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by hackuser 10y ago
> With great certainty, I can say that most all police and first responders in the US and Canada have been trained on how to handle a suicide. How do you know this?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Someone pointed out that the government doesn't need anyone's cooperation to create a registry of Muslim Americans; they can do it based on available data. Note that a reputedly leaked document says that Trump ordered the governme
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by hackuser 10y ago
Many government agencies make extensive use of 'big data'. I doubt Trump will stop it.
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's one thing to speculate ignorantly about the latest app; it's quite another to do it about someone's mental illness.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> He should have told his wife about his problems so she could help him get professional help. He also could have done a crowdfunding campain. We don't know what his relationship with his wife is, or what his capacity is to ask for
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's great to see their efforts. What are you doing? What am I doing? Reading about it isn't nearly enough.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> We are working to set up a secure and completely anonymous file deposit system for the future. Provide a mailing address to which to send hard drives.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I didn't like the implication that the mainstream left has become enlightened past the point of ideology I agree. It's not that the mainstream left is so great and above reproach, it's that their right-wing competition h
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The fact that it is possible for things to be different doesn't imply that they are Right, so let's stop talking of theoretical possibilities and look at concrete reality. I don't know of the last time a party embraced i
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by hackuser 10y ago
I generally agree, except ... > Had the cards fallen only slightly differently, he could have won the Presidency as a loose-canon Democrat I agree that he is non-ideological. IMHO he does have some political ideas that meet his business
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by hackuser 10y ago
Well-written and insightful. But I think it overlooks one important fact: > The question is when Republican congresspeople are going to realize that Trump is a millstone around their necks in many respects The GOP has been pursuing this
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's not just Trump. The conservative movement has been actively discrediting all sources of information but themselves for many years. During the election, some of the conservative opinionators (bloggers, radio, etc.) who opposed Trum
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by hackuser 10y ago
Again, the argument is that everyone is the same. See my prior post.
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by hackuser 10y ago
A fair question in a way, but consider that life is too short: * You could post data from %somerandomblogger% or the Russian government, and challenge me to find the flaws. Not a game I'd like to play; find a good source instead. My ti
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by hackuser 10y ago
I'll figure something out and post here. It won't be until tomorrow or the next day before I have time.
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by hackuser 10y ago
The implication of the parent comment is that it's all the same - every movement, group, etc. are equally wrong or right. That's a common defense of propaganda, but it's not reality. Nobody is perfect; everyone is a bit ideol
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the industry. One question: > The contractor/service companies (Halliburton, Schlumberger, BakerHughes/GE, Transocean, Nabors etc..) are probably the only ones in the industry that could suc
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thanks for the tips. Where do I send the spreadsheet? Also, if you know a forum with valuable, intelligent, somewhat sophisticated discussion of international relations (i.e., non-partisan, non-ideological, non-Internet-style ranting and hy
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by hackuser 10y ago
> the link is to statistical data. the numbers are reality. Statistics are regularly misused to deceive, and that assumes the data is accurate.
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by hackuser 10y ago
The American Enterprise Institute isn't a reliable source. It's a think tank that exists to provide intellectual 'cover' to the political desires of certain conservatives; it's propaganda for intellectuals. That doe
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I am consistently baffled how a political party can make so many decisions that are objectively wrong and still garner support ... I find that this hypothesis explains the observations: It's an ideological movement. The test of su
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Trump does. He's going to implement his policies, since the voters have voted him to do so. All voters have influence, not just the ones who voted for you and not just for one Tuesday every four years. He's the President of a
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by hackuser 10y ago
I agree that would be better, but I'm eager to hear the politically feasible, general solution that will help these people. Unions and collective bargaining are one general solution, but those are under great threat now. IME, Congress
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by hackuser 10y ago
But you just made up that scenario, and its consequences. Also, each post seems to contain more hyperbolic phrases. I think they are obvious enough that I'm not getting into the business of listing them.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Are you professionally connected to this field? I'm just someone who reads as much of the best sources I can (about international relations, not just China). I agree about FP; I don't read it regularly but I'll follow a link
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by hackuser 10y ago
> regulate the hell out of Uber and turn the unicorn into a donkey These are the words used to describe a hypothetical situation of your own creation. It seems hard to escape the term "hyperbole".
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by hackuser 10y ago
There are many philosophical principles here, but not much that seems related to the reality of people, businesses, or governments. I'll just say this: Theory is a useful servant but a bad master, liable to produce orthodox defenders
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by hackuser 10y ago
I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space--were it not that I have bad dreams. It's the bad dreams that always get you.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Great talking with you, by the way. Our understandings are different, of course, and it's great to learn another perspective. I agree with much of what you say, I just think it weighs less heavily. But a few concrete points: 1) A minor
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by hackuser 10y ago
The older I get the more I realize that the absurd theater is depressingly real, and the other stuff is what's absurd. Beckett et al were telling the truth, putting before our eyes all the absurdity that we learn to overlook.

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