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by _iyig 7y ago
Yes, but that’s entirely my point. So long as they and their families were taken care of, most stuck around (though certainly some of that was due to fear).
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You also experience decreased blood-flow to the brain, especially when abstaining from coffee after periods of chronic use: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2748160/
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>It's hard to foster an intellectual elite in a dictatorship Have we forgotten about Nazi technical excellence, Werner von Braun, and the Soviet space program? It’s easy to pour money into STEM fields. If you only crack down on ethn
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I think there’s likely a reasonable expectation of privacy somewhere, such as for private posts or protected tweets (which the measures FTA would not necessarily examine). At the same time, if someone’s sharing their support for ISIS on Fac
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>…on a Google and Huawei phone operating system: >Google and Huawei are discussing together how to implement a solution. Curious what he means by this. Such cooperation may violate U.S. law.
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>but sorry there is only one country in the world systematically spying, bombing and manipulating friend AND enemies alike. And that's the USA. *and Germany. Don’t forget, every U.S. (and Saudi) Abrams tank has a Rheinmetall cannon.
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What am I not stating clearly? Witch hunts are bad, but yes, there was a large spy network. Perhaps it could have even been uprooted with measured counter-intelligence, instead of McCarthyism.
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Are you challenging the fact that the U.S.S.R. had extensive espionage networks in the U.S. during the 1950s, including the Rosenbergs who were in fact guilty of spying for the Soviet Union? McCarthysim per se was horrible, but the fact rem
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>China is a resilient underdog and the world is against it but it will fight back U.S. propaganda is the mostly the opposite of this. We’re supposed to be an invincible freedom juggernaut who the whole world loves, including the poor, op
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The Chinese government needs no help in portraying this, or any other propionate U.S. response to Chinese trade policy, as an “insult to the Chinese people” and an outrage. Seriously, they’ve done it with much smaller stuff. It’s basically
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Funny thing - McCarthy was right, in a sense: KGB informants were all throughout U.S. government and industry [0]. Unfortunately, he accused and abused lots of innocent people, so this fact is often overlooked. [0] https://www.re
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Yes, totally agreed. China was just top-of-mind after the recent news about CFC-detecting satellites, the publication of their results, and the authorities’ subsequent remedial action.
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3. Lobby for an effective ban in countries like China, where antibiotics are widely used (especially in aquaculture) and the law as written isn’t always enforced. This is one of those border-hopping problems which, like CFC emissions, may r
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Ideally, one factory’s more-efficient production method would result in a larger economic pie that would be fairly distributed amongst everyone. In practice, especially when you consider regional trade barriers and the lack of perfect and i
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>Then there's Amazon's fire product line. This product line does not include smartphones. The Fire Phone has been dead for a while, and never got a sequel.
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It’d be a better world if Europe could give people more choices by... giving them more choices, instead of regulating the choices that other countries provide and fundamentally control.
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Will any of the individuals responsible face direct consequences for their actions? Or, will the cost of their mistakes be borne entirely by shareholders?
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Pilots are held directly and immediately accountable every moment when they’re in the air. If don’t fly safe, their heads will roll not due to any laws of man, except maybe one Sir Isaac Newton. Perhaps if doctors were held so directly acco
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by _iyig 7y ago
I listed just a few strong non-Ivies off the top of my head. A list of other strong, non-“elite” CS schools might include the likes of GMU, WPI, RPI, RIT, or UMBC. I have friends and co-workers from each of these schools who are all fine en
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Yes, I agree that this is the tough part, especially in the Bay Area. Once you’ve been working a few years, though, your degree matters much less to potential employers. One way “second-tier” universities can get around this problem is thro
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>How about having lots of decent, desirable universities instead of a few elite ones and many weak ones? In practice, this is pretty much the case. State schools (e.g. the University of Virginia, University of California-Berkeley, Georgi
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Yes, that's what I was driving at.
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It also hurts R&D. A state-subsidized solar panel factory might use inefficient, wasteful production methods which could not compete in something closer to a market economy. This can have negative externalities for the state, end-users,
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What if they don’t? What if crunch works, at least in the short term, for the employer? Does any criticism of crunch time necessarily hinge on productivity? Does the health and well-being of individual employees warrant sufficient concern b
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What if 996 work hours do, on average across a large population, make workers more productive? When they burn out, they are easy to replace. Would this justify such a work schedule? EDIT: This post is not in support of 996. Does anyone do S
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Mainly I was thinking of the second mission, when former crew members vandalized the facility and Steve Bannon (yes, that Steve Bannon) was brought in by the owner to get costs under control. Strange story: https://www.wired.com&
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Submission title is editorialized. “Why connect everything unreliable?” is, besides a confusing sentence in English, text absent from the linked article.
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Of that nonexistent technology, I’d be less concerned about orbital construction methods and more concerned about sustainment of a closed-loop ecosystem. The closest anyone’s come to running a human-scale test is Biosphere 2, which didn’t g
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>I think most people in the USA don’t read technical AI papers coming out of China and see demos of their consumer facing tech I fall into this category. Could you point to some examples?
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Sad to hear this. I have fond memories of running Unreal Tournament 2004 on Linux back in the day. I was still in high school and had just the one PC, which I used both for gaming and the “fooling around with Linux” that led me to a career

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