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by sukilot 6y ago
Please check your diction and spelling before launching into a linguistics-oriented tirade.
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by sukilot 6y ago
When the impossible goal is to solve a 10x hard problem in 1x time live during an oral exam, no. But it did have a filter effect, so that the Jewish students who did pass the entrance test were much higher ability than their average peers.
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by sukilot 6y ago
People were zombies before the propagands hit them. The propaganda steers them, like a sheepdog and its sheep.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Parent was using the original meaning of the word "liberal" not the modern mainly US meaning of "left wing" (which was called liberal because a long time ago it was largely about making freedom of thought, religion, and
695.
by sukilot 6y ago
Bots are humans until advertisers decided they aren't.
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by sukilot 6y ago
We are long past the point of "fascism" meaning anything but "government that hurts people"
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by sukilot 6y ago
Left and right are arbitrary labels applied to the two largest opposing parties in a country. They aren't ideologies.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Why are you calling people "unsavvy" for understanding the complexity of how money works and how they can influence th behavior of billionaire elites?
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by sukilot 6y ago
No matter how much you detest them, how can the members of the ruling party, in a country that until very recently had their views enshrined in law, be off the end of the political spectrum?
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by sukilot 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy I want a country where the median person is educated and grounded enough to make good choices about their community.
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by sukilot 6y ago
2:1 is quite common, because it's simple, despite being not great, especially as amount cooked increases. Rice isn't speherical, but it isn't a perfectly packed crystal either. Unless you think air fills up inside each grain,
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by sukilot 6y ago
Knox's letter seems clear to me that he was complaining about theft by the bakers. > and often times more, as they put as great a proportion of water as they please, there being no person whose duty it is to superintend them
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's pretty gruesome to watch someome go out of their way take casual pot-shots at someone trapped in a torture cell just because the person used wording that isn't the peak of diplomacy. HN has basic standards of human decency; i
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's easy for me to imagine that a person trapped for years in an isolation-torture cell would have some complicated and slightly un-PC thoughts regarding religion and male-female relationships. That request is 0.01x as offensive as mu
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by sukilot 6y ago
"Democracy" is tyranny of the majority. "Rich" is not evenly distributed. "Western" is a weird racist/chauvinist term.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's easy to ignore the suffering of others. You and I do it all day every day.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It not cheaper. Prisons are part of the expanded military-indistrial complex, where the goal is to spend more money for the same results so that more can be skimmed off for corruption. US prisons are the great-grandchildren of slave plant
708.
by sukilot 6y ago
It's absurd to say Wikipedia is unbiased, because bias is endorsed by Wikipedia's officially stated policy! The only requirement is that the bias is copied from an off-site source. Wikipedia endorses any well-established" new
709.
by sukilot 6y ago
That's why politicians should write multiple books to cover every possibility.
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by sukilot 6y ago
At the end of the day, a wiki (or any UGC system) is only as good as the admins who have the final say on what is published. As good a Wikipedia is, it's dangerous for it to be the only "legitimate" one. Thanks to the open li
711.
by sukilot 6y ago
Aside from the specifics of the political squabble, an elected official (Harris) has far more to lose from "bad associations" than an appointed official (Mnuchin) who is accountable to no one except his boss.
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by sukilot 6y ago
But the market share was lost to a "rewrite" by a competitor.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's great work but anything you can do in a week and then throw away if it turns out bad is hardly a risky rewrite.
714.
by sukilot 6y ago
Wait till you find out how many animals are killed by lions and spiders each year.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It would if instead of being "hunted" in a "normal" way there deaths are due to an over aggressive and risky poisoning campaign that some people would find controversial.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Previous poster specifically cited increased algae blooms (caused by weather) and offered a mechanism and linked to sources of more information. Poster might not be correct overall, but the thesis is clear and at least remotely plausible.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Racism exists where genocide has not yet been completed. A "non racist" society is rarely a historical role model.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's an argument for banning swastikas, not banning anyone who displays a swastika. And before you say "come on, swastikas are pretty extreme", remember the moral panic we just went through when 4chan trolls convinced peopl
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by sukilot 6y ago
What's the problem? You can enjoy the movie and talk about the connections to Bronte and the little clues the movie showed. The problem seems to be less that literature is derivative, and more that the viewer is looking for reasons to
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by sukilot 6y ago
> Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, Shows a deep misunderstanding of how human language works.

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