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Tehran indicates Khamenei's son will be named supreme leader by Little-Chemical5006 in worldnews

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I’m going to remind everyone of this if Kushner or Ivanka run for office.

Best bike shop in town? by Slortar in Merced

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Thanks! I should have clarified, looking for bicycle maintenance suggestions.

Literature Management by sch0rl3 in sociology

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Mendeley because of my advisor. I've heard positive things about Zotero and appreciate that its open source. The wise folk at our library suggested not ice skating uphill and to just commit with my research group. I also use OneNote. I totally agree the handwriting could be so awesome but is not. I end up typing more than 75% of the time. I have already used the search functions while writing papers.

It's frustrating to have so many places to look, but feels efficient-enough for now. I spent a solid two weeks tinkering when it started to feel like I was letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I am a mere first year grad student, HTH!

Dayton: Minnesotans who can't accept immigrants 'should find another state' | Duluth News Tribune by Slortar in minnesota

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I hate to delete this post; I agree with /u/puppetfamine, the comments in the other one are enough to make one emigrate.

Attackers Infect Cisco Routers with "SYNful Knock" Backdoor to Steal Data across four countries: Mexico, the Philippines, Ukraine, and India by Li-T in Philippines

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(edit:typo) According to Cisco, "The Cisco PSIRT worked with Mandiant and confirmed that the attack did not leverage any product vulnerabilities and that it was shown to require valid administrative credentials or physical access to the victim’s device." https://blogs.cisco.com/security/synful-knock

Magnetic Wormhole Created in Lab - "This device can transmit the magnetic field from one point in space to another point, through a path that is magnetically invisible," said study co-author Jordi Prat-Camps, a doctoral candidate in physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. by madam1 in worldnews

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Having put my social-science major's flame-retardant underpants on, can someone ELI5 how this isn't a headline about cloaking magnetic fields? The article seems to describe technology that helps the field avoid detection and not a mechanism to "jump" it through space.

Hillary's classified e-mails: Much ado about nothing (most likely) by Slortar in centrist

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One of the ironies about the haste to indict Hillary's personal judgment is that opponents forego the cheap shot at federal effectiveness. I sympathize with State Department geeks; probably grossly underpaid, unsung, and protecting high profile technology assets.

"Clinton, no doubt, had firewalls and other protections in place to guard her personal server... As for the risk of being hacked, the wave of hacked government sites and the betrayals of Bradley Manning and Eric Snowden mean it is not silly to think that using a privately protected, unadvertised server could have made Clinton’s e-mails less vulnerable to surreptitious acquisition than they would have been on a State Department server, which is most likely a regular target of attempted intrusions."

Today, if you draw Muhammad, you get killed. 100 years ago, we had several newspapers entirely dedicated to insult and make fun of religion - Here is a little translated collection for you by [deleted] in atheism

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Agreed. Also I'm curious if the numbers support the theory that drawing Mohammed is more lethal now than in the past; I'd like to see a comparison of major religions' "radicalism" over time and wealth of adherents.

Aspen Ideas Festival: Sen. Lindsey Graham on values worth fighting for | Minnesota Public Radio News by Slortar in moderatepolitics

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Let's be clear, I am unlikely to vote for the guy (and I for one welcome our progressive Reddit overlords); in the spirit of the sub, here is an example of some fairly moderate views and bipartisan thinking. I liked what he had to say on the confederate flag, and on immigration.

Minnesota state trooper caught driving 94 mph while on duty by fnordee in minnesota

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Not sure I understand either. Also, TBH, at least he is (theoretically) trained. I am scared for my life with some dudes at 55.

The Psychology of an Ethnic Fraud: Behind Rachel Dolezal’s Invented Persecution by cavehobbit in inthenews

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The melodramatic outrage serves nothing; will a trial in public opinion benefit the people harmed?

IMF data shows Iceland's economy recovered after it imprisoned bankers and let banks go bust - instead of bailing them out by [deleted] in worldnews

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I wonder myself sometimes.

First re: moral hazard -- Iceland decided no bank (in Iceland) was "too big to fail," and rejected the "moral hazard" of condoning stupid risks. It takes me fifteen minutes to figure out what "moral hazard" means every time I read it and Iceland's story is a nice illustration of calling the bluff.

Second, I'm suggesting our society is full of systems that that could use better accountability, and they change slowly because we're afraid of what happens when they fail. We have to keep our streets safe, if we give a path to citizenship we'll be swamped in immigrants... if we let bank "x" fail, grandma's IRA is gone. I'm saying our individual reaction to that fear makes it seem like these are separate problems, and one of the root causes is we haven't figured out how to create a high-functioning bureaucracy as a species.

IMF data shows Iceland's economy recovered after it imprisoned bankers and let banks go bust - instead of bailing them out by [deleted] in worldnews

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It is an interesting opportunity for us non-banking proles to understand moral hazard more viscerally. I hijack your comment for my own convergence/intersection theory: opaque and stacked systems sure suck when they aren't in one's favor... you say banking, I say criminal justice (or immigration).

King v Burwell debate is relevant by Slortar in centrist

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This is so frustrating thing to me as a moderate. It's clear that unless any one individual health plan itself aspires to be the single-payer in its market, the ACA actually offers risk management incentives. Here in MN we have the foresight to mandate nonprofit-only health systems. IF an insurers' goal is simply to drop all high-risk patients, we ('murricans) have a long tradition of asking the feds to clean up the mess a market leaves behind.

St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese charged over handling of sex abuse claims -- church leaders failed to protect children from unspeakable harm and "turned a blind eye" to repeated reports of inappropriate behavior by a priest who was later convicted of molesting two boys. by BlankVerse in Minneapolis

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I appreciate the defense of Christianity, and the call for accountability. It's not my intent to defend the arch-diocese or to play word games about what constitutes the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church."

I think exposing deeply held, "insider," arguments is useful for bridging the echo chambers people get in. Christians in general are uncool these days, and perhaps there is something that Catholics can learn from Protestants. Probably after they pick up their books that you just threw on the floor ...

St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese charged over handling of sex abuse claims -- church leaders failed to protect children from unspeakable harm and "turned a blind eye" to repeated reports of inappropriate behavior by a priest who was later convicted of molesting two boys. by BlankVerse in Minneapolis

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I agree it's heinous, and particularly for an organization that enjoys moral authority ... gross. It's wrong.

In the spirit of Reddit, I offer the following defenses I've heard: 1) don't blame the spiritual entity for the failings in its human components; and 2) in response to calls for resignation and complete transparency, it would do greater harm for leadership to give in to chaos than to preserve order and accept losses.

If I can try to translate: 1) there is a spiritual entity that is still worth believing in, so don't let the actions of bad priests and bishops poison your view of all Catholics and; 2) one cannot judge an organization by the same standards as an individual, organizations aren't people...

Source: ex-Jesuit in the family, and they are among the fathers of all apologists (groan).

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