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by alentist 6y ago
> the Spanish sacrificed millions. Source?
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by alentist 6y ago
Not at all [1][2][3]. Why do you think the surrounding tributary city-states allied with the Spanish? Though human sacrifice was common in Mesoamerica at the time, under the Aztecs it took place at an unprecedented scale. I'm curious,
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by alentist 6y ago
You absolutely did not, because it very clearly states it's not just about hotel consumers: It's about the welfare effects on hotels, travelers (including those who otherwise wouldn't have been hotel consumers), and h
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by alentist 6y ago
I don’t think you read the link before downvoting it. It’s about the effect on the hotel industry as well as consumers and hosts. You also haven’t provided any evidence to back up your claim. I’d be curious to read it, if it exists.
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by alentist 6y ago
> AirBnB is one of the poster children of VC backed companies extracting profits at the cost of society Do you have any evidence to back up that claim? Because hard data shows exactly the opposite: https://www.bls.gov/opu
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by alentist 6y ago
Why aren’t you disclosing that you’re working for Google?
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by alentist 6y ago
> Anyone who doesn't like YouTube's policies are welcome to ...criticize them on HackerNews.
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by alentist 7y ago
Time is not exactly on an equal footing with space. It has the opposite sign in the metric signature, which is physically significant. The differences boil down to the fact that the Lorentz group is O(1,3) whereas the (homogeneous) Galilean
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by alentist 7y ago
Why do you agree with the editor’s censorship? Also, you say he’s “a creepy misogynist”—what’s your evidence for that claim (genuine question)?
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by alentist 7y ago
In a way. Consider a Turing machine that enumerates all proofs in ZFC and halts iff it finds a proof of 0=1 (i.e. a contradiction). The statement that this Turing machine halts (like the statement that any given Turing machine halts) is wha
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by alentist 7y ago
> willing to completely gut the Internet (net neutrality) Oh please. The internet hasn’t been “gutted”. Far from it. It’s getting faster. It’s getting cheaper. It’s becoming more widely available. Do you have any evidence, anything at al
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by alentist 7y ago
It says scarce resources are pricier. Welcome to the real world!
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by alentist 7y ago
No, you’re just upset they didn’t vote for your preferred party.
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by alentist 7y ago
> It's a rather big philosophical stance to say that the 'truth' of these propositions can be determined outside of the axiomatic systems. I don’t think so. ZFC is either consistent or it isn’t. That is, a Turing machine e