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by meri_dian 9y ago
Invest in anti-psychotics stocks.
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Schools in Rural Areas Shifting Toward a 4-Day Week(foxnews.com)
2 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Basically just assuming the worst intentions of most institutions large and small.
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Economists See Merit in Trump’s Trade Case Against China(wsj.com)
67 points by meri_dian 9y ago|49 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
HN loves its conspiracy theories. It's filled with people that are of above average intelligence and like to think to themselves they've "figured it all out" and are able to peel back the curtain to see what's"
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Really? A product of circumstance? How so?
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Sure that may have been one individual's motivation for the plan, but the public and subsequent governments thought it was a the best way to prevent drugs from infecting society. When lawmakers seek to punish someone, they aren't
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by meri_dian 9y ago
"What if the lawmakers want to hurt the people struggling at at the lower rungs of society? To me it feels unlikely it is intentional in most cases, or conscious, but what if on some level, there is a motivation to hurt these people wh
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by meri_dian 9y ago
I think the issue people have with "booth babes" is that it presupposes men will be the ones perusing the booths, or the ones whose attention is worth grabbing. There's nothing wrong with valuing someone for their good looks,
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by meri_dian 9y ago
To be fair, I think saying they all "simply wanted the credential" is a bit dismissive of the Indian students. I'm sure many of them are passionate about computer science, and view an American MS as a path to higher learning
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by meri_dian 9y ago
That statistic is about funds only, not retail investors...
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The Declining Value of a CS Master's Degree (2013)(blog.regehr.org)
199 points by meri_dian 9y ago|161 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
"the most self-satisfied, stuffy, racist and misogynistic societies possible." Ha! You apparently don't know much about the rest of the world or of human history. Go open a textbook or read the news to find out what sort of s
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by meri_dian 9y ago
>"Perhaps most surprising, the researchers found the median fund-month download amount is only four filings while the mean was 672, suggesting that relatively few funds are accessing vastly more information." Interesting...
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by meri_dian 9y ago
China has brought this upon itself. The Chinese do not play by the rules, so we don't really have a choice but to punish them. People rolling over on tariffs because they're afraid of a trade war are entirely missing the bigger pi
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How the Shale Boom Has Kept the US Afloat(bloomberg.com)
1 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Why should they care? I'll be honest, it doesn't bother me much. Why should I care?
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by meri_dian 9y ago
This may be right, but not because of the reasons the author supposes. I really doubt there is a strong genetic component to desiring a certain family size, but I believe along with most other people that wealth strongly influences family s
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Scientists Genetically Engineer Bacteria-Archaea Hybrid(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
As has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the vast majority of people really don't care what data Facebook collects. Addresses, phone numbers, etc are all publicly available already. Products you like, your political affiliations
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Here's the problem with measures of productivity: they are uniformly terrible. Productivity exists nicely in the minds of economic theoreticians but concrete measures if it so often seem unable to capture nuances of the modern economy.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
I think it's an excellent idea. It represents an incremental step towards getting people out of the system - if only for a time pre-trial - and keeping them in society as productive humans with their dignity somewhat more intact. In fa
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by meri_dian 9y ago
>"Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III (1988-19994) and NHANES IV (2007-2010), the researchers examined how biological age, relative to chronological age, changed in the U.S. while consid
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Evidence of Delayed Aging Among a National Sample of Americans(sciencedaily.com)
56 points by meri_dian 9y ago|24 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Let me clarify what I meant in my original post. The aims of conservatism and liberalism differ, clearly. Extreme forms of these dogmas still have divergent aims. But extreme liberalism/conservatism is by definition forced upon a socie
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Almost all cultures and societies on Earth are living on land that once belonged to another group of people. According to you, no one on Earth deserves to keep anything they have, because their ancestors took it from someone else.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
It's not that they don't have empathy though. It's that they are uncomfortable with their communities changing, regardless of how that change manifests itself. And they feel this way because they are human beings, not because
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Your assumptions about me are wrong. It doesn't matter how the change manifests itself. People often dislike change, especially of communities they are familiar with. Hence my point that it's not a problem with white people, but r
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by meri_dian 9y ago
People dislike gentrification in part because it displaces established communities. People don't gain or lose the right to sympathy because they are a majority or minority group. They are human beings regardless.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
The effect of one's culture and surroundings changing will naturally be anxiety. Consider a proud ethno-cultural place like Iran or Japan. If a large number of non-persian or non-japanese people began moving into each of those respecti

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