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Is the name "Sunlight Project"[1] intended to confuse people with the "Sunlight Foundation"[2]? Funnily enough, when you click through the Sunlight Project website, they claim to oppose government waste in several indust
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Sometimes expert consensus and fear mongering leads to action. 1970, 1977, and 1990 saw major amendments to the Clean Air Act that might have changed the trajectory described in that Life article.
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Coal was regulated before concerns of climate change became mainstream because it kills people. The pollutants it releases poison people not just in the state where the plant is located, but in neighboring states. None of the costs of medic
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The FBI explicitly investigated whether there was an attempt to hide emails. Here is Comey's statment: > The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we
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I will admit, the lack of taptic feedback on the touch bar is surprising to me, given it's presence in the touchpad
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There's a few likely differences, although it's hard to tell from the limited info in the Clinton case: 1) Saucier generated the classified information. He took the photos. I don't think there was evidence the Clinton was kn
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During the demo, they showed an Esc key in the touch bar when using Terminal and a few other apps
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Honest Question: How does the actual computing hardware on the entry level Surface Studio compare to a $1000 computer?
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That third email looks like they were asking the DNC for comment on a planned article, which is a standard reporting practice. Edit: researched more, and while asking for comment is standard practice, sharing a full article pre-edit is not.
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Do you have a source for #2? It defies belief, why would Obama clip the wings of his likely democratic successor, knowing that a Republican presidential would endanger Obamacare and several other major achievements of his administration?
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From his Wikipedia page: Genachowski was on the staffs of the Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair and then U.S. Representative Chuck Schumer.[10] In 1994 FCC Chairman Reed Hundt hired him as a senior legal advisor; he was
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I don't think this was reported. However there's a few points in the surrounding context that likely diminishes this as a significant detail: 1) The account belonged to a President (Bill) Clinton staffer, and not to Hillary or som
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Most reporting on this I've seen suggests that the DNC hack originated in Russia, and that it had the trademarks of a Russian Intelligence action: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul&
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You are accusing a blog of having shallow and trendy ideologies, but you can't even describe them?
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>>> You are a lifeform that feeds on the transition of matter from low entropy to high entropy states This is a video game. You could be anything, do anything. Introduce mechanics that do not require the consumption of worlds. Lots
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Isn't the very first person in this article (Ariel Waldman) a white woman?
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I think the author was less interested in describing the ideology from a historical perspective, and more interested in pointing out warning signs that could signal an ideological movement is trending towards fascism. His point is that a fu
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Sure, but in the case of presidential elections you have both Man A and Man B walking into a bar and telling different jokes, with roughly half the people laughing at each joke. Why did some people laugh at Man A's joke more? Was it an
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Perfect. And since charisma is in the eye of the beholder, or defined by popular opinion, this can never be wrong. E.g., see how no one in these comments can agree on which candidate is more charismatic. Addendum: In elections, the most pop
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Every time you apply for a new card, you get a hard pull. Credit agencies don't like too many hard pulls in a short period of time because it looks reckless to open so many new lines of credit at once. It's unlikely that opening a
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You can't ease all of it, but if you are going to sign trade deals that benefit some workers over others, you should compensate the workers who lose their jobs. It doesn't have to be job guarantees, there can be solutions like wag
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Trump calls for boycott of Apple products(theverge.com)
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There is a ruling where they refer to it as providing intent and color, but not law. And cases can only be decided based on law. I don't think you can make a decision based solely on the "pursuit of happiness" phrase from the
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Being pedantic: pursuit of happiness and inalienable rights are in the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution. The right to regulate interstate commerce (and thus put restrictions on a lot of the fun things) is enumerated.
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If Apple rotates their keys, that means that their private keys can be unlearned, whereas a method to backdoor iPhones could not be unlearned in the same way.
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There's a pretty good analysis by 538 about when superdelegate advantage actually becomes relevant, and when the superdelegates would be likely to execute their power: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/superdeleg
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Introducing Vector Networks(medium.com)
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If the high tax rate only applies to ordinary income, won't this just shift compensation away from ordinary income and towards stock-based or alternative compensation?
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I disagree with this argument. You are posing two extremes: One where everything can be known with certainty, and one where everything is purely based on faith, and dismissing the potential of there being something in the middle. You are ri
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I'm not sure if the response to difficulties in measurement is to build a system out of faith and assumptions. We can analyze different policy decisions, either by modeling human behavior (based on experiments which can be controlled a

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