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by lightgreen 5y ago
Problems with homeless is deeper than finding a place to sleep. For example, some homeless people voluntarily choose to sleep on the street even when they have homes (like one man I knew who refused to go home after his wife death after man
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> Yes, since you only seem to know what right wing media tells you. You cannot seriously believe he was not a criminal and a junkie. Here the left wing sources about his criminal history: https://www.nytimes.com/article&#
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> “Junkie criminal” as if you knew him personally I did not get that. Do I need to know him personally to know that he has junkie and a criminal? > And to think the protests were about a single person Sure protests were for all good a
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> People were out protesting the murders of black men by police, and you refer to them as looters and rioters in your prior comments No, I referred to people who were looting and rioting. Also, it was not murder. George Floyd case was ma
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> Take the hint dude, a lot of people think you're wrong, a lot. The orange website is quite left-leaning, and there's nothing racist in my comments. Your opinion is understandable, but it doesn't mean I'm "wrong
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by lightgreen 5y ago
I see, thanks. Anyway, it does not disprove my point about countries which became dependent on US, and civil wars where one party is supported by the US.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> USA took Iranian independence Iran problems began with islamic revolution, and USA had nothing to do with it, no? > Afghanistan was better of before US took it Which conflict you are talking about? War in Afghanistan started almost
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by lightgreen 5y ago
No I haven't been to Vietnam specifically, but I've been to other countries. Also, you don't need to visit a country to learn what it's GDP per capita compared to other countries in the region. And you don't need to
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> didn't reveal the tricky word because it is highly industry-specific and possibly identifiable I suspect this article (or at this part of the article) is bs. Non-native speakers know highly industry-specific words very well, becau
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by lightgreen 5y ago
This symbol is (probably) mostly used by certain small group of right wing people, but it is not used for self identification (unlike swastika by nazi). So swastika is a nazi symbol, but pepe is not. Or another example: Star of David is oft
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Even if only right wing used that symbol it would not make the symbol itself right wing. Like sigma letter is used mostly by statisticians, but the sigma is not a symbol of statistics.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Why it is here? HN is a political news website now?
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by lightgreen 5y ago
> Not sure why people are opposed to measures that increase privacy? Because small increased of privacy should not result in huge usability decrease.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Just create second account. This feature you describe is needed like to one in a million users.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
There was no barrier between USSR and Britain nations, the barrier was between USSR government and democratic world.
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by lightgreen 5y ago
Don’t blame Google for that. It’s Mozilla management failure.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> 1. Picking who is worthy of living in San Francisco as determined by the City and County of San Francisco No it is decided by the free market. > 2. Removing current residents that don’t fit the criteria Only those who rent. People w
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> racist applications of eminent domain used to remove "undesirable" (a euphemism for black) neighborhoods I'm sure white trash neighbourhoods were not welcome there as well. Anyway, I'm not ready to continue conversa
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> this would be unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause There's a lot of places where very few people can afford to live. Like Manhattan for example. > Cities and states can't privilege natives over migrants. If n
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> reduce the market and therefore increase prices Why is that a problem? > if you start limiting the people, the ones remaining will most likely be the rich Why is that a problem?
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> I never got a straight answer whenever I pointed out the problems What are the problems?
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Good videos which end terribly are exceptionally rare. Dislike mobs do more harm. They probably ignore dislikes already.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> Like/Dislike ratio can also express approval and disapproval for the subject itself, which is also valuable. No it is not. It only causes unnecessary frustration for content creators. Some of them may give up instead of trying aga
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Comparison of likes to views works well enough. Actually, they don't even need likes, they can understand good and bad videos just by analysing how long viewers spent viewing the video. Likes (and dislikes) are needed mostly for viewer
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by lightgreen 6y ago
In this particular case, the company is interested in more content production. Who are disincentivized by downvotes.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
"When reading a text about AI, replace AI with matrix multiplication, it will make much more sense"
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by lightgreen 6y ago
It is not necessarily your bias against women. It is equally possible that the woman is not self-confident enough to interrupt you more often. Recently I had a zoom meeting with two women. One of them was a bit shy and quiet, and the other
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> 6% is within the margin of error. No it’s not. The article has confidence intervals and findings are statistically significant. Unless you have some nonstandard definition of “margin of error”. While I generally I agree with you, let’s
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> Is it? Because most of Wales is mountainous It's hard to me to say right now mountainousness of these two countries compare (but looking at the map, looks like Scotland has more and higher mountains https://maps-for-fre
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> TBH, I'm confused about what you were trying to say. Amount of hydro power capacity per capita in Scotland is much higher than say in Wales. > pretty much every country has some geography conducive to hydro This is simply not t

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