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by gspetr 9y ago
IIRC it's based on upvotes. And the most upvoted ones are also about criminals meeting prompt demise: http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1993-06.html
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There are some candidates that died under influence, but they did so in a spectacular way: http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2017-06.html
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> African slaves, who didn’t need to be paid, didn’t have a term contract, and often were resistant to malaria. You still needed to pay someone to guard them and feed them. According to Larry Elder only 5% of whites in the US today can t
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by gspetr 9y ago
Their feelings were hurt and your argument goes against the "diversity is strength" narrative. I upvoted you btw, I assume some downvotes were because your choice of words was a bit too callous for their liking.
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> This is an easy opinion to harbor when you speak a language whose future is pretty much secure. I speak one of UN's big 6 languages and it's future is secure. I care little for it's jokes, new ones will be made. But if i
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What makes it worth it for you to keep working there?
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Alternatives? Are any of them necessary? The way I see it, Damore wanted to be a martyr (realistically, what happened was the most likely outcome and he knew it) in the spirit of "The Life of David Gale" and he got it.
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> Depending on the feedback, he could have change the wording to be perhaps more appropriate, and engaged in an honest conversation with HR. This is terribly naive. HR is there to protect the company, and it's PR image, not to have
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> how good IBM is and the proud history of the company. I bet this gem didn't make the cut: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/tripp...
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> Didn't work so well for alcohol, drugs, or prostitution unfortunately. I'm pretty sure it will work out once the surveillance methods are more advanced and ubiquitous. And no, I don't think it's a good thing.
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After dropping the "Listen, there's something I didn’t tell you." line you are going to have a very hard time framing it as anything else but shortcoming. A much better way to say it (if you have to say it) would be to talk
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Deliberately disclosing your "shortcomings" is demonstrably a poor dating strategy, you lower your chances by doing it. You don't see supermarkets advertise by saying that their product line is short, or their warehouses smal
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This is not an apples to apples comparison. The slaves were already in the US. Illegal immigrants are not. I don't see much arguments from the right that it's the blacks and not illegal immigrants who are driving down wages, given
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> homosexuality was considered a genetic flaw that was targeted for elimination in the gene pool. I don't wish to come across as callous, but wouldn't homosexuality self-eliminate itself from the gene pool nowadays because ther
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1)Male Deaths: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-04/business/fi-31566_1_w... 2)Female sentences: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-s... 3)Women get more d
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https://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt
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> I've always found it suspicious that Russia and China created their own social networks, email providers, and search engines. Yandex search predates Google. Not to mention that the quality of it's search in Russian had been m
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I reread my message and I see that I misspoke and can easily be interpreted the way you say. Also, the "method" I used is neither very sound nor in any way scientific. Just a very subjective level of comfort for me. Allow me to ad
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by gspetr 9y ago
You might be right, mine's skewed too. This is where I grew up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk#Climate Them deserts got nothing on Siberia. I'm all too familiar with +30 Summer, -30 Winter swings,
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> They haven't featured left wing groups since the 70s. The Times They Are A-changin': http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/antifa-charlottesvi... > Most "lone wolf" mass sh
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> I have no idea where this "Africa is hot" trope originates More than 25 percent of Africa is desert. Sahara is not the only desert in Africa. Checked the forecasts of 10 largest cities in Africa, lowest avg. daily temperature
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> The Orthodox and the Catholics have the notion of Purgatory What kind of orthodoxy are you talking about in this context? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church#Eschat... This one explicitly rejects
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This is also a somewhat popular view in Islam that if you say the words you will eventually go to Heaven, even if you have to get roasted in Hell for a while first.
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But what is your proposed solution? I'm Russian and there used to be a popular anecdote here that 1/3 of the country is in prison, 1/3 guards them and 1/3 are relatives, waiting for the release of the prisoners. Russian
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There's usually more to that than those 2 use cases: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/10/the-scrap-value-of-a-hac...
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She was hit by a car but that was not the cause of death. She was morbidly obese and a heavy smoker. https://www.nbcnews.com/video/heather-heyer-s-mom-delivers-m... You heard that right. Heather Heyer died of a heart
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> What are actual examples in practice of how us Euros are worse off? Off the top of my head: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36055488 EDIT: Also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8
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> You need to realise that the far-right spawns much more violence (against individuals; against groups; against the state) than the far left. In the UK perhaps. The most recent attempt on a US Congressman's life: https:/&#x2F
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Hijack? He's as establishment as they come. He's essentially the french version of Rubio, not in the "minority candidate" sense, but in the "fallback establishment candidate" sense. The only difference was that
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"Zuckerberg sometimes talks about the promise of brain implants, which he believes will one day convey the entirety of one’s mental state to another human being" Those who join us need only give up only half of their humanity - th

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