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by qrendel 11y ago
To add to that hypocrisy, there's also the outrage when jobs go to the most impoverished in other countries, rather than be given to comparatively wealthy westerners at the expense of both the companies and foreign communities. If you&
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The scary parts, for me, are when he talks about things like Mexico "sending their rapists here," climate change being "invented by the Chinese to hurt US manufacturing," wanting to bring back torture and do "a hell
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by qrendel 11y ago
Can confirm this attitude among some lawyers I know. A certain unspecified family member does contract law (not even IP law) and totally buys into the life + 70 years to "promote innovation" copyright BS without question.
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Sanders is currently beating Trump 49.7% to 40% in polls.[1] Admittedly it is a long way to November, but with all the stuff Trump has said and done, the campaign against him practically writes itself. He has his own party calling him a lib
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by qrendel 11y ago
I'm highly skeptical that matters this time around. The Republican candidates are so bad that this would practically be a free ride for Sanders. Can you imagine Sanders losing to Trump, if Trump gets the Repub. nomination? Losing to Cr
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Among other reasons, Pakistan security forces receive a lot of military aid from the US State Dept, including weapons and materials (e.g. bulletproof limousines) used by the same Pakistani officials for their own protection. I expect US sup
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I'm aware of that feedback loop, but the comments I see here seem to view that kind of Draconian treatment of people, ones who are obviously not child pornographers or dangerous individuals, as a problem. So there seems to be at least
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by qrendel 11y ago
Because you haven't gotten around to it yet but plan on reading it eventually. Or just because you want to signal status by publicly displaying your bookshelf.
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Obligatory: http://www.alternet.org/files/story_images/bo151216.png
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Checking urban dictionary, seems to be mostly language of the jock/lacrosse crowd (or at least originated there). Perhaps reflects more on his sister's particular social circle than the view of teens in general. Wouldn't know
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by qrendel 11y ago
Probably streaming and replaying youtube videos, or something similar. Not that hard to run through several gb in a few hours. Multiply by 30 (days/month) and you can see 60 gb a month being easily doable. Torrenting games and 1080p mo
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Maybe we could instead go after the people who want to make careers out of destroying teenage lives with trumped-up child pornography charges? They seem like the real enemy in this stuff.
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Also a NY Senator.
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Hardest part for Sanders is that Clinton already has some ~400 superdelegates pledged to her. Those "pledges" can change at the convention, I think, but aside from that, Sanders really needs to win by a very wide margin to overcom
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by qrendel 11y ago
Wikipedia gives 24% for both healthcare and social security for 2014.[1] Total military spending is more complicated but is estimated at 28-38% of the total budget (though no citation).[2] That gives somewhere between 0.98 and 1.33 trillion
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People seem to forget just how much is currently spent on a lot of extremely... debatable programs. These are approximate numbers off the top of my head, but: US military spending = $1.5 trillion per year (~$700 billion for the DoD, the res
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by qrendel 11y ago
I worry more that this will turn twitter into more of a filter bubble. I use twitter largely as a news feed, and hence include a lot of sources that I frequently disagree with but still like to be exposed to. I'd much rather just drink
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by qrendel 11y ago
Why not? Judging from the number of submissions and comments per day, and assuming the 1%/10%/89% approximation for how many people are content creators (submitters) vs contributors (commenters) vs lurkers, I'd estimate the s
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by qrendel 11y ago
Tangentially related: I'm not sure if anyone else gets this, but I honestly have trouble reading some of these comments without viewing any argument I disagree with as a potential JTRIG operation. (And yes I know someone was criticized
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It will definitely strongly affect the type of car I buy next when I'm done running the current one into the ground.
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Considering what a brief and skewed description of the Julian Assange story is reported by the article, this is probably a good time to repost John Pilger's more thorough reporting on the events, for anyone who wasn't following it
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> And as many anti-libertarians will point out, the lack of a competent government does not result in a paradise emerging from the work of motivated individual actors within. There's a big difference between an incompetent governm
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I don't see what the preference is over plant-based imitation meat products, which are already in the same price range as animal-based meat products. Some of the plant-based products may have a marginally different flavor or texture, b
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In some cases you're required to pay union dues regardless of whether you join or not. This is apparently the case for teacher's unions in 22 states + DC.[1] So "don't do business with them" isn't even always a
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> They can't just commit people because they talked to them and decided hey lock that guy up. They're free to assess you however they want and then use that as an excuse. Who is going to argue with and stop them? The judge? Y
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In many cases this is basically a rubber stamp. I know several people who were committed against their will after as little as a cursory 5 minute conversation. To anyone who knew them at all, they pretty clearly weren't violent or a th
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It's somewhat controversial, but schizophrenia treatments can be (arguably) completely ineffective and worse than the disease itself. Robert Whitaker has written multiple books[1][2] about it. (See wikipedia[3][4] for reception by the
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It will be different because automation has never before been able to fulfill all human niches. Automating one job just freed up people to work in other jobs. In particular, automating physical labor freed people up to work in cognitive tas
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The QM class I originally took used Liboff. I could barely understand a word of it and ended up dropping the class. Later I found the Shankar book and was thrilled with it by comparison. I'm not a math whiz though, so lack of "rig
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It's not at all that simple. The next candidate is then, during the election, free to position themselves however they want on the issue, whereas the President who chose to circumvent Congress and unilaterally implement a policy would

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