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by woo49 6y ago
It’s not as simple. Essentially the vote of two US citizens does not count equally if you count everyone. If one lives in an area with more illegal immigrants, that US citizens votes foe him/her but also for the non voters in the area.
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by woo49 6y ago
Both sides have ulterior motives. Counting illegal immigrants in the census helps Democrats because liberal states have more of them. This is just a fact. You may think we should still count as many of them in the census, that's fine.
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by woo49 6y ago
I agree. It would be much better if both sides were at least honest. for example, the Democrats could say "we understand some electoral college votes will be indirectly allocated to illegal immigrants, we also understand that because l
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by woo49 6y ago
Robert Santos works for the Urban Institute which the LA times has called 'leading liberal think tank'. [1] It's impossible to read a comment about the census without looking at the political affiliation of who makes the comm
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Twitter reversing course on “hacked content” censorship, will use labels instead(twitter.com)
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by woo49 6y ago
a. They had the same information as everyone else, so what would they figure out in their ‘review’ that readers wouldn’t? B. It’s really the double standard that is the problem here. If you do it do it for this then do it for everything els
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by woo49 6y ago
I admire your optimism. My view is that people that have bet their political or journalistic careers on a certain matter or position are very reluctant to embrace opposite facts (consciously or unconsciously). As another example - there wer
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by woo49 6y ago
this is why nobody trusts the news. And also why global warming is so controversial. If, hypothetically, some credible scientists tomorrow did some research that showed global warming is not as bad as we thought, would that get reported wid
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by woo49 6y ago
My CS systems PhD advisor used to say, 'you waste the abundant resource' in systems design. Lots of CPU cycles available, lots of bandwidth available (except when not!) - so waste it and save programmer time. At least, in theory.
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by woo49 6y ago
The biggest reason is that there has been almost no productivity gain for cleaning a hotel in the last 20-30 years. It takes same amount of time and effort. So why would the wages go up if productivity is not up? The productivity gains went