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by gsk22 6y ago
When the speech in question is hate speech directed at minorities, then giving a platform to bigots to spread that hate is definitely a setback for civil rights.
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by gsk22 6y ago
He is definitely an inspiring story, but I wouldn't call him a role model. It is not the burden of each person who is a minority to befriend those who hate them, and his approach is undeniably a dangerous one.
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by gsk22 6y ago
What portion of the $10 actually ends up in your favorite content creator's hands? That's why I prefer to support creators via Patreon. Then 80%+ of the money goes directly to the creator, and none to YT.
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by gsk22 6y ago
It was true, even back then. In 2015, only 5.4% of the MPD lived within city limits. [1] This isn't a recent change, and IMO it's a major driver of the "occupier"/"us vs them" mindset many cops in the MPD
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by gsk22 7y ago
> Where and when have we had communism on a nation-state scale? Cuba arguably comes closest to the ideal, and they're doing well. Sure, Cuba does well in some important metrics like education and healthcare, but overall it is still
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by gsk22 7y ago
Frito Lay vs some company no one's ever heard of? I'd say the original statement stands :)
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by gsk22 7y ago
Your proposed syntax becomes ambiguous when you are more than one level deep. What would be the meaning of an expression like f (g (x y)) ? Is it (f (g x y)) or (f g (x y))?
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by gsk22 7y ago
I honestly do not understand this mentality. You're given 23 paid days off, why would you donate that time back to your employer?
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by gsk22 7y ago
Which cultures? And what specific attributes of their governing systems made them "good"?
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by gsk22 7y ago
In my city, the current recommendation is to simply throw alkaline batteries in the garbage - no special disposal. Only rechargeable batteries require special disposal. This goes against what I was taught growing up, but then most recycling
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by gsk22 7y ago
If you have no contract, what's to stop CenturyLink from reneging on the lifetime price guarantee?
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by gsk22 7y ago
Car2Go used to operate in my US city, but they pulled out a couple years ago under the guise of "an onerous new tax burden" (despite no new taxes being passed). I think the real issue was they were just plain expensive -- barely c
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by gsk22 7y ago
Where does the article say it is against the airline's will? It only says that the airlines have never activated the camera, and currently have no plans to.
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by gsk22 8y ago
I assume they meant a Roth IRA, which does tax deposits.
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by gsk22 13y ago
As a relatively recent graduate now working for a startup with an unlimited vacation policy, I find there are a whole slew of other uncertainties related to unlimited vacation. Am I expected to take as much time off as the 20-year industry
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by gsk22 13y ago
Although Fog Creek definitely skews towards Ivy League hires, as a former FC intern from a tiny Midwest school I can say it's not a requirement.
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by gsk22 13y ago
Are the L's in balm and psalm really silent in British English? I have always pronounced the L, and can't imagine applying a bahm or reading psahm 23.