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by Udik 7y ago
> 90 pages were able to gather more than 1M views (Star Wars, The Mandalorian, The Witcher...). So they could cut their network costs by a lot if they just removed pages about current popular culture, which have the highest view rate and
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I want a way to pin this article to the top of the front page. Twice this morning I got slightly unnerved by something and automatically opened hacker news: then I read the title, realised I was trying to avoid thinking about something, and
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Ok, you could have come up with 100 examples. But the only one you give me is one from 2018, where Trump lifted sanctions on a Russian oligarch's companies. But Trump had imposed the sanctions himself some months before, he actually le
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> a small group of people who are strangely very friendly to Russia on all other matters. Can you give actual examples of this friendliness? I see it cited very often but I don't know any concrete example. I know Trump has imposed n
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> has a straight forward fix How can you be so simplistic? CO2 is a byproduct of basically everything we do. We can change that but it's not at all straightforward, quick or painless. > Syria is far more complicated Of climate sc
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Agreed, and yet here we are. People flood the streets to campaign against climate change and when a deranged president in the White House brings the world on the edge of a new major war everybody keep their mouths shut. Most of the climate
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> there’s a plausible case that a portion of the blame for the war is due to climate related impacts: There's a "plausible case" that many deaths of frail elderly people are caused by common ailments such as cold or flu. S
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Please. The conflicts in the ME have been going on for decades or centuries, but if we want to find proximal causes these are Israel's military occupation, US's support of Israel and ME dictators and US interventionism, with the o
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> our morning coffee will motivate us to action better than some civil war in Syria You bet. Also because civil war in Syria has nothing to do with climate change and all to do with politics. But people are too busy worrying about the fu
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Missing the point. The modern panopticon is not Google tracking you, or the surveillance cameras that only prevent very grave anti-social behaviour. I propose that the modern panopticon are Facebook and Twitter, where anything you say, in a
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I'm sorry, but I don't get it. I mean, if what you want is an accurate color reconstruction, for scientific purpose, then yes, you probably need depth information. If what you want is simply to colorise an image inferring the co
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Trump's plan? What plan? Trump is saying things (America first, let's MAGA, no more ME wars, let's get the troops back) but he's doing the exact opposite: weakening the US' international standing by stirring up conf
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> how do you know the true color of a fish, seaweed, or sand I am pretty sure that in most cases those colours are well known.
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> so you need to have a depth map to recover the true colors Isn't the blue shift of a known color already a measure of the amount of water between the object and the camera- and therefore its distance? Knowing the true color of a f
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True; on the other hand, Iran seems to have already benefited from Soleimani's killing: after the world's fear of a new war, the outrage, the divisions within NATO, the Iraqi resolution to expel American troops, the contradictory
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So what kind of "genocide" was this guy about to engage in?
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> That doesn't take away from the fact that someone just drone-bombed a guy who was trying to stir shit and wage genocide. You're just repeating what has been hammered in your head for years. This is the power of propaganda: yo
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The article is mediocre, as it keeps saying "death to America" when the phrase means something else. Just open Google translate and paste in it: مرگ بر آمریکا
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Trump is choking Iran after reneging an agreement the whole world had taken, and that Iran was respecting to the letter. What would you say if Iran prevented your country from having commercial exchanges with any other country in the world?
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> For them everything that the government has been preaching about the great Satan is coming true. Maybe it's time to realise it had elements of truth from the beginning.
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> I would like to comment - respectfully - I hope. I do believe death to America is the literal intent. You're not respectful, as you're insulting 80 million people by saying they all want to murder you and other hundreds of mi
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> Given that this phrase was used during the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and is often accompanied by flag burning, probably a significant part of the crowds chanting that slogan do actually want death to come to individ
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It's 2020, and the climate of Britain is not "Siberian" by any stretch of the imagination. Reading these lines makes my blood boil: "Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon
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> A study by the Pentagon confirms [there will wars caused by migrants] The reading of newspapers confirms that the Pentagon is causing wars today. Some of the climate change scare is a huge distraction from much more important and actua
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> In the case of the Alzheimer 'cabal', there was a large minority of researchers that were being locked out of funding by the cabal I think the most important thing here is to remember that the term 'cabal' is comple
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> How exactly is media pressure influencing climate science? Exactly through the same mechanism that skewed Alzheimer's research. Some topics are "hotter" and scientists know that to obtain grants, be published, and attrac
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> there doesn't really seem like that big of an incentive to sell a "lie" that CO2 is fucking the climate. The article we're commenting on argues there's been a huge pressure towards researching ways to stop beta
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> the strongest economic interest is in downplaying global warming, not overplaying it The strongest economic interest might be for inaction (but let's not forget that economic costs are often human costs in the end). On the other h
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There's a lot of numbers between 10% and 100%. A charity that donates 100% of the collected funds is one that only employs volunteers in their free time: I can understand they might not be the most efficient and effective. At the same
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There's popular pirate streaming websites, completely free and with no subscription, that have a movie catalogue that is huge compared to Netflix's, often in decent quality. Most of the movies I want to watch are only available th

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