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by UIUC_06 4y ago
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSmqYSVVpTM
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Life Imitates Art(entrepreneur.com)
1 points by UIUC_06 4y ago|1 comments
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
>Largely by repeating self-serving nonsense about how criminal use was negligible, banking regulations were illegitimate, and securities laws somehow did not apply—and finding enough lawyers willing to flatter the latter, and eventually
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
"There must be a new army of programmers who can question the intentions in the code. When our social and political adversaries are armed with algorithms, we, too, must take up the study of algorithms." Good luck with that 'n
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Hundreds of millions, no billions of people have eaten at McDonalds. Arguments from popularity don't get very far. OK, rather than me providing a link, just do a DDG search of "ms word crashes." The problem with having a zi
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Those are your words, not mine. I didn't say there weren't any people who believed that. dang said it was flamewar bait, which it was.
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
My sentiments exactly. Someone is trolling. This is old stuff. They left out the part about how we're all going to be vegans, except for the old guard who can eat bugs and pretend it's beef. Also, next time you send flame bait lik
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
These two comments: > topics that get rehashed over and over again with the same arguments are off-topic, ane > something on WWII, it could still be relevant as general interest, even if it's old. I really don't see how you
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
No, that is about the atomic bombing, not about censorship. While "consistency" is a weak argument, as a rule: there certainly is not any Significant New Information about the atomic bombing of Japan. That happened 76+ years ago,
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
> Because you, in debating the exclusion, chose to debate the relative merits of broad topics rather than specific articles. The reference wasn't general, it was to the specific thread. I'll take "Weasel Wording" for
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Don't you think this is splitting hairs? i.e. "it's OK when WE do it." How is censorship "a political topic that intersects with tech", when Tech companies do it without being compelled by law? Your last paragr
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Certainly -- the one about censorship today. Censorship is obviously a tech topic. It's also an evergreen, but that applies to lots of topics that are routinely allowed, e.g. copyrights, diversity, antitrust, or other legal topics that
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Is flagging an abuse of the moderation process?
12 points by UIUC_06 5y ago|24 comments
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No, but the ones who believe like you are mostly Western European and Canadian 20-something socialists. Who are interested in East Asian people who suffered under the Japanese Army only as an abstraction, don't actually know any, and d
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Personal peeve: the chestnut is not very nutty. And I love nuts of almost all sorts. It's really more like a small potato.
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
I guess I need to study Google Finance some more. All I did was, I added in a comparison to the S&P, and Costco jumped to 54,628% and Amazon to 164,805%. I'm sure there's some logical explanation for this. Anyhow, I don't
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
A very long time ago, someone said something that's stuck with me: Some companies are good to invest in. Some are good to be a customer of. Some are good to work for. But very few companies are all three. Amazon's definitely not t
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
well, I wouldn't compare them to physics or chemistry, for sure. Sometimes you have a natural experiment which may tell you something. But then, almost by definition, no one can replicate it.
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
"The law of supply and demand" is never going to fit everything the way the law of gravity does. It's a rough guideline that applies to artificial models better than it does to the real world. It seems like economists need to
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
> You do realize ... right? maybe drop that condescending tone repeating the TV wisdom? You know, that "wisdom" that comes from "journalists" reporting on the latest "studies"?
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Let's see: a pandemic hits, and suddenly we see a rush of stories like this. Is there a connection, and a solution? Or is everyone ignoring the elephant in the room? How about eliminating mask mandates & social distancing? Focus on
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Walking the dog is a privilege, not a chore. You only have these precious creatures for 15 years or less. And @sokoloff, you're not alone. The dog park we used to go to had a guy who had no dog (his died) and just liked to come there e
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Scientific American has soiled itself irreparably, and this is just more of the same, by someone who isn't fit to carry his magnifying glass. "the so-called normal distribution": calling something "so-called" is t
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Let it never be said I can't change my mind. HN is supposed to be open, curious discussion, right? No, I'm not closing my safe deposit box, but that article made me realize the danger of banks just deciding someday "You know
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
> Sometimes boxes randomly go missing citation? and nothing ever goes wrong with cloud backup schemes, over a very long time period?
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
So much money they're leaving on the table, then. (Or maybe they're secretly raking it in. Who knows?)
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
I was motivated to read it (who wouldn't be?), but I do find Vidal's writing off-puttingly snarky.
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Yeah, as I said, "backup & forget it" is never a good strategy. Go in every year (or so) and replace it.
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
(Very) old school: you get a multi-TB disk of some sort, doesn't have to be fast or high quality. Back up the media to that disk, and then take it down to your safe deposit box. No absurd monthly fees, no Terms of Service, it's of
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by UIUC_06 5y ago
Funny, just a couple weeks ago a friend recommended Gore Vidal's historical novel Creation , where the author is a grandson of Zoroaster. He manages to meet Socrates, the Buddha, and Confucius, which was actually possible at a certain

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