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by basetop 7y ago
I love these fake feel good stories. In other words, britain offloaded energy intensive manufacturing and its coal burning to china, india, etc. Just like how ireland "recycles" most of its plastic by shipping them to china. http
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by basetop 7y ago
People care about it. It's the wealthy elites who don't care about it. The problem is that through control over media and social media, the elites can make it seem like nobody cares about it. Also, the relentless censorship has be
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by basetop 7y ago
Man, if only the nytimes and the media was more concerned about censorship here in the US. But then again, it's the nytimes and the media championing censorship at home.
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by basetop 7y ago
If you have to use windows, I'd suggest ConEmu.
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by basetop 7y ago
Is it just me, or are all critical comments being downvoted here. It seems like this thread is overrun by PR folks and microsoft employees. In the techcrunch windows terminal thread, one of the top comments starts with "I've been
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by basetop 7y ago
But isn't winforms pretty much legacy? Microsoft has been encouraging the use of WPF.
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by basetop 7y ago
What? Satya didn't invent .Net. The idea of .Net, like the JRE, was to write once and run everywhere. What's visionary about it? It's sad how so many articles and comments come off just pure PR now. Not saying your comment is
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by basetop 7y ago
To start off, I'm vaccinated and I think people should be vaccinated for the most contagious and deadly diseases. But following your logic, should 80 million people get vaccinated just because a few thousand might be affected? Also, sc
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by basetop 7y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838229
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by basetop 7y ago
Wonder if it's harder to buy your way into a good prison or the ivy leagues.
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by basetop 7y ago
If people liked this paper, I suggest reading "The Two Cultures" by CP Snow which is not as technical but more expansive, cultural and philosophical.
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by basetop 7y ago
I agree. This article is a philosophical text delving into the mind, soul, consciousness, determinism, ethics, etc and the difference and similarities between humans and animals. It references Nagel ( "What is it like to be a bat?&quot
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by basetop 7y ago
I don't want to get into specifics because I don't think criticizing individual journalists is allowed here. Especially journalists from establishment media. So how about a nytimes opinion on the matter? https://www.nyt
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by basetop 7y ago
At the same time, they demand less swearing for everyone but themselves. They have "civility" rules for their comments and also use their bully pulpit to demand social media also censor "uncivil" speech everywhere. They
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by basetop 7y ago
Better yet, why don't we have mobile hospital units. Rather than bringing all the sick people and disease into one place, why not go to the place of sickness. Perhaps it's economically not feasible, but I've always it made mo
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by basetop 7y ago
Initially, I found your story a bit incredulous. But then again, there are significant outliers amongst humans. Is your situation any more extreme than adult humans who are 2 feet tall and some who are 8 feet tall? I wonder if there is the
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by basetop 7y ago
Centralization is fundamentally important, don't you think? Conflating Usenet with reddit is like conflating the Internet with AOL. I'd say it's bad for the readership because it gives them wrong information. I always feel it
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by basetop 7y ago
Politically expediency. Neither the democrats nor the republicans want to go after the elites. So naturally they take turns attacking illegal immigrants. But it's all lipservice. Neither the republicans nor democrats want to stop illeg
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by basetop 7y ago
The older you get, your "highs" are never as high as in the past, but your "lows" are also never as low. You'll never be as happy or excited as you were during your first christmas. But you'll never be as disap
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by basetop 7y ago
Are they putting them in "concentration camps" because they are muslim or because they are separatists? The headline seems to imply something ( like ww2 nazi germany scenario ) that is not true. Wouldn't it be more correct to
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by basetop 7y ago
If there was a time when news was a public service ( at least in the US or even anywhere in the world ), I'd be interested to find out. My take on news has been that it's always been about influence, power and control. Public serv
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by basetop 7y ago
I agree. The pre-ACA healthcare system worked well ( maybe not great but well ) for 80% of the population and not so well for 20% of the population. We paid less premium for far less co-pay, deductible, etc overall. Feels like the ACA made
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by basetop 7y ago
I'm not too familiar with postgresql, but isn't that serializable snapshot rather than serializable? I'm pretty sure all RDMBs have deadlocks in serializable. But in serialiable snapshot, a transaction doesn't deadlock,
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by basetop 7y ago
Wasn't 1998 the midpoint of one the greatest economic booms in history? Kinda like the one we are currently in? As a 90s kid I remember hearing about how record unemployment and stock records on TV back then. It's amazing that the
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by basetop 7y ago
It is pretty much every industry. The tobacco industry pushed studies and advertising claiming smoking was doctor approved and "healthy". The food industries/companies and their studies claiming cereal and orange juice consti
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by basetop 7y ago
No need for name calling. With a stable population, no tax incentives, no legal or government incentives, etc, your home is a depreciating asset. If you've owned a home, you realize it is constantly breaking down and you have to consta
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by basetop 7y ago
I don't think we are anywhere close to Jarvis which is general AI ( aka real AI aka "conscious" AI ) no more than we are anywhere close to building Ironman's nanotech suit. But we are improving on "dumb/unconsc
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by basetop 7y ago
Isn't the author and the nytimes part of the attention economy? By reading the article and commenting on it, aren't we partaking in rather than resisting the attention economy? It's put us in a bind. In order to learn about r
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by basetop 7y ago
Which is what paperbacks, newspapers, radio, tv, movies, etc were/are called at one time or another. I bet in 20 years, smartphone and social media companies and everyone else will be ranting about VR being a distraction.
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by basetop 7y ago
The premise of housing depends entirely on how society or more specifically the government or even more specifically banks/business want it to be. The only true purpose housing serves is shelter. That's it. Any other purpose is ar

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