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by lumb63 4y ago
There were fraudulent ballots cast for both candidates [1]. I'm not accusing anyone of widespread collusion; I'm just saying that it happens. Either way, I think "is not a crime" is a low bar; "is morally correct an
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A trivial example is like I mentioned above. In Massachusetts, since there are no voter ID laws, I can walk into my local voting precinct and cast a vote on behalf of anyone whose address and name I know. I could do that as many times as I
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Your characterization of who voted for Trump is way off [1]. 42% of female voters, 36% of voters 18-29. Your post also implies that older generations supported Roe, but it is widely accepted that the precedent established in Roe was legisla
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Honestly, just having courses available would be a huge boon for CS education. My high school didn't offer any computer science courses. I was only able to get AP credit because the physics teacher hosted an independent study once a we
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849) [pdf](ibiblio.org)
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When are we going to give up on our representative democracy? It is clear that in the US the government no longer executes the will of the people. A bill as unpopular as this has bipartisan support. How do we proceed?
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> We want writing to be transparent, clear, and easy to read. Need I say more than the above quote to convince someone that the “figurative use of literally” should be avoided? I’d say the same of any other auto-antonym. Language is a to
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That was an awful lot of words to say “read what you can”. I used to worry about adding items to my “want to read” list faster than I could read them. I realized that this is preferable to the opposite - having nothing to read. As long as I
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Yeah, Arch is definitely geared toward a more technically proficient user base. Their users, myself included, are typically willing to wrestle with changes like that. Recovering a system that won’t boot is almost a rite of passage in the co
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Canonical seems to be trying to push users off of Ubuntu. I switched to Arch from Ubuntu about 6 years ago after seeing how aggressively Ubuntu would auto-update, and because of Zeitgeist. I would never look back. Arch is customizable, simp
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It does not speak much confidence about the economy for Apple to be making their own “pay later” mechanism.
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I’ve never heard of this woman before, but you can clearly see by the statements in the Wikipedia page that are made without citing sources, and the overall tone of the article, what Wikipedia thinks about her. Very little media is without
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I’m somewhere between your last two states. I used to turn to Reddit frequently for results on topics I was unfamiliar with, since typically they have communities that are very passionate about nearly any imaginable topic. However, I hardly
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For those interested, I went and crunched the numbers. Statistics are from 2014, from [1] and [2], so a little outdated: 11.4% of medical spending on ages 0-18 (23.11% of population) 21.0% of medical spending on ages 19-44 (36.23% of popula
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Let’s look at actual problems with the US healthcare system. I’ll propose ways that if the market for healthcare were actually free, it would be better. It is not actually free because in the US, employers typically provide healthcare, and
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I think you and the parent comment are off base. I have no concrete evidence of that, but in a very blue Massachusetts, most parents I know begrudgingly allow their children on social media, and only to the extent required to prevent their
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This is the case, and is, IMO, the central problem with American healthcare. Folks in both political parties argue for or against socialized healthcare, and ignore that a huge amount of the problems could be solved by having an actual free
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You cannot know what you will need, but to leap from that and say that you cannot make an informed consumer choice is a huge and incorrect leap. Actuaries know, in aggregate, what specific demographics will need. Insurance companies use tho
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The characterization of this joke as “anti-Asian” seems very incorrect to me. It’s clearly satirizing the stereotype that Asian American typically are more accomplished and discriminated against in admissions because of it. It’s absolutely
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I think this principle is most useful in the negative, i.e. not calling oneself negative things. I recall seeing someone (I think in NY) trying to revolutionize math education by making certain that the concepts were easily graspable enough
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The glaring issue I see with this proposal is the author supposes that people who say that they could “live indefinitely with sonic booms” have all the facts needed to make that assessment and are correct, or that they want to live indefini
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YMMV, but I’ve found my own results to be (to my surprise) in contradiction with that. For me, a meal close to bed is associated with about a 9% increase in subjective sleep quality, and 13% increase in sleep quantity. I’ve been using an ap
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I agree with your sentiment exactly. But your comment made me think about this an interesting way that I hadn’t thought about before, that made me better understand why I am “anti-GPT search”. All the same things that the model makes an eff
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I think Framework open sourcing their design helps a lot too. It creates a community and helps fix the “manufacturer couldn’t deliver what we wanted”. Don’t like something? Fix it!
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They’re targeting that user base in exactly the right way: give me options, get out of my way, and let me do it. Too many platforms lock users into decisions they think are best for them, or worse, that they think are best for the company m
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Nowadays, to a lot of folks, questioning isn’t the bedrock of science. “Trusting the experts/science” is. That’s the root behind a lot of issues we’ve seen socially, especially over the last few years.
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I’ve never used fzf before and live in a shell all day, but the capabilities shown in the article doesn’t seem very useful to me. Am I missing something? For Ctrl+R, how many times are people running similar variants of commands that they 1
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Another thing which makes bioavailability difficult is competition inhibition by other supplements, e.g. zinc and copper. There are also genetic changes between individuals that make it hard to track; e.g. impaired folate metabolism due to
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The goal was to encourage the banks to speculate using 100% of depositor funds as collateral. How could we have ever seen a problem coming?
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The increase in money supply was absolutely not driven by an increase in demand. Supply increases were used to grow demand. Why else would it be called “stimulus”? The supply did grow and the money went to banks, to the US government, etc.

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