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by force_reboot 10y ago
Unfortunately liberalism as a movement is not at all consistent. One would think that the liberals posters on HN would downvote that grandparent to hell and voice support for your post. But they don't, because Holmes is not supported
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Sexual attraction is a powerful thing. Anyone who thinks they can cleanly separate their emotions from their sex drive is kidding themselves. Tinder is bringing casual sex to people (male and female) who might not have considered it as an
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Tenure if a contract between the employee and the university. It says nothing about the university's or the employee's relation to a third party. You're just going for a cheap shot by bringing up an unrelated gripe.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Agreed, these laws are more like anti-trust laws. Free market economics, according to its primary academic proponents (academic economists) is not the same as, nor is it even consistent with, the government enforcing arbitrary contracts.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
What if the dominant discourse on poverty is just wrong? What if the problem isn’t that poor people have bad morals – that they’re lazy and impulsive and irresponsible and have no family values – or that they lack the skills and smarts to
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by force_reboot 11y ago
There's a huge discrepancy between your comment being second from the top, and where a similar comment would be if we replace a mugging with an anonymous rape threat, even though both are equally unverifiable and easy to find details t
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by force_reboot 11y ago
You say "personally if I wanted to facilitate the spread of liberal ideas in Russia, the very last thing I'd do is boost US power to be a convenient bogeyman for Russians to unite against", and characterize my ideas as a &quo
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by force_reboot 11y ago
It's hard to characterize this movement that this article is critiquing, because it is diffuse. But I think it's fair to say that events in Syria and Iraq, and the anti-Russian stance taken by the liberal media, show that there i
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Races are not difficult to distinguish, in fact determining self-identified race from genetic data is trivial, and genetic data is clustered in ways that reflect the common usage of racial categories. For example see http://www.
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by force_reboot 11y ago
It's interesting that despite trying to be highly sympathetic, the article still paints Goodman in a bad light, in my opinion. All Goodman can say is that race is a continuum, not a finite set. But so what? Self defined race is stil
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by force_reboot 11y ago
The US is in the middle east because of oil and Israel. Both reasons. If you think it's just oil, the ADL and AIPAC are going to get mad at you for not giving them credit where it's due. And on top of that, now it seems like li
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Our legal system doesn't push "harm" per se, but rather harm caused unjustly[1]. E.g. it harms me a company raises the price of a product that happens to be in demand ("price gouging") but that company has every ri
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by force_reboot 11y ago
I thought this was an interesting article because it contradicts a lot of what is said by the progressive movement within tech. Examples: Silicon Valley, like America itself, remains a place where a willingness to work hard and to use you
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What I’ve Learned Working as a Black Person in Silicon Valley(huffingtonpost.com)
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by force_reboot 11y ago
And yet this is what the majority of people in on HN are arguing here. So you have to ask, why is a certain viewpoint laughable when applied to illegal immigrants from South America, but reasonable when applied to H-1B visas?
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by force_reboot 11y ago
and I was hoping HN was the one place I could avoid "edgy" liberal satire of him. Looks like we end up agreeing though.
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Meanwhile, no punishment for the Black student who tweets "7000 retweets and I'll smash this b *'s computer", with a photo of a woman with a laptop with a Trump sticker in a computer lab. http://www.nydailyne
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Constantly declaring victory doesn't mean you've won an intellectual debate. The left have convinced themselves that gender roles are bad, and the left happen to dominate some academic fields. That doesn't make them the sol
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by force_reboot 11y ago
I don't think I've failed to understand common core, but you have misread my comment. How can you claim that I would support requiring a full sentence answer, when I already said "I always asserted that the answer is 6, not 6
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by force_reboot 11y ago
I didn't mean to imply a conspiracy with "colluding". Just tell me what the issues are where Barack Obama and Donald Trump are actually on the same side and the American people would really want someone on the other side. W
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by force_reboot 11y ago
From what I've seen of the common core, 90% is fine and just plain old math stripped of any historical baggage. The 10% that is bad is the ideology that math is more ambiguous or less certain than it has been portrayed in the past. T
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by force_reboot 11y ago
Where is the evidence for this? What are the points where Barack Obama and Donald Trump are actually colluding by supporting something that the average American would oppose?
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by force_reboot 11y ago
More accurate than what? If you're implying it would be more accurate than profiling Muslims, I think you are incorrect. Muslims as a group make up 1% of the US, but a generous, biased study [0] found that they are responsible for 48
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by force_reboot 11y ago
The name doesn't help at all. "Blub" has connotations of bumbling stupidity even without knowing what the "Blub Paradox" is.
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by force_reboot 11y ago
You can call it whatever you like, but for reference, the laws that are being described as "segregationist" are laws regarding minimum lot size. These laws are no more inherently racial than "gentrification". In both c
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by force_reboot 11y ago
The problem is that the "bad" kind of magic the author describes (opaque, complex interfaces that don't follow any logic) are unavoidable. In the past, you simply couldn't produce these behemoths, so people built elegan
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by force_reboot 11y ago
This selectively applied XKCD is relevant https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by force_reboot 11y ago
I love the English language. Its quirks an inconsistencies reflect the turbulent, chaotic history of the speakers of that language. From the original ice age settlers, who left little or no trace of their language even though the British
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by force_reboot 11y ago
While there is a need for traditional journalism, I do believe that grassroots journalism by internet activists has its own value, so this shift in journalism is both positive and negative. For example, "responsible" journalists
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by force_reboot 11y ago
During my PhD in economics, the first few quarters of microeconomic theory focused on what we call classical economics, which is also called partial and general equilibrium theory. These theories are definitely not zero sum games. Even th

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