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by gotchange 10y ago
That's a classical example of «Outgroup Homogeneity» [1] and I'm surprised that some people are still making these arguments to support their claims. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
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by gotchange 10y ago
A PR/fluff piece that he bought a $500 mln yacht on a whim while calling for austerity in his own country cutting govt employees salaries and benefits? That would be the worst PR piece you could ask for, unless you mean that you suspec
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by gotchange 10y ago
This is not premeditated, this is October Surprise and they had the Trump video in store for that round of the fight, nothing sinister. Regarding the media, all are culprits in biased news coverage whether those on the right like Breitbart
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by gotchange 10y ago
Do you consider this piece of journalism as propaganda too? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/world/rise-of-saudi-prince... I could be as much skeptic as you and I can draw my own conclusions for why thi
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by gotchange 10y ago
Is really Thiel just a mere supporter as Sam put it or more of a partner in crime? He's clearly investing in his vision for your country to turn them into reality, and therefore should be dealt with accordingly and not just dismissed a
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by gotchange 10y ago
I am the one here who's advocating for equal and fair treatment for both candidates not the usual prevailing one for Hillary and a more lenient and almost non-existent for Trump because he's a newbie to the world of politics. This
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by gotchange 10y ago
No, I disagree. Trump is the Republican nominee for the 2016 US presidential elections which means that he's as much a politician as Hillary or Obama is and should be held against the same set of standards like every politician does an
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by gotchange 10y ago
How's this thing incriminating or considered wrongdoing? This is like in football (soccer) where it's against the rules to grab your opponent inside the box when they're taking a free kick on your goal but everyone is doing i
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by gotchange 10y ago
> Is there something really damaging in Wikileak emails? That's my main problem with all these arguments «false equivalency» in their pursuit of seeming and sounding fair, balanced and impartial, they resort to equate all the horren
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Airbnb Banned a Host for Discriminating Against Israelis(fortune.com)
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by gotchange 10y ago
Or these tests were designed from the first moment to exhibit this distribution of grades since they favor only geniuses and insiders alike. I am not really buying that this is some kind of a reflection of a natural or deterministic phenome
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by gotchange 10y ago
No burghul jokes yet? A burglar burgled burghul and burghul burgled by a burglar Say it three times without fumbling, you'd get a free tasty bowl of burghul.[1] [1]: http://media.rd.com/rd/images/rdc/book
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by gotchange 10y ago
All the countries in the Mediterranean basin suffer from that phenomenon to a varying degree and the two Italian profs interviewed in the article is just another example for that phenomenon and the state of affairs in these countries. So, b
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by gotchange 10y ago
Setting his/her rant aside, Greece is suffering from a serious case of "Brain Drain" that their brightest people had fled the country a long time ago even before this latest economic crisis hit them, and after that it acceler
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by gotchange 10y ago
What you're describing here is called "Social Capital"[0] and can be summed up very neatly with the question posed in that section of that entry [1] "do you trust the others?" which basically gets to the bottom of t
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by gotchange 10y ago
Are you really denying that the Israeli govt had nothing to do with supporting the military takeover in Egypt back in 2013 and then the military-led regime that took shape after that whether internally or abroad? If so, I don't see tha
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by gotchange 10y ago
> "The chance of making progress toward real democracy is often not seen as worth the risk for external parties (especially external elites); locals, of course, may have different calculus. " That's a very true observation
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by gotchange 10y ago
If you think that this was an unfair characterization of your comment, can you please refute the points that I raised in my counterargument? Because just taking your word for it won't cut it, sorry. > "elections suddenly would
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by gotchange 10y ago
> "where all arabs are united only in their resentment of the west" Is that how you view the political movements happening in the Arabic-speaking majority world - Sorry for the pedantry - from 2011 onward that we're consum
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by gotchange 10y ago
A whole article dedicated to exploring the apparent benefits of swearing and not a single mention of its perceived cathartic effects? I'm a bit disappointed to say the least. Anyhow, yeah swearing can help alleviate internal pain or st
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Reparations site asks people to 'offset your privilege' with acts of kindness(theguardian.com)
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This guy has swiped right on 200K women, without much success(washingtonpost.com)
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by gotchange 10y ago
> If it's supposed to be investigative journalism. It is not. It's just an infographic with a basic level of interactivity. It doesn't claim to be an extensive or comprehensive report on the influence of PE in the US mark
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by gotchange 10y ago
> We need to force the two parties to loosen their grip on the political machine in the US. The only way we do that is by supporting third party candidates. May I suggest that you guys explore elections reform as an option to get fresh f
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by gotchange 10y ago
You might be interested in viewing this GitHub project [1] that explores in details a multitude of the available options for financing FOSS projects. A very handy guide if you ask me. [1]: https://github.com/nayafia/lem
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Guide to making money in open source(github.com)
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by gotchange 10y ago
I congratulate the Google Fonts team The redesign job looks gorgeous and elegant in terms of UI and UX too but can I make a few suggestions if possible? 1- Can you please add a double view button at the top to toggle between «List» and «Gri
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by gotchange 10y ago
> So far, Middle Eastern immigrants have shown little interest in assimilating at all. Do you realize that there are indigenous christians of all denominations in the ME or there's some kind of dominance hierarchy among denomination
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by gotchange 10y ago
It's Twitter's responsibility out of their commitment to the welfare of community. Abuse and harassment should not be tolerated in any community to guarantee healthy atmosphere and smooth exchange of information and constructive c
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by gotchange 10y ago
Because he's a white nationalist and he admitted down below and he's proud of it.

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