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by moate 6y ago
Instagram always felt like it was specifically designed to just get away from Facebook/twitter style discussions. Yes, there's a comments section, but 99%+ is hidden "below the fold". Stories are comments free (you can D
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by moate 6y ago
Why? This is the "hard skills are real, soft skills aren't" dynamic I see so often (Hello, I'm the PM in a room full of Engineers). Your first mistake is that teaching itself is very personalized and varies wildly from f
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by moate 6y ago
I mean, people would prefer to not have to walk away from the things they enjoy. You're being a little pointedly obtuse here. People want the world to reflect their values. Very few political vegans would prefer to ignore that there ar
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by moate 6y ago
It's almost like "Woke Capitalism" is just a brand being sold by Capitalists...
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by moate 6y ago
" I dont think the level of political animosity that the USA seems to have now has been seen before, maybe ever." Wait til you find out about what happened from 1775–1783 or 1861-1865. It's gonna blow your mind dude!
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by moate 6y ago
Some unprepared wannabe who got himself killed because of how unprepared he was is your hero? Weird choice. Also, as the great Dr Henry Jones jr. said, “it belongs in a museum!” That thing was responsible for many deaths over the years, a
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by moate 6y ago
Of course you’re right. It’s why people-police statements are constantly pointing out how these guys “put their life in the line every day” in reference to the dangerous criminals out there (while ignoring that most crimes are non-violent o
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by moate 6y ago
The major difference being that Labron is 35, which is how old MJ was in the 98 season. That was the end of the bulls, but really just the start of Lakers Labron. Jordan did diddly after that season (in part because he was stupid and injure
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by moate 6y ago
Ah, the tired old "everyone is owed access to every platform in America" trope. Think of "Youtube" as "CBS/NBC/Network of your Choice". They don't have to produce/host any content they don&#
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by moate 6y ago
OP was saying that sheltered Americans think America is racist, but other countries aren't/have fixed it. Are you providing anecdotal evidence to support him or were you trying to disprove?
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by moate 7y ago
"If you want to restrict the rights afforded by the 2nd amendment, would you like to restrict some others too? After all, the "freedom of the press" was designed at a time when newspapers were literally printed on a printing
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by moate 7y ago
In the 9 days since we still have models that are all over the place. Nate Silver covers the difficulty in predictive modeling of pandemics in his book "The Signal and the Noise" and in the years since it was written not much has
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by moate 7y ago
If only that were the case. Airlines and Broadband companies are constantly getting terrible reviews because they offer such terrible quality customer service. But what the fuck are you gonna do, rig up your own ISP or charter a boat across
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by moate 7y ago
It's like nobody ever watched Office Space.
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by moate 7y ago
The process/decision tree is open and transparent. There's still going to be the potential for implicit bias in the system, but there's no way to remove that entirely from the process (I guess unless you move to a luck based
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by moate 7y ago
"Cash Bail" doesn't mean "pay your bail with cash currency" it means "you're kept in jail unless funds are provided as collateral". You do you mister patriot cash man sir.
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by moate 7y ago
That's not what OP is describing. He wasn't "in jail" in the sense that he was sent to prison for committing a crime. He was being held by the police prior to a trial. This is absolutely a bail/processing related is
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by moate 7y ago
Point of order: If I was going to tell someone a story, I'd probably tell the dramatic one ("guy out on bail murders bus of kittens by driving it into a cancer ward") vs boring ones "a man out on bail went to court and w
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by moate 7y ago
Agreed about the algo usage, but NJ's is much more open than in other states. The formula is available to the public. Obviously "racist data in, racist outcomes" but that's why it's super important to monitor the da
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by moate 7y ago
Sure, they seem like that. But the study Chicago conducted showed that fines increased patron anxiety and were antithetical to the intended goals of library leadership in engaging their patrons. So it actually may have actually been detrime
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by moate 7y ago
Oh, this is an easy one! I hope GP doesn't mind me handling this one for him. GP was bringing some additional clarity to the content of the article and the discussion about it. See the Chicago public library had conducted a study and f
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by moate 7y ago
Good morning! What is your point? Of course we all understand that being poor doesn't (directly) mean you can't return books. I could write a whole essay about how being poor could indirectly make it harder to return books (less f
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by moate 7y ago
You say "tomato" I say "eat the rich". Again: I get it's not the best look. I strongly support artists rights and the need for creatives to make money off their labor. However, the system sucks, and doesn't act
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by moate 7y ago
>>We are also talking about a generation who is saying "I wont pay $7-$15 four times, thats too expensive" but while growing up, who's parents were paying $150/m to Comcast or DirecTV. Yea I'm part of the grou
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by moate 7y ago
I mean, if I could just unspend all the money I've sunk into magic cards over my lifetime, I'd literally be probably have 10K+. I've personally found that EDH/Commander is a good solution to the money problem. Yea, you&#
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by moate 7y ago
Hello, conflict theory sociologist here. What? Absolutely agree that we have a ton more resources than previously. However, as has always been the case, they're not equitably distributed. Plenty of people are removed from resources the
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by moate 7y ago
Dear burner troll: What? There's nothing about my points that this study is not done independent of cultural influences that implies a blank slate or lack there of. It's entirely tangential at best. Cultures exist. We know this. T
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by moate 7y ago
Hackernews: this title is clickbait and offends me! Also Hackernews: Why would you expect this article's title to explain what it's about?! My point: Unclear title is unclear and misleading, and striving for clarity of language
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by moate 7y ago
Yes? Your point: >>The point of all of this, I feel is that to many people, the epiphany the article is making was quite obvious, although it is neat to see this quantified. Their Point: >> A fourth study indicated that these fi
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by moate 7y ago
>>Men [in their 20s] View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women[in their 20s] Do [in Graz, Austria, in the year 2019] Fixed that for you. It's even more narrow in scope.

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