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by squozzer 8y ago
I would argue that economics drives at least some of this because Hollywood and media in general have no shortage of talent waiting in the wings. So new mechanisms for generating attrition will always find more fans (the underdogs) than o
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by squozzer 8y ago
It was a trial in the court of public opinion, from which there is no appeal. (thx to Machiavelli for that nugget of wisdom.)
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by squozzer 8y ago
>Add the wrong ingredients into the Big Data recipe, and what you’ll get is a potentially toxic output. Shouldn't the Big Data algorithms apply the same principles?
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by squozzer 8y ago
Where I think the non-racists have failed us (meaning those whose attention lies mostly elsewhere) is in providing a description of a non-racist system. It may prove impossible, and I think if someone had described one, we'd all have h
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by squozzer 8y ago
OTOH, people remember (in a distorted way, to various degrees, highly dependent on culture) Genghis Khan Attila the Hun Jesus Christ Buddha Moses A few other prophets Archimedes Gaius Julius Caesar
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by squozzer 8y ago
Dunno, about 32 years ago I drove through KS on I-70. It had some rises and dips. Maybe I'm remembering eastern CO.
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by squozzer 8y ago
“His decision not to use [emergency declaration][last week] is a little bit puzzling because in some sense that’s an almost ideal outcome,” McCarty said. “That’s the only way to end the shutdown while allowing both sides to save face.” Anot
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by squozzer 8y ago
Maybe the second referendum should just be between soft leave and hard leave, as the first referendum already settled the question of leave or remain. Call it a runoff referendum.
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by squozzer 8y ago
>GitHub and Tibetans like Lobsang Sither were among the first victims on a new front in China’s war on the internet, launched by a new breed of censor determined to go after the country’s enemies wherever they might be, using whatever me
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by squozzer 8y ago
My guess - it was overloaded with homilies. But maybe the "push-button" denunciation culture has an agenda. We could be approaching a time where certain things we still take for granted today - e.g. good jobs - will become a lot s
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by squozzer 8y ago
>A post denouncing Emily also went viral. She, too, was the object of nationwide group hate. Live by the sword, die by the sword. >The guy who called out Emily is named Herbert. Ditto. Judge not, or be judged. I won't cry on the
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by squozzer 8y ago
What bothers me most about critiques of the Enlightenment is the critics usually fail to convincingly answer the following: 1) Was it better than what preceded it (e.g. the divine right of kings? 2) In what way(s) are the ideas that followe
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by squozzer 8y ago
That we're all just treading water, and that one day, the water will win.
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by squozzer 8y ago
We never should have let the AI get ahold of Roget's... Jokes aside, the article serves a useful purpose - to remind us that even American revolutionaries aren't above hanging political undesirables.
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by squozzer 8y ago
To quote an ad-lib line from a famous rock musician - "Does anyone remember laughter?" >The underlying assumptions of social justice censorship are that words are a form of violence, that a subjective interpretation matters mor
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by squozzer 8y ago
I would argue the earlier mindset (i.e. China engagement) was not based solely on pie-in-the-sky optimism, but had a couple of other factors - 1) The belief that China would eventually succeed with or without us, so it is to our benefit for
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by squozzer 8y ago
What bothers me most about the discussion today is how tightly bound sins and virtues - even traumas suffers by one's ancestors - are to genetics. So we now have not just a racism / sexism morality based on actions and statements,
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by squozzer 8y ago
Do the employees sing carols? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1004151-christmas_story
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by squozzer 8y ago
I thought of Antigone's execution dirge as the post's counterexample. Or another example - Jesus praying in Gethsemane. Maybe fiction, maybe not, but certainly an example of internal exposition.
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by squozzer 8y ago
On what basis is health care a human right? I would claim that rights either provide some protection to the ruling class (the right to life means not executing unpopular leaders) or are derived from other rights. So in this case, we could c
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by squozzer 8y ago
>But critics say that having too many emergency departments in one community reduces the quality of care because it shrinks the amount of practice that local trauma-trained physicians get when treating complicated injuries. A similar arg
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by squozzer 8y ago
The basic premise of the article seems sound, that money corrupted an arrangement that might otherwise be innocent. Uber / Lyft were upgrades to Craiglist ads for rides / carpools - more convenient for riders, and drivers make a f
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by squozzer 8y ago
I forgot someone even more crucial to my argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Kirov
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by squozzer 8y ago
Then what exactly made Mr. Solzhenitsyn's work so powerful? Was he a capitalist stooge?
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by squozzer 8y ago
He probably captured best the malaise and hypocrisy of the USSR. My hypothesis is that the conditions imposed in the name of communism, and not communism itself, destroyed the USSR. In particular, success - especially political or military
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by squozzer 8y ago
For better or worse, the mini-notebook is where I learned about using a ballast resistor for LEDs.
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by squozzer 8y ago
What bothers me about the coverage of the riots is so far I have seen no one offer an opinion on whether the rioters' complaints have merit.
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by squozzer 8y ago
Is Ms. Meng related to Meng Hongwei? https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-interpol-chief-ousted-china-to...
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by squozzer 8y ago
Interesting perspective. I figured NYC would go all-in on cashless because cash facilitates tax evasion. And to most governments, tax collection > human rights / conveniences.
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by squozzer 8y ago
Get enough crusaders with differing viewpoints in the same room (or internet) and you have scorched earth. My only anger comes from the new definition of the word "thot" - which I had been using for decades as a substitute for the

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