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The problem really isn't term limits. It's the cost of elections. If we set 2 term limits, it would just mean that the corporate elite would just buy a new politician every 2 terms rather than buying a politician for 6 or more ter
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That's not surprising considering McCain wasn't much like by many people. You are forgetting that the Bush republicans hated mccain and one of the most toxic republican campaigns was in 2000 between Bush and McCain. The 2000 toxic
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Also not a nuclear engineer, but "mini-nuclear" anything doesn't conjure up anything good for me either. Hopefully, unlike in the tech world, the nuclear world thinks about and implements safety first rather than as an after
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> But society's been getting better in every aspect of living almost every decade since the enlightenment. For us but certainly not for society in other parts of the world. And certainly it was not continuous uptrend. The greatest m
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Can we just get rid of zoos altogether? Wild animals shouldn't be caged or confined just for our amusement. This goes for all wild animals. I don't think we should be allowed to keep wild animals as pets as it is inhumane. I'
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> Is the world really worse than the 60s? Depends on which part of the world. In the US, for sure. Incomes have stagnated since 1970 and income inequality has skyrocketed. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018&#x
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> I'd like to provide my anecdotal evidence from a 26 year old American white male making $37,000 per year in NYC: Man. My starting salary after college was $75K and I felt like a peasant. I don't know how you survive on $37K.
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No. I'm sure it will be swayed by CNN, Foxnews, MSNBC, NYtimes, Washington Post and the rest of the media. Not that it really matters because the elections will be won before the election since money will pick who the candidates are.
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> Are there really a lot of these people? Nope. Just like tiny fraction of a fraction of silicon valley. A ridiculous small portion of americans ( even in silicon valley ) move to japan and vice versa. But it gets a lot of clicks and vie
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Nobody trusts facebook? Is that why half the world is on facebook readily giving them their private info? Twitter is a hot mess? Is that why the president and most of the journalists are on twitter? Who cares what snapchat is doing? I don&#
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Vi?
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During the cuban missile crisis, wasn't there only 3 networks on TV and they broadcast news once or twice a day? You really can't compare that with today's 24/7 cable news and media barrage.
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> Are we interpreting the bailout of a global US-created financial crisis "saving the world" now? Welcome to the wonderful world of spin. As a former subscriber, it saddens me to see how much barrons has fallen after being boug
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Or even worse, the facial recognition system can alert government/companies/etc when you aren't where you are supposed to be. For example, if you take the bus or train everyday to work at specific time. And if you aren't
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C macros are to be feared. Not Racket macros.
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Tradition? Family tree? History? More women want to take the husband's name than vice versa? Because kids traditionally get the father's surname? Isn't there real journalism that theatlantic can do rather than silly nonsense
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> You are making the (wrong) assumption that relationships are all about reproduction. It's not wrong. It's based in biology. > Marriage has no requirement for reproduction. In the same way that getting a law degree doesn&#x
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> It's probably safe to say that females are culturally programmed to spend more time on their looks, to be spend more time looking at themselves. Or naturally programmed. > Also, of course, to cater to male gaze. So naturally pr
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> I'm not sure why you chose to you battles for your examples, they are zero-sum. Because power relations between groups is a zero sum game. > With regards to progress only being relative, I think most people who get amazing medi
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I'm thinking this would be more appropriate on ShowHN or even AskHN.
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And even if we are better off compared to the past, it doesn't mean we are in a better situation today given the increasing wealth inequality. Pinker is selectively emphasizing the socio-economic comparisons with the past and ignoring
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Same here. Apparently the job market for philosophers, especially in academia, is terrible because there is a glut of philosophy PhDs and tenured philosophy professors stick around for decades. So most philosophy professors are associate pr
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Or given their budget, why not operate their own cloud? Why not build a tech/infrastructure team and run their own datacenter/cloud? You would think something so important as data and the cloud would be something the pentagon want
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I remember seeing this on hn before. The current thesis is that the brain ( consciousness ) is a predicting machine. A very interesting lecture by a neuroscientist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRel1JKOEbI
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> It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news". Given the state of conventional news, can you blame them? Foxnews is just a republican party news organization. And everything else (
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Why not implement standard data structures? Or system programs ( ls, ping, etc )? Or a compiler ( a subset of C perhaps )? Hell a basic http server or sqlite clone? There's an endless list of projects you could do in C++ if you really
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> What an absurd perspective. So is spending your time ( paid or not ) spamming facebook propaganda. > Talking about the toxicity that exists on Facebook's platform is "poltical activism", now? Or wait, sorry, "pro
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> They have consciously destroyed a generation attention span using psychological tricks. They did the same thing CNN, MTV and all media does. They do the same thing movies, music, tv, news, etc does. They do the same thing Google does,
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I'm guessing because the one about fake news/free speech is political activism/propaganda? We've had nearly an entire year of that nonsense and I think most of us have grown tired of it already. Go to reddit if you enjoy
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>This is not a terribly meaningful metric for tech names with huge growth potential. Think that was OP's point. That facebook has matured and is no longer a growth company.

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