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by tedks 11y ago
Weren't British (or at least their ancestors) generally dissatisfied with their lot in the first place and that's why they wrote the Magna Carta? I don't know that dissatisfaction and mistrust is genetic but I'm guessing
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Part of the American heritage going back to Nixon, maybe.
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The article is still a listicle. It's tuned for clickbait and for short attention spans.
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This is a bad title edit, if it was edited. The original title, "Safer Internet Day: Young ignore 'social media age limit'", at least focuses partially on the actual topic of the article, an event meant to raise awarenes
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After COINTELPRO law enforcement as a whole in both the US and other countries moved to a subversion model as opposed to an adversarial model. This is why the FBI or local police have infiltrators or paid informants in virtually every activ
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Then I assume you were offended and apologize for causing you offense.
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Rape is a legal concept, but in a larger sense it is a moral concept. This concept does not change from nation-state to nation-state and even if no country in the world defined this behavior as legal rape, it is still rape. For centuries, m
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Further, it is far riskier for the little guys to compete. Big corporations have been externalizing R&D risk to the state and now to entrepreneurs. Most startups fail and when they do, Goldman Sachs isn't picking up the tab, the
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Meaning everyone did not consent to sex.
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This is meta, but I think comments like these should be banned from HN, because they demonstrate a lack of willingness to seek out an answer on one's own, implying (in my opinion) an adversarial model of the conversational exchange. If
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I'd like to comment to point out that after almost a day, this has hovered between -1 and +2, receiving at least a dozen votes but almost entirely split. It's clear that many people agree and many people disagree with this comment
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>may be perceived as insulting to people without certain forms of economic privilege who did, indeed, go out and start companies. Are you one of these people? If not, you shouldn't be speaking for them.
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No, less wrong is just so neoliberal, socially conservative, and outright fascist in the extreme that the ones that are "only" neocons think they're social democrats, in part because they aren't as extreme as the extremi
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People that have loans they need to pay back and no rich parents to pay them for you don't go out and start companies. "Going out and starting a company" is for the economically privileged.
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Politics is explicitly allowed on HN. If you want a neoliberal hugbox go to less wrong.
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By definition no extremist represents the center or the average of their political ideology. But extremists exist and occasionally are very intelligent.
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>I guess that's been true for centuries, but I don't see what it has to do with militias. Like everyone with a bad idea, they want to say 'this time it's different'. Well, automation is going to start taking away
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This is a naive and over-optimistic post. You're allowing the horns-effect bias to overcome your rationality. The world we live in is big, and there are a lot of different people in it. Some of them are smart, and some of them are stup
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Really big actually: >As expected, the more positively participants fantasized, the fewer symptoms of depression they showed at Time 1, r = −.29, p < .02, but the more symptoms they showed a month later, r = .45, p < .001 (see Tabl
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I think it's naive to assume that prosecutors will ever prosecute cops without massive public outcry, that police departments are at all capable of policing themselves (including documenting broken bodycams), or even that politicians
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To be fair, when I travel outside the DC area I still see as many ads for for-profit schools. They're certainly a huge share of metro advertisements, probably the next down from weapons systems advertisements.
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This has been the rebuttal every time the argument "we just need bodycams on police" comes up in the latest thread about police indiscriminately raping or abusing women/shooting black men in the street like hunters shooting d
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Alice will have several orders of magnitude more projects on her CV than Clyde has. When Alice is applied to a harder problem (that can't be solved with Wordpress), she'll be able to solve it far faster and more effectively than C
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I didn't say countries, I said parts of the world. There are places even in America where misogyny is so entrenched that, like you, people treat women as nothing more than offspring incubators. It's attitudes like yours that keep
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Maybe in barbaric parts of the world where people reproduce absurdly young in their 20s, but in most of the West reproduction is moving later in life in their 30s or 40s. If you start having children at 30 and have three kids at say 30, 34,
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And ruin his obviously intentional cryopreservation plans? No, I think that even with foreknowledge he would have chosen to do exactly what he chose to do and be cryopreserved.
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>the biggest cohort of US demographics - the millennials - is just getting started As a millennial, this is hilarious to me. I hope your startup doesn't depend on millennials consuming ANYTHING. The best you can MAYBE achieve is hav
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Lol. When do you think millenials will have kids? When they have houses? Stable jobs? Nope, you Gen-Xers have fscked yourselvs as far as that goes. Nobody in my generation in the West will ever be able to have children. Hope you like immigr
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That's exactly the intention of instagram. It took my parents a very long time to get on instagram and they only eventually did so to try to police my teenage sister (who promptly made a new account, added her friends to it, and dribbl
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I don't think the comment parent was arguing that such a distinction is reasonable, but it is the basis of civil forfeiture in the United States. Money has no constitutional rights, so it can be presumed innocent and seized until its o

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