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by geowwy 10y ago
Infowars is anti-globalist. The Russian state is anti-globalist. Not really surprising that they'd have similar talking points. Peter Hitchens does a good job of explaining why conservative anti-globalists like Russia – "Why I Lik
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by geowwy 10y ago
It's hard to know if it really is just ceremonial because the last few of monarchs have never tested how much power they actually have.
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by geowwy 10y ago
Probably this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps... TLDR: * Households earning <$30,000 were significantly more likely to vote for Clinton. * Households earning $50,000-$99,999 were a litt
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by geowwy 10y ago
Looks like he didn't control his own Twitter in the beginning: https://web.archive.org/web/20090702030955/http://twitter.co...
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by geowwy 10y ago
His tweets seems to suggest the opposite "Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views." https://twitter.com/realDona
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by geowwy 10y ago
The biggest mistake is assuming people vote for the candidate whose policies are closest to theirs. That almost never happens.
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by geowwy 10y ago
Thes most interesting part of this is the skin tone emojis. /r/gaming is a pretty diverse community apparently
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by geowwy 10y ago
Same in Australia.
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by geowwy 10y ago
Not exactly. The British Empire coerced China into leasing them Hong Kong for 100 years. After the 100 year lease was up China agreed to keep Hong Kong as a semi-independent "special administrative region". The other special admin
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by geowwy 10y ago
That was the whole point of The_Donald – to protest the perceived abuses of other subs by doing the same thing more blatantly. That's what they mean when say they're a "free speech" subreddit: they're protesting aga
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by geowwy 10y ago
> Unfortunately, it's now the equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity. Yeah – or to put it another way, they champion social equality instead of equality under the law. It's the difference between Classical Lib
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by geowwy 10y ago
> Does anyone have any good examples of left-leaning fake, conspiratorial news stories in the last few years? The theory that Putin hacked the Democrats to get Donald Trump elected. There's zero proof that Russia is behind the leaks
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by geowwy 10y ago
And Australia
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by geowwy 10y ago
> I think the idea is to indicate these numbers have error bands: It's also a hint that the page isn't static.
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by geowwy 10y ago
But it's even more important than that. People find it easier to use apps that have a familiar look and feel. That means less training, less troubleshooting, lower operating costs.
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by geowwy 10y ago
>> If they disagree with you, it's probably not because they are being irrational... It's interesting to compare this POV with the Scott Adams'. In his school of thought all people are mostly irrational, even if they th
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by geowwy 10y ago
I'm going to differ on this. I 100% support inclusivity. I really, really like my job and I know activists have the power to destroy my career. Therefore I'm doing like Scott Adams[1] and supporting inclusivity, because it's
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by geowwy 10y ago
Douglas Crockford is a grumpy old man who has a history of making politically incorrect jokes. There are a handful of inclusivity activists who campaign against him because of that. The main Nodevember organiser recently dropped Douglas Cro
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by geowwy 10y ago
Kind of a snide way to dismiss Penrose's work. If our brains are doing things that algorithms can't and QM really is non-deterministic then there could be something to his book. I don't think we know enough to say yet.
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by geowwy 10y ago
They might have hacked the DNC, they might not have. I suspect it was just a leak from someone in the DNC, but we know Russia has motive since they fear a continuation of America's foreign policy would lead to war with the West. More c
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by geowwy 10y ago
Empires are great for wealth creation. America has constructed an empire-that's-not-an-empire through internationalist orgs like NATO, the IMF, the UN, etc. Before we had Pax Britannica and Pax Romana. Now we have Pax Americana. But pr
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by geowwy 10y ago
Nope. Read again.
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by geowwy 10y ago
Seems crazy but people of the Philippines knew what they were voting for. This is exactly what he did when he was mayor of Davao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte#Davao_City_may... To play devil's adv
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by geowwy 10y ago
> The fact that no gospel mentions it, could be the exact same reason women get ignored throughout the rest of history. It would be weird to leave out Jesus's wife when it mentions his mother and sisters, as well as female disciples
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by geowwy 10y ago
There is also Folkspraak which does the same thing but with Germanic languages instead of Latin languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkspraak If you speak English it's pretty easy to get the gist of both. I
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by geowwy 10y ago
> The ultimate goal of prison is to reintegrate people in the society. I don't understand that. If we're worried about criminals' integration with society then we shouldn't put them in prison. Prisons exist to separat
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by geowwy 10y ago
I don't think Digg Reader does search. Digg is good though, it's what I use.
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by geowwy 11y ago
Sounds similar to Kakoune ( http://kakoune.org/ ) but with Sam expressions
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by geowwy 11y ago
I don't think there's an easy way to do it, you've just got to push through the awkwardness. I have one piece of advice. Change the keyboard layout on your phone to whatever you're learning (Colemak in my case). I memori
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by geowwy 11y ago
Their reports on Israel and the Syrian civil war are a very one-sided. http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/middleeast.html

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