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by jhpriestley 6y ago
You seem to think that if a party does not accomplish its policy objectives (closing gitmo, DACA) because the other party prevented it from accomplishing those objectives, it does not support them? interesting take :)
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
yes, he pardoned Roger Stone for obstructing the investigation into him
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
It's like history repeats itself. In Weimar Germany you had the fascists who wanted to persecute and scapegoat minorities and immigrants, but then the far left was also super intolerant of the fascists and actually killed some of them
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
It is not only the sheer pleasure of reading language used to its utmost, an indulgence found in the enduring literary accomplishments of Shakespeare or Dickens but somewhat lacking in the trendier, reportorial style of a Hemingway (who, af
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Gitmo was part of a larger war on terror, including the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, which is estimated to have caused millions of deaths. Torture and arbitrary detainment have been widespread. One of the very few flagrant criminals to
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Everywhere saw a similar shape of curve, i.e. exponential increase until the lockdown, then slow exponential decrease. The peak of the curve differed widely, and countries that were slow to lock down like the UK, Sweden and USA have seen
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
1. Dozens of localities have controlled the virus via lockdowns, social distancing and masking, they all show similar curves to NY but with lower peaks. NY therefore offers no evidence that herd immunity has been reached. 2. Your Spanish st
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
The virus spread quite well in Wuhan and the South Korean church though. Why do you dismiss the significant policy differences as a sufficient explanation?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
yes, he is wrong that Apple and Disney are pawns of the CCP, it's a ridiculous accusation from an alternate reality.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Barr didn't seem too concerned about foreign influence when it came to a national security advisor lying to the government about cash payments from Turkey and illegal coordination with Russia.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
You're right, I think Trump had a real Kumbaya moment and renounced racism after the courts struck down his Muslim ban for targeting an ethnic or religious group. Ever since then his orders have only happened to consistently target min
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
it's weird, this administration has been almost vindictive against some groups, like non white asylum seekers, non white students, non white Puerto Ricans, non white athletes, and non white protesters, but it is very supportive of othe
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
If you think that one high-profile mistake makes them "a joke" then you might not be aware of how much work SPLC does. For example, here is their page on CIS, with hundreds of citations and direct quotes https://www.spl
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
The missing context on your comment is that the CIS is a hate group according to the SPLC, which is among other heinous things in favor of the family separation policy, a crime against humanity.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Which startup business model do you have in mind, that would survive Uber entering the same market, selling the same product but losing money on every transaction for five years?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Amazing, NYC has already reached twice that death rate so they must have had 120% of their population infected
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
I am reminded of Feynman's critique of the space shuttle engine program... "The engine was designed and put together all at once with relatively little detailed preliminary study of the material and components. Then when troubles
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
If the goal is to produce a simulation of handwriting then a font (which is a simulation of a case of metal blocks) seems like a bad starting point. Better to simulate a pen moving along a curve and then vary curve parameters (acceleration
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
This corporate malfeasance seems pretty tame in comparison to what US multinationals regularly get away with. For example, no one has been arrested from Boeing.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
My concern is that we may see the same dynamics as the reconstruction era. White liberals may lack the stomach for the kind of serious reform that would preserve democracy in the face of a white supremacist bloc gradually eroding voting rig
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
I wonder if anyone in history has managed to seize authoritarian power with only 40% support. I vaguely remember an example in the 1930s in central europe somewhere.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
> basically every prediction https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/opinion/things-to-come.ht... https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/running-out-of-bu... https
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Actually even longer than 15 years, the US has all-too-generously allowed the CCP to continue to exist ever since we benevolently allowed their army to fight ours to a standstill on the Korean peninsula in 1953.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
would you really choose "the wire" over "little house on the prairie"? How can such a comparison possibly be "objective" anyway?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Fewer miles, fewer accidents. One delivery truck can replace many personal car trips.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
One oft-repeated line about driverless cars was that they would improve the world by reducing car accidents, and possibly helping with congestion and parking problems. The pandemic has proven that these goals and many more can be accomplish
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
could this be the year of "too cheap to meter"?
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
They did not throw any doctor in jail. I don't trust the Chinese government but I think if they were lying then their opponents would be able to build a more persuasive case by now.
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
by fake news I was referring to the "disappeared journalists", no credible source has made such allegations
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by jhpriestley 7y ago
since the criticisms of the Chinese numbers tend to be wild derivations from urns or anonymously sourced US propaganda, yes I am inclined to believe the numbers. If you are seeing these articles "pop up" then you read fake news bt

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