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by Udik 6y ago
What's even more interesting is that, despite being a recent phenomenon, everybody seems convinced it's absolutely normal to think in these terms. And yet I am sure than only four or five years ago people were talking about China
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I agree on the principle: being able to openly protest is better than not. Once this has been said, there is a big difference between a tyrannical government that keeps people in poverty and an authoritarian one that has brought many hundre
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ICC rules it can investigate alleged war crimes in Palestine(theguardian.com)
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Organ transplants: a change of heart in more ways than one?(blogs.unimelb.edu.au)
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> .. or anyway blame the Israeli people No, they blame "Israel", which is a political and national entity. You can be more specific and blame one leader or party when that is a variable, but that's not the case with China-
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> it may contain information that can give them an edge That's not a speech, is a consult.
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> request less than market rates Is the current market rate for a speech $290k? And what are exactly the goods object of the transaction?
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You can also say "we lose money and influence if you trade with that guy, so we'll pretend you need to be protected from him".
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I've watched the second video and it still makes no sense to me. "if you have an organism that sees reality as it is, competing with an organism that sees none of reality but is just tuned to what's called the fitness in the
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Building upon this idea: UbiSoft could license a version of the engine stripped of its game features (e.g. combats & health, climbing of buildings) with the purpose of creating historical reconstructions. These would be open source proj
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Frankly I was thinking too of Assassin's Creed. I've never played it but from videos I've seen it looks like they're able to give the impression of entire cities recreated with a fair level of accuracy, and populated wit
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What countries do you know of that have China's educational levels, manufacturing capacity, natural resources and political stability that didn't make it into "developed status"? I'm thinking about Italy: after WWII
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Interesting, but what does it mean? The example of the steak makes no sense (it's a steak, not "fitness") and what does it mean to be "tuned to fitness" instead of reality? If perception of reality goes extinct, how
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> It's a fact about the person saying it Which ironically enough, seems to be the definition itself of "personal experience". Notice also how there is emotion thrown in: "it made me feel strongly about". How is t
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> 700M Chinese citizens who live on $140/month income. That's an incredible amount of space for internal economic growth.
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Personal experiences are not facts- they can be cherry-picked, they can be biased, they can be exaggerated and even just made-up. When reporting a supposedly objective fact, you have at least the benefit of multiple independent points of vi
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> he She. Hear hear, two men are refusing to share a sexual joke with a woman! Will someone call the police !
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"Can reduce" seems to express an actual possibility (as in: it does reduce fertility in a % of infected men). If there is uncertainty it reduces fertility at all , I'd rather say "might reduce".
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European countries are not (just) states, they're sovereign nations. And that's the big issue of the EU. The whole system is organised in such a way that each nation can retain most of its power, which is almost always greater tha
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> you're here calling people dogs No, he said "these people are like rabid dogs", which is not the same as "these people are dogs ". In one case it's a simile, and the accent is on the compulsive aggressi
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The problem is not being right or wrong, the problem is that if someone attacks you with a pitchfork, they are wrong for sure.
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> perceived (and potentially actual ) >If you're lucky you won't experience any crisis first-hand Ok, so is it here or not? > for the ones experiencing things like random famines, water-shortages, poverty and conflict All
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My point is that if you are worried- or tell me to worry- about climate change because of the negative impacts it's going to have on societies (especially the poorest ones) because of how it affects basic resources (water, agricultural
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Refugees from where?
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> India and parts of Africa have the worst problems. So much so that Africa's population is projected to increase by 1 billion, doubling in the next 30 years. Any environmentalist would like to elucidate us on the consequences of
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I keep reading of a "climate crisis", and yet cannot see first hand any actual manifestation of it outside of the newspaper headlines. There is a covid crisis going on, and I can see that well, affects me personally, affects the e
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Political trials, formal and informal, against "class enemies" are typical of extremist left wing movements. See for example Maoist "struggle sessions", which seem nothing else than an in-person version of a twitter mob:
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I find those quotes absolutely normal, what's wrong with them?
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> you can't go smoothly from a driver assist to fully autonomous Ok. So Waymo has developed a 100% reliable full self driving system that handles every possible situation. It was never put in a situation in which it would have given
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I had to go back and re-read the article because I thought I had missed something. The whole content seems to consist of only three points: 1- that their sensors are better and lidar is indispensable. 2- that there is no continuum between a

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