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by surge 7y ago
No that's how they build a profile, its pretty obvious that who you follow on Twitter/FB is seen as indicative of your interests (even if its not really, I follow ppl just to see what crazy sh*t they'll say next, but I'm
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I don't pretend Trump even knew or did anything directly to make this the case. I know immigration has gotten harder for some but until we know the full facts of this case, which we likely never will because the government keeps privat
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We already have a problem with politicians getting the majority of their donations from people out of their district and even have very low approval ratings in their district. Something needs to be done to ensure all districts are equally r
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by surge 7y ago
I think what they're saying is none of those issues should ever come up at work. Most companies its understood that talking about that stuff leads to a meeting with HR, I also imagine the conversations about police brutality is why the
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Yep, I let my 4 year old play a 2DS, the Switch is too cherished to let them run around with, kids get mad and throw things.
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The way I heard it described, the annual payout will increase, where as that money now goes towards social programs primarily aimed at children and families. So while that money will be in citizen's pockets, it likely won't get sp
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by surge 7y ago
I have a iNet Slate, its effectively the same thing but a bit more purpose built and has a switch on the outside (which can be configured to do different things) that can turn on VPN so all connections are VPN'ed. It supports USB tethe
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by surge 7y ago
They spend tons of money on excursions, there is a cottage industry of tour guides and mini malls at every cruise port. To cater to short tours, snorkeling/beach/hiking trips, and shopping. This if anything cruise people get off t
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by surge 7y ago
This better clarifies what I meant, I wasn't clear enough in how I stated it. I meant the student body were spreading false statements (facts) about the football player's actions and what was said which damaged their reputation.
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I'm not certain about her, but I know many of the positions now have to be appointed or approved by the mainland government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Appointments_System
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by surge 7y ago
I saw it happen first hand once at Guilford College, another small liberal arts college. There was an incident between a group of drunken football students and some kids that were Arabic. The school didn't do its part to encourage rati
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by surge 7y ago
Short of it was that a student was confronted about shop lifting a bottle of wine, two other students with them assaulted the shop owner/employee when they were confronted about it. All the students admitted guilt for the shop lifting
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by surge 7y ago
Chinese government is paying Chinese people 500 HKD (Hong Kong dollars) to cross the border and counter protest so that they can report there are 800k counter protestors.
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by surge 7y ago
China is the one pushing the law. Influencing and eroding the HK political system to make it so they have more say over what HK people can say and do. They've been slowly taking freedoms away from HK since the Xi Jinping got into offic
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by surge 7y ago
Also, food shortages incoming: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/accuweathers-new... tldr; the Midwest had gotten so much rain they're unable to plant crops
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by surge 7y ago
A nice feature of plex media server is that the app on your phone will back up your photos to your home server.
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by surge 7y ago
I prefer the Scandinavian (specifically Swedish approach) that I experienced at a prior company. It has its shortcomings of course. But put simply, there is a clear hierarchy, but generally most decisions are made by establishing consensus
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by surge 7y ago
Chinese investment means increased pressure on tech oligopolies* to increase censorship of media critical of China. They've been branching out to increase soft influence, keep news sites and Olympic committee from recognizing Taiwan as
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by surge 7y ago
Cities used to rig them and the light timing to generate more tickets and actually create more risk of accidents. The running of red lights is a big city thing. It doesn't happen often in most of the US.
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Journalists aren't that bright, they get confused at the difference.
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by surge 7y ago
>Not sure where you're getting this idea. The amount of smog observed overseas. Just reading the news.
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by surge 7y ago
What if I'm already doing that, and the CO2 emissions are still going up every year? What if the feedback loop is causing a run away effect? I feel as an individual, mostly helpless. You say buy local but most of the things your sugges
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by surge 7y ago
How much of it is actually us though? I thought most of our emissions are going down overall its overseas developing countries with few if any regulations and little enforcement of the ones that do exist causing most of it? WTH can we do ab
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by surge 7y ago
I didn't realize Secret City was mostly social/political commentary.
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by surge 7y ago
Kids are exhausted enough after 6 hours of public school, 3 hours of home work and any extra curriculars, don't screw up what little childhood freetime they have left in the current system with home after school.
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by surge 7y ago
Smart kids just get held back in school It's clear to me that A) you don't have kids and don't have any experience with kids in school B) you led a very privileged life and had a better than average experience in school C) th
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by surge 7y ago
>You provided anecdata, so I used anecdata. Homeschooling is exclusively American because American schools are almost completely shit like most government provided services here and saying because German schools are good, American kids s
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by surge 7y ago
https://www.dailyinfographic.com/homeschooling-by-the-number...
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I think you're looking at different school systems and using it to leverage criticisms of home schooling in the US. Fix public schooling in the US first, make it so it isn't so easy for home schoolers to out perform. Don't ma
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Most research? What research? By research do you mean an opinion piece you read once? Most research says homeschoolers perform massively better on average then public school kids do. So what research addresses that, if kids perform not as w

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