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I mean.. we really want to permanently desalinate the ocean somewhat too so putting the brine back seems kinda stupid. Put it on land, let it dry, sell some as table salt and dump the rest into abandoned mines.
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> Communism has also had famine The most enormous understatement. They had the biggest famines ever seen. > The only thing that really seems to end famine, is a deliberate policy of subsidising the overproduction of food. That's
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I'm from Sweden. These "social democracy" systems are really market economies to 90% at least. It's kinda funny to call them socialist. Like calling a modern human a Neandertal because some of their genes are from that s
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Small amounts of socialism on top of a solid base of market economy. I'm from Sweden, this is well known but yea, many are super confused about this.
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The modern market economy + democracy + regulation + social programs. The atrocities normally attributed to such systems like the Korean war, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Vietnam war, Iraq war, etc actually turns out to not really be atrocities
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It's strange that people look at the millions dead from starvation from communism, and the quite recent destruction of Venezuela, and still think communism can somehow work this time .
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Turkey is a failed experiment of having an islamic majority nation that is modern and democratic. Ataturk made a really good effort, but I don't think it's coming back from the brink, not until there's an enlightenment in isl
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Pasting doesn't seem very unsafe. Especially not when the app can't know what it's pasting into.
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The audio book is read by the author. Well worth your time imo.
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> In Rubin’s first year alone, scientists expect the observatory to find 1 million undiscovered asteroids — as many as have been documented in the previous 200 years of human history — as well as thousands of comets and billions of stars
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Read the book. Then if you want go check the sources. See if this nuclear submarine captain is lying or telling the truth.
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> Yes, it’s good to direct teams to express intent. No, it’s not good to ban phrases and force your team to speak in prescribed sentence structures. This is how good advice turns into cargo cult rituals that everyone hates. The article t
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Show HN: UN Condemnation Statistics(boxed.github.io)
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Less than other frontier models. Which is scary honestly.
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The basics of a programming language were wrong. The basics of marketing were very right. Those are not the same.
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I liked Objective-C (except the C parts). Such a breath of fresh air coming from C++ which was grown like a cancer with tons of features and you felt trapped by every one of them. Objective-C in contrast was a very few additions thoughtfull
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How isn't it racism though? Separating people and counting them and giving them different treatment based on race is literally "discrimination" and "racism". The woke movement has distanced themselves from the teach
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v... In fact, asians were as a "race" treated very badly historically with camps for japanese-americans during WW2 and before that quite a lot of dis
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Such a weird take from him since Go has a bunch of pit falls that are not needed at all.
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> The anti-DEI “movement,” especially what we see in the US, is mostly thinly veiled racism by another name. The one we see on the news yea. But sane voices have been trying to stop this madness for decades and it only got worse and wors
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> DEI was only ever meant to reflect the diversity of society in our institutions That sounds reasonable, but it's not really true. It was a tool to DISTORT the diversity of society by making minority groups front and center to a di
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Agreed. Especially since it radicalizes the woke side even more, it's an escalating war leaving everyone worse off.
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Their excuse was that they lived a long time ago when people were idiots. What's the popes excuse today ?
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> > a uniformity that eliminated diversity and that chose homogenization over communion > Unrelated to AI, but a wonderful support of the breadth of humanity in this anti-DEI time. I mean.. DEI was in reality homogenization and eli
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And yet, somehow the people of Alberta suddenly are aware aren't they? Even though they previously were just "Canadians"? Why would the people now living close to all the money but getting bad representation in Edmonton be ha
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I meant that the oil fields themselves could just as well declare that they wanted out of Alberta after Alberta splits. Splitting goes all the way down.
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I mean.. it's not like it's Alberta that produces the oil. Oil is concentrated in smaller places than that, so why shouldn't those places then separate from Alberta?
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This goes for humans just as well. Humans get stuck. That waymo paused their op to avoid bad press and then get bad press BECAUSE they were being careful is enormously stupid for everyone involved.
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It can be. But in this case they haven't defended such a case for decades, so it seems a court should throw that argument out.
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Trademarks are infinite though. Which makes sense, since otherwise anyone could produce "Coca Cola".

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