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by thex10 11y ago
> I was living on the street as a teenager after making bad decisions and having my parents abandon me. This doesn't sound like you spent your childhood poor with immediate family who've spent your life in poverty. Your comment
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by thex10 11y ago
Interesting point but calling that bullying (on the part of the OP) seems like a huge overstatement
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by thex10 11y ago
So why do you feel differently now? I'm genuinely curious.
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by thex10 11y ago
I won't miss them. I just spent a few days in Seattle's downtown, pieces of which have a very outdoor mall feeling to it. Ridiculous amounts of shopping clustered very close together. Felt like way more fun than any enclosed mall.
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by thex10 11y ago
Sorry for my delay - HN thought I was submitting too fast and then I had to go to bed. :) The gist of what I'm thinking is this: Cherry picking the good without at least acknowledging the bad feeds into a longer process of erasure. Lik
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by thex10 11y ago
Thanks for that clarification. That is perfectly ok with me.
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by thex10 11y ago
That's probably outweighed by the exaltation for white people found all over society.
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by thex10 11y ago
That's the best example of all, pal. There aren't candidates of arguably the most powerful nation in the world getting airtime to millions to holler about deporting your kind just because you're Mexican To elaborate: It'
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by thex10 11y ago
The free-speech argument is a weak one at best. Just because they're a screaming professor doesn't mean they're correct.
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by thex10 11y ago
Ugh! I'm so sick of seeing the media flip out over.. all of this. Did I miss something, or is this piece not attributed? If the author is not an educator than I'm not gonna trust their opinion on what's good for education. If
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by thex10 11y ago
Actually I believe ignoring outliers is sound practice, as far as statistical analysis goes.