habnds

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by habnds 7y ago
There's an additional wealth transfer between the owners of healthcare related stocks and non owners. If the US approached EU type health care costs we could easily give every one health care for free. The cost would come out of health
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by habnds 7y ago
if prices accurately reflected costs not flying would start to seem a lot more practical
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by habnds 7y ago
because that would require a change in personal behavior while the carbon sucking option means it's some scientist's problem and they have no personal responsibility
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by habnds 7y ago
In my experience, companies that have a policy of type 1 promotions are not to be trusted with one's career.
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by habnds 7y ago
The basic idea is that there is fact and there is truth. When fact is communicated it is intended to build truth in the audience. When truth is communicated it is the product of the system that produces it. In our system, that truth serves
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by habnds 7y ago
I don't think my point can be made any more clearly. People are misinterpreting the news. It seems like your position is to blame the news, and you seem to think this is a new issue. My position is that this is an inherent factor in pr
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by habnds 7y ago
"yellow journalism" was a major factor in swaying american public opinion into supporting a war with Spain. It's a very long standing problem. Not a recent development.
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by habnds 7y ago
You should look up any number of books about how the US got into the Spanish American War in 1898. It's a very long standing problem. I wouldn't describe an expert's opinion as "speculation". Maybe it's becuase
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by habnds 7y ago
I think you're putting the burden of someone interpreting an article correctly (in your subjective assessment of what is correct) on the news source. Where I disagree is that I think it's the job of each of us as consumers of news
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by habnds 7y ago
The article isn't saying that. It's in quotes becuase they are reporting the words of someone they've deemed to be a reputable source for the topic of standard administration behavior. You may have an issue with that source&#
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by habnds 7y ago
right, at best it's crippling. At worst it becomes a device for dismissing any news that is inconsistent with one's worldview. "That probably isn't even true."
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by habnds 7y ago
Isn't the reputation of a publication a legitimate part of evaluating an article? Your attitude seems very close to a position that we can never truly know anything.
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by habnds 7y ago
Maybe I don't understand you. Exactly which sentence is presenting an opinion as a fact? I don't think they do so.
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by habnds 7y ago
This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events which led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_protests Its sources are the very articles that are being criticized in this
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by habnds 7y ago
I see what you're saying but I don't agree that they were presenting the officials opinion as fact. The reason we could criticize it in the first place is that it's clearly the opinion of an official who Politico judged as a
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by habnds 7y ago
Just putting myself in the shoes of someone at Politico, I think they would point out a few things. Is it reasonable to compare this article to a wikipedia article? The publishing time frame and the number of people involved are way differe
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by habnds 7y ago
Citations in journalism is a really interesting thing. Unlike science, where at least in theory, everything is built from the ground up using first principles or built upon raw data collected, the "raw data" of journalism is just
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by habnds 7y ago
Pretty much all of his work is highly recommended! He's famous for White Noise and Cosmopolis (there was a movie with the guy from Twilight), but Mao and Falling Man are probably my favorites. Delillo and Cormac McCarthy are two curren
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by habnds 7y ago
this is an interesting approach that I should try to remember.
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by habnds 7y ago
most comments I've ever seen on a HN post I think
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by habnds 7y ago
right, it's in the ground water that people are drinking.
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by habnds 7y ago
Um, because to win the presidential election you need to do well in the Iowa caucuses and agricultural communities are overrepresentated in the legislature.
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by habnds 7y ago
it's a battle of wits for sure :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EkBuKQEkio
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by habnds 7y ago
might depend on the state but for sure illegal in most. At the same time, I've never heard of it being litigated, ever. Usually the people told not to talk about their salaries are making the most.
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by habnds 7y ago
surely if these traits are valuable to survival they would be valuable to females too? dont you think the difference might be nurture not nature?
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by habnds 7y ago
in many ways isn't it two sides of the same coin?
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by habnds 7y ago
yeah nice
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by habnds 7y ago
why should I need to be able to drive to vote? Or go through the rigamarole of getting a passport? ID in the us is a huge pita. There no reason to require it for voting anyway, fraud isn't a real problem. it's just a good way to p
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by habnds 7y ago
there's little or no evidence that duplicate votes are a problem in US elections
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by habnds 7y ago
I think the laptops would defeat the purpose of the paper ballots?

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