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by maehwasu 10y ago
That's an extremely strong claim to back up with no evidence. The commenter above you has given at least anecdotal evidence of substantial opportunity for fraud, and we already know motive is strong on both sides.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
I recall seeing somewhere that Erdely received credible reports of sexual harrassment at schools like Yale, and rejected the stories as not being juicy enough. Calling her a journalist disgraces the entire profession (which hasn't exac
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Journalism is one of the worst-compensated jobs there is, relative to the level of education and time investment required. Shilling pre-planned story angles for sugar daddies, on the other hand, pays quite well.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Right, the problem is that if Western countries cracked down on foreign financing and illegal/intolerant BS from ALL religions, mosques would represent 90-99% of total institutions/preachers affected. It would be absolutely the ri
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by maehwasu 10y ago
It turns out that enforcing political correctness has costs.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Totally agree, and I would add that critical thinking leads quickly to positions that are not generally accepted.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
It's pretty revealing that almost everyone in the world would far prefer to live in the red countries.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
It's also REALLY easy to deliver that malicious site through web ads, especially background pops.
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by maehwasu 10y ago
There isn't any, unless you redefine "saying some mean things" as "telling people to harass her."
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by maehwasu 10y ago
Very very high chance that this is a marketing piece by SA--this has been their main marketing strategy for awhile. At the same time, the "everybody is doing it angle" is basically true, especially in the cities with lots of attra
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by maehwasu 10y ago
The writer thinks of money as something people give to you, and so he's never going to make much of it. He's totally right that no one would mourn a strike of lobbyists or high-frequency traders. But those guys aren't waiting
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by maehwasu 11y ago
I'm guessing that extremely smart people have had this discussion internally and come to the opposite conclusion.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Sounds like an awesome way to spend your life, enjoy!
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by maehwasu 11y ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but I DID mean to include those. The right is just as guilty of this outrage game as the left; in some areas the coalitions are such that they gain power from it. In more left-leaning situations, the ou
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by maehwasu 11y ago
It's not a result of coddling (or only a bit). Certain groups realized they could gain power by being offended. Once you create that incentive, unchecked, it's game over.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Spurs are fun to watch, but don't have Steph launching ridiculous bombs from anywhere. It's barely basketball anymore, and it's amazing.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
I've done both a lot, and there's no way you can compare riding a bike to going 250mpg on a motorcycle. Of course, like many awesomely fun things, it's quite dangerous, which is why I won't start riding again until I&#x2
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Anchoring is real.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
That's a VERY different situation. Google is claiming there that (essentially) they have the right to put sites in whatever order they want, and US courts are extremely sympathetic to that argument. Here the issue is that Google is mak
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Really good advice; this is what I tell everyone who has a high value skill like coding. The actual time frame is probably even shorter than 10 years if you are aggressive about saving.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Don't leave us hanging; what was the story your friend told you?
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by maehwasu 11y ago
As someone who has looked heavily into this option, I can say that you are drastically understating the simplicity of this option. Getting a second passport takes significant time and investment in most cases.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
And once again, the nice thing about living in not America is that bribes are significantly cheaper.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Very interesting, and can be stated even more strongly. Even if the purpose of learning a language isn't business, the GDP per capita of the target language matters. Countries that are better off have more people with leisure time who
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by maehwasu 11y ago
There's seems to be quite high supplies of both comedy and fashion in today's world. Before imposing a system of copyright to "promote" them, you'd want to be EXTREMELY fucking sure that a) the quality/quantit
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by maehwasu 11y ago
I save most of my income, and try to have a clear plan to spread spending evenly over my future, rather than just blowing money today (I'm 31). At the same time, given the drastically worse quality of life from age 65+ relative to age
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by maehwasu 11y ago
...because if there's one factor that correlates positively with national economic strength, it's population growth. /s
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by maehwasu 11y ago
Yeah, Nabokov pwned him pretty hard. It's always a bit weird/uncomfortable to witness non-native speakers of a language confidently and incorrectly expound on the language to people who have a far stronger command of it than they.
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by maehwasu 11y ago
You can't just look at raw percentages without looking at their composition: how in-demand are the users on Tinder vs. the ones on OKCupid? For guys with higher "market value", OKCupid is really a waste of time relative to Ti
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by maehwasu 11y ago
OP is getting hate, but I write a lot of Clojure code in Emacs, and I find the following commands cover 97%+ of my usage, maybe more. For config I use Emacs Live out-of-the-box, and remap Command on OSX to be my Ctrl. That's it. C-a, C

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