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by disown 6y ago
Did she have a name or did she go around referring to herself as "einstein's first wife"? Why not "The Life of Mileva, Einstein's First Wife?
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by disown 6y ago
That's easy. Tell them to stop watching CNN, Foxnews, BBC, MSNBC, etc. > Are they quoting a fringe YouTube video (which may have been fact-checked and debunked), or people in the echo chamber of a conspiracy-minded Facebook group? Y
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by disown 6y ago
> Which, by the way, summarizes a full year of oral arguments at the supreme court -- not actually a small sample size, but a total dataset. It's a "total dataset" of the most narrow and small sample size possible. You are
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by disown 6y ago
> I say that languages divide us and silo us. So should we just have one programming language? Should we have just one OS? Should we have one computer game? One social media? Should we have one political party? One school? One store? One
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by disown 6y ago
Good point. Democracies are horrible because they gave us nazi germany. Or how about we stop with the silly propaganda talking points and deal with the topic at hand?
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> I never understood how "But Can I buy Starbucks with Bitcoin" became a meme That's disingenuous. It became a "meme" because for many years, bitcoin evangelists touted bitcoin as a currency replacement. You can
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by disown 6y ago
Nicolas Cage starred in a lot of good movies. He also made a lot of bad films. The Rock happens to be one of the good ones.
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by disown 6y ago
That's true to some degree - especially for something that happened centuries ago. But the british role in india is relevant today since india gained "independence" only a few decades ago and is still ostensibly a part of the
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by disown 6y ago
> But for some reason, on this topic, people lose their minds. Not people. A section of the elites. Even with nearly a total propaganda war against the people, most people are not buying what they are selling. It's why they are so d
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by disown 6y ago
For those who grew up playing quake as a kid... A bit of history, speedrun and nostalgia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43d8fICz6gM
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by disown 6y ago
Well at least it wasn't to commit genocide against the native americans. Baby steps. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buf... It's interesting how most of the national&#x
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by disown 6y ago
> Sometimes I wonder how things would be if we had more than one hominid species in the world and I get trapped in fascinating hypothesis of all sorts. What fascinating hypothesis? Why not spell it out rather being so coy? Well we have d
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by disown 6y ago
The biggest problem with awk is that unless you use it regularly, you'll easily forget how to use it. So it's important to keep a running cheatsheet like you did. Nothing more frustrating than forgetting the awk command and search
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by disown 6y ago
> A nihilist regarding truth Nope. I believe in truth. My point is that the news industry isn't in the business of truth. They have never been. The news is in the propaganda business. They exist to form opinions. It's why prett
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by disown 6y ago
> They led to conspiracy theories about politicians trafficking children, the "deep state," etc. Oh no. The horror. Lets shut everything down. Won't you think of the poor politicians? We must do everything possible to prot
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by disown 6y ago
Not only do they justify censorship, there is a suspicious amount of comments trying to minimize or delegitimize greenwald in a sneaky boilerplate response: "I used to think he was a good journalist", "I used to respect his j
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by disown 6y ago
> There have been a virtually uncountable number of high-profile investigative pieces that criticise people in power published in the last 6 months! This argument is nonsense. They have been attack dogs of one political party or the othe
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by disown 6y ago
> Either that, or there are specific sourcing rules for journalists based on the credibility of the sources. A kuwaiti diplomat's daughter or intelligence officers are not credible sources. And neither is the nytimes, wsj or any maj
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by disown 6y ago
> In what sense? The media has always censored information that can't be verified. If that was the case, we wouldn't have been involved in any wars in the past few decades. > Nytimes doesn't publish articles about flat
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by disown 6y ago
> It seems to be well written It is well written or it isn't. What's with the "seems" business? > contains some valid points. Does it? Then why did you fail to mention a single one in your comment?
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by disown 6y ago
> Having something touchable that moves according to what you told it to is very captivating for some people. To most people, it's "stuff" too. Also my response was in reference to children learning software. Not mindlessl
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by disown 6y ago
> Their emails and calls can go unanswered, or Amazon's replies are incomprehensible, making sellers suspect they're at the mercy of algorithms with little human oversight. Only if you are the "little guy". Y
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by disown 6y ago
> Humans are simply inefficient at farming compared to machines, and slavery served to artificially decrease the cost of human labor to the point that machines and automation processes could never compete. In other words, human labor was
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by disown 6y ago
The skeptic in me wonders if this is just an advertisement campaign for "programmable robots". > I want to show my kids what you can achieve with software development Have you tried a simple "hello world!" program? Th
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by disown 6y ago
> Before Snowden they would call you "paranoid" No. They'd call you a "conspiracy theorist". By "they", I mean the news/media would call you a "conspiracy theorist".
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> With social media, the genie is out the bottle with that initial statement, and there's no way to set the record straight anymore, let alone in two weeks before an election. Isn't it actually easier to correct the record with
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by disown 6y ago
> like the HN audience I think most of the HN audience is well aware of the positive aspects of IQ. It's just that the power structure here protects the vocal minority who espouse solely the negative side. Like so much of media&#x2F
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by disown 6y ago
It's interesting that the "news" site advocating for censorship all across youtube, facebook, google, etc is also shaming zoom for "censorship".
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by disown 6y ago
So they were "very very" wrong rather than "very very very" wrong like other pollsters? I think you proved the OP right rather than wrong.
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by disown 6y ago
There is nothing intrinsically evil about a gun. You might as well say that a knife, pen or any other inanimate object is intrinsically evil. Also, there is nothing intrinsically evil about defending yourself.

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