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by meri_dian 9y ago
Data Science will become a scam and the term "data science" already has weak connotations because of trying to think pieces like this that are really saying nothing and are loaded with uninsightful business speak. It doesn'
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Where You Went to College Doesn't Matter. This Is Why(weforum.org)
1 points by meri_dian 9y ago|1 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
America isn't an empire, and is hardly collapsing under its own weight. It's actually doing incredibly well, aside from some annoying partisan bickering.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
It's about the means different political forces use to assert their beliefs on society. Both sides are capable of authoritarianism.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Well, the reality is that letting the barbarians in actually did in significant part lead to Rome's downfall. They rampaged through the countryside and sacked Rome multiple times. Rome was in a state of near perpetual warfare with the
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by meri_dian 9y ago
While the arcs of liberalism and conservatism bend apart from one another for a time they eventually meet at same point.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
It's fashionable among certain segments of the population to bash America whenever they can. It's almost pathological. Any time something negative is mentioned about something happening outside the US, there is an inevitable delug
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by meri_dian 9y ago
> "A couple people I knew came through the jail, and they say they got meat maybe once a month, and every other day, it was just beans and vegetables," Qualls told Sheets. "I put two and two together and realized that that
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Those who have trouble discussing the issue in a respectful manner appropriate to HN should be removed from the conversation, rather than the conversation itself being removed.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
The original Bloomberg article was misleading because there are many laws which concern immigrants, but the US is specifically going after those protecting immigrants here illegally. Hence my more precise title.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Interesting to note that this was one of the top 10 articles on the front page then in the space of 5 seconds dropped off entirely. Very odd...
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by meri_dian 9y ago
>Perhaps one clue as to why it is so much harder to quantize gravity than everything else is that other force fields in nature exhibit a feature called “locality” ... But “there’s at least a bunch of theoretical evidence that that’s not
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U.S. Sues California to Void Illegal Immigrant Protection Laws(bloomberg.com)
12 points by meri_dian 9y ago|10 comments
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US Military Budget: Components, Challenges and Growth(thebalance.com)
2 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
As a US citizen concerned with our bloated military budget but who also wants the US to remain the strongest military nation on Earth, I'd like to cut $100 billion from the $600 billion plus yearly US military budget, and allocate that
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Here's a controversial view, but any good comments section needs a few of them: Viruses are no more "life" than bacteria are "life" or amoeba are "life" or ants are "life" or mice are "life&
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by meri_dian 9y ago
No, Orwell's book is a classic that happens to be about politics. It's not about Orwell's political message, it's about the way it was delivered, which indicates there are foundational artistic metrics we use to judge ar
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by meri_dian 9y ago
What you say is true. But when you say "a part", how much of a part is it? Consider this: in any period of human history there will be political tension of one kind or another. Art will be created in response to that tension. Some
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Not all metrics are equivalent though. When art is judged more for some political statement it is trying to make than its intrinsic beauty or quality we can disregard that metric as illegitimate if our goal is to appraise the value of art i
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by meri_dian 9y ago
The undertone of the article is that people need to be exposed to poverty through cinema. Hence, shoving down people's throats.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
But that's the point he's trying to make. A movie about poverty will probably not be a pleasant movie to watch. So don't shove it down people's throats. Also, the masses are not "predominately affluent", so not
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by meri_dian 9y ago
The premise of this article is wrong. There are many movies about people who aren't rich. The stories may not revolve around their poverty, the poverty may not be an integral part of the story, but the characters are still clearly work
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Being a NJ resident close to NYC this whole tunnel debacle has been infuriating, but I can think of one positive that may come out of some catastrophic tunnel failure. If one of the tunnels does eventually collapse or otherwise become unusa
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Just because income inequality is up from the 50's doesn't mean people are worse off. For $70 a month an entire family can have access to the internet, Netflix and Spotify. Food is cheaper, more plentiful and comes in more variety
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Ha, more people live better now, both absolute numbers and percentage of global population, than ever before in human history.
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Open it on his computer and walk away
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by meri_dian 9y ago
Unfortunately we're walking around a circular structure
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by meri_dian 9y ago
I am in agreement with you. Luckily the majority of people convicted of crimes are actually guilty of what they're convicted of. Now I don't believe people should be going to jail for petty drug offences, and that drugs in general
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Coding Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees: What Employers Want(medium.com)
1 points by meri_dian 9y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 9y ago
It only seems that way to you and other people who feel that way because you only hear about the times when the system fails. Not the vast majority of times when it works.

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