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Mostly arm chair sarcasm. If it's funny, I updoot. Pragmatism over idealogy.

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While we're at it, the new lottery class of 2021 has 2-4x the failure rate as other merit entry classes. Who would have guessed throwing random people into the deep end of pool makes them drown?

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

Counterpoint: totally understandable for people to claim fraud when a state takes a god damn month to count ballots, and races inevitably shift blue the longer counting goes.

Other large states like Texas and Florida do not do this. European countries do not do this.

Part of running legitimate elections is avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, and California has failed to do that.

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@BrandonStraka The guy who edits fakenumbers.txt is at brunch, be patient.

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@doogadoo11 My neighbors are indicative of the blue no matter who vote. The zero ability to think on the merits of each ballot measure rather than by party line is sad.

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@TheLaurenChen

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@joerussotweets Ah yes, hating on Pratt for the sin of wanting safe, clean, working city services that benefit contributors to society while deprioritizing services for people who ruin the city. Who would want that, lets vote for retards who want to regulate how many days per month you can bbq.

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@michaelrwolfe @punk9059 Anyway, I think we're circling the drain here, but since S&P is a public company, they can do whatever they want and at end of day, our words are just opinions. Agree to disagree.

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@michaelrwolfe @punk9059 I love Elon's companies and what he stands for. That is a completely separate thing from bending all financial rules for one company. All the S&P500 companies have at least 4 consecutive quarters of profitability. Nobody is deciding, they simply met the standard.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.

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@michaelrwolfe @punk9059 No, it would still be S&P500. That 500th company would be one that meets existing standards. S&P can create new tracker index called S&PRisky that includes SpaceX and 401k trustees can decide if they want to offer on the side to regular S&P500.

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@michaelrwolfe @punk9059 So S&P500 is going to taint its brand by including high-risk IPOs that have never even traded publicly? The issue is not everybody wants that risk, but there's no choice in your 401k to choose S&P500 - SpaceX.

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@GaryMarcus Right? The irony of "but those guys did it for profit off the backs of others" and then rams SpaceX into every pension and 401k in the universe.

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@drterrysimpson Look, I see your point. You believe there are uncovered gems who aren't top scorers who should be given a chance. I agree to small degree, but when we see 4.5 GPA high schoolers rejected by tier 1 and 2 UCs yet UCSD is saying is saying many freshmen can't do remedial math...

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@drterrysimpson Thing is, are leadership and resilience traits only lower-scoring kids have? You make it sound like having lower scores guarantees they excel in other subjective qualities, but a ton of high-scoring kids have all those great qualities. It's not the either or you espouse.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

almost every city in the country now sits atop a system in which a minority of highly-productive young people are expected to work away their best years around the clock, just to cover rent, while giving away half their income to crazy people, criminals, and bureaucrats.

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@mypoliticalx First car that goes back to these HVAC controls wins.

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

The purpose of standardized tests is not to reveal some innate worthiness. It's to assess how well-prepared for a college curriculum you are. The fact that you can get better at the test by studying is the entire fucking point.

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@sfmcguire79 Getting rid of tests just means look the other way when applicant can't do basic English or math relative to peers.

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@DrCamiloOrtiz It's more important that unready students take their place and flunk out.

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@caps_raunak LLM weakness is the nonstop renaming/moving website config elements in AWS, Azure, M365. So while code is great, integration answers are fairly horrible.

Go screen X, click Y, go to Z.

I can't find Y.

My bad, try D!

Not that either.

None work, deprecated in v16.3, f me.