brighter2morrow

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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>I think Terry was more right than most of us would dare to admit. Playing with the thought of setting up a fund to build a statue in his honor!! Not the kind of comment I was expecting to find there. I was told lobsters was "a more
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
We are accelerating away from the center of the universe though.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>An interesting read is On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies by Copernicus, even if you just read the introduction. It’s an appeal to the Pope regarding the scientific nature of his conclusions. Regardless, they still excommunicated him
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
The early paragraphs of this article are a huge distraction from the rest of the article. So the article is supposed to be about someone porting a random number generator to webassembly, but inexplicably pontificates (without sources or ref
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
The only two states that were annexed are Texas and Hawaii. Most other territory of today's states was purchased although some of it was ceded to the US, particularly much of the Southwest was ceded to the US by Mexico as a result of t
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Did they not have a business person at this company?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Strikes only work when the media portrays them sympathetically. The media will never even report a strike happened if powerful interests are against it.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I would rather the media not be involved. The media presents biased perspectives on behalf of powerful interests to mislead the public. If the media got behind one measure or another then I would be immediately skeptical of it. For the inte
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
The US political system isn't trying to use states as a proxy for population measure. The US is a federation of states that only agreed to join the federation on the condition that they get a certain guarantee of clout within the feder
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Yes
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Hope the surgeon has accident insurance!
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>My shoulder surgeon gave my name, phone number and a vivid description of the circumstances that arose to warrant my shoulder surgery to a woman she thought I'd be a good match with. So were you a good match or what?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I think it's hard for no religious institutions to form cohesive groups because they don't have a commonly-held value structure. Indeed once you start to impose values on group members then for all intents and purposes you become
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
You joke but this is actually a growing sentiment. Schools across the USA are eliminating more and more liberal arts requirements as universities become more like glorified "coding bootcamps".
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Where are the records? I've done some cursory searches for things like that before and haven't found anything easily accessible
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I'm a right-winger in a leftist workplace. The key is just to keep your head down whenever politics comes up, and never participate in discussion about controversial topics. Generally I would act the same in a right-leaning atmosphere
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Awesome, I never knew you could change the diff drivers in git. Such a well-thought-out tool
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
This is very interesting way to view it, but in my office there's a few people who do literally nothing and honestly I would like work more if they didn't have to be there.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
No they don't. According to Amnesty International there's about 40million slaves in the world, which sounds like a lot until you realize that's only about 1% of the world's workforce. The reason they are slaves is not to
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
GOFAI is a slur against people who build systems responsibly, it doesn't matter the context for a slur just don't do it.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
"GOFAI" is a buzzword used by people who don't know how to make auditable systems, so they declare auditable systems "old fashioned" so-as to excuse themselves from learning them.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Anti-immigration thinktanks like Numbers USA and The Center for Immigration Studies are well-aware the problems of.immigration are not about the immigrants themselves but rather about the corporate powers that import them.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Example?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
These forces are nothing I can do anything about though. Corporate interests control the outcome of these things, not anything having to do with democracy.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I can't do anything about any of these issues, corporate interests decide these issues not average people.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Why do you want to keep track of current affairs?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
If we can edit cognitive things like IQ then will we be able to modify other cognitive things like sexuality and gender identity?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I don't know about the Japanese figures, but want to note those figures for Manhattan are just the residential population. The "daytime" population that counts all the workers who come in is 5x that.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Powerful people like information brokers because their information can help track down dissidents
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Kinda weird how speech about entirely legal activity gets deplatformed, but TPB whose core competency is theft has all the courts wringing their hands about freedom of speech.

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