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c06n

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    Comment #29918361

    Thank you!

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    Comment #29740967

    R's data.table has that. dt[1:50, -c('col1', 'col14')]

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    Comment #29439264

    Here you can find more of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/GermanHumor/

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    Comment #27309048

    You are completely ignoring philosophy. It was the ideas of freedom, of the possibility of liberty for all, of equality of men, that made the whole enterprise possible. China had t…

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    Comment #27186689

    It only takes up Co2 in its growth phase, not afterwards.

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    Comment #27074992

    Unironic: I get more actual news from the world socialist website than from the Guardian. Aside, there is axios.com, or the news section of Wikipedia.

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    Comment #26757069

    Another great quote: "It [the installation of a socialist government in East Germany] has to look democratic, but we must control everything."

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    Comment #26405356

    I cannot trust an article (podcast) where people say the following: > Historian Judith Bennett notes that medieval women made about 1d./day while men made 1 ½ or 2d./day when doing…

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    Comment #26383858

    As a fellow European working in research, I agree with every point. I am not having a good feeling about the future here.

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    Comment #26308815

    If you need to appeal to the goodness of people's hearts, you know you've lost. The age of Enlightement and the idea of liberalism have been so powerful because they programmatical…

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    Comment #26308652

    Good point, but I am not sure how much weight it carries. Safety in numbers? You are fine as long as you don't offend anybody? Have we accepted censorship just like that? What is n…

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    Comment #26306741

    What's underground today? Genuinely curious.

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    Comment #26306660

    I used to feel to belong to "The Left" (whatever that is) precisely because it did not do these things. Now it does, and sees it even as a moral imperative to do so. I'm on the aut…

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    Comment #26306298

    And fired from your job. And yelled at on the street. And prevented from working in your field ever again. And death threats. So, blacklisting: check. Excommunication: check. I'd r…

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    Comment #26082434

    Glad you found the reply helpful. Regarding "but is it really mainstream": Difficult question. I believe the answer is a "yes" with many caveats and clarifications. How to define "…

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    Comment #26080653

    To update you with an actual source on some of the points, you can start with Robin DiAngelo's book "White Fragility". Most of the points are argued in the book. DiAngelo's books h…

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    Comment #26058908

    I had a colleague from Cameroon (in Germany). He applied for a study visa, studied here, applied for a work visa, worked here, applied for German citizenship, got it. Same for peop…

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    Comment #25525725

    > valid study is retracted Which study was that?

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    Comment #25466813

    Could be possibly because they were Czech? The culture is very different from what Americans are used to. Very reserved, very matter-of-fact, no smalltalk.

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    Comment #25418541

    > v.reddit has never worked for me but I chalked it up to noscript/firefox/old-reddit idiosyncrasies. same for me

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    Comment #25410789

    But they had to do in in 10 years. And start with it immediately after Millar's death.

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    Comment #25318278

    Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering what I have been using all these years in lapply ...

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    Comment #25202802

    > women Except for Black women in the US. Together with Asian men (especially from India), they have a really, really tough time. There are a number of peer reviewed studies on the…

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    Comment #25056210

    It's in the article: Opinion at NYT produces 10% of the output, but 20% of the views. Emotions, especially negative ones, drive engagement.

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    Comment #24928993

    I feel bad for the guy, but this is classic "Leopards ate my face". Kafka wrote "Der Process" (The trial) 100 years ago. People have warned in abundance that Codes of Conduct will …