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by bitcurious 8mo ago
Is that the point? Seems to me that if US citizens abroad pay taxes, they should be entitled to US government protection from censorship.
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by bitcurious 9mo ago
> displacing any local population Why displacing? Greenland is 3x the size of Texas and only 60k people, mostly concentrated around a single village.
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by bitcurious 9mo ago
My most recent Deutsche Bahn train was announced as being 3 hours late. I watched a few passengers leave the station to grab coffee nearby. The train arrived 10 minutes later, and left 5 minutes after that. The whole system seems broken.
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by bitcurious 10mo ago
>But the same will inevitably make you hating the capitalism If anything, reading has made me recognize the cultural and historic universality of the problems folks attribute to capitalism.
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by bitcurious 1y ago
> You're arguing that "Black" is an identity in the US because the people thus identified share a common history within the US, even though their ancestors originated from different regions and cultures before they were en
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by bitcurious 1y ago
The absolute mess that is US privacy legislation is going to undermine the US single market advantage. Truth is the big players don’t sell your data, they use it. Only small companies are hurt by this.
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by bitcurious 1y ago
> Neither of these games are online, neither allow me to interact with other users in any way. Beatsaber has a multiplayer mode, so if your opinion is contingent on online play you should reconsider.
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by bitcurious 1y ago
> I suspect the subtle difference was not understood by the Koreans. Why would you suspect that a company flying in hundreds of laborers can’t afford a lawyer to give the same guidance your HR company gave? It’s tax evasion and cost cutt
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by bitcurious 1y ago
Seems short-sighted by the investment firms. They aren’t just competing with other Florida firms, they are competing with NYC and London and Hong Kong. Why would top talent move there?
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by bitcurious 1y ago
> It was also the result of Europe (now the EU) choosing not to oppose the US (at least mostly - they did in small areas). The EU has more people and combined could - if they wanted - be more powerful than the US. Europe was destroyed by
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by bitcurious 1y ago
Assuming you’re not a haywire LLM, if you’re alive and posting here, you eat. If you eat, you’ve already internalized and practiced the notion that it’s acceptable to kill other life forms to stay alive. The study of biology also serves to
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by bitcurious 1y ago
If you are wealthy, perhaps set up a donor advised fund in their name. Let them do more good in the world, give to causes they contribute. Especially as folks age this is a way to get meaning.
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by bitcurious 1y ago
Based on a list of (in part) profane words which includes: addict africa amateur american angry arab
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by bitcurious 1y ago
I came up with a (lambda? Triangle?) loop a few days ago. Read until sleepy. Sleep until ready.
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by bitcurious 1y ago
It's just a tradeoff. ~20 hours of low wage employment is more than enough to cover a car. Instead they choose to spend those ~20 hours walking/waiting for the bus. Certainly not a trade I would make.
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by bitcurious 1y ago
>Oh, and also not factored in: almost every aspect of rural life is heavily subsidized, and I don't just mean direct assistance. I mean literally everything you stare at when you roll through a rural town was subsidized in some way
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by bitcurious 1y ago
I'll go against the grain and say that microservices have advantages for small dev teams embedded in non-tech orgs. 1. You get to minimize devops/security/admin work. Really a consequences of using serverless tooling, but you
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Why do you think the plan is to export every single good? The calculation is clearly on the total import/export balance.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
>While there are complicating factors, in general, probabilities add linearly. So for the average woman in the US, who lives for 77 years, she therefore has a 1% chance of being sexually harassed during any 1 year of her life. Obviously
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Another way to see that geography is as approaches into Russia. Gdansk borders Kaliningrad, Helsinki and Tallinn straddle St Petersburg.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
If your "energy security" is dependent on a belligerent state, you don't have energy security. This was something Trump himself has repeatedly criticized the Europeans for, so if you lead with "Trump was right" foll
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by bitcurious 2y ago
One more prediction: a number of our allies will test domestically built nuclear weapons, including Germany, Poland, and South Korea.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Are you suggesting the earth flips around like the tennis racket?
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Left hand grain in trees makes for weaker logs[pdf](logbuilding.org)
2 points by bitcurious 2y ago|0 comments
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by bitcurious 2y ago
In this very post, the EFF premise is that you are upset about Meta’s shift to less censorship. Meta’s new policies are a win for free speech.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
I feel like only a few years ago the EFF was a non-partisan organization but for the last year every article of theirs I read has a distinctly American progressive perspective. Anyone know what’s behind the change? I’m struck by the complai
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by bitcurious 2y ago
Some ways one could approach it: Religious: the body is connected to a spirit and should be protected. Familial: the body is scared to individuals who knew the person. Cultural:; the body represents a current people, and to exhume it makes
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by bitcurious 2y ago
I actually was under the impression that Lyme disease was a new world disease introduced to Europe after contact, but it seems it was endemic to both continents for thousands of years prior, not clear where it originated as the sources cont
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by bitcurious 2y ago
AIPAC is an organization made up of American Jews, not Israelis.
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by bitcurious 2y ago
The United States, through its influence over Facebook, instagram, and twitter, facilitated the Arab Spring. Of course we don’t want an adversary to have the same influence over our domestic political conversation.

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