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RoboticWater

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    Comment #32542716

    > Streaming services have already stopped publishing entire seasons, going back to the TV model of an episode a week. This is to prevent people from subscribing to a service, watch…

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    Comment #30074600

    The difference here is that the slogans you listed are usually euphemisms for something more insidious. Anti-work and defund the police are the exact opposite—deliberately inflamma…

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    Comment #29192394

    For all the use cases I deal with on a regular basis, Svelte looks more like vanilla HTML/JS than any equivalent React code. And the reason these things change is because that's wh…

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    Comment #25662073

    This is significantly more than a "handful" of hillbillies trying to upend the legal results of the presidential election following the explicit rhetoric of the incumbent, and unle…

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    Comment #24056319

    > Physics isn't used as a catch-all to explain things that haven't been researched. Has systemic racism not been researched? I feel like you're just grasping at semantic straws her…

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    Comment #24050346

    I don't see how. If men are perceived as being stronger and more rational, that will help them in acquiring jobs, but hurt them when being found culpable of a crime. I'm not sure w…

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    Comment #24044928

    Physics is also a purposefully nebulous term used to capture and group a collection of specific issues that can be measured. God forbid people want to group together racial dispari…

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    Comment #24042187

    See, this just comes off as reactionary, as if saying "I believe in systemic racism" somehow secretly casts a vote for progressive policies behind your back. Is it really so hard t…

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    Comment #24040909

    > No one has put forth the argument that Sowell believes systematic racism cannot ever exist. The comment I was responding to literally said "It is immeasurable, undefinable, uncha…

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    Comment #24040685

    Of course, patriarch theory completely accounts for this. The common view that men are more powerful and autonomous, and therefore dangerous, can probably account for some degree o…

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    Comment #24038895

    I was honestly unaware of the difference. Upon looking up the term on Wikipedia, the first line is "Institutional racism (also known as systemic racism)." Every subsequent article …

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    Comment #24038795

    I'm not debating Sowell—I don't have the background to dispute his claims, I'm arguing against the notion that systemic racism is "immeasurable, undefinable, unchangeable" and is t…

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    Comment #24038368

    If it were immeasurable and undefinable, then we wouldn't have studies showing disproportionate sentencing of Black people [1] or the persistent negative effects of redlining [2]. …

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    Comment #22960330

    The argument is that the electorate can't vote on policy unless they can see those policies in action. Voters can rest on the dogmatic idea that private markets solve everything wi…

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    Comment #19118193

    I can't seem to find any data which suggests that Liberal Arts majors are significantly more likely to fall for climate change denial or the anti-vax movement. I find that most stu…

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    Comment #18275786

    Form _is_ function in a visual medium. If I can't easily parse the information in front of me, then the content is useless; my eyes will just glaze over. That's why we have design …

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    Comment #18275532

    They probably don't; I doubt many designers are thinking "wow, I really want to inundate my user with pop-ups," it's more that analysts have likely got numbers showing that having …

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    Comment #16121622

    Compared to what? Yes, we can rest on the technicality that science is only an ever-expanding and ever-solidifying theory, but can't–by fallibility of perception–ever reach perfect…

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    Comment #15925680

    How do you expect those independent experts to be chosen? Even then, how do expect these experts to "objectively address" the issue? I don't agree with partisan politics, but the s…

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    Comment #15321927

    The argument is two-pronged (probably more, but let's restrict it to two): firstly, yes, that diversity can improve gains, but secondly that the current skewed proportions were cre…

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    Comment #13144276

    I fail to see how industry problems ripe for technical solutions equate to cash grabs. Problems are essentially the basis of every startup (if we generalize a little), and I can as…

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    Comment #12974226

    There's no simple solution here. Part of the Alt-Right platform, as I have it, is that the media (be it news or social media) is corrupt and bent on silencing them. Suspending thei…

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    Comment #12911132

    > Patriarchy and the fact that white males dominate the corporate world is apparently something that should be "changed" It seems to me that social superiority was part of the conv…

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    Comment #12605611

    You say that like anyone can just up and go back to university or simply create their own service (presumably some new, inventive one because the one they just had is already nearl…