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Isn't that why some people theorize that shakespeare's plays weren't written by one person, but a group of people? I remember one of my teachers in high school mentioning that we don't even have definitive/direct ev
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> Zig shows a third way by rethinking, from the ground up, how low-level programming could and should be done. I don't know about that. "that of C's "syntax-sugared Assembly" is pretty much how most people want t
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> I cannot imagine needing an app for my toothbrush. The problem is if all toothbrushes become 'smart'. Then you won't have the choice of buying a simple toothbrush. Seems like the trend today is the put chips into everyth
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6y ago
What a silly page. Wonder who wrote that. It lists Christian texts and it lists Jewish text. Not a single mention of a judeo-christian scripture. What I was looking for was the "judeo-christian scripture". Is the Talmud a judeo-ch
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> Targeted advertising is a major reason for the Internet’s success. It's the major reason for social media's success, not the internet. The internet was successful long before social media. > It has allowed many companies t
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> both common wording in Judeo-Christian scripture No such thing as judeo-christian scripture. Who created this term? Edit: Instead of downvoting, why name this judeo-christian scripture so I may read it?
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> I believe the reason it never took off in a serious way is because it combines all the downsides of dynamic typing with the downsides of static typing. Are you talking about scheme? It didn't take off for the same reason all other
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> This whole need to create a narrative about all western history evil You are building a strawman here. Nobody is saying all western history is bad ( as if there is such a thing really - there isn't ), but the west has been the sou
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It's amazing how well propaganda works. The idea that he prevented an atomic war is absurd. Firstly, he was a lieutenant colonel. Had no power to start anything let alone nuclear war. Secondly, even if he had accepted the false alarms,
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> We need competition in the US and China dominated spaces. China dominates what in the global software industry? Desktop OS? Smartphone OS? Office Suite? Database? Web server? But I agree that we do need more competition.
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Why? What's happening in north carolina?
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> James Gosling has contributed more to humanity than the overwhelming majority of people who have ever lived. Not more than stallman though. Nowhere close to stallman. > I think he deserves better than this narrow, one-sided libel. R
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> The JRE is entertainment in the same sense that Last Week Tonight is entertainment. Yes, it is intended to be entertaining, but it also tries to sell itself as being informative. Informative isn't the same thing as factual. And y
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> Science is basically the most censored field out there. Science isn't censored. It's the opposite. It is open and it is tested. You are allowed to claim/hypothesize whatever you want. And you and others are allowed to te
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The JRE is an entertainment show. Do you think every entertainment show should be factual? > For instance, Joe Rogan literally just spread a bunch of misinformation about the wildfires ( https://www.cnn.com/2020/09&#
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Censorship is the suppression of speech period. It can be done by the government, private institutions or even individuals. You can even censor yourself ( self-censorship ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship The
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> I didn't encountered many, to be honest. There are anti-CCP groups, which is something different. Ah yes. "CCP". A wonderful new propaganda term that suddenly sprung out of nowhere. What happened to chinazi or the myriad
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> EDIT: Just to clarify, FB doesn't take a cut of the money earned, so the Apple 30% was coming out of money that would have gone to the businesses. FB doesn't take a cut of the money, they take all of the data. Strangely enoug
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"Survivor Corps"? How dramatic can you be? Besides, isn't the survival rate over 99% for covid?
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> I have previously seen these baseless accusations of Wikipedia and Reddit being pro-Taiwan and pro-India. It's not that wikipedia and reddit are pro-taiwan and pro-india, it's that pro-taiwan and pro-indian propagandists have
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> The BBC is not government funded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un... But you probably knew this already. > and it regularly, in fact constantly, reports things that do not benefit t
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> Am I the only one who thinks watching videos is an inefficient way to learn new programming techniques? Just watching wouldn't be of help. Watching and doing will probably get you far. As for how efficient they are, it probably de
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> I feel the same about Liquorice I was starting to get worried that I was the only one. There should be laws prohibiting the placement of the word candy anywhere near the word liquorice. It's the worst form of false advertisement I
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> There is nothing in the article that mentions anything related to politics. The title itself is political. > Why don't you read the article first? I have. Have you? > I guess it's too much to ask of anybody these days.
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Just in time for the election. What a coincidence. Strange how every "disinformation" tool or "fact checker" seems like tools of disinformation itself. Also, shouldn't mozilla be working towards becoming independent
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> Morale of the story, don't let a dentist put you under without an actual anesthesiologist involved. An anesthesiologist says anesthesiologists are indispensable? How shocking. There are plenty of horror stories when anesthesiologi
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> The Mozilla execs could all make more money at FAANG companies just down the road from Mozilla HQ. So let them. > The same is true for most of the engineers at Mozilla. They could go to FAANGs and increase their compensation quite a
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> Eventually you will not feel like "I have no agency over my own life". The fact that you have to resort to an excel spreadsheet implies that you have no agency over your life. People with actual agency over their lives don&#x
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> Documentaries are made a clear statement of narrative intent. You can disagree with the positioning, but a documentary never pretends to be something other than a documentary. Except that the masses believe "documentaries" =
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> lack of news seems very odd. Why does it seem odd? Go watch/read news from a variety of sources. You'll notice that "news" is quite different from country to country and region to region. The same goes for history.
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