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by hackuser 10y ago
In fact U.S. immigration / customs has a long history of testing political beliefs. The comment above makes confident statements and throws in some hyperbole, but provides no basis to believe them.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Senator Cory Gardner (R), who goes on CBS to claim that all the people calling and writing his office are "paid protesters". It seems like a GOP talking point is that they can completely ignore political opposition and democr
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by hackuser 10y ago
I'm not sure what that has to do with criminalizing them; is that somehow illegal? By the way, an interesting website you cited. Here are the top headlines on the front page: * Trump’s Ban of Refugees from Terror-Prone Countries Not Co
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by hackuser 10y ago
I think you are overestimating the power of laws and the strength of institutions like the courts. All those people were lynched for a century in the south, and it was illegal every time. Americans of Japanese ancestry were put in camps in
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by hackuser 10y ago
The ACLU has been demonized and criminalized by the right for generations. IIRC, during the McCarthy witch hunts, being an ACLU member made one suspect. It also depends where you are, for example in New York City or in rural Texas. I heard
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by hackuser 10y ago
More precisely, it only blocks part of Trump's order: "Judge Ann Donnelly of the US District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from the ACLU to stay deportations of those detained on entry to the United States following Presiden
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's nice, but there is no statement about discrimination based on religion or nationality, or xenophobia in general. His objections seem to result from poor execution: If the ban were better executed so his drivers weren't as aff
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by hackuser 10y ago
> It happens all the time It does? How often?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Being a citizen involves far more than voting once every four years. And regardless of fault , it's everyone's responsibility .
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Trump voters are a minority, they should be defended also. This is a bit of propaganda commonly employed by the racist right (I'm not saying you are racist or a member of that group, but IMHO that's the origin of the concept)
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by hackuser 10y ago
My question was about the good/bad neighborhood polarization issue in the comment above it.
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by hackuser 10y ago
If cities want to protect their citizens from authoritarian oppression of their residents, they should start dismantling the mass surveillance systems. Who knows what the next Executive Order will suddenly implement.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Let's remember that most people affected have far fewer resources and opportunity than an MIT student; most people's predicaments will not be on HN's front page or a Whitehouse.gov petition.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> It's not America that did this it's a minority of America. That's democracy; that is America or else there is no America. All Americans must own this problem, not say that it's not their fault. For one thing, it did
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by hackuser 10y ago
There are bad neighborhoods in Paris and Rio; how does Chicago stand out?
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by hackuser 10y ago
I know many people who live in that city, very happily and safely. The comment is ignorant and it's important we don't, in our ignorance, connect skin color with other personal characteristics; it leads to very bad outcomes that h
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by hackuser 10y ago
I strongly agree and I believe what Sam is doing is essential: People are hard wired to follow social norms, as I once heard a social scientist describe it. If we say nothing, we allow passivity or tacit acceptance of Trump to become a norm
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Bhopal Could the IT industry ever cause this much harm? I suppose if an IT failure caused major infrastructure to fail, or propaganda caused a war ... or if propaganda enabled a Russian mole and fascist to become President of the U.S.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Certainly there is always some of that around in any organization: Don't undermine your boss. Some bosses are more open or effective at that than others. The executive branch has well over a million employees, so everything you can ima
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by hackuser 10y ago
If it matters to you, you are not actually seeing the planets in motion: > Wang said that the animation is based on eight observations of the planets since 2009. He then used a motion interpolation algorithm to draw the orbit between tho
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thank goodness the Republicans and Trump believe in the free market and not government interference in business.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> look at the petroleum industry, security & prison industrial complexes and their bought politicians to see the worst. Why would the tech industry be any better? The industries you name are somewhat more dependent on government, but
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by hackuser 10y ago
If Hillary Clinton had used Signal instead of her private email server, would it have been ok? (No.)
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by hackuser 10y ago
> was the Obama administration fine with employees expressing opinions that conflicted with Obama's views? I saw it many times. For example, military officers did openly debate the gender issues before a decision was made (I don&#x2
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by hackuser 10y ago
That justifies Trump's power to do it, but it doesn't make it good or acceptable. The President has the power to do many things that are wrong. Trump could order other employees to invade other countries and to kill and torture pe
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by hackuser 10y ago
Trump and his people have openly spoken and acted against the media. Also, IIRC, the prior Republican administration blocked scientists from speaking openly and had politicos edit all communications, while the Obama administration allowed t
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by hackuser 10y ago
I encoded it in base64 and pasted it at the following link. See my comment above regarding the file's contents. http://pastebin.com/dPZ3Z0x6 I used my email client as a quick way to encode it and posted the whole MIME
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by hackuser 10y ago
Here it is. Beware there is no UI here; it's just a bunch of data in a table. The first sheet is a guide. https://filetea.me/n3wYtvASptWSLuUxURLHFMhtw I wish there was something like it for the publications I haven&#x2
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by hackuser 10y ago
> If you call EMTs they won't report without police (for good reason), if you call a local hospital (of any kind) they will just tell you to call the police. I wouldn't assume that's true everywhere.
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by hackuser 10y ago
There are many stories, I don't know how representative they are (certainly it's rare), of police shooting or otherwise assaulting mentally ill people they were called to help. I'm not agreeing with the GP, but I wouldn'

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