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by xlm1717 11y ago
In my opinion, the most frustrating part is that despite our hyperconnectedness, people still believe the propaganda that we're not in a depression or that our leaders got us out of the recession. Future economists will call the decade
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Not that it is the root of China's and Russia's cults of personalities, just specifically that it inspired North Korea's.
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I think that may have been what the article was trying to claim. The Koreans learned from the Japanese, and the Soviets simply recruited these Koreans to set up the cult of personality around the Kim family. It doesn't matter that Kim
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Awesome. This is coming just as VR is reaching mainstream popularity. Coming up to an exciting time in terms of entertainment technology!
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You don't have to believe right-wing propaganda to see it's a mess. You even provided many examples. Like the author says, you can either try your taxes yourself, or dump hours into working with a tax accountant going through ever
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Mike Brown: Obvious attempt at snark is obvious. No it wouldn't suggest there are 200,000 earth sized planets in the outer solar system. Don't be absurd. The situation does seem reminiscent of how Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto (
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Speed limit is set by road condition, traffic, weather, etc. In heavy traffic, the speed limit can be 0. In rain, some highways dynamically adjust the speed limit down. Speed limits aren't set as a society, they are set by traffic engi
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>Is your argument anything other than "they got money and I want the government to take some!" I wonder what the reaction would be if the government one day decided that to make higher education affordable for everyone, they wo
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Interesting how people editorialize the title.
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You know, whether or not children should learn up to 12 by the age of nine is debatable, but by the time you're an adult, assuming no learning disabilities you should be able to do mental math proficiently enough that you don't ne
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Never noticed that. Brilliant addition!
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There are so many things to pick apart in this paper: "But where do ’degrees’ come from? Why is the total 180? Why not 200, or 100? Indeed, why are we interested in triangles and their properties at all? The answer to all these questio
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If even mathematics becomes subject to PC nonsense... well, time to close up shop and head home, we had a good run. Eventually the idea that some Party will announce that two plus two makes five will stop seeming like dystopian fiction and
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What is more sad, this question, or that Yale students seemingly have no problems with repealing the first amendment?
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Also: Cars are now killing as many people as guns
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Just goes to show you, no matter what you do sometimes you just can't protect people from themselves. These lines are telling: "By default, newer versions of MongoDB only listen on localhost. The fact that MongoDB 3.0 is well-repr
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Some people have a tendency to tell other people what to do with their money. This can range from annoying when it's some pundit doing it, to dangerous when it's someone in government.
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I believe the article and discussion were only on US culture and how it changes as the years go by. Of course using the "precious generation doesn't want to get naked" theory won't explain those, they are a completely di
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I have some harman/kardon brand in-ear noise cancelling headphones that I got for cheap. They work reasonably well.
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What makes it even harder to understand is that it was basically the US that forced Japan to demilitarize after WW2. Now we want to ask them to fight our wars? The possible cover for not saying "we're preparing for an eventual con
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Are we better at tracking bee deaths though? The bee apocalypse was greatly exaggerated.
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Slightly misleading title, would have been more accurate to say "Majority of Americans No Longer Are Middle Class". The current breakdown is basically 49.9% Middle Class, 50.1% not. That's a long way from "most".
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What stupid times we live in, that we demand apologies for everything and from everyone, even people who have been buried for 200 years!
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Wanting to force doctors to apologize, for one, which I think is counterproductive. Don't wait for an apology, just get your treatment plan and get out of the office.
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Energy in general doesn't look like a good investment in the near future.
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It's today's college environment elevated to the level of national government.
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So the lengths would seem contracted because you are actually traversing fewer pixels. Your information is "compressed" into fewer pixels, and pixels being the unit of length, your length contracts. Hmm
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The specific line that was cherry picked wasn't guidance, it was a warning to the Babylonians who held the Jews captive and committed atrocities against them that the Babylonians would have the same done to them.
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>because [of] gravity
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This is another stupid thing that the popularity of the internet has allowed to happen, on par with the selfie and the hashtag.

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