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by thrden 9y ago
gerrymandering actually only comes into play within the house. if the vote for the house was done by a purely popular basis without regards to districting and state boundaries, the republicans would still control the house. However, their
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by thrden 9y ago
This country is an enigma to me, I hear conflicting and convincing arguments as to its economic strength and weakness, that it is on the precipice of collapse or overtaking the United States. I tend to believe that they are weaker than the
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by thrden 9y ago
I could imagine a four way split as follows: Instagram Whatsapp Facebook the site, which is required to sell its user data to third parties (think large ad services) Facebook the advertising service, which buys userdata & advertising s
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by thrden 9y ago
One of the things that I find so striking about south korea is their success with cultural exports, specifically k-pop. Its surprising how many Americans consciously consume k-pop, particularly when compared to Western European media. I&#x
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by thrden 9y ago
While I understand that people are frustrated by this outcome, she worked as a federal government contractor. This is akin to being fired for flipping of the chairman of the board of directors in a company. I understand that there are iss
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by thrden 9y ago
Perhaps, but then you run into the problem of defining racism. It can be obvious, but you can also have situations like the one in yale where the english curriculum was "Colonized"[1] by the fact it had too many white male writer
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by thrden 9y ago
it'd likely be found unconstitutional on the basis of discrimination against someone due to nationality.
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by thrden 9y ago
Oh I completely agree, Chomsky has a terrible track record when it comes to being critical of Communist/Socialist regimes. He is very intellectually dishonest in that regard.
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by thrden 9y ago
In 1933 The United States recognized the Soviet Union, however Walter Duranty wrote his work defending Stalin in 1931. Further, it has been argued that his work and the New York Time's work played an important part in the United State
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by thrden 9y ago
I'd be interested to see if this ends up playing out like ban the box (banning employers from asking about former convictions), where it ends up hurting the applicants the law intends to help. ban the box source: https://www
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by thrden 9y ago
The New York Times actually covered up the holodomor, and were incredibly supportive of Stalin in the 1930's [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty ] Further, The NYT had favorably reviewed books that denie
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by thrden 9y ago
Between the rising cost of a college degree, anti-free speech movements on campuses, and the declining employability of non-STEM degrees it's not surprising. Hopefully, this will work to reduce the overall cost of colleges.
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by thrden 9y ago
the first was cited as well, though news sources removed the citations.
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by thrden 9y ago
I agree, they said that they were basing the externality on how much people would theoretically pay for longevity. That number is very likely to be inflated, as people are likely "willing to pay" more than they may be actually abl
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by thrden 9y ago
Same one that bootstrapped Silicon Valley. The government.
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by thrden 9y ago
Lots of countries had widespread Chemical weapons usage. Iraq used chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program Israel used white phosphorous till 2013: http:&#x2
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by thrden 10y ago
They have a tendency to become more ideologically extreme, which means overtime the country as a whole becomes more divided, which would likely result in higher volatility and cyclical levels of representation.
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by thrden 10y ago
kinda weird the hells angels club in dogpatch isn't mentioned...
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by thrden 10y ago
It's worth noting that the "respectable" news organizations that you listed repackage associated press or reuters stories.
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by thrden 10y ago
The timing of this announcement does not seem to help assuage fears that facebook was using its platform to push an agenda. It was this accusation that initially forced them to switch from human editors to an algorithm for trending news.
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by thrden 10y ago
I'm fairly sure it means that you work 80 hours over 9 days (instead of 10), which can actually be pretty nice, because its fairly rare for professionals to actually work 9-5. To me it seems to codify an existing trend, and provide a b
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by thrden 10y ago
the source also claims that the iPhone 7 is of a comparable speed to the macbook pro 13-inch from 2013, which is a computer I use daily for my programming. I'd love to see a way of using an iphone as highly mobile work station.
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by thrden 10y ago
Sorry I didn't mean to knock it/you in any way. its pretty awesome building something like this. Even if someone's done it before, as others have said this is a marketing game so you can totally make it into something bigger
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by thrden 10y ago
Seems similar to "thesimplepostcard" https://www.thesimplepostcard.com but for a dollar more. I used simple postcard, but the photo arrived damaged. I'd be willing to give this a shot if I had some sort of assura
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by thrden 10y ago
Actually the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo extended citizenship to the formerly Mexican citizens of California at the end of the Mexican-American war, 90% accepted this offer. Legally the United States considered individuals of Mexican herita
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by thrden 10y ago
This wikipedia article describes a restaurant chain run by the North Korean government. It serves dog meat soup and an aphrodisiac made of bear. I was wondering if anyone had experience eating here.
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Pyongyang (restaurant chain)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by thrden 10y ago
In all this backlash, I wonder if the people who have come out strongly remain, realize that they are trying to help massive corporations subvert a democratic referendum. Its my understanding that the people who are most strongly for remai
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by thrden 10y ago
tl;dw: Happiness is fleeting, chasing an emotion is intrinsically difficult/impossible. too often we say we want team happiness but what we really want is happiness of specific members whom we consider important, thereby creating a tw