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by dogruck 8y ago
Tell me what you think about Muslims. Are they bad too? Is your stance, “all cultures are good, unless the culture is different from mine?”
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by dogruck 8y ago
I bet the looks-like-tin-ceiling acoustic tile costs more than the white hospital-style stuff.
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by dogruck 8y ago
This is bad regulation. Moving on.
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by dogruck 8y ago
I loved Mr. Rogers, and several other PBS shows. I can also understand why we might not want to spend government money to produce the shows.
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by dogruck 8y ago
The US laws do not apply in China.
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by dogruck 8y ago
This fact is mentioned in the article.
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by dogruck 8y ago
Americans don’t like to acknowledge that other cultures have different aaproaches to business. Why is the implication is that these practices are wrong?
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by dogruck 8y ago
This shows the benefits of local government. I think this is a bad policy. Fortunately, I also don’t live in San Jose. If I did, I’d try to elect new local politicians.
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by dogruck 8y ago
I hope I’m never in a spot where I have to grovel for my job, via some peer review judgement, instead of leaving for a better job.
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by dogruck 8y ago
In 1996, the New York Times reported that recycling is often just expensive virtue signaling. https://mobile.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-...
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by dogruck 8y ago
Yes, but when they used purely merit-based standards, some groups consistently scored lower than other groups. That was deemed unacceptable, so discrimination was reintroduced to the process.
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by dogruck 8y ago
Don’t forget the political risks of accepting crypto credit card transactions. I can see the post-crash Senate panel now: Senator: what volume did you process? Bank CEO: about $800M, madam. Senator: $800M. And that didn’t concern you? Bank
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by dogruck 8y ago
My how times change. Years ago, when Google was young, their recruiters contacted me. Their pitch: We only hire the best of the best. We’re focused on top students, from the top schools. The interviews are hard, and most people fail. Tod
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by dogruck 8y ago
This is from December 2017.
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by dogruck 8y ago
Swimming 4 laps requires skill, not fitness.
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by dogruck 8y ago
Also, most people don’t know how to swim. When you ask a person if they know how to swim, when you’re headed to the beach, you’ll get: 1 Sometimes: no way, I stay out of the water 2 Usually: uh, sure, yup, I can swim 3 Rarely: Totally, I u
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by dogruck 8y ago
In the interview, he talks a lot about the difficulty of navigating the regulations. Perhaps his criticisms of those regulations are valid — but those regulations exist because of previous problems. In many cases, the same people who scream
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by dogruck 8y ago
Why is this question downvoted? People disagree with my view that the punishment is small in relation to the size of the scam?
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by dogruck 8y ago
Anybody have a guess why Elizabeth Holmes got such a small punishment for running such a massive scam?
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by dogruck 8y ago
Am I alone in being able to hear both Yanny and Laurel in the sound?
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by dogruck 8y ago
This is political noise, so some representatives can say “I voted for Net Neutrality.”
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by dogruck 8y ago
Step 1: Worry about a serious problem. Step 2: Virtual signal with a supposed solution. Step 3: Mock anybody who criticizes that solution (but who also worries about the serious problem).
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by dogruck 8y ago
This article is written from the viewpoint of the US urban dweller.
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by dogruck 8y ago
Clever and unethical aren’t disjoint. Lotta clever thieves and scammers.
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by dogruck 8y ago
It always makes me smile when I see the hoard of people proudly step forward, and boast, “oh yes, here are examples of how I’ve cheated various systems!!” Which is fine. That’s human nature. But. No shame.
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by dogruck 8y ago
Is your position that we should adjust all past judgements to match current laws? You’re arguing by straw man analogies. Weak technique. If Roe v Wade is overturned, I assume you would support the imprisonment of all past violators?
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by dogruck 8y ago
I don’t support vacating the weed charges. I support legalization of weed and its products —- I think schedule 1 is wrong. But people who broke the law (and got caught) when it was illegal are law breakers. As Joey Diaz says —- if you got b
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by dogruck 8y ago
Vanilla chess is tremendously captivating. I think only a narrow segment of hyper experts crave a variant.
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by dogruck 8y ago
How have you extended cultural norms about gender roles into one group (China) “crushing the other out of existence?”
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by dogruck 8y ago
In what ways is China attempting to suggest changes to Western culture?

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