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by jgwil2 6y ago
That's just the point though. In our system, one side has no incentive to move to the center, because they can win elections without doing so. A more representative system would force both parties to move to the center as they try to c
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by jgwil2 6y ago
In pure functional languages a function is a mathematical function: each time it is invoked with the same input, you get the same output. Imperative "functions" are really procedures, that is to say, labels for a set of instructio
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The crisis isn’t too much polarization. It’s too little democracy(vox.com)
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Okay, he didn't say "the Democrats," he said Clinton's emails. Is that really better? Please prove he was joking.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Did you mean to comment on the main thread? This has nothing to do with the parent comment.
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Core myths about eating animals — and why food tech may vanquish them(vox.com)
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by jgwil2 6y ago
sigh so much energy spent but your point was ultimately that Burger King should be able to lie about the contents of its food and no one should care. Just admit you were wrong dude!
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by jgwil2 6y ago
According to you, it's wrong "in a real sense" to make a fuss at a restaurant. According to others it's wrong to eat meat. Who are we to say which is worse? Which ultimately causes more harm and suffering in the world? I
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Right. When he does it, it's so "obviously" a joke. And yet something tells me he would have no problem accepting help from anyone, legally or otherwise, if he thought he wouldn't get caught. I submit that maybe there ar
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Elsewhere you've asked people to prove that Trump made the statement, which people did. Please now prove that this was " obvious political riffing," whatever that means.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Very simply, you can't sell it as vegetarian if it has meat in it. Vegetarians may choose to abstain from meat for many reasons, including religious ones. Burger King's duty is not to question those choices; it's simply not t
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Please see nl's comment elsewhere in this thread.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
1) You really think Trump understands that? 2) It's a direct request to hack the Democratic presidential candidate and party standard bearer.
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Wow. We all saw it happen.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think you're confusing "Cape Feare" with "You Only Move Twice," the Hank Scorpio episode. The former is a Sideshow Bob episode.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
"Homer's Enemy" is funny but I felt the tone was off a little. It was just a bit too cruel to Grimey (as he liked to be called) in the end for me to consider it one of their best.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Impossible to pick a single best Simpsons episode. Seasons 6-8 are just so ridiculously good. I could barely even make a top 10. That said, here's my list in no particular order: * Homer goes to college * Homer the great * The day the
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Is he complaining about the vote counting or the prediction modeling? This piece vacillates between the two without really being clear that these are two completely separate things.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
A couple Reddit comments posed the question of population density. Western Europe is extremely urban; the US much less so. How does the difference look once we control for this?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
So, github should terminate this account immediately. But why is this source open to begin with?
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I can't speak for Norway, but walking around any French town center late at night can be quite intimidating.
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Okay, but isn't the point that there's no objective way to evaluate those results? If you're limiting people's voting rights in order to get the results you want, then of course you will think less voting is better. It&#
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by jgwil2 6y ago
You're really grasping now. Assuming you're referring to Jesus, allow me to point out the obvious fact that he wasn't European, and antisemitism as we understand it today did not exist in his time. By "the right to parti
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by jgwil2 6y ago
There was a 1000-year history of antisemitism in Europe prior to the Nazis, and Jews had had the right to fully participate in public life in most of western Europe for less than a century, but sure, other than that it was just like the sit
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by jgwil2 6y ago
cf. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. The
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by jgwil2 6y ago
As an American this only hit home for me when visiting England in July. Sunset at 10pm and sunrise at 4am was lovely, But I wouldn't much like to visit in January with only six hours of daylight.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
What on Earth are you talking about? Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 1988 to 2012.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Some interesting arguments are presented in this article but there are a couple of pretty important issues this workflow totally elides. First of all, where are code reviews? If you're committing directly to master, does that mean ever
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by jgwil2 6y ago
> The usual result with piano teaching apps of all kinds - as someone else commented below - is kids get up to Grade 1 (maybe 2) and then hit a brick wall. How many kids or adults who start with traditional piano lessons will actually ma
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How Germany is doing with Covid-19(vox.com)
2 points by jgwil2 6y ago|1 comments

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