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by contubernio 4mo ago
In Spain whatsapp is universal and necessary for everything personal and professional. Some hard core committed communists prefer telegram, but even they usually have to have whatsapp too. No one uses signal or even knows what it is.
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by contubernio 4mo ago
Most comments are just older commenters confirming what everyone over 50 knows, which is that young people are slow and stupid and not as competent as we were back then nor as competent as we are now. Every generation ever has known this on
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by contubernio 4mo ago
It's as recent as WWII was when Nixon got elected.
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by contubernio 4mo ago
Irrelevant objection. Currently signalling support for Palestine is common online. In videogames in my country (Spain) every third player has some such signal (flag or phrase). It's not a serious protest, it's a sign of belonging
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by contubernio 5mo ago
A casino is by definition a house that takes rake and is not the government or one of its subsidiaries ...
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by contubernio 5mo ago
It's certainly true in Atlanta. That "cluster of shops" can be a long way walking (10-15 minutes) from where one resides. It's small, incomplete, inadequate, etc. I grew up in Atlanta proper, so know the city well, and l
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by contubernio 5mo ago
There are major US cities where this is not the cae. Atlanta is an example. I've lived there without a car, but as a single man in my early 30s. It was not easy even for someone committed to the task. Even in the most "urban"
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by contubernio 5mo ago
Flooded roadways completely throw human drivers too.
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by contubernio 5mo ago
They depend on public investment to build and support road infrastructure. If one accepts your point of view, these companies depend on massive government subsidies. Or perhaps they should pay for the construction and upkeep of the roads th
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by contubernio 5mo ago
My grandfather was a student of Kistiakowksy and worked on the simultaneity part of the firing unit and was present at the assembly of the bomb and to watch the detonation. He recounted being quite nervous that his contribution would fail (
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by contubernio 5mo ago
One of the great virtues of C is that this sort of thing is not part of the language ...
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by contubernio 5mo ago
Justice should not depend on whether the aggrieved appears in court. That's a structural weakness of US law.
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by contubernio 5mo ago
The sheriff that arrested him should face criminal charges for misuse of authority. That he doesn't reflects a structural weakness in US law. In most European legal systems a law enforcement officer overstepping his legal authority wou
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by contubernio 5mo ago
I am in Spain. It's universal to use mobile device for almost all banking this is common in Europe.
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by contubernio 5mo ago
Banking basically has to be done via phone now.
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by contubernio 5mo ago
I work at a major public research university in Spain. We have five times as many students as MIT, many more personnel, and an annual operating budget that is less than ten percent of that of MIT. Perhaps we return more to society per euro
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by contubernio 5mo ago
I'd guess this is selection bias and naivete more than anything else. I went to a school with an honor code and cheating was rampant among the premeds and future Obamas.
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by contubernio 5mo ago
As professor I see little evidence of an increase in cheating. Microscopic earpieces and remote assistance we're problems already ten-fifteen years ago and copying has always been an issue (I teach mostly engineers who tend to be ahea
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by contubernio 5mo ago
The vpn ban movement also has support from powerful (and corrupt) entities like the Spanish football federation ...
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by contubernio 5mo ago
Most likely scenario is a more aggressive, bloodthirsty, violent species of comparable intelligence came along ...
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by contubernio 6mo ago
I have wondered if one of the issues with mobile devices might simply be physiological - using them appears to require constant eye movement that rest does not require. I haven't seen this addressed.
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by contubernio 6mo ago
That ai can help solve a problem perhaps indicates that the problem is shallow.
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by contubernio 6mo ago
These safety mechanisms have not been tested. Error rather than intentional targetting has to be considered. Imagine a cruise missile (e.g. tomahawk) or a bunker buster bomb rather than an anti-tank missile. The premise that such plants wil
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by contubernio 6mo ago
The wars in Ukraine and irán have also highlighted what a horrendous insecurity nuclear power plants are. A direct missile attack on one could be catastrophic. The idea that such will never happen is as silly as the idea that there will nev
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by contubernio 6mo ago
We had a whole list of stuff we wouldn't play. R Kelly's first album was around 93 (I can't remember now) and the video of him and the underage girl that initially got him charged was known about at the time. The music and al
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by contubernio 6mo ago
Not a reasonable question. All my information was third hand at best. We didn't play Bambaataa, R Kelly or Tupac (convicted rapist) records. That's about all a radio station could do. Can't state what legally speaking were me
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by contubernio 6mo ago
Bambaataa was a serial sexual abuser and everybody in the rap scene knew it back in the day (early 90s) same way everyone knew about R. Kelly (I ran a rap program on the radio in 92-94).
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by contubernio 6mo ago
"Engineering genius" not being an "ordinary guy" is a kind of classism. The whole tenor of the "truck driver did something interesting" is essentially classist thinking.
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by contubernio 6mo ago
The NYTimes is basically a mouthpiece for US government interests. The US government has an interest in outing cryptocurrency actors of all kinds.
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by contubernio 6mo ago
Why is it relevant what he does for a living? It's his passion and hobby that is interesting.

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