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Intellectual honesty and humility is a good heuristic to look for if one is blindly assessing arguments. Even though there's a chance he could be dead wrong on a given topic, the fact that a person with those traits has arrived at a c
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I'm a _huge_ fan of podcasts, and I have a strong bias towards Informationally dense shows dealing with Politics, technology, and sciences. Common Sense with Dan Carlin - I think he may be the most underrated and most prescient politi
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Couldn't recommend EconTalk enough. I'd consider Russ Roberts the standard of what honest intellectual discourse sounds like. Even when you can tell he disagrees with the guest, you can tell he works very hard to make sure he pres
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Has anyone read Sowells "Black Rednecks and White Liberals"? It's on my reading list and the premise (that much of black culture is derived from Scottish highland culture) is very interesting.
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In his book 'Bailout', the Special Inspector General of TARP, Neil Barofsky, lists a multitude of reasons as to why so many Americans were wrongly foreclosed on by mortgage servicers. At the top of the list was fraud and lies by
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One of my favorite scenes from 'Blow': Judge: George Jung, you stand accused of possession of six hundred and sixty pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute. How do you plead? George: Your honor, I'd like to say a few wo
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I wish I could see the exact moment Denton realized his glibness would help cause the destruction of the business he created.
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""" On May 31 and June 1, 1921, hundreds of whites led a racially motivated attack on the black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing some 300 people, mostly blacks. The attack, carried out on the ground and by a
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Very true - also, this being their technical report, I'd personally be surprised if there wasn't some amount of technical jargon present, sufficient to establish the facts of these events. All they do is identify a set of sophist
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If you truly think these emails leaks have helped Hillary Clinton you have a poor understanding of politics and current affairs.
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"""" CrowdStrike Services Inc., our Incident Response group, was called by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the formal governing body for the US Democratic Party, to respond to a suspected breach. We deployed our
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""" On January 8, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson metropolitan area. Six people
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Most of the exploitation is aimed at the families of the incarcerated - you already control the prisoners wages and pay them slave wages so you can extract but so much. But the families? If you move the prisoner far enough away you can bet
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Didn't countrywide have such rampant forgery they called their loan department "Arts and Crafts"? Also, wasn't there a foreclosure crisis brought on by robo-signing and mass forgery? Here's Judge Jed Rakoff, a senio
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Hands down, the best bit of hyperbole during the EU debacle was when Greece's Finance Minister called the austerity measures 'financial waterboarding'.
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A few years ago there was a murder of a mexican immigrant in a portion of my state known for it's xenophobia. The sheriffs department there was known to abuse said immigrants and intentionally mishandled the police report to aid the te
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the colloquial saying is a prosecutor could make a grand jury indict a ham sandwich. The failing to secure an indictment, I'll always contend, was a deliberate choice reached in advance by the prosecutor.
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Or the prosecutor will take a cue from Ferguson and bring a limp-dick indictment in order to find a way to get his colleagues off the hook.
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On the flip side, republicans try to sabotage the functioning of many agencies so that they can then complain that the private sector would be a better fit. This has been their MO towards the Post Office for longer than I've been alive
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>And don't even get me started on _jackdaws_ Top level trolling
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Hillary Clinton and many in similar high circles they absolutely do. The ones actually crafting American foreign policy.
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"Bizarrely" You're being charitable, clearly. It's probably the same motives that produce other bizarre circumstances, like the CDC being barred from researching gun violence and the puzzling amounts of US manufactured w
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I'd strip the police departments of the powers to just charge the taxpayers for money in settlements and make them purchase malpractice insurance, just like every other professional. Insurance underwriters would bring department polici
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Conflating "take every police account of a shooting with a bag of salt" to mean what you just said is intellectually dishonest, and probably deceptive.
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This is funny because the article posted has analysis of the surprising complexity of the tense system and other linguistic rules, yet your standard on a languages complexity favor of "how many books do those people write".
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The article mentions the other employee is a military veteran and amputee who is more comfortable outside the strict dress code. An intern decided they were going to try and force a companies hand and was fired. Not much to see here.
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I'm learning front end dev for the first time, and I chose React - it didn't make sense to learn angular when react borrows so much from html that I can apply some concepts more directly.
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I was led to believe her logo is the illuminati triangle, personally.
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That was my first thought. Sabotaging one of the most conspicuous brands (and arguably their flagship customer) in the United States today sounds like an excellent way to commit business suicide - how many other tech companies would they ce
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The inefficiency of congress is a feature, not a bug actually - inefficiency being the bulwark against populist overreaction. The senate's staggered elections are designed thusly so that all of the senate is never fully exposed to the

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