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blancheneige

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    Comment #21455398

    Ah yes. When it's Wall Street doing it it's "greedy evil bankers" but when it's Soros, a vocal advocate of liberalism, suddenly it's just business as usual.

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    Comment #20955868

    The article makes no mention of asylum seekers. This is pure speculation on your part.

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    Comment #20955825

    > given the fact that US citizens have been detained in them for extended periods despite clear proof of citizenship I'd be curious to hear more about these cases as well as their …

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    Comment #20955751

    I am referring to the terminology used by the department of homeland security [1] and other legal institutions that oversee their cases. If they are predominantly asylum seekers, t…

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    Comment #20955672

    >Has the legality of their immigration been determined at that point? By that logic, how do you even know they're immigrants to begin with, then? All it takes is flashing your visa…

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    Comment #20955500

    >Two of Ice’s largest immigrant detention centers in California Can somebody explain to a legal immigrant why The Guardian keeps omitting the illegal part over twelve times through…

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    Comment #20789955

    >Speculation is merely placing an order in the direction of an anticipated future price move. For the purpose of making a profit. If gambling doesn't sound like the right term then…

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    Comment #20788914

    This is like saying we'll allow you to play poker but you can't bluff.

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    Comment #20788786

    >3) The huge order to buy makes other buyers think the price is about to increase significantly, so they immediately buy at the Spoofer's higher price even though they would otherw…

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    Comment #20788679

    >More specifically, spoofing tricks others into thinking that their transaction costs will be higher or lower than reality. How so? If you want to market buy 100 shares at time t a…

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    Comment #20788599

    >but takes it down when you reach the door like I said, your market order will be executed before the alleged spoofer can take his down, i.e. there is no way for him to react and c…

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    Comment #20788411

    I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with spoofing. If you really mean your market order then you don't care about whether resting orders are bluffing, unless you're bluffing y…

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    Comment #20519516

    How to do you define "objective" when objectivity depends on the very phenomenon studied?

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    Comment #20470608

    I live in a big city in the Northeast and 90% of my neighbors barely speak English. I really don't see the point.

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    Comment #20421102

    it's pretty normal in backwater countries that can't thrive on their own. otherwise not so much.

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    Comment #20348608

    Indeed. Severe cases of hydrocephalus [1], for example, where an otherwise functional individual is missing large portions of their brain may provide partial answers. [1] https://m…

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    Comment #20348389

    Like the exceptional claim that human consciousness resides in the brain despite documented evidence of remote viewing [1], terminal lucidity [2], memories of past lives [3], etc.?…

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    Comment #20345227

    no lawn mowing? what else are boomers going to do with their lives every other morning?

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    Comment #20288264

    >The "demos" or people would be any freely associating group of people So like what's been happening for the last 2000 years and resulted in our current borders?

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    Comment #20175527

    >Three years ago the right loathed him Please do not conflate the right and the neocons.

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    Comment #20134173

    >Online disinformation, or fake news intended to deceive, has emerged as a major societal problem. I find it odd they would put so much time and effort countering ill-defined "onli…

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    Comment #20054655

    It's not being pedantic to point out that OP's assertion was false. Especially given the context of the thread. >The key observation (...) That was not his/her key observation thou…

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    Comment #20052414

    See my other response in this thread. This is all very fuzzy, I was asking for concrete examples of this fake news monopoly. Here are good counter-examples: the incessant libeling …

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    Comment #20052296

    You're stretching the definition of fake news to encompass instances that would otherwise not fit. Parent also states that only the church and the royalty had such power. If we are…