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Joe Biden’s Economic Plan and Type 2 Socialism(fee.org)
1 points by twsttest 6y ago|0 comments
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by twsttest 6y ago
You think the Chicago PD is lawless? It's the criminals, crime and general lawlessness in Chicago that is causing over 40 people to routinely be shot each weekend in Chicago. The rampant lies and misrepresentations about police will on
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by twsttest 6y ago
>"Defund the police and use the money for mental health and human services." That doesn't address the cancer of gang violence and other violence that police need to deal with constantly. "Mental health and human servi
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by twsttest 6y ago
However DACA itself is unlawful in that it is an Executive Order undermining Federal immigration law, so the administration's rescinding it on the basis of its unlawfulness should be sufficient enough justification. The problem is that
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Triso Particles: The Most Robust Nuclear Fuel on Earth(energy.gov)
9 points by twsttest 6y ago|7 comments
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NRC Approves New Approach to Streamline Advanced Reactor Licensing Process(energy.gov)
1 points by twsttest 6y ago|0 comments
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by twsttest 6y ago
That top answer is editorializing but their own analysis indicates that in Europe the upside red triangle is incredibly common in resistance movement imagery as well as having precedented use in US Antifa branches.
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by twsttest 6y ago
How do you know how many variations of the ad they ran?
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by twsttest 6y ago
Exactly. It's so blatantly political propaganda. The scary part is that "respected" outlets like NPR and others pick up the headline and run with it knowing that the link to Nazi imagery is tenuous at best. This is pulled dir
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by twsttest 6y ago
This is the case for every single country on Earth, and is actually still the case for most countries on Earth. Show me a country today and I'll show you a set of groups who are oppressed in that country. However it is America that has
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by twsttest 6y ago
> "that included a Nazi symbol" I believe it was an upside down triangle... That's a common symbol and just happened to match an obscure Nazi symbol I think very few people alive today have ever seen before. Just more prop
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by twsttest 6y ago
There are hundreds of millions of people who want to come into the US each year. It's inevitably going to be a difficult process.
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by twsttest 6y ago
Through the mixing pot of America we can come together and overcome our natural tendency towards division. This is part of what makes America a great nation. Again, the racially-oriented thinkers often just exacerbate division.
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by twsttest 6y ago
A race baiting flame war from 9 months ago that really has no place on HN.
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by twsttest 6y ago
Only by overcoming the concept of race can we actually overcome social division. Divisions among whites have melted away as they stopped seeing each other as "English" or "Italian" and instead came to unite. Similarly fo
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by twsttest 6y ago
Students whose parents went to Harvard tend to grow up aiming for Harvard themselves. It's likely that a high percentage of the Harvard applicant pool are legacies in the first place. If their stats are as good or better than the avera
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by twsttest 6y ago
The US allows over 1 million immigrants per year. Maybe less the past year, but still extremely high on an immigrant per capita basis. H1B was being abused and needed to be reigned in. There are still plenty of people coming into the countr
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America and China Are Entering the Dark Forest(bloomberg.com)
24 points by twsttest 6y ago|5 comments
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by twsttest 6y ago
Have you asked if they were engaging in bad behavior? One sided anecdotes are often unreliable.
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by twsttest 6y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your basic idea, but it seems you're nitpicking and talking past Yann's point. A model's only link to the real world is the training data, so saying it's sufficient to "worry about the
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by twsttest 6y ago
Often the studies showing this are flawed, or at least incomplete. For instance, it is often said that black people being arrested at higher rates for buying drugs in small amounts compared to white people when data shows that both groups u
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by twsttest 6y ago
"the way Yann LeCun talked about biases and fairness topics was insensitive" Insensitive according to who? The most sensitive 5% of people? All statements will be deemed insensitive by at least one person somewhere. It's sill
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Flag-Bearing Motorcyclist Charged with Terrorism and Secession in Hong Kong(wsj.com)
2 points by twsttest 6y ago|0 comments
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Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States (2016)(fee.org)
51 points by twsttest 6y ago|92 comments
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by twsttest 6y ago
The witch hunt as a means of enforcing female subservience in the context of an emergent capitalism is a just-so story that is driven more by a desire to demonize capitalism than anything else. Gender roles have remained pretty static throu
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Fayum Mummy Portraits(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by twsttest 6y ago|0 comments
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by twsttest 6y ago
We try to recreate the archetypes from the past. Our heroes. Their struggles. What about when we try to fit those archetypes over a reality that is inappropriately matched to them? What about when we seek out grievances where there are none
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by twsttest 6y ago
He was out of his mind enough to fight with two police officers, steal a taser and shoot it at them. Whether or not he was a threat to the officers in that exact moment after shooting the taser he clearly could have posed a threat to the co
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by twsttest 6y ago
Is selling or buying drugs a "victimless crime" when people's lives, families and communities are destroyed by said drugs? What exactly is a "victimless crime" then? Your characterization of the recent killing of Mr
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Researcher forced to resign over study showing no bias in police shootings(thecollegefix.com)
9 points by twsttest 6y ago|7 comments

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