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by disown 6y ago
Let be real here. Facebook wanted to shut it down and then looked for excuses. Violence, hate speech, etc. They would have found whatever they were looking for. This is pretty much the standard big tech M.O. No amount of calling for "v
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> The past month I have used Python again after a few years and I have to say I didn't quite like the experience as much as before. Python is really a Perl replacement. It was meant for the scripting world, not software development
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> Have we really arrived at a point where fact-checking and providing context to a claim is considered censorship? Because it's censorship. You do realize that the right-wing, muslims, chinese, russians, etc also have "fact-che
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> To the point that veganism requires industrialized farming: this may be true, I don't know. It's a fact. You can't even be a vegan on a family farm. Try it and find out. How is an innuit in siberia or alaska going to sur
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Interesting, TIL. But is there no profit in kicking the bucket?
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Even better. There are youtube videos of people setting up homesteads all over the US. Buying property, clearing land, raising animals, planting crops, logging, etc. It's mostly geared towards the family farm, but I'm sure there a
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by disown 6y ago
Interesting article. The x86-64 ABI Docs link is broken though.
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Oh that's the "justification". Thank you for proving my point. Wonder what the "Iranian hackers" justification was. As I said, switch the sides and you'll see how silly it all is. Not that I'd believe anyt
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> e.g. I use ijkl instead of hjkl What do you use for i ("insert") then? Personally "hjkl", i, esc are the last keys I'd want to remap. Though I hear some people like to remap esc to caps lock or even space. But
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The headline is such a great example of propaganda. The easiest way to spot propaganda is the justification in the headline. If it was the other way around, the headline most definitely wouldn't be justifying iran's cyber "op
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> which is why I keep to a vegan diet Animals are killed to provide for your vegan diet too, though you can argue they are indirectly killed. And then there is the moral issue of murdering plants and consuming them. > Minks weren’t m
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Not soft power. Military/political/financial power ( pax americana ). NZ is part of the vassal/ally network we have all around the world. The US has tons of soft power in china, russia, etc, but no real influence in either be
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It's not academic language, it's tech evangelist language. If you've been in the tech industry you hear it all the time as people try to sell their software/platform/stack/etc to you. Nothing wrong with that. P
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> The NYT were being disingenuous back in August here Only if it was just August. When were they not disingenuous?
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I wonder if this is just a sneaky way of finding potential employees by amazon. Have millions of people ( some of the brightest in the country ) take tests, gather their data, run that data through an algorithm and offer jobs to those sele
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> The exam is taken by over 1 million students annually, with a ~ 1% acceptance rate. Maybe india needs more "premier engineering schools" if the acceptance rate is so low. Harvard and MIT have acceptance rates near 5%.
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> Would YouTube, Instagram, or dozens of other companies have been able to get where they are w/o the support of their acquirers? Yes if they got access to capital, which they could have gotten easily. You forget that Google bought
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by disown 6y ago
Interesting article though it doesn't show "how our species battled for supremacy" but that "our species ultimately gained supremacy somehow". Also, I'm still not sold that neanderthals were a different species
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It's so funny watching people trying to ignore the obvious answer and desperately try to make up nonsense. Why did China, Russia, etc become less religious? Why did northern europe become protestant? Why is indonesia muslim? The answer
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> Xi did arrange himself a lifetime position. He did or the political party did. Also removing term limits isn't the same as giving oneself a lifetime position. Lots of countries don't have term limits. Like Germany for example
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Their spelling bee competitions must be boring then.
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One time... Okay. Also, my dig wasn't at economists as individuals, but the pseudoscience called economics as a whole. There is a difference between a "mistake" like oops gave you the wrong medicine by accident and a pseudosc
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> a sentence that would make any serious economist howl with laughter. A serious economist like Krugman who said the internet was going to have an impact on society no more than the fax machine? Or the serious economists who helped creat
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> A couple of guesses here Let me guess, it's going to be the mindless propaganda that you've been brainwashed with via tradional and social media. Let's find out. > The Chinese government doesn't want such a huge
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Can't simulate what we don't understand. Unless we are using a weaker definition of simulate.
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> So you end this with calling me a white supremacist. No. Read the end more carefully. But why bother because you and I know what you are. > You are correct. Thank you. > I will end this potential flame war by not engaging. It wou
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> You have to include transfer density to account for platform load factors, and Times Square's situation of having 5 of the 7 Midtown Manhattan lines transferring there, all of them having both express and local platforms, on top
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> I think women from cultures where the fairer sex are considered historically ‘submissive’ would have dealt with this entirely differently. It's pretty much all human culture. It's probably a trait inherited from our pre-human
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Only if other regions/nations require it. Youtube is doing this to comply with EU directive as stated in the article.
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Go watch Carlin's old comedy bits. He talks about disinformation, culture wars, etc. You think fake news and misinformation is new? "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by bein

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