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> GDP has something to do with income, certainly. So do a million other measurements. I'm pretty certain you could find some level of correlation with virtually any measurement and income levels. Thus, this is an irrelevant statemen
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There's good reason: Huawei is entirely owned by the Communist Chinese government, a government which has shown itself to be committed against American interests and democratic interests around the world, and a government which has its
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There's a ton of situations where someone should have their bank account closed. Watch a Kitboga video for an entertaining example.
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How are you "convinced" by something when you have zero evidence for the claim? It sounds like you wish it were true.
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The OP comment said: "AFAIK, NBER has never failed to put the recession stamp on back-to-back drops in GDP." The comment you replied to gave evidence that directly contradicts the OP comment.
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Fermilab's channel has the best explanations on the internet for modern physics: https://www.youtube.com/c/fermilab
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4y ago
Yes. It's not hard to find exactly what you're asking for. Search "startups that succeeded" on your favorite search engine, there's an enormous number of them. In fact, some of those startups which unseated the bi
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4y ago
This seems unfounded. Could you source your argument? There's an enormous number of startups that deeply disrupt anything that resembles a monopoly in tech.
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4y ago
> the online world is our current public square That's right, and that's why virtually no one ever gets banned from using the internet. Twitter is not "the online world".
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But sit-stand desks are not.
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4y ago
If you want to build your skills, sure go ahead. But working at a company like this is not a good way to build your wealth. You're far better off working at a big tech company that has awesome benefits or a fresh startup. Startups that
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Why do people believe in these (clearly fabricated) conspiracy theories that 8chan/8kun made so popular? Do people really so desire to kill each other and destroy their societies?
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It also offers opportunities for run-time optimizations that a kernel can make around context switching. Seems extremely useful.
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If you think opium wasn't a problem in England, you're delusional. A quick google search will prove you wrong: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Opium... The drugs that China exports
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For sure, the UK was deeply responsible for so much death and suffering from the Opium trade in China in this era. Just like modern China (and Mexico) should be considered deeply responsible for the current massive opioid crisis in the Unit
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The travesty of the Korean war is that ideology, both communist/fascist and capitalist, will grind as many humans as necessary into dust to prevent the other side from winning.
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Health institutions shouldn't be government controlled. The CDC should be totally free of all branches of government to make its recommendations. Both the Biden and Trump administration have pushed the CDC into some policy it wouldn&#x
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4y ago
Frankly, I'd be fucking pissed off about this if I had options.
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What's bad about revision? Isn't that what we're supposed to do when we write?
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I think there's a big difference between Chattel slavery, and the kind of slavery that the 13th amendment allows for. There's also "wage slavery", which even Abe Lincoln and the republican party agreed was comparable to
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This is incorrect, they use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha20-Poly1305
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China's plans are to maintain Zero-COVID until at least the mid 2020's. China will not sort itself out. It's a complete disaster
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>I think what you're missing is that they didn't give you an argument That's fine, and I'm glad that people are admitting that their comment shouldn't be taken as persuasive, or anything other than self-expressio
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Thank goodness that bank accounts are heavily regulated and something like that is really hard in this era with AML efforts! Cryptocurrencies on the other hand...
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That's not what I'm saying. I said that saying K8s is like X requires that you show how it is like X first, before you can draw any conclusions from that analogy. Otherwise, it is not an argument and should have zero value in a co
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I don't see how the analogy is applicable. To illustrate what I mean, you could have also said: "K8s is like a train. It's big and heavy, will carry most things that you need it to", and it would be just as much of a non
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What's your basis for this assessment? If anything, in the US, there's reason to believe there will be an even lower labor supply in the future with the baby boomers retiring, a generation larger than the ones replacing it.
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In a time when there's 10-20% unemployment, I'd profoundly disagree with you. But we're living in a time where there is constantly an enormous shortage of labor. It's unbelievably easy to get a job right now, especially
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>- Large parts of the Uranium are coming from Russia Not immutable. There are other sources that are much friendlier >- Nuclear power is not competitive and nuclear power is very expensive (especially if you conside the costs the gove
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>Put another way, what’s the most powerful force on earth? In the 1800s, God. In the 1900s, the US military. And by the mid-2000s, encryption. Because as Assange put it, no amount of violence can solve certain kinds of math problems. So
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