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by rmxt 11y ago
Your implication about economic protectionism being a net drain on society regardless of the classifiers could have been made without using a ridiculous example such as Jim Crow -- the non sequitur of Jim Crow lies not with my response, but
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by rmxt 11y ago
Flamebait aside, is it that hard to see the material differences in the classifiers between your example of a "dis/favored class" and the classes discussed by the GP? Hint: one has classifiers that one can eventually overcom
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by rmxt 11y ago
That doesn't seem too surprising. In rich areas, kids are off going to their private tutors and private after school activities. In poor areas, the kids need the extra push that a significant portion of them aren't getting at home
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by rmxt 11y ago
Your "too easy" is my "deceptive dark pattern".
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by rmxt 11y ago
This is either sarcasm, or, the most perverse and backwards logic for government sanctioned security programs that I've ever seen. The ostensible reason that the government has created the TSA and its ilk is for actual security. Clai
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by rmxt 11y ago
What of all the employees of the stadium? Of all the travel to and from the stadium? Of the merchandising deals? And any other numerous subsequent results... what does the money that goes to the employees or third-parties count as? They don
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by rmxt 11y ago
Sports are a form of entertainment....entertainment can and does drive spending.... and spending can contribute to more jobs and more tax revenue. Seems fair that sports are, in turn, a public concern. That isn't to say that building a
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by rmxt 11y ago
Calling someone a "terrorist" only when they've engaged in "terrorist activity" is circular reasoning. I'd wager the GP's point is that defining what makes a "terrorist" is all in the eye of the
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by rmxt 11y ago
It's hard to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you weren't born with them (and not everyone in the world is). Acknowledging reality does nothing to dissuade people from trying their hardest, but sometimes one's harde
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by rmxt 11y ago
Is the AP CS test supposed to be some sort of impartial arbiter of talent and ability? What does the AP test have to do with anything?
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by rmxt 11y ago
Chicago might be notorious for high murder rates, crime, and corrupt government, but I would be shocked if this weren't happening in other areas across the country.
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by rmxt 11y ago
Hispanic identity, in the eyes of the U.S. Census Bureau, is not a question of race. It's a categorization that they've taken to using for whatever purpose. The WSJ is merely using the available data and qualifying it in the same
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by rmxt 11y ago
I don't imagine that grounding your pseudo-rational argument against gay marriage in religious texts will garner much traction here. There might be arguments from child-rearing benefits and social obligations...but using the Bible to j
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by rmxt 11y ago
If it's easily verifiable, do you have a source? (It might also help if the article was even talking about undergrad and/or SAT scores.)
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by rmxt 11y ago
No matter who you choose, when you inevitably lose the lottery, you will still only have lost one dollar either way. When a child chooses to not go to an adult at all because only men are around, they might be facing more dire consequences
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by rmxt 11y ago
For all of the people that I've come across that have said this (or something similar)...I've not once come across a satisfying reason as to why people take pride in their limited geographic or experiential knowledge of NYC and
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by rmxt 11y ago
My main point is that it's not as simple as: not("breaking law" or "pointing guns at other people") == not("get shot") which is what you were snarkily making it out to be. There are whole fields of study d
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by rmxt 11y ago
And people like these guys weren't pointing guns at other people or breaking the law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff#April_12_confro... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_S
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by rmxt 11y ago
I am not particularly concerned with the "above-the-table" profit margin. I am concerned with the possibility that using private contractors is prone to abuse, a loss of accountability (shell games) and a race to the bottom for qu
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by rmxt 11y ago
Without access to their books, it's hard to evaluate their actual profit. But, later in the article there is this quote: "The Adolfsens claim that theirs is 3.5 percent, but Herning calls that figure “highly unlikely. All the othe
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Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia(bloomberg.com)
117 points by rmxt 11y ago|103 comments
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by rmxt 11y ago
Yet another false dilemma! Racism can both exist and have ineffectual movements (what you are claiming #BLM to be) that use it as a rallying cry. I think it's folly to talk of #BLM as a cohesive movement, and paint a hashtag's act
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by rmxt 11y ago
You are drawing false conclusions up and down this thread. Both of the following can be (and are) true: Appalachia is a nexus of white poverty (and industrial decay), and institutionalized racism has lingering effects through the present da
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by rmxt 11y ago
I use 60-70 years as a conservative number, so that even the most fervent believers of "it's not because they are black, it's because they are poor" (or similar opinions) can see that people still alive today were likely
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by rmxt 11y ago
The concept of "privilege" can both exist and have been misconstrued and misapplied to your case by your friends. Also, slavery and Jim Crow can both leave an unfortunate legacy of poverty amongst many African-Americans, and not h
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by rmxt 11y ago
While the GP's offhanded connecting of the dots between a slave ship and African-Americans might be unnecessary, implying that the plight of minorities in the United States stems solely from their personal failings is no less simplisti
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by rmxt 11y ago
As the article notes, a good portion of the information is already public like you've said. However, as I see it, there are two types of "exposure" at play here. I took the "exposure" in the headline to mean "a
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191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database(databreaches.net)
307 points by rmxt 11y ago|99 comments
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by rmxt 11y ago
It's even sadder that you need to draw an absurd comparison to the imaginary instance of retarded people attempting break into nuclear physics in order to frame a discussion about the very real implications of race, socioeconomic sta
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by rmxt 11y ago
I imagine the distinction that they are trying to make is between research universities and liberal arts colleges (most of which are private, though there are some public). The term "research university" has connotations of a plac

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