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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>While not perfect free market/capitalism pulled up more people from poverty than any other system Nope not true - that award goes to communist China >China lifting more than 800 million people out of poverty since the start of i
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
False. I'm drawing attention to the amendment and what the will of the people was/is and efforts made to subvert that will. The amendment as on the ballot said nothing about requiring money as a prerequisite. That's what Flor
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
How dare they indeed? It wasn't in the amendment. No one voted for that.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
btw in florida the voters literally overwhelmingly voted for an amendment that re-enfranchised felons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4 and republicans are still trying to subvert it by sneaking in
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
what's the difference between a law and a policy? redlining explicitly excluded black neighborhoods from FHA loans.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Indeed. And note that black men are overrepresented in the prison population.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
What do you think share cropping and Jim crow laws were? What do you think the several civil rights acts following the 14th amendment were addressing? What do you think separate but equal and then desegregation was? Why is it that there&#x2
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>there's literally laws on the books making it a crime to commit an offense against protected classes of people because of their race alone. do you think the laws are literally broken or figuratively broken then? also there are many
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>AWS IoT Greengrass makes it easy to perform machine learning inference locally on devices
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
That's because we're conditioned to think of constructors as functions rather than as types. I think that's not that odd honestly but I do see how counterintuitive it is for people that don't work much in typed languages
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>and he will loose next election badly lol don't bet on it (i haven't!). you're greatly underestimating his base and greatly overestimating voter turnout.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
sections 2b and 4c are the action items; new fcc and ftc regulations that prevent this kind (or broadly whatever kind they deem relevant) of behavior.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>I’m genuinely curious, what’s the last straw? i don't think it will be a final straw - i think it could be a confluence of things though >As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timișoara in December 1989, he perceived the
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
do you know what the number of people below the poverty line is in the US? https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-r... 38 million. 12% of households don't reliably eat https:&#x
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>no one is in even remote danger of starving like do you actually believe this? just because none of your friends are starving doesn't mean there aren't people that are https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions&#x
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
that solution didn't work for me but this one did https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-preferences-soft...
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
one of the authors is at snap. inquiring minds want to know: will this soon be available in snap camera?
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>But we do want to sort comments so that, on average, the distance between the "ideal" order for any given reader and the actual order is minimized, don't we? why? who cares? do you not know how to skim and skip irrelevant
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>comments are much more valuable to the reader than others This presupposes some kind of universal value function. >but how can you tell whether a response is "genuine"? It sounds like it'd devolve into people leaving v
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Lol the law of large numbers (the real name for the law of averages) is absolutely a law and it's exactly the phenomenon I'm alluding to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
I was born in the 80s in Moldova. Other guy in here is much younger than me.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
If this were true you'd have the average opinion filter out - naysayers would downvote supporters and vice versa. The truth is in fact that hn is hypocritical and becomes outraged for the sake of outrage just like every other opinionat
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-... edit: denial
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
bruh. is the RF better or worse now? how are those term limits working out for you? was the west better or worse during the years 1932-33 during the famine (the same years that the US hit peak unemployment)? were the pogroms and the gulag b
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
i grew up in the soviet union too. даже если мы согласны с тем что коммунизм не был идеальным это не значит что берёзки доказывают это. so my point still stands.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>The things these markets sold were (most likely) not state produced or distributed, since they were Western goods. wonderful! so then you must understand why these stores were orthogonal to communism right?
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
do you know what socialism means? also what he/she claims isn't in fact true. one of the two chains did allow normal people to shop there >One chain belonged to the Vneshposyltorg (Foreign Mail Order Trade) and was intended for
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
because what the fuck do two department stores have to do with state owned means of production? somehow anything that's the slightest bit off shows that sOcialISm iS eViL but the same kind of bad faith reading of any of the structures

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