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by atlantic 3y ago
I was thinking along the same lines. For this kind of money, you can get yourself an escort every month, and save yourself dozens of hours of fruitless communication with prospective partners.
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by atlantic 3y ago
From the description, I don't think the term "tutoring" covers it. It was more in the nature of a master-disciple relation, such as is found in Japanese traditional arts. That was the transformational moment in his life.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I don't think they care about unelected government - a relative novelty in historical terms - so much as being ruled by foreigners.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I noticed that you're not engaging with the content of your daydreams. You're basically treating them as a medical problem. The more you ignore your unconscious, the more noise it makes, to try and get your attention. You need to
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by atlantic 3y ago
"Word salad" - I can't understand it, so surely it's meaningless.
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by atlantic 3y ago
About a third of Newton's surviving manuscripts deal with physics. The rest deals with esoteric biblical exegesis and alchemy. Just another dumbo, I guess.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Industry tends to be better because mediocre hires eventually feed into a company's performance against its competitors. Or putting things another way, the public sector operates in a fantasy world, whereas the private sector is consta
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by atlantic 3y ago
The cornerstone of a fair tax system is to avoid double taxation. Most countries currently practice triple taxation - they tax personal income, they tax the same income again through taxes on consumption, and a third time through corporate
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by atlantic 3y ago
Thanks European Commission. the Ukrainian war didn't cause the rise in prices, the sanctions did.
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by atlantic 3y ago
You mean, bad journalism is a form of activism. Good journalism aims at objectivity, and allows readers to form their own opinions.
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by atlantic 3y ago
If reality can only be perceived through a subjective lens, then that is the only reality there is. Reality as something independent of any observer is just a fantasy. And if you think about it, it's actually meaningless.
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by atlantic 3y ago
> And yes, you could elide all that as "people I disagree with" if you're devoted to being particularly sloppy. Because I do disagree with them, and don't want them here? Is that not the case for you? No. I see no val
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by atlantic 3y ago
"Half of Eng-land" means "half the land of the Angles", no need for further elaboration.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Even if this particular ship is an outlier, the broader point stands regarding the make-up of refugee populations. And concerning Pakistan, former PM Imran Khan stated his fall from power was caused by US interference. That counts as major.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I don't think you understand what the term Pax Romana means (or the other derivative terms you cited). It's a period of unnatural political calm, after every instance of rebellion has been crushed by overwhelming force, and the &q
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by atlantic 3y ago
The vast majority of refugees crossing the Mediterranean are from countries torn apart by western-instigated civil unrest or war: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, and various north African countries subject to "color revolutions".
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by atlantic 3y ago
No, the lesson is to stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs. The so-called refugees all originate from countries that suffered western military operations. "Humanitarian" intervention is the new colonialism.
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OpenKylin: China's First Independent Open-Source Linux OS(news.itsfoss.com)
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by atlantic 3y ago
I keep my phone stored in a pouch, so the mic is muffled and the camera blocked, when not in use. If I want to go somewhere without being tracked, I leave it at home. I've done this for years. I always act on the assumption that I&#x27
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by atlantic 3y ago
> What followed the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars was one of the most peaceful 99 years on the European continent since Pax Romana. This was the period when the Austro-Hungarian empire was dissolved, the Ottoman possessions in Eu
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by atlantic 3y ago
Could you clarify the term "nazis"? Presumably, you don't mean a member of the German National Socialist party, which was dissolved in 1945. But if you mean "people whose views I disagree with", then perhaps you cou
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by atlantic 3y ago
Don't be naive. The citizenry doesn't make any significant choices. Western democracy is a sham. There are elections, yes, but voters are subject to large-scale manipulation, mainly through mass education and mass media. Not so mu
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by atlantic 3y ago
Both Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke predicted that neurotic and eventually homicidal robots would be the end result of imprinting AI with contradictory goals which are impossible to reconcile. We seem to be doing our best to make this scenario
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by atlantic 3y ago
Good point. I'm a dev, so by the time this kind of project reaches me, the business angle has (presumably) been sorted out, and it's the technical feasibility that is in question.
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by atlantic 3y ago
So the BBC does product placement now?
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by atlantic 3y ago
Thanks, I will.
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by atlantic 3y ago
I tend to equate the two. Especially in the case of Google, where you had to register, so they were in effect letting you use the product in exchange for personal data.
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by atlantic 3y ago
One of the applications I used to use on a daily was Google Reader. Then one day, they just shut it down for no apparent reason, and that was that. They don't seem to be focused on customer satisfaction. Hard to understand.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Nations are highly-organized grouping of people. So what you're saying is, very large and cohesive groups of people can relate to one another without overt rules, therefore, so can individuals. That's a non sequitur.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Exactly. The proof-of-concept app should address the core technical obstacles in the new project, and prove they are surmountable in the simplest possible way.

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