We just got a lot dumber.
(Terence Tao? Wow! Didn't know many of us followed him. Fascinating guy.)
Sadly, the ban has now killed someone:
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http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/232856168-story
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:50 PM, glen ☣ wrote:
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Good for Y Combinator!
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:25 AM glen ☣ wrote:
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> https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-aclu/
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> > We are delighted to be funding the ACLU as a non-profit in our Winter
> 2017 batch.
> >
> > The ACLU has always been important, but has a particularly
Thank you Roger Critchlow,
The video shows people overcoming fear in a social setting. Which is in some
way confirming the benefits of a society,
But it also hints at the extremes some people are willing to go to escape fear.
Perhaps those with the most fear are the most worrisome.
vib
This documentary
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/ten-meter-tower.html
is great viewing.
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Open thread for mathematicians on the immigration executive order
Terance Tao
> Even if the order was withdrawn immediately, there is no longer an assurance,
> even for nationals not initially impacted by that order, that some similar
> abrupt and major change in the rules for entry to the
https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-aclu/
> We are delighted to be funding the ACLU as a non-profit in our Winter 2017
> batch.
>
> The ACLU has always been important, but has a particularly important role
> right now. We are honored to be able to help, and we will send some of our
> team
No, you didn’t use the word pain. It was my inference, and I’m sorry you felt
it was intrusive. Pain in this situation isn’t pathology needing some kind of
medical attention. It’s a reasonable response to the events of the first few
days of this president’s administration. Speaking for myself,
Vladimyr writes:
"So today I learned that the KKK were handing out flyers in Canada.
I don't believe they can take the cold, so it is probably nonsense. "
I've heard this reasoning before!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-minnesota-too-cold-for-syrian-refugees/article/2576501
Pamela.
Thank-you,
but I rarely ever use the word pain and did not use it in my post.
Some of us can endure more than others. The fear of pain seems to have also
become more prevalent
in the recent past. Now the fear of inconvenience or waiting in a line.
Our fears have been trivialized or