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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Bullying was not prevalent in my school. But I did notice an abrupt change from elementary school. Before middle school grades were meaningless. Middle school was when kids started to be grouped into advanced and not advanced groups and you
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Source? I haven’t heard that before. It’s certainly not true for anyone in congress or upwards.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I’m pretty naive to the Middle East, but the primary reason people are protesting is lack of economic opportunity (Iraq specifically), right? Is that someone’s fault? Can it actually be changed? I don’t want people to be killed for protesti
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Trumps trade war has been an effective policy. It may not have been the most elegant or the only option. But all things considered not terrible. It may backfire into a recession. Taking some action was both overdue and likely to happen rega
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
They did, but the court fees were high, and are high enough to dissuade people who aren’t billionaire talk show hosts from saying similar things. As I said, America is quite good at free speech. But it has its gaps, much like most other cou
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Conversely, just because a few people do a bad thing does not characterize the moral stature of a large decentralized organization. Sometimes, bad decisions are made. That doesn’t mean the day to day is one that makes the world worse, both
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I don’t really think that contradicts anything I said
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
> China’s embassy reacted angrily, saying on Facebook that Prague’s leadership should change its attitude as soon as possible or “it will be their own interests that will be hurt.” That’s pretty pathetic. Honestly this sounds like a desp
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
FWIW, most McKinsey employees won’t be doing anything immoral. In fact it’s perfectly cool to turn down assignments for personal ethics. E.g. not wanting to work for a gas company, even if the specific task doesn’t have any moral implicatio
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I work(ed) for McKinsey. Writing this in present tense for vague anonymity. I don’t do anything public sector so I don’t know what policies we do. But in reading this it feels like you are implying that McKinsey would be behind various drac
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
If the government offers special interest groups special laws to impose economic penalties on others for saying certain things, then free speech has been restricted, just by different mechanisms. I understand this says “libel” laws but does
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Seems like they’re missing a critical all white painted cow group
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
That’s correct. The problem is that the American agricultural industry has gotten laws that enable them to punish you for saying things that are, in fact, true, but inconvenient for them. These are specific laws handed out to prevent whistl
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Meanwhile in America you are liable for insulting vegetables https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws Point is, every country has exceptions, and indexing on irrelevant edge cases isn’t especially useful. Americ
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Not even close to accurate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
The tidyverse is excellent, and has its own stylistic choices that are arguably quite good. A lot of other random packages also have their own stylistic choices and they are not good. So I suppose I would say that R makes it really easy to
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Example? Anything besides visualizing embedding spaces?
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
VAT != Land Value Tax Land value tax taxes landowners on the unimproved value of the land (that is, your land disregarding whatever’s built on it).
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I was in Zurich for a week. The public transit seemed effective, but the city was so pretty and walkable that I didn’t use it, with the exception of a small “polybahn” rail car that seemed to go up the hillside. I didn’t know where it went,
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
notably tether doesn’t guarantee the right to redeem the tokens for dollars, so they can do whatever they want
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Probably violent protests and war as economic opportunity shrinks to an ever smaller elite class of wealth.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
So this may be interpreted poorly, but why was this murder such a big story in the news? This is a drop in the bucket of Saudi misdeeds. Is this not in line with the average person’s perception of the Saudi government?
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
That’s a good point. It would be neat to look at credit card data and infer how much of the customer base is new
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Idk. I think most people read the menu and decide what sounds best, with meat options rated fairly high.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
My kids are highly scalable. Extrapolating current growth rates, we can expect them to be the largest creatures ever created in 6 years. I value the opportunity at $120B. Profit sharing equity only, no parental rights.
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Scooters aren’t cool enough
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
I don’t think it’s as obvious as you imply. If a menu goes from 80% meat to 20% meat, I wouldn’t have been surprised to learn that either the same proportion of customers still chose a meat option; or that fewer customers ordered anything t
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
But the people are now protesting the Iranian favoring government?
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Why are they burning Iranian flags?
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by throwaway66920 7y ago
Is it suggesting that the current itself breaks down the amyloid plaque? Does this destroy prions?

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