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by ak_111 2y ago
To blow your mind even further he also wrote an entire book accusing Israel of Apartheid, which is an even more stunningly clear-headed claim for a US president to make.
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Pilot suicide by a long shot. There is no other alternative theory that comes even close. What was interesting is to see them piece the theory together from the very fragmentary and little evidence (what is even more mind-blowing to know ho
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MH370. There was no intermediate step as I saw somewhere it was the 10th anniversary of its disappearance and decide to get a quick update on the current status of all the evidence and theories. Ended up spending the entire day reading abou
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What I noticed in many countries with traditionally high youth unemployment, say like Egypt or Greece, it is considered normal to be young and unemployed and just living off your family, there wasn't much of a stigma attached to it. In
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So many possible answers are being proposed in this thread that don't seem to take into consideration that the interesting phenomena to explain here is why the increase is specifically high in America. So far some of the proposals incl
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Playing devil's advocate here but do you think men are listened to when they complain say in China, Saudi Arabia or Germany where suicide in the young is much lower?
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True, I should have said something like Mormonoism.
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Has their been a large scale alcohol effect study that exploits the fact that some religions (particularly Islam, Judaism) don't tend to consume alcohol? It will probably need to be delicately applied since religion correlates with man
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Ask HN: What is the state of AI data annotation of pdf documents using LLM
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Almost anyone who is deterred from committing the crime if they get 50 years will also be deterred from committing the crime if they get 25 years.
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how, he is 32?
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It is long enough to destroy his life. What matters if he gets out at 70 or 80 if he gets out at 60?
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Is it possible he gets a pardon from Biden? Apparently Ross Ulbrecht who is arguably much more serious crime, was close to getting a pardon from Trump (he seriously discusses it with his advisors at least and expressed sympathy)
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It is indeed very unstable. This is exactly why Eisenhower (who was one of the most hawkish presidents) used his farewell address to warn the public about the growing malign influence of the military-industrial complex (when he coined the t
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See my other comment. There is no way to get a scale of it since it is not audited. All we see is the public debt ballooning while infrastructure around us is decaying. Where is the money going?
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It really is not conspiratorial thinking to say there is a huge amount of waste in the defence industry. We are talking tons of cash which absolutely nobody knows where it went. The Pentagon has failed 6 straight audits. If you ever worked
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by ak_111 3y ago
Profiteering from the military industrial complex is a much more subtle art than that. There are many sophisticated (and readable) studies about it which you can read. Sometimes it is not even that subtle. Just take a few minutes to read ab
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If you are part of the military industrial complex or the neocon establishment clique then the last three decades (since the start of the unipolar moment) have been extremely enjoyable and decadent as you get a free pass to milk the America
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This brings back to memory 911 conspiracy theories. Many revolved around the unlikelihood that a building would collapse the way the towers collapsed just due to knocking out a few floors at the top. But the truth is all these mega structur
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Of course it is a monumentally bad thing for the UK economy it doesn't have any big tech companies! I actually don't understand your point at all. To say nothing of the lost revenue from tech export do you think it is better for t
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No I think it was so obvious to him that he forgot to mention it, or he doesn't think it should be a problem for many young people to move to the US. It would be dishonest if he intentionally left it out since for some (arguably a mino
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Am surprised PG gave this talk at a UK school without mentioning an important assumption that they will need to migrate to the US in his opening paragraph. All the examples he mentioned Google, himself and the Irish Stripe founders had to d
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by ak_111 3y ago
Think this comment is a bit too naive on the western side. There are some high profile cases were the west (or the deep state) very clearly went "full Russian" on some figures to send a "don't mess with us" message.
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This is correct but somewhat unfair given that it applies to any technological project, since the purpose of technological project is to improve efficiency in some workflow, and improved efficiency means less demand for worker time. I don&#
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You could say their style almost stereotypically and to a comical level reflected their environment, race, personality and occupation which was as polar opposite from each other as you can be: Central European introverted Jewish actuary vs
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The irony here is that - as Marquez highlighted in many occasions - he was deeply influenced by Kafka (probably his single biggest literary influence). And Kafka as mentioned in this thread is probably the most well-known example of an auth
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Sorry to be critical but if you are in tech and have been unemployed for years (especially if those overlap with covid) then you are most certainly doing something wrong and need some guidance. Even now the situation is bad, but not that
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I have a very tangential question to this situation prompted by some conspiracy theories linking the outage to today being Super Tuesday election day in the US. Why does Facebook need sharing news media or political ad targeting on its plat
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conspiracy theory get more imaginative. For example, you can then pose the conspiracy that the fact it was Russian interference conspiracy was a conspiracy to justify more social media policing during the real election.
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If we get huge surge of "Uncommitted" votes to Biden as we did in Michigan, you can argue this can cause significant pressure on him and might even lead to his ousting...

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