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by meri_dian 9y ago
Yes, and the crazy people are the ones who, when desperate and angry, try to kill 3 innocent people and then themselves. I don't understand the equivocation here. It seems a symptom of the broad inability in modern social thinking to p
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by meri_dian 9y ago
She was crazy. I don't think attempts to walk through her thought processes will bear fruit
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Amazon Asking Cities for Their High Schoolers' SAT Scores(markets.businessinsider.com)
80 points by meri_dian 9y ago|56 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
"CNN is not dictating what its personnel report" Come now, you think managers and executives at CNN are just playing board games all day? No, they're crafting policy and setting the direction of news room reporting.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
"One goes against the government's views, the other one pushes it." No, that's not it. A free press is "free" because it's unconstrained by a Government or capricious regulation, not because it "goes
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by meri_dian 9y ago
CNN doesn't stand up and say "we're devoting our reporting resources to all things anti Trump, this is our bias, it's not secret". They simply report the news they choose to report. Just like Sinclair. People watch
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by meri_dian 9y ago
How is that any different from major news organizations like CNN with a national reach clearly pushing biased anti-Trump news constantly? It's funny: Trump attacks CNN for being fake, biased news, then CNN responds by focusing all of t
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Kim Jong Un 'Deeply Moved' by K-pop Concert in Pyongyang(cnn.com)
1 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Can't really blame the families though, if the schools in their neighborhoods are bad and they have the option to send their students somewhere better. Race has nothing to do with it.
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Ask HN: Where are you?
17 points by meri_dian 9y ago|45 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
It's not necessarily about Xi though. It's more about having someone as a consistent and strong leader at the head of the country. Xi has chosen to appoint himself, but his philosophy is not one of Xi Authoritarianism but rather A
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by meri_dian 9y ago
"it's not sustainable" Unfortunately it is, in a grim sort of way, with grads' wages being siphoned off for decades to pay for debt and interest. Over a 15 year time scale even the largest educational debt loads are redu
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Whose terrible idea was it to create a place where employees could congregate and even have an option of engaging in political discussion? You don't talk politics at work. I thought that was standard operating practice.
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The SAT Is a Good Intelligence Test (2011)(nytimes.com)
2 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Maybe if you were surrounded by people who want to kill you and refuse to accept your legitimacy as a nation, and are subject to constant violence and harassment you would understand why the Israelis are a bit defensive.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
I do have empathy. The nations surrounding Israel unfortunately do not. If they decided to convene a summit tomorrow and say "we accept the existence of Israel" instead of their hateful rhetoric that they want to see Israel wiped
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by meri_dian 9y ago
No one is saying the Jews should get a free pass for anything they do. Just that Israel seems like a very small reparation to pay for centuries of oppression. Israel is a far, far less "apartheid" nation than other middle eastern
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Yeah, many people condemn all of Israel. I guess they should just pack it up an call it a day... The Jews have tried for decades to make peace. They've received rockets and hatred in response. They're fed up, and rightfully so.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Unfortunately antisemitism in Europe has a long and dark history, the Holocaust only being the most vivid and recent eruption of anti semitic emotions. On a related note, it's odd to me how people are so vociferously anti-Israel in Eur
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The 10 Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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The Progressive Case for the SAT(jacobinmag.com)
1 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Is this Apple's doing?
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Is There Life Adrift in the Clouds of Venus?(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Did they control for disease? I read the article quickly but I didn't see any mention of controls. I mean people who are sick or disabled from disease and can't exercise as a result would be expected to die sooner than other peopl
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DJs of Color Reclaim Electronic Dance Music(nbcnews.com)
3 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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Ecuador Cutting Off Assange's Communication Channels with the Outside World(bloomberg.com)
1 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
I really like this idea. I'm happy to hear about anything that has a chance at reducing political toxicity, but most ideas are simply ideas. This had already been implemented elsewhere in cities throughout the country as the article st
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Tech companies are being pushed into implementing top down, centralized solutions to handle "offensive" content, however that's defined. This is problematic, because what's offensive to one is not offensive to another, a
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Time to Give Up on Identity Politics: It’s Dragging the Progressive Agenda Down(salon.com)
19 points by meri_dian 9y ago|9 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Can someone explain to me what the problem is with data availability? As other comments have noted, most people don't care. How would you make someone who doesn't care, care?

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