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by nverno 5y ago
they seem to be taking it with a sense of humor, not crying rivers, but you have a point
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by nverno 5y ago
There must be some data, or at least people knowledgeable about, how often eviction actually leads to homelessness, and how corona has spread amongst homeless. For instance, I was evicted once, but I didn't end up homeless on the stre
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by nverno 5y ago
where I used to live in NH signs posted around trailheads said something like 30% of deer ticks were likely carrying Lyme, and that was 5 years ago.
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I agree, the characters behind the writing and their faults are irrelevant. The ideas are what matter, and they should be timeless or they need to be updated, eg. for women
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by nverno 5y ago
the constitution, as written, recognized the same rights for all men. The institution of slavery/discrimination was at odds with what was written from the very beginning
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by nverno 5y ago
Do the new restrictions make Aussies think someone hellbent of murdering people like this wouldn't be able to do so? I see stories of people committing mass murders by driving vans through crowded streets, for example. It is interesti
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by nverno 5y ago
If the guns pose no threat to would-be tyrants, why would they need to take them away? We expect our government to protect our individual rights and allowing citizens to maintain some degree of dangerousness is a nod to that effect. Even b
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by nverno 5y ago
well when their job is to write about politics, do you really still think that is true? I'm not saying to disregard those sources as illegitimate, but take them with a grain of salt
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by nverno 5y ago
From a political point of view those are biased sources though, when 90+% of their journalists are self-proclaimed liberals this should be immediately obvious.
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by nverno 5y ago
It's pretty simple really- don't trust anything you read online unless you have a good reason to do so. You'll build up sources you trust over time
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by nverno 5y ago
Thank God he never listened to any of his critics! This man was a hero in my mind, an incredible character
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by nverno 5y ago
Translation: people are skeptical of paying money to the government to fix something when they don't even bother to specify a plan of action
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by nverno 5y ago
Then we would be living in an alternate dystopian reality. Has privilege just come to be a catch-all to explain any difference in outcomes? I mean you mention Buffet first, kinda ruins the point you are making here. As a software engineer,
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by nverno 5y ago
if that is the 3rd worst problem, I guess life is pretty darn easy
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That rich people are different than other people.
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by nverno 5y ago
A lot us are able to take pleasure in other people's success and try to learn from them. It isn't very useful to assume the worst about people. The generalizations you are making here about rich people, etc. etc. are honestly ri
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by nverno 5y ago
Orwell says something along the lines of never use outdated idioms in his Politics and the English Language. I'm withholding judgement on the extinctioness of this one until we see how the whole debt bubble plays out though :)
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by nverno 5y ago
MIT is the gold standard of education. Most of their computing classes already give you full access to all the course materials, videos, labs, readings, handouts, etc. directly from the course page. These direct resources are far better th
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by nverno 5y ago
This seems to be an example of the opposite of this. From a quick search, Thiel is from a first gen immigrant family of no extraordinary wealth. Yet, your comment is implying that prior wealth is responsible for his current wealth, which
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by nverno 5y ago
what a legend
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by nverno 5y ago
his grudge was with other people who have a grudge with solitary inventors. But, yea, pretty much
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by nverno 5y ago
There are many things in society - scratch that, nearly everything in society - that I both dislike for one reason or another, but also accept they will never change. Still, it is nice to hear other people express similar opinions. Imagin
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by nverno 5y ago
> So what? This is how the poor stay poor, and those who are "just broke" become poor. In fact, people who are working are much more likely to engage in other community activities and volunteer.
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by nverno 5y ago
Same, I think this is the assumption that doesn't always hold up. However, it often does, and how well it does depends on the teachers and school.
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by nverno 5y ago
I would lean more towards this is one of those truths that can be taken as self-evident. But, at the same time I would be skeptical that any published evidence would account for the infinitude of confounding factors. My guess is it is simi
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by nverno 5y ago
GPA should be a result of mastering the material. Assuming that is roughly the case, if you ever go on to use any of the skills you were supposed to learn in school (math, computing, etc) you are asking if having learned those skills would
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by nverno 5y ago
Well the climate never becomes completely insensitive to further increases in CO2 concetration - lookup the band saturation effect. I wasn't citing a specific source, only pointing out that different gases absorb at different waveleng
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by nverno 5y ago
Except we've already reached higher saturation (for black body radiation absorption) with CO2 than with methane. So, there is certainly a strong case to be made that methane is more impactful in the short-term than CO2 in terms of cli
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by nverno 5y ago
> And the reason is linked directly to human caused climate change. Lines like this seem to imply there is a single reason behind climate events, and that single reason is human caused. It's so blatantly false/misleading that
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by nverno 5y ago
I'm in Boston and it wasn't installed on my phone (exposure notifications have always been off AFAIK). I'm on old iphone 5s, not sure if that makes a difference or maybe just specific areas? According to this, https:/

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