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by masonic 6y ago
the larger, the better. Often, not.
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by masonic 6y ago
TL;DR: "Any given vandal taking down a statue of Grant or Lincoln or Washington is more committed to the cardinal liberal principles than any of those leaders were"
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by masonic 6y ago
(paywalled; NG subscribers only)
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by masonic 6y ago
Their security upgrades only worked over 300 baud acoustic-coupler modems.
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by masonic 6y ago
It's called Frontrunning, and they've been doing it for a long time.
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by masonic 6y ago
Americans in particular cannot be trusted to take it seriously or to self-sacrifice for the safety of others Like in World Wars I or II. Totally selfish on their part.
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by masonic 6y ago
it was cheaper to fly commercial Coach? Business class? First class?
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by masonic 6y ago
I honestly rarely have seen this happen. For one example, the Sacramento Kings lead broadcaster lost his job (and apparently his career) for tweeting "All Lives Matter".
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by masonic 6y ago
It's not that "simple" at all. Just one example: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/colin-kaepernick-socks/
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by masonic 6y ago
Kapernick made a political statement as his place of work ... and only after being benched for incompetence. (For example, he cost the 49ers hosting the NFC Championship because he blew a game by running out of bounds instead of sta
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by masonic 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23685915 260+ points
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by masonic 6y ago
Conservatives have no reason to cover for police given that police unions donate overwhelmingly to Democrats over Republicans. Also, it was conservatives who overwhelmingly opposed the "100,000 new cops" Crime Bill of 1994.
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by masonic 6y ago
"Our devices cost about £12 to make, so the technology is highly accessible to members of the public." Can anybody tell me where to find a reasonably precise 670nm torch at that price point?
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by masonic 6y ago
This is a verbatim rip of Eurekalert's blogspam of https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/198833/whole-town-study-reve...
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by masonic 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23685915 260+ points
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by masonic 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23685915 260+ points
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by masonic 6y ago
Book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag booksoncode-20) and all submits are by the same person?
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by masonic 6y ago
Clickbaity title. They weren't "just furloughed", they were just notified of a pending furlough five weeks from now. This is required because there is no money to pay them with fees frozen because travel is frozen, and Pe
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by masonic 6y ago
Of course the technology isn't going to solve most cases. But what this is saying is that they have a 5 % "hit rate" using the technology. That's way better than mugbooks and has little added personnel time for the s
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by masonic 6y ago
Did anybody else cringe at "the Sun and the Earth weigh different amounts "?
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by masonic 6y ago
Blogspam of https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/jun/declining-eyesight-impro...
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by masonic 6y ago
This is more than offset by the lack of state income tax.
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by masonic 6y ago
I'd expect that UCSF is self-insuring.
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by masonic 6y ago
like USC's UCSF is University of California, San Francisco. USC is University of Southern California, a private school.
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by masonic 6y ago
It may be helpful to you in terms of process, but it's not a "great outcome" when it's unreadable due to grammar and usage errors. Blog in your native language, perhaps?
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by masonic 6y ago
This particular author paywalls his content partway through , and unless you scroll down first, you don't see it coming. Maybe that strategy doesn't alienate everyone, but it sure alienated me. He also resubmits a given article o
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by masonic 6y ago
The study also completely ignores suicide attempts and counts only completed suicides. Of course an attempt is more likely to be "successful" with a firearm than most other means.
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by masonic 6y ago
No, it's because the UAW union opposed plants in right-to-work states. Other manufacturers like Hyundai have done well with new plants throughout the South.
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by masonic 6y ago
8 self-submits per article is a bit extreme. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=firmhouse.com
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by masonic 6y ago
a city prosecutes an officer, he will sue them right back That's not how it works. First, you conflate criminal with civil law. Second, cities don't prosecute.

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