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rvo

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About rvo

Indian. Living in America on an h1b. Do scientific research.

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    Comment #16608047

    I apologize if I did something wrong. It's a political post and I am just trying to make the point that we should hope and expect FB to be moral and do the right thing. They contro…

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    Comment #16605179

    FB and Google are huge companies and control majority of the information people get today. We should want them to be moral arbiters. Otherwise what else can we do? Most of us are s…

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    Comment #16605140

    Good. We can expect such behavior from vile conservative companies like Cambridge Analytics, funded by Mercer and the cause for Brexit. Why are they even allowed on FB? Such extrem…

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    Comment #16582286

    No it's not different. I just said that not many presidents have targeted and killed their own citizens. Lincoln was probably one of them. Perhaps one could argue Obama was in a ci…

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    Comment #16582216

    Let's celebrate his amazing life. "The diagnosis of motor neurone disease came when Hawking was 21, in 1963. At the time, doctors gave him a life expectancy of two years.[253][254]…

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    Comment #16581508

    It's good. Let's make sure the following conspiracy theories and extreme views are highlighted: Anything about men's rights, "rape culture", white "oppression", "72 genders", marxi…

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    Comment #16577207

    Those were massive fups. That is very different from listing the name of an American on a "kill list" and ordering a drone strike. Judge, jury and executioner. https://en.m.wikiped…

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    Comment #16576881

    Obama is also I think one of very few presidents who explicitly targeted and killed American natural born citizen. Not accidentally, but actually targeted. Didn't even bother hidin…

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    Comment #16576867

    I gave a much more neutral source below.

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    Comment #16576651

    Welcome to the American security state https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2... Entire government is run by shady people. Even tech boards of companies like …

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    Comment #16571857

    Why is it patronizing? In media and film, such requests are frequently made.

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    Comment #16571847

    Exactly. This is very troubling : "But we are not going to recruit someone just because they are a woman." How else do you expect to get gender parity? It should be important to sp…

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    Comment #16557417

    Of course it is. It allows for fantastic commentary on how bad race relations in America are, and where the division is actually coming from ...

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    Comment #16552781

    I use vim bindings in zsh, tmux (tmux modality plugin) and chrome (vimium). Pretty much 95 percent of my computer interactions right there. Why not just use vim? Why bother with ot…

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    Comment #16545932

    I like to get a fair and balanced view on things. I love "racism simulator" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/racism-simulator/d... Use it for a week while visiting leftist…

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    Comment #16540007

    You need to take introduction to statistics and understand what a distribution is and what kinds of insights we can get from them.

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    Comment #16530315

    It is certainly not "entirely cultural". We are still part of the animal kingdom. There is actual biology and evolution at play. Ignoring that is pseudoscience.

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    Comment #16506373

    I can't read nytimes (not a subscriber) but how are they verifying citizenship?

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    Comment #16503177

    I hate guns and I want them banned in America. But, crime goes up after gun bans https://crimeresearch.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-... I am okay with that because it spre…

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    Comment #16502664

    And it's removed from the front page ...

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    Comment #16502494

    "Hire people not due to the content of their character, but by the gender they identify with and the melanin in their skin" #civilrights2018

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    Comment #16502123

    "choose a person not by the content of their character, but by the gender of their identification and the color of their skin" - The new civil rights movement

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