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by basetop 7y ago
I already knew all of that. Are you saying the NYC didn't exist before the eerie canal was built? Are you saying NYC wasn't the largest and most important city in the US before the eerie canal? So the eerie canal joined the hudson
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by basetop 7y ago
Justifying or defending something based on a quotes is recipe for contradictions and disaster. For every quote, you can find an equal and opposite quote. "Actions speak louder than words." vs "Pen is mightier than the sword.&
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by basetop 7y ago
Kara Swisher isn't a saint either. And I'd hardly call her a tech reporter. She's more of an authoritarian censorship advocate and a person who comes from enormous privilege.
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by basetop 7y ago
Will the Patriots win the Superbowl? Will Brad and Angelia get back together? Will Biden beat Sanders? So much of the news is now just speculative junk where after you finish reading the article, you realize you got nowhere and just wasted
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by basetop 7y ago
NYC was already the largest US city before the eerie canal was completed. It wasn't the eerie canal that made NYC, the eerie canal was created because NYC was the most important city in the US. Whereas the article's point was that
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by basetop 7y ago
Well at least after 10 years or so, a few miles of the 2nd ave line has been completed. I think everyone deserves a pat on the back don't you?
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by basetop 7y ago
Interesting article. But "London and New York, the world’s current leading cities, share Shanghai’s foundational geographic logic. Their safe harbours are easily accessible to the world’s trade, and their Thames and Hudson Rivers provi
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by basetop 7y ago
That's disturbing. Rather than producing "human-like brain waves", we stay with growing mini-brains with worm-like or insect-like brain-waves for a very very long time until we master simpler neural systems. We know so little
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by basetop 7y ago
It surprises me sometimes how innocently naive people are. How people miss obvious jokes, parody and sarcasm online. I figured as more people use the internet, the less naive they'd be, but it seems like the opposite is happening. And
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by basetop 7y ago
This tends to happen in every major bull market. The CEOs get an undeserved amount of credit. Nadella's been CEO only since 2014. Since then MSFT market cap gained $650 Billion in value. That's not all Nadella. It's simply th
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by basetop 7y ago
Actually discussing things that are wrong is just as important as discussing things that are right. Going through what's wrong is one of the ways to get to the what's right. "It must be worth exploring" is the dangerous
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by basetop 7y ago
That is discussed in every philosophy department. Epistemology isn't a "settled topic" and open to debate and discussion. Claiming that religion is just epistemologically valid as physical science isn't controversial. No
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by basetop 7y ago
I suppose that's possible for an already distressed company under financial strain desperate to sell itself to avoid bankruptcy. But I'm not sure how that would work on a profitable company. No board of directors would approve sel
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by basetop 7y ago
If you've read 4 or 5 articles already, maybe it signifies a trend? Another common theme in these threads are comments attempting to dismiss and marginalize these victims because it doesn't align with one's political ideolog
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by basetop 7y ago
Actually, rather than having issue with liberalism, he seems to be defending it. His argument seems to be questioning the "bowing down" to "authority". All "authority" - scientific, religious, etc - should be q
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by basetop 7y ago
Another example is the life expectancy of holocaust survivors. Holocaust survivors in israel have longer life expectancy than other israelis. That's because you had to have the best immune system and psychological will to live in order
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by basetop 7y ago
No for two reasons. 1. Share price has nothing to do with bankruptcy. Bankruptcy happens when a company can't meet its obligations and debts. If a company is profitable, then by definition, it met its obligations and debts so it canno
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by basetop 7y ago
No. But it can be an "act of war". There is a difference war and an act of war. An "act of war" or any casus belli doesn't necessarily lead to war. Economic sanctions are "acts of war" but most do no lead
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by basetop 7y ago
In other words, the NSA found a better way of snooping. If they are asking to drop phone surveillance, then they found a superior method of data collection.
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by basetop 7y ago
I'm sure FB improved its monetization and will continue to improve it as it grows as a company. But they also benefit from an overall increase on online ad spending - which is expected to grow 19% this year ). https://techcr
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by basetop 7y ago
Youngest kids are sticking to instagram rather than facebook because facebook is where their parents are. Has nothing to do with privacy. If you want to make something "uncool" to young people, get the parents involved.
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by basetop 7y ago
There is a great documentary about origami called "Between the Folds" if anyone is interested. It goes into the historical, cultural, practical, mathematical, artistic and current aspects of origami.
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by basetop 7y ago
With databases or anything in general, I believe in doing first and then learning the principles. Play around with a small RDBMs like sqlite. Do a project around it. Look at the source maybe and then learn about the principles. Foundations
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by basetop 7y ago
The oddest thing about 1984 is how the education system ( at least here in the US ) has turned it into a warning about the soviet union when it was in fact a warning about the west. Animal farm was about the soviet union. 1984 was about the
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by basetop 7y ago
Thank you. I wish newspapers would stop this deceptive practice or openly mark the "article" as an ad. It's far worse than clickbait titles to me since I can immediately spot the clickbait, but you won't realize the arti
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by basetop 7y ago
"Same number of readers" is deceptive since the overall population has increased. In 1990 there were about 220 million people in the US. Today, there are 320 million. So newspapers have a smaller market share and a much older demo
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by basetop 7y ago
I've read that vegan propaganda so many times that I knew you'd post it before I posted my comment. Plants create carcinogens to defend themselves from being eaten. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/20
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by basetop 7y ago
Meat consumption is expected to increase as less developed nations like china, india, ASEAN countries, africa get wealthier. https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consu... People forget that for much of the
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by basetop 7y ago
That's an idealized but incorrect version of the news industry. We know that news companies work with PR firms to publish ads as articles. The "suit" PR that is famous here. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.htm
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by basetop 7y ago
Every comment supporting censorship here is just restating the pro-authoritarian censorship rhetoric. Not a single comment on Cahill's points or research. Cahill, his platform he publishes on and everyone else is allowed to be biased.

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