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samdfonseca
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About samdfonseca
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Comment #26424476
The article is what communicates facts. The headline is just an advertisement to draw the user in to read it. Optimizing the headline means the article is able to inform more peopl…
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Comment #21580104
Just to be clear, 1600 of my coworkers are journalists, so I'm pretty confident in my support for journalists creds. Assange is not a journalist. Journalists don't encourage source…
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Comment #21575770
All of the following can be true at the same time: - Sweden dropped the charges after the US pressured them to - The US has been seeking his extradition for years - Sweden is extre…
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Comment #21575309
His actions are entirely undemocratic. Sweden and the US have both democratically built a system of justice that we all agree to subject ourselves to. He decided to evade that syst…
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Comment #21575242
I agree that standing trial for rape must be terrifying, but that doesn't mean he's being persecuted. We've agreed upon a system of justice that best protects the rights of both th…
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Comment #21574314
> "arbitrary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy, to his oppressive isolation, harassment and surveillance inside the embassy, and from deliberate collective ridicule, insults an…
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Comment #20171651
So you just decided you were gonna find something to criticize before you even clicked the link, eh?
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Comment #19904422
what?
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Comment #19755521
This is correct, raising taxes would increase demand for dollars. Supply is greater than the tax demand, but much of the additional demand comes from the tax in dollars requirement…
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Comment #11243619
it's a feature flip/toggle service http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureToggle.html https://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/
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