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by squozzer 10y ago
My fear is not that either Trump or Clinton will win, or that either person's triumph will unleash purges or counter-purges. What I fear is that four or eight years later, the problems that made Trump (and to a lesser extent Bernie San
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by squozzer 10y ago
That's always been the problem with solipsism. How do minds outside the self experience the same local phenomena?
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by squozzer 10y ago
Were we in another era, where citizens and governments acted harmoniously in the interests of the people, I would probably agree with the author. But we're not. We're in a cold war, not with Russia or China, but with our own gover
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by squozzer 10y ago
Keep in mind a completely trackable currency would require more creativity in funding political "dirty tricks" a la Nixon and his (spiritual) successors.
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by squozzer 10y ago
You have a point but let me make a counter -- it's the subordinate who must prove their trustworthiness to the superior. Which in your view, seems to be the people and their government, respectively. If you had said, "The governme
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by squozzer 10y ago
I think in the US you have to have an ID to get a job. Last time I looked at an I-9, it required 1) proof of citizenship or right to work (GC); 2) proof of identity.
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by squozzer 10y ago
LOL. Reminded me of a friend who skydove/skydived. He read a magazine about the sport, which had sprinkled throughout concise descriptions of skydiving accidents. They had one thing in common - cause of death:impact.
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by squozzer 10y ago
That's a two-edged sword. A couple of examples -- 1) Germans forced to march through an extermination camp because their cowardice in not stopping Hitler made them responsible for his actions. 2) Osama bin Laden justifying 9/11 by
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by squozzer 10y ago
Mass media fear-mongering has been around as long as I have been alive, and as easy to reach as the evening news.
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by squozzer 10y ago
That's Mr. American Empire to you droogie! But going meta on pabloski's question, who decides which countries are dictatorships and which are bastions of liberty?
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by squozzer 10y ago
The problem with the "physical space" solution is that it eventually becomes an echo chamber as "undesirables" achieve outplacement.
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by squozzer 10y ago
That is so punk rock.
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by squozzer 10y ago
It's not every day someone suggests flagging a column by George F. Will. "The collapse has coincided with a retreat from marriage (“the proportion of never-married men was over three times higher in 2015 than 1965”), which suggest
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by squozzer 10y ago
Historians probably sabotaged their relevance when they decided to wade into the frigid waters of propaganda.
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by squozzer 10y ago
Hacking in those days was a rather strightforward affair. Walk into RS store. Type 10 print "some profanity" 20 goto 10 Leave store before RS dude sees you.
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by squozzer 10y ago
SV's major fault lies in its overuse of hyperbole, which it uses to trick itself into thinking it's revolutionary. Isn't most of what we hear from SV just typical corporate bro-speak + double espresso? Dennis Miller once said
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by squozzer 10y ago
If you really want to go down the healthcare billing rabbit-hole, go here http://truecostofhealthcare.net/outpatient_charges/
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by squozzer 10y ago
The Thomas Crowne Affair is about an art thief.
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by squozzer 10y ago
Confession: I hoarded 192 rolls of TP for Y2K. Frankly, I don't like Chavez, but enough is enough. Time to get an aid concert going and get some TP to Venezuela! Oops, spoke too soon -- http://fusion.net/story/3084
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by squozzer 10y ago
Interesting. (Sorry, Spock.) I offer the following conjectures -- because they lack the falsifiability for them to rise to the level of hypotheses. 1) Causality may resemble inertia -- that is, what we observe as cause-and-effect only seems
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by squozzer 10y ago
I liked the article better when it had the chimp in a suit for its lead illustration.
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by squozzer 10y ago
You should also watch the commercials on HGTV. The ones for paint never show anyone painting a wall beige. It's always something more vivid. Personally, I prefer beige over white, which probably still dominates as a wall color for home
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by squozzer 10y ago
Senior = most senior dev in the building. AKA Designated Survivor.
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by squozzer 10y ago
To the general question, probably. It survived the boomers, who in the 1960s succeeded the socialists and New Dealers of the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left Not sure what direction it will take, it would
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by squozzer 10y ago
I never accepted America as "greatest country in the world" as a literal truth, anymore than I would say my Dad is "the greatest in the world" and expect anyone to believe it. It's a statement of love, or belonging,
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by squozzer 10y ago
I'm rather fond of Arabic numbers also. Imagine multiplication using Roman numerals!
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by squozzer 10y ago
I kinda dug the Psychology Prize subject, but didn't want to pay the $35.95. Hmmm, can I lie my way to a free copy? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691815...
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by squozzer 10y ago
Sometimes the downstories have more bite (pardon the expression) -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/19...
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by squozzer 10y ago
Huh. For some reason I thought cargoes had bonds that would allow them to make port and unload. OTOH, some enterprising sailors could make some money relieving stranded ships of their contents.
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Or maybe our cells will exhibit the BSOD.

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