pauldenton

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by pauldenton 3y ago
How many of the graduates with degrees that end in "studies" are doing something useful with their degree?
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by pauldenton 3y ago
And now it is right wing actors getting blackballed. It is people who don't agree with gay marriage like the former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich getting ejected. The funny thing is you had discrimination against Jews on Campus a hundred y
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by pauldenton 3y ago
In many US colleges you have more Registered Communists, than Registered Republicans teaching classes
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by pauldenton 3y ago
Yes. These administrators are not teaching classes, they are not marking papers/exams. It's not unlike the Soviet Commissariat. They exist to enforce a political ideology, not do anything productive in reality.
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by pauldenton 3y ago
https://www.policemag.com/patrol/news/15310860/half-of-surve... Half of Survey's Very Liberal Respondents Believe 1,000 or More Unarmed Black Men Killed by Police in 2019 The Washington Post database say
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by pauldenton 3y ago
At the peak of construction, Levitt was building one house every 16 minutes. Each house cost around $8,000, a price that was reduced to about $400 with GI bill benefits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown Soldiers
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by pauldenton 3y ago
I knew there was telescreens in every workplace and home in 1984, but Cameras in every vehicle observing the drivers action perpetually is something even Orwell couldn't come up with
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by pauldenton 3y ago
China is going to experience this big time
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by pauldenton 3y ago
Why don't more people buy diamond rings at pawn shops?
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by pauldenton 3y ago
"concerns about our team's focus." I often hear this, but don't know what VCs actually want to hear, besides $$$
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by pauldenton 3y ago
We can change the incentives of these game makers/designers, through the legal system. As an example, Paypal and credit card companies offer charge backs. What if you could charge back for all the money spent on a game, at the cost of
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by pauldenton 3y ago
Do they have custom map support yet? Most of my time in TF2 was not spent on official maps. It seems like server browsers have been disappearing since the jump from MW1 to MW2, where the quality of the PC experience is dampened for the sake
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by pauldenton 3y ago
It's not the trading, it's the paying money for lootboxes. Plenty of roguelikes/roguelites have loot boxes, but they randomly generated chests you open by defeating bosses, not by pulling out your credit card
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by pauldenton 3y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/25/511663527/epis... Relevant
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by pauldenton 3y ago
I thought that Okinawans had longer life spans and lower incomes, something about the more tropical climate
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by pauldenton 3y ago
Everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others.
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by pauldenton 3y ago
The Soviet newspaper Pravda issued corrections too. I wouldn't trust it more than the New York Times. https://nypost.com/2022/02/20/the-absurd-russiagate-pulitzer... They didn't retract their Pulitz
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by pauldenton 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus Rolling Stone doesn't have the same credibility they once had
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by pauldenton 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville... There's other kinds of Sub collisions as well
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by pauldenton 3y ago
So what is the Median house value in California? Or San Francisco which this SFChronicle article is from?
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by pauldenton 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4 If only Californians didn't actively try to stop construction. If you want to build housing and that will cast a shadow on a nearby playground, that's no good. Californi
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by pauldenton 3y ago
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/space-race-timeline Given the Space Race timeline, it seems like that would mean beating NASA to MANY major milestones. 4 October 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik
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by pauldenton 3y ago
96 workers died building the Hoover Dam. In 8 years it will be 100 years since Construction started on the Hoover Dam. It seems like the US just isn't able to make projects like that anymore. Look at the progress of California's H
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by pauldenton 3y ago
Is SpaceX charging the DoD 435$ for a Hammer, or 600$ for a toilet seat? General Dynamics did
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by pauldenton 3y ago
If that's what you want, why not just tax the money when they take it out of the corporation, instead of while within it? If that company is spending 10 million on a factory, instead of taking out that 10 million to pay bonuses to Exec
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by pauldenton 3y ago
I wonder if any teacher has the courage to teach kids "critical thinking skills" when it comes to the school closures of 2020-2022. Teacher's Unions won't back up that teacher if there's any controversy I suspect
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by pauldenton 3y ago
I'm just waiting for them to counter the Misinformation that Iraq had WMDs in 2003.
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by pauldenton 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvziPPpryv0
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by pauldenton 3y ago
Sam Bankman Fried representing Effective Altruism and then blowing it up is funny Sort of like how people stopped talking about Basic Income the moment we started experiencing Covid Era inflation. The dream of printing free money without co
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by pauldenton 3y ago
Australia's government has over reacted and over reached since March of 2020. A backlash is inevitable.

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