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RickJWagner
11,718karma·5,149submissions·May 3, 2017
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Surprising that AI isn’t the central villain.
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I did the same math and had the same question. But wait, something was learned! I typed in the start of the equation and after hitting space after the equal sign it yielded the answer! The Hacker New…
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I see this akin to what the great Thomas Sowell calls ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations’. Eventually this will lower the bar for everyone.
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I remember a gunman that shot Reagan, yes. One gunman. Trump has had the kid that shot up the rally ( and yielded the iconic photo ), the golf course gunman, the guy that shot up the annual press din…
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You’re joking, right? This was a preemptive security move, and the president is still alive. Crazy people have tried to kill Trump multiple times already. Every minute of every day must be guarded, …
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It is amazing to me that this could happen. The claims made by the plagiarist were numerous and far beyond belief. Why didn’t common sense come into play here?
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I’d like to understand how they defined capitalism vs free enterprise for the poll participants. I’m encouraged by parts of the poll, especially independents responses. I think a good many Americans …
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I’m with you. Vandalism is not the right path.
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When I got my first corporate job, I was placed in a group of 20 trainees in a rigorous COBOL course. We were given assignments and a schedule to complete them. Most of us read the specs, then raced …
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Siphoning money out of…? Really? What about when you reach retirement age? Will you consider medical care, a new house, or a cruise to be siphoning off of money that presumably belongs to someone …
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Even before then it was widely discussed. There was even a Schoolhouse Rock song, “Tyrannosaurus Debt”.
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Thanks for sharing this, OP! I’m a bluegrass jam player and am at the stage where I want to improve my singing/playing and my ‘first time I heard that song’ breaks. Both of those require a fair …
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“As though my body’s inability to keep pace with capitalism says something fundamental about who I am.” What would his body’s inability to keep pace say under socialism or something else? In any case…