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by tdb7893 9y ago
If you go deep enough everything is luck. Your intelligence, height, and even your work ethic are just a product of your genetics and your environment. It seems to me that if someone who was literally identical to me was put into an identic
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by tdb7893 9y ago
Yeah, this can be an example of going maybe too far if they are very strict about it. It's a balancing act
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From a practical standpoint it's good for teams to be diverse and inclusive (it raises effectiveness, increases the talent pool, etc...) but also from a more philosophical point of view diversity and inclusion are necessary for an actu
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by tdb7893 9y ago
You can often see people's worldview through their writing. There's no real way around it as it's just how people write but I agree that after becoming aware of it I notice it literally everywhere, too. Luckily nowadays it&#x
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I flag them even though I don't like Trump often because the posts (and comments) are often poor quality and political news is already ubiquitous pretty much everywhere else on the Internet so I don't feel bad being a little stric
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No, obviously not but this article isn't talking about overarching economic goals. It's talking about losing technical dominance to China and my point was that the dominance seemed to have been helped by the trade practices, not h
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The low trade barriers seems to have led to many US tech companies becoming dominant globally in their fields. It seems like if there were more trade barriers it would've been harder for those companies to expand in the first place.
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The article is more focused on the opposition to the plans instead of a whole cost benefit analysis of the project. It's a short article and it can't be everything. Also it's not like the opposition to it is unreasonable, it
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I've noticed documentation bugs and submitted them to amazon before they open sourced this. Overall for documentation I've just fixed things as I find them and I've never seen it as much of a burden and it helps the community
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Helmets are also insufficient on bikes but they significantly reduce injuries. With cars I'm not quite sure what problem you would be trying to solve because they probably wouldn't actually appreciably reduce injuries (I don'
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If by motorists you mean people in cars they do mandate head protection in the form of air bags and a myriad of other safety features
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They attribute the drop to lack of pesticides because according to the researcher the drops coincided with changes in policy, drops were also seen in other countries that banned pesticides, and simular situations were seen when access to co
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by tdb7893 9y ago
Netflix has a similar issue, which is presumably why they started making their own content. Maybe Spotify should start it's own label
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The article you linked cherry picks statistics for metropolitan areas (it seems to lump the poor and African American parts of New York with the richer are more white sections) and the article even mentions that unarmed black men are much m
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by tdb7893 9y ago
Weather creates a whole mess with tons of missed connections and cancelled flights that can take up a a couple days to sort out. This means that air travel in entire states grinds to a halt a couple of times each year.
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I'm American so I don't fully understand how VAT tax works but aren't these sorts of sales taxes generally regressive (i.e. poorer people pay a larger share of their income). I think the tax code can be simplified but I don&#
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My main complaint about police is that they just aren't subject to the same laws as everyone else. Besides the more attention grabbing abuses one thing that really bothers me is that they can't really even be held accountable for
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For an engineering discipline getting a college degree is almost always a requirement for getting a real job. This means that practically for a lot of people college is largely intended to be training for their job, so it makes sense why th
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It's pretty easy going without adblock. There are a lot of websites without obtrusive ads and it's pretty easy to start to recognize which sites I just don't want to go to anymore.
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Food always seemed a pretty free market to me, even though it's necessary. I was taught that free market is more about competition and access to information while necessity of the product mainly affected price inelasticity but that was
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Very few people actually blow themselves up (terrorism is really really low on the list of the most common causes of death) so I doubt that it will be why we don't have flying cars.
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Yeah, I mean I hope most of the people aren't serious. My worry is that you can't really get a subreddit that large of joking racists without it being explicit that it's a joke. The subreddit almost assuredly has actual racis
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Here is a link I had found in my comment history from the last time someone asked for an example https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7djxqv/three_as...
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In the past they've made fun of Pakistanis for being inbred and implied that the only way that some actresses could have gotten famous was through sexual favors (this was during the start of the #metoo thing). Most of the subreddit is
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by tdb7893 9y ago
If your goal is more than just to convince them to vote trump but to radicalize and spread ideas r/the_Donald is the perfect place to do it. If you look at how a lot of conspiracy theories spread from there I can see it being very enti
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I always hoped r/the_Donald had a lot of Russian trolls. The racsism and misogyny there can be crazy and it would make me feel better if it was trolls instead of sincere people
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The underlying philosophy of mandating coverage for pre-existing conditions is the idea that everyone should be able to have basic medical care. With that idea it's really not that tricky to say pre-existing conditions should be covere
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The inflow and outflow of money is pretty predictable. I don't get why it's certain that "later investors" lose their money with social security. It's more of a tax than an investment so it can really only fail if
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To me the fact that the intent of it is entirely different (it's not an investment fund, it's a social welfare program and those two things are pretty dissimilar), it's transparent, and it's underwritten by taxes makes i
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Where are you getting the 100k number from? That wouldn't even cover a small misinformation campaign and they are also accused of executing multiple hacks. 100k wouldn't even cover the total cost of 1 hacker for 1 year. Would that

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