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by jeegsy 5y ago
I find that a number of conspiracy theories are 'debunked' by creating an obviously ridiculous strawman/rendition of the theory that nobody actually claimed.
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> The plausibility of a conspiracy theory diminishes as the number of people necessary to keep the secret increases. Where did this idea come from?
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I'm sorry but I absolutely love the ling's car website!
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> I like our HOA. They do a good job maintaining all of the common property, including the pool, the shuttle system, and the copious grassy areas and parks that are part of our neighborhood. This is the part I dont understand. Is an HOA
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Fortunately for me, I dont practice the "falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus" method of news analysis and so therfore, the previous stories from this outlet are irrelevant. What makes the follow-up story important is that it suddenly
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There are four lights!!!
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> Former Florida Department of Health data scientist Rebekah Jones is one such example: she was fired for apparently refusing to doctor the COVID data being presented to the public by the state government An unfortunate choice of example
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> Some of us were born on the internet and our lives are better for it I think this goes without saying in that there was always going to be a minority of people who have benefited as you say and while I certainly sympathize with your sp
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> I disagree with the problem. The problem is cathedral open source doesn’t scale. The problem is the general idea of an open source project being a full time job, especially if you are unwilling to work for free. A great summary of the
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> Both Young and Jaenisch say they received more intense criticism for their preprint than any studies in their careers, in part because some researchers worried it played into the hands of vaccine skeptics spreading false claims about t
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You might even say Bolton has been wandering for a while
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Your in depth knowledge of the stats for years gone by is truly impressive. These events, this is why we love the beautiful game
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So much this! The would-be vulcans of the modern world can be so exasperating at times..
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by jeegsy 6y ago
Its close and I use it but I have trouble getting the MPRIS/playback controls working right
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by jeegsy 6y ago
With all due respect to the statistics lessons that usually follows news like this, if you are one of the 6,971 or the 8,803 for that matter, these numbers are not as comforting as you might imagine. It's like the time I was unemployed
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I'm wondering what sort of education exactly would prepare someone to decide if they should vote for a union or not. I'm assuming the would-be union would have made its case beforehand and Amazon hasnt been idle with their PR. So
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This effect originates from our native languages. Or perhaps institutional memory of how the British wrote in the colonial era. Source: Grew up in Nigeria
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> Empirical evidence shows I imagine there is 'evidence' out there but the empirical claim is quite intriguing. Do you have any sources for this?
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Very well said. Funny enough, reading this comment in addition to the main article has greatly helped my understanding of the genre. I liked some of the 'pre-modern' stuff while in college but I could never get into the 'free
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It really sucks that you are correct.
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We should change the whole software paradigm that has served us so well for so long because of 1 guy. I want the minutes I spent reading that tedious, stupid article back. Maybe RMS should stay away, if only to save us all from this unseeml
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Consensus is difficult to assess or believe when the price of dissent is so very high.
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No Thanks!
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> Boycotts rarely work Not that I disagree especially with the examples you have provided. Maybe I'm not talking about an 'organized' boycott in that sense. I'm more talking about individual purchasing decisions. It s
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Before we jump to legislation, perhaps we can try to collectively not purchase products with such issues? A marked drop in sales figures immediately following a business decision would seem to me to be a pretty strong incentive to reverse i
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As far as I can tell, a native dating app or a webapp for that matter require an active web connection for full functionality.
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I mean thats great and all but I really very much prefer to be the sort of person who remembers to remove their laundry.
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That stanford project is very different from the behemoth today. I think thats the point.
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Well I suppose if you have other ways to make incentives for investors
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Immigrants are always these exemplary people unlike those pesky Americans!

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