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by oa335 6y ago
Your metaphor cuts both ways. Electoral college is like 3 lambs and 2 wolves voting for what's for dinner. Lambs live in one state and wolves live in two states. Wolves win even though they are numerically the minority. Your metaphor s
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by oa335 6y ago
I am the same. For me there are a couple of factors. I have astigmatism which makes colored text look a bit off on a black background. Additionally, matte screen + dark mode + sunlight on screen is hard for my eyes.
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by oa335 6y ago
The other comments are in-jokes referring to the 5 pillars of Islam, and you are making an irrelevant snide comment under the guise of a joke.
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Every Muslim woman I know (hundreds) who wear hijab wear it without the threat of violence from their family. It's extremely common amongst the people I know for some women in the family to wear hijab and some to not. It's not a
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by oa335 6y ago
I did read the entire article, which documented a pattern of back and forth communal violence stretching back decades. My point was that it's odd to focus on the one wave of refugees and ignore the others. Reparations for historical
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by oa335 6y ago
What about the refugees from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Jammu_massacres ?
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India has severely restricted internet access in majority-Muslim Jammu and Kashmir for over a year. https://www.medianama.com/2020/09/223-2g-continues-jammu-kas...
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by oa335 6y ago
Personally, I agree with you that religion does give purpose to our lives and that the author is a bit reductionist in his analysis. However, I found the article noteworthy exactly because the author is speaking from a "scientific&quo
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Religion as a Helpful Delusion(aeon.co)
1 points by oa335 6y ago|2 comments
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by oa335 6y ago
I would have loved to see some of her advice and information dis-aggregated by race. Low Vitamin D levels of are not evenly distributed among different ethic groups. e.g. "53%–76% of non-Hispanic blacks [ had low vitamin D levels, in
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by oa335 6y ago
I totally agree. I believe humans are hardwired to need some "religious belief". Since secularism combined with rationalism are the dominant philosophies in many places, people are now socially incentivized to construct elaborate
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by oa335 6y ago
What would you consider an unbiased/bs-free source of news? Or where do you prefer to get your news from?
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by oa335 6y ago
https://www.aclu.org/cases/aclu-v-cbp-foia-case-cbp-and-ice-... I know ACLU has challenged border patrol with other issues also.
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by oa335 6y ago
All words are made up. This word was made up as a more efficient gender neutral way of saying "Latino".
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by oa335 6y ago
I was wrong, I was conflating them with another think tank, Center of Immigration Studies, which is anti immigration. I'm not sure what EPIs immigration policy recommendations are.
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Pro-immigration Cato Institute is responding to a study from anti-immigration Economic Policy Institute. Cato analyzed data from the Department of Labor and the EPI study, and is making the following arguments: - 100 percent of H-1B employ
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78% of H-1B Employers Offer Above Average Market Wages(cato.org)
14 points by oa335 6y ago|7 comments
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I read through some of the site. From what I can tell, this would using stenography works best for typing actual words. I wonder how hard it would be to configure the stenography software to be able to output strings that I actually type
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by oa335 6y ago
This idea is something I have been wanting for a while, I wonder how long until it is commercialized.
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Why do you say that?
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It's much harder immigrating to U.S. from Pakistan than from India...more likely that Pakistani dev will have to stay in Pakistan than an Indian dev.
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by oa335 6y ago
It's much harder immigrating from Pakistan than from India...more likely that Pakistani dev will have to stay in Pakistan than an Indian dev.
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by oa335 6y ago
India devs =! Pakistani devs. India has many large consultancies providing services to mega corps, where sub par talent can hide out for years. Pakistani devs (and other devs in countries that don't have similar dynamic as India) don&
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by oa335 6y ago
How does the organization gauge its success in bar-raising? Did you guys just progressively hire less people over time?
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by oa335 6y ago
Landlords may provide services, but they primarily extract economic rent, essentially profiting from their their monopoly on that particular piece of land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
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by oa335 6y ago
It's a manifestation of cognitive dissonance. High intelligence leads to the ability to rationalize almost anything. Ideas posited in this thread threaten some people's conception of themselves and the world ("I am not raci
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by oa335 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. I'm not blakc, but I agree that reading some of these comments is quite depressing and proves that we have a long way to go on race issues in tech.