so much. They are kids - sometimes impulsive...
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by facepalm 10y ago
Why can't they keep doing x86 stuff and start something else at the same time?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Having a family is a choice, and it is OK that it costs money - it is worth something to have a family. Privilege to run a startup - that should also be a choice. Convince somebody to give you money, everybody can try that. What if I really
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by facepalm 10y ago
"How is this any different from Muslim families fleeing the ravages in Aleppo?" Not everybody lives in Aleppo. "Do you really think Muslim families are in any better position than Christian ones?" Um - yes? If you live i
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by facepalm 10y ago
fake news epidemic... Nobody cares anymore. Just write shit and hit publish!
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by facepalm 10y ago
"Christians are hardly persecuted in Muslim countries." You mean, for example, a Christian family living on IS territory would be just fine? That seems very unlikely to me. But perhaps I have fallen victim to fearmongering about t
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by facepalm 10y ago
"That's the entire point, enforcing religious tests is absurd." Are Christians actually exempt, or are you referring to the "prioritization of people who are religiously persecuted", who happen to include Christians
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by facepalm 10y ago
Perhaps the US is at war with Muslim groups in those countries, so it makes sense to (temporarily) ban Muslims? But how do they make sure someone is really a Christian? Also the ban seems temporary to give them time to improve security chec
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by facepalm 10y ago
Well it says that people from a religion which has the majority in a country are probably not persecuted for their religion. That sounds lie a pretty reasonable assumption?
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by facepalm 10y ago
I have high respect for CodingHorror, which is why I am confused about some of his claims. Perhaps HN can help me understand a few things: - why do people claim it is a muslim ban, when really it seems to be a ban on countries that the US i
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by facepalm 10y ago
Packaging is useful, and can be properly disposed off. Microbeads - not really.
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by facepalm 10y ago
My mother, who is literally a grandmother, ran into the /boot old kernel's issue twice already. Very annoying.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Most "reliable sources of news" discredited themselves in the last couple of months. And the barrage was pretty onesided, too, wasn't it? As for the barrage - again, how do you do that? Like creating bots on Twitter and Faceb
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by facepalm 10y ago
Putins information war: number of web sites or fake social media accounts does not imply lots of people are reading them. In any case, Trump and Hillary wanted to win - all the strategies of the Russians would have been open to Hillary and
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by facepalm 10y ago
Sure, but that to me sounds like a technical argument, not a political one (that is, it is neither Republican or Democratic, for example). It is not really a moral argument. And it might not be the only possible scenario - in fact, with all
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by facepalm 10y ago
"the Russians would carpet bomb the nation with their version of the story" But how can they carpet bomb the US with fake news from Russia? "Even in Europe" Maybe Europe will have to shake off its arrogance and realize h
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by facepalm 10y ago
Btw maybe you can explain the Taiwan thing to me? Why is it the obviously good thing to keep supporting China in their policy of claiming it?
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by facepalm 10y ago
If Putin can control the US from his third world backwater, maybe he deserves to be in power. What makes him so good that the world's most advanced country is powerless against him? Is it because Russians are such good hackers? Taiwan,
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by facepalm 10y ago
I thought historians are still debating what caused the fall of Rome? I can't really take you serious if you invoke Putin as the supposed mastermind... International relations: because the countries he temporarily blocked for immigrati
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by facepalm 10y ago
We can disagree on the historical lessons. I wonder, right now, which historical lesson you are referring to? If you mean Nazi Germany, my opinion is that there aren't actually that many parallels. Or do you mean cases when cultures we

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