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by travmatt 9y ago
That’s a good start to understanding LBJ, but also falls short just by dint of its brevity. To really understand him you’d also have to delve into his own lowly birth and social shame, his time as a school teacher, and much more. If you’re
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This actually made me laugh given that reading books about LBJ has been probably the most enduring habit of my adult life.
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I’m sorry but I can’t discuss politics with people that refuse to answer basic questions about the past and what they believe regarding it without ducking and obfuscation. To me it’s always a sign of concern trolling, especially when the ar
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1) Do you think the modern Democratic Party has more or less conservatives then it did in the ‘60’s? Do you think there are more or fewer liberals? 2) Do you think the modern Republican Party has more or less conservatives then it did in th
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Your critique of the civil rights bill is that the person who passed it was a politician?
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If you assume that the lower a persons social status the more they are forced to adapt to others thinking, then it follows they would be more practiced in doing so. Interestingly, this reminds me of other research that discussed how people
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Why should it be illegal? Muddy Waters regularly exposes fraudulent companies by finding fraud, taking a position, exposing said fraud, then profiting from the correction. I understand that spreading lies should be illegal, but I struggle t
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Short of a vote there’d be a sudden case of collective amnesia on the part of said politicians the first time voters connected some suboptimal outcome to lack of regulation. It’ll be crazy how such a move had occurred when everyone supposed
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If that shifts the mining away from large datacenters run by coal, would that be a net benefit for society/environment?
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I remember running across this when I was researching jscodeshift, though that seems to have a steeper learning curve.
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“”” 2) who selectively deny their personal ethical/moral responsibility as adults and their ability to use free will ("I was too feared to speak up")- which they of course in all other scenarios would insist in - when it suit
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I probably say this every chance I get but the cleanest insult I’ve ever seen on the world stage was when, as Greek finance minister, he called eu austerity measures “fiscal waterboarding”.
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I occasionally look at my editor and know the exact changes or code I’d like to write, and feel a small pang of annoyance that I can visualize it perfectly yet still have to type it out.
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I’m no investor, but one reason I could think as to why it wouldn’t work is once a crash starts, demand would suddenly dry up at the prices you specified and you’d suddenly find yourself with a bunch of orders that can’t be filled.
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Seeing as American isn’t a race or ethnicity, it would seem the commenter is correct in saying this isn’t a case of racism.
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I went to a tech conference this past year, one of the talks was regarding machine learning and investing. I remember the speaker being distinctly negative on the ability of machine learning to predict prices accurately such that his firm c
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But a company that cared about it’s reputation would probably have refrained from most of the wildly inappropriate behavior it’s regularly alleged to have engaged in, making current claims about their dedication to their reputation ring hol
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If you think this is a contemporary problem you should read up on Ancient Rome.
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Politicians who govern by poll typically find they have accomplished nothing and yet managed to piss people off anyway.. there’s a line between ignoring voters and instituting needed reforms, and its easier for Pai to argue the latter when
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>When people vote for president, they vote for a bundle of positions on thousands of issues. Some issues are never discussed in any debate or media at all and presidents have as far as the public is concerned roughly zero position on the
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Pretty much, elections have consequences and interpretations of federal regulations is the quintessential example of that. There are means by which the other branches could restrain or affect these interpretations, but I have a hard time be
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I was going to recommend “How to Prove It”, if someone doesn’t know proofs already.
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Nope, that’s related to Kansas Republican political philosophy of gutting state services in order to fund tax cuts. One could claim corruption if this wasn’t the exact governing philosophy that was explicitly voted for.
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Have you ever tried MobX? I haven’t tried it, but have heard it is kind of in that mid point between react state and redux
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Most of the comments here reference the fact that her skill is self evident. He could easily have felt threatened by her technical skill, and the fact he couldn’t plainly see it as other commenters did adds credence to his own deficit of te
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I remember reading a study that posited low status men tended toward misogyny when they felt threatened by the skill of women they were competing against, and this was the first thing that came to mind as I was reading over this whole saga.
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I've only read Head First Design Patterns but I'd also vouch - the examples were silly but I think did a great job.
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An interesting database related to biomimicry: https://asknature.org/
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Maybe it has to do with the death threats from the FSB, then the TV deal Assange signed with Putin?
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Set a variable... set a property in the component state? Or set a static variable on the class?

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