awkwarddaturtle

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by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> If you were to tell a non-HNer that Kayak, Booking, Priceline, CheapFlights, OpenTable, and other large websites are worth 100B combined, I don't think they would even blink an eye. Really? I think most people would be shocked. &g
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> Turns out modernity is an extremely unhealthy environment for humans, especially men. Not modernity. Modern western society may be hazardous to men. For all the talk about male privilege, the society seems to be geared towards keeping
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> One of the biggest problems we have today is that there's no shared vision of an achievable better world. As a society, we don't know where to go. I don't think we as a society or even humanity ever shared a vision. Thou
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A few years ago, the word on the street was that bezos agreed to boost prices to reward the longtime shareholders/hedge funds/etc. And as expected, the prices on amazon have noticeably increased and the shares are at all-time high
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> English does not fulfill the neutrality ideal of Esperanto Esperanto isn't "neutral". It's entirely a european language which copied tons from latin/german/russian.
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> In general I find that the speakers from Asia have to try harder to be understood because of the reduced shared vocabulary and different phonetics. It seems much easier for a speaker of Spanish or Italian. That's because esperanto
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Esperanto isn't an asian language. It has nothing to do with asia or asian languages ( however you define "asia" ). Just because a meeting about esperanto is being held in asia or that there were some fans of esperanto in asi
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> >Journalism — the historical counter to propaganda Wow. Then they need a lesson in the history of journalism. They might want to read up on hearst and pulitzer and the founding of modern american journalism. > "The good old
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> I don't understand why so many people are addicted to outrage, anger and fear. I know right? It's outrageous how people are so addicted to outrage, anger and fear. :) > Now I can't even stand watching CNN or watching
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> This country built itself on the backs of imported talent No we didn't. We built our country on the exploitation of poor european factory workers, chinese "slave" labor and african slaves. This country wasn't built
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> I also think that the impact on American workers in this salary range from H1B is pretty low. Many companies with salaries in this range are always hiring provided you have the skills. Actually most companies that you are referring to
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It's silly to talk about a "nation's" wealth in the age of neoliberalism. I had a friend from a very wealthy family in high school. The guy had like a dozen passports. He was a citizen of canada, britain, israel, US, and
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> The ideal of scientific rigor is certainly laudable There is no scientific rigor so there is nothing to laud. Economics is on the same level as astrology in that "math" is used to gain the appearance and legitimacy of "s
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Or as feynmann described... pseudoscience. https://youtu.be/tWr39Q9vBgo
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> Always one for facile comparisons between China and developed entities aren’t we paradite? Why are you attacking him rather than the argument? > Perhaps change it up so your work isn’t immediately recognizable? Even sounding the lea
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> Why keep this stuff secret? Because none of it is fair and we all know it. Bingo. It's also why offshore accounts is so prevalent amongst the wealthy. > So you should piss off everyone else by rubbing it in their face that X wa
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> Which also means journalists won't be able to access those videos as sources Journalists and news media are the biggest advocates for censorship on social media as it competes with their narrative. > Although, I'm not read
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Sure. Companies have to abide by the rules of the nations they operate in. The problem is that we used to have the higher moral ground and could mock their censorship and try to change their censorship of free expression. Now, we really can
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> Reddit too closed down a couple of subreddits It is disappointing what reddit has become in the past few years. From a genuine open platform to where the admins and the mods are now open and unabashed propagandists. It is also scary ho
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> I hate the fact that if I voice anything skeptical of this policy someone will call me a terrorist sympathizer. It's a form of bullying and intimidation in order to take away once voice. It's reminiscent of the red scare and
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The precedence this sets is so scary and shortsighted. So a gay man ( or even a straight person ) in saudi arabia wanting to find out more about homosexuality will be directed to anti-gay playlist which tells them how evil gays are? In chin
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Do people really "develop" on a tablet? I cringe when I see people "develop" on a laptop. I can't imagine anyone developing on a tablet. I need a keyword and two monitors at the very least.
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> which requires additional data sources beyond the mobile telemetry. So it really isn't technically difficult. It's just lacking in data? In your original post, you made it seem like it was extremely difficult. From my perspec
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That is a justification to continue using it. Sure. But that isn't the justification for shortening mathematics to maths. All I'm saying is that it was shortened to maths due to a misunderstanding of what mathematics is. And all I
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> You seem amusingly obsessed over a trivial difference in the way two different varieties of English chose to shorten the word 'mathematics'. I'm not. I don't care. I know the world will eventually choose "math&
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One of the bigger subreddits for many years is /r/trees which "promotes" marijuana and they haven't banned that sub even though marijuana is illegal in most states and most countries. Reddit has really gone downhill
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> What I find fascinating and disappointing is how much the opioid crisis isn't being talked about or addressed proportional to other societal issues. Actually, it is the opposite. Gun violence, opioid crisis, etc are given too much
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As I said in another comment, the IMF and world bank were created after ww2 when european colonial powers decided to "band together" rather than fight each other. The IMF and World Bank are neocolonial institutions. The brits, dut
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> The IMF and the World Bank were part of the world superstructure set up alongside the UN It is european colonization transformed into western neocolonization. It is the bretton woods international system set up after ww2 when the briti
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> In China however, they throw away that pride of creating the greatest and shiniest. Why is it every time china is discussed, people have to repeat the same trite false things. China is a developing nation. Developing nations don't

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