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by omonra 11y ago
Oh no - I would have no problem admitting that. I'm a full-on classist and have no compunctions about it :) I'm not talking about myself here. That said - I do think that a family that earns just enough to maintain a 'middle
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by omonra 11y ago
You are confusing middle income and middle class, they are not the same.
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by omonra 11y ago
The author is being disingenuous with numbers. He's talking about 'household income' - when a large percent of households comprising of one person. http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/one-in-four-american-househ
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by omonra 11y ago
This. - is why I love HN - you open the comment section to leave a comment explaining why the author is an idiot and someone else has already beautifully done it already as the first comment. Well done, sir.
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by omonra 11y ago
>I don't see how this is relevant. We already accept that terrorism is not justifiable, we're discussing whether drone strikes are terrorism. I replied to this comment "Ironically, much of the personnel involved in the U.S
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by omonra 11y ago
But that's because we don't consider it sufficient for someone to identify as a woolf or mermaid to be one. Whereas if someone identifies as a Christian/Jew/Buddhist or whatever - that's sufficient reason for everyb
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by omonra 11y ago
We were talking about drone operators as being equivalent targets to whoever Americans blow up with drone (with concomitant collateral damage). I pointed out that no muslim terrorists have killed people while attempting to kill drone oper
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by omonra 11y ago
Yet no muslim terrorist has accidentally killed innocent civilians when targeting drone operators, have they? They rather simply always target innocent civilians.
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by omonra 11y ago
The complaints are not sexist. People rather tend to focus on one thing at a time. 50 years ago sexism was a real issue - today it's not. Meanwhile growing income inequality (or rather too many poor people - which is the non-pc way to
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by omonra 11y ago
Thank you for the quote - but I think you picked a rather peculiar example. Queen Victoria simply could not marry ANYBODY in the world of equal social standing - because by English law, whoever married the Queen would still only be a Prince
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by omonra 11y ago
My two thoughts on this: 1. I bet a large portion of this phenomenon is related to the current US divorce laws (basically a woman with a child can divorce a high-income husband and claim a large portion of his income for child support &#x2F
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by omonra 11y ago
"And if you had read the article you would have noticed that the second part of the vaccine plan was never administered." That doesn't make vaccinations fake, regardless of what some Guardian editor decides to put in his head
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by omonra 11y ago
Well done for this guy, but the headline seems somewhat redundant. Only someone who is older than 95 can break the record for the 95 and over age group. Ie that's like saying '2-legged man broke an Olympic record for X'.
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by omonra 11y ago
That's a very sad story - please accept my condolences. Is the government providing you now with retrovirals?
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by omonra 11y ago
If you actually read the article, you will see that vaccinations were real. Not to mention that this story has absolutely nothing to do with Western anti-vaxer movement.
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by omonra 11y ago
This. Any time someone trots out the '79 cent for every dollar' canard, their credibility goes to zero. Ie they are either too stupid to properly research the issue or actually intend to obfuscate it. The real wage gap is about 3%
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by omonra 11y ago
I think the mismatch theory is catching on because 1) It simply makes intuitive sense 2) There is simply lack of hard data that would disprove it Ie when you place a group of students whose SAT scores are 250 points below the average, in a
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by omonra 11y ago
That's not my understanding, for example: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-pain... One site I found to 'debunk' mismatch theory focuses solely on graduation rate as
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by omonra 11y ago
I disagree 100% with everything you said above. There is obviously no 'truth' on this - it's a matter of preference. But I believe 99.99% of mobile consumers are with me on this. The only things I care to replace / upgra
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by omonra 11y ago
Seems like a pretty ludicrous analysis. Can be summed up as 'If you ban quotas, the people who get in because of quotas will not be as represented'. Uhh - duh? Will they have another post 'What happens when heavy objects are
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by omonra 11y ago
The author seems to have got his logic exactly backward. Not that this stopped any identity warriors, ever. The reason humans actually have words for categories (like 'cats' or 'policemen') is because said categories are
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by omonra 11y ago
You seem to take things fairly personally and I don't think proceeding in this key would be productive.
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by omonra 11y ago
It seems that the actions of the terrorists allow for a fairly easy us vs them categorization. Ie there are millions of people in Europe who are first / 2nd / 3rd generation immigrants - yet the terrorists all come from specific s
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by omonra 11y ago
Thank you. May I ask what in particular is seen as wrong (factually?) with Gibbon's view of Rome by today's historians? Did new information come to light since he wrote his books that makes him unsuitable for a serious historian t
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by omonra 11y ago
I don't think PC replaces one form of prejudice with another. It rather wants to frame the debate in terms of 'you can not say that' instead of 'what you are saying is wrong'. Ie in this example the FB professor is
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by omonra 11y ago
I was hoping to see more specific criticism from someone claiming to be an expert in 5th century Rome. But all I see is a left-wing professor unhappy with insufficient PC-ness of someone's argument (too Western-centric, not afraid to u
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by omonra 11y ago
I'm tired of reading this type of analysis because it's simply stupid. And I am pretty convinced the author knows it himself. Here is why - islamic terrorists killing a few hundred people in Beirut (or anywhere in the Middle East,
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by omonra 11y ago
I don't think Bush invaded France.
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by omonra 11y ago
There is a huge potential downside from political correctness. When ideas are not allowed to compete on their intellectual merit (because someone finds them offensive), everybody loses.
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by omonra 11y ago
Or fewer people will want to become lawyers. Really thought this one through, I see :)

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