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by wredcoll 1y ago
> political violence This is an interesting phrase that pops up every so often. What exactly is "political violence" and how does it differ from, uh, regular "violence"? If someone shoots at me because he wants to ste
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I'm not sure what exactly "net immigration" means in specific for these graphs, but according to this chart there were 9.8 million during bush and a predicted 10.4 under biden? This seems... statistically average? The number
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This is such a silly hill to die on. Hillary clinton won the majority of voters both in the democratic nomination and in the national election.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> For people who seem to think this is what Kirk deserved because he said things from different view points, you need to reclaim yoursel Kirk both personally and as part of his group advocated for using violence to achieve goals. This do
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> widespread firearm ownership makes it very hard for that to ever happen in America Do you think anyone actually believes that? Or is it just cynical marketing everyone goes along with?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
As has been said repeatedly, lots of countries have various amount of violence depending on a wide variety of factors. Widespread gun ownership invariably makes the problem much, much, worse.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Hahaha. You're right, that is a funny context.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I can't find a chart that is literally just number/year, but the chart at the top of https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm... is about the closest I can find. If you look at i
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by wredcoll 1y ago
There's a number of things going on here, but the short of it is that to become the democratic nominee you need to convince a whole bunch of people, including some super delegates. Hillary Clinton did a better job of this than Bernie S
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by wredcoll 1y ago
No, thats anecdotes . Actual data would be measuring predictions vs accuracy over several decades.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Democrat nominations are voted on by large numbers of people.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Biden was is literally more coherent now than trump was 12 years ago. None of that changes people being willing to vote for a pedophile conman.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> For now, massive inflow in capital into the coffers, repatriation from US companies seems like a win. This is just idle curiosity, but what makes you come here and lie about stuff like this?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Are you reporting on this breaking news scandal that predictions about future events are not always perfectly accurate?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This downvote isn't a punishment, it's a way to help decrease the visibility of lies and missinformation. Russia literally launched an aggressive war of conquest. Any response that doesn't involve literal soldiers occupying r
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Why are people so obsessed with lying about immigration?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Good idea, just keep not voting while trumpists win elections, that'll show them!
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by wredcoll 1y ago
How exactly were they inflated?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Oh yes, the famously non corrupt years of standard oil or randall hearst?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I'm just piling on but: > a textbook conservative, especially not economically Wtf is a text book conservative supposed to be, exactly? And have we ever had one? All the republicans in my life have raised the national debt and spent
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Tell me more about how a game where I'm playing as some kind of demigod space marine who is fighting literal demons in literal hell has "unnatural movement". What, pray tell, is the doom slayers natural movement supposed to b
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Businesses are only taxed on actual revenue earned. I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole of hn speculation, but if another entity owes you 100k, and they go bankrupt, there absolutely are tax implications.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
There is a huge difference between deleting data and stopping running services. You're right in that there's a few services that expose this complexity directly, the ones where you're paying for actual storage, but this is ju
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Visa does about 70,000 transactions per second - how many servers do you think they run across their infra? So uh, how do we scale etherum's 150tps to that?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
C the language is simple until you actually have to do something useful with it then you have to memorize the apis of every library you import.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
For the same reason we assume a random tiger wants to eat us.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Yeah, good point, it also doesn't help people when their cpu catches fire.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Yeah, that's why we clicked on the link. A softball like 10% bigger isn't that interesting.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> For business running the same code on their 1 node instead of N is not a replacement, because their counterparty has no reason to trust whatever is running on that 1 node I mean, why are you doing this kind of business with someone whe
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Why not have a central bank currency that can be traded on the blockchain, especially since converting it to real money will still entail KYC? Because literally the only point is to avoid the existing banking system and you can do that

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