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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
Perhaps I should have kept my comment to myself. However I don't see any need to rebut such a ridiculous notion as the Trump administration not prominently using a term, being the comparable to Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square. C
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
At best, shaping messaging of policy, at worst, propaganda. He isn't preventing any scientists from publishing anything. Even if he did scrub a term from the entire site personally, that isn't censorship. It isn't illegal to
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
Something that would probably be good to read (or listen to) is The Gulag Archipelago. I haven't gotten through it yet. But a great story early on is one about a speech Stalin gave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOP0H
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
"Intellectually challenging" that wasn't intellectually challenging for him in the slightest. Having someone constantly misrepresent you isn't "challenging". Challenging is when someone understands what you are
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
So should it be worded "Did you see it hit the ground?" Edit - or "Were you present when it hit the ground?" I don't know it just seems like splitting hairs.
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
Coraline Ehmke is an ideologue. >I had expressed dismay before at our hiring practices. It seemed that whenever we had our monthly engineering all-hands meeting, the new hire announcements featured three more young white guys. I felt tha
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
I think at least part of it are laws around rivers/lakes/beaches about glass. I can understand why we wouldn't want people to have glass these places. So perhaps instead of having 2 different production lines with more expens
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
Just as Diesel used to be a "byproduct" of gasoline refinement. But of course manufacturers want to monetize everything they possibly can and did so with diesel.
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
That's certainly true. It was definitely a proxy war and iirc the North definitely received, at a minimum, support from China. I'm not incredibly well versed on the subject, especially the geopolitics at the time. Perhaps with all
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
When I see things like this, I always wonder how the data is acquired. I have had many ideas in the past that I couldn't really go through with as they were data-bound. I am sure it would be preferred to be kept relatively under-wraps,
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
> it created an even larger group of veterans who came back and described a war which-- even if the serviceperson believed in the aims of the U.S. gov't-- was clearly unwinnable Was it really "unwinnable"? I watched "
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
No, it isn't designed to lessen the influence of liberal cities. It is designed to lessen the influence of more populated states over less populated states. It is an attempt to level influence a bit. More populated states still obvious
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
> There are known environmental factors in IQ (most notably, early childhood environment factors), and because of de jure and de facto segregation (including redlining) Redlining doesn't really have much to do with early childhood m
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
The cities I listed definitely have a huge influence over the state as a whole, and if they didn't exist, they would red states. More rural areas tend to vote Republican and cities tend to vote Democrat. There's nothing really new
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
> The book The Bell Curve that you references doesn't make any definite inferences regarding IQ and race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve > Herrnstein and Murray report that Asian Americans have
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
>1. Why do you say it is unrelated? The author is making a direct connection between the first two sentences and the claim in the parentheses. Yes, but it isn't something I agree with and I'm not obligated to support all of his
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
First of all, this isn't a throw-away account. I have been browsing HackerNews for a while, but only recently started commenting myself. > People who make this statement always, always, always use the thoroughly debunked "IQ Ma
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
People who live in upstate NY, and northern California would probably have something to say about that. As would the people who live outside of Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Eugene, and Minneapolis/St-Paul.
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
I said "almost" because I happen to be a person who pretty strongly agrees with Austrian economics. I'd think that linking a mises.org article might hint at that pretty strongly.
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
> Blacks are not equal to whites. Therefore the “inequality” between these races is expected and makes perfect sense. (This also explains why progressives are unable to come up with a black martyr who was not killed while committing a cr
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
To play a little devil's advocate, while he didn't specifically say this, I think he was referring to police shootings. Interestingly enough Walter Scott was killed less than a month after he posted this. Someone I'd argue co
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
Yes, they have a "demonetized" status for videos that don't violate their TOS but aren't "advertiser friendly". Their general lack of transparency about it is also quite annoying. There also does seem to be som
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
I bet that the people priced out of a job totally love getting $0/hour vs the evil wage they were receiving before.
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
One thing I am curious about is what really would happen if we had no minimum wage. Anchoring bias is a pretty well known phenomenon. If you have a "cheap" item priced at $10, an "economic" item priced at $15 and an &quo
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
I definitely think it looks like a bit of a mixture of both. From what I remember in reading Brave New World, the focus wasn't so much on the authoritarian tendencies of the government itself. The government was authoritarian in the se
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
I second the sizing question, but I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum at 6'5".
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
If Earth reached that kind of point, I could certainly see people attempting to colonize other planets, to mine asteroids and all of the labor associated with that. I really think a lot of this automation eliminating labor talk way early. T
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
What I find strange is, there isn't any evidence for long term association of an ad with the content of the video. If you see a coca cola commercial before an ISIS beheading video, do you really think "Huh, coca cola is sponsoring
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
>A country with a rich and complicated history > Search Google or YouTube for “weird Japan,” and you’ll find a goldmine of terrible content stereotyping Japan as the sum of its most bizarre media and traditions — a metric that would r
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by supreme_sublime 9y ago
> Paranoid conservatives have increasingly become certain Google is trying to silence them, citing its firing of engineers who allegedly created hostile work environments and a largely illusory panic about YouTube censorship. >largely

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