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maceurt
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The voter turnout for the average presidential election is < 50%. A lot of that is because people do not have ways to get to the polling stations.
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I was never really aware of the history of journalism and ethics, but the fact of the matter is articles with blatant falsehoods and bias are not good and should bot be encouraged.
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Somehow, I don't think this is a good thing to be promoting. How many times do people make risks like this and fail? If I stole a million dollars from a family member and spent it on lottery tickets and won would that make me right? It
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maceurt
8y ago
That's crazy. If you don't mind me asking, why did your application get denied?
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8y ago
Also, before that Github offered free pro accounts for students.
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8y ago
Zoning is there for a reason. Airbnb does not follow zoning for commercial or hotel/motel regions and invades on residential zoning. The zoning system would work a lot better if Airbnb did not literally break the law. People buy reside
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8y ago
Most people rate books not based on rather they are good books, but rather if they enjoyed the books and believed in what it was saying. Furthermore, there is a certain demographic of people who uses and rates nonfiction books on goodreads,
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maceurt
8y ago
The idea that only 4+ star rating books are worth reading is laughable. Reading only very popular books is a recipe to read only books that fit into your own preconceived worldview.
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8y ago
For statically typed languages yes, but for dynamically typed languages I would say not in all scenarios.
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8y ago
If the reason for your fear is out of deadlines, then simply ignore the deadlines for the most part and focus on learning overall. Obviously you can't ignore them completely, but if you actually let yourself just focus on learning inst
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8y ago
> > should I expect them to not make fun of my name > Absolutely yes. Anything else would be rude. It is not rude to poke fun or laugh at different cultures that are weird to you. Go to japan as a white person, and if you walk arou
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8y ago
Stores don't actively use or sell my habits in security camera footage to advertisers however. If stores started selling footage of me in security cameras to companies I would want new legislation to require permission before filming.
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8y ago
Does that poverty rate take into account that a lot of females are given money and financial support by a partner?
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8y ago
C is different than python though. Python already forces readability things like forcing indent and newline. In most scenarios making a python program in as few lines as possble will make the program more readible.
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I would consider myself a prett honest and real person so I would probably just answer honestly. Based on the way I have heard people respond, however, do they not expect people to actually list their weaknesses?
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8y ago
$15,000, before or after taxes?
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8y ago
And he has a pretty much endless amount of videos so that you can pretty much autoplay them constantly in the background for a good while before running out of videos.
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If I go to India then, should I expect them to not make fun of my name or pronounce my name perfectly? Once any name, culture, ethnicity, becomes large enough in size in a population then people will start learning how to pronounce their na
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8y ago
I don't know how reddit even operates while having subreddits dedicated to hardcore pornography and extreme gore and violence on the same domain as sfw subreddits. Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, do not allow those type of thing
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I remember just last year r/4chan literally had a picture of an overweight woman drinking a big gulp getting fucked doggy style by a man covered in blood with a caption "I have evolved" as the background to their subreddit. 4
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8y ago
No. Tobuscus was a basic celebrity (youtube channel with over a million subscribers, one of the biggest in his prime), and was a reputable person with no real bad history. He was ruined by one accusation. Furthermore, most people are not pe
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> If we could just copy their model to acquire customers then.... Then you would be competing with every other social media startup along with the social media sites that have pretty much limitless resources. Say your website is a succes
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Okay, then explain Tobuscus. Look him up. He lost arguably over a million dollars in deals with companies and with his publisher not to mention he stopped putting out videos because of the whole ordeal. The only bad history he had before wa
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Just cap campaign budget at a certain amount, and require a complete audit of politicians their families so they can not be influenced by outside parties. Also, I think that people with more money should have more of an influence in this co
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He got publicly humiliated, and now must explain to his kids why when they google his name a bunch of videos and articles show up calling him a rapist and a piece of shit. Furthermore, no matter how much his wife trusts him, she will still
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> Increasing and broadening the base of the estate tax would be a good move. > Increasing the highest bracket of the income tax would be a good move. How many times do we have to go over this? This would just make more companies and v
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Woody Allen, Aziz Ansari to an extent, Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Luke. Derrick Rose lost over a million dollars in sponsorship dollars, Kobe Bryant lost over a million too. The list goes on and on. All those people lost a large amount of money,
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No they don't. I have met a large amount of people. Even the nihilists believe in some sort of meaning. Furthermore, it is literally impossible to function without a believe in something meaningful, which can not be backed up by eviden
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I have started trusting reddit a lot less after all their banning and quaranting of subreddits with little notice beforehand along with their non moderation of rule violations, blatant vote manipulation, vote botting, corporate posting, etc
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Still not fair. Furthermore, taxation should be created out of neccesity, and should not just be thrown around for anything. If we really need the extra tax dollars figure out a way to allocate some money from other parts of the budget inst
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