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> and many Western settlers were lured into the Midwest/South only to suffer a hapless fate as so many and were captured, killed, raped, enslaved. lured? The natives ( comanche, lakota, dakota, cheyenne, etc ) didn't want weste
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It's likely you guys talked about it twice. "He competed in the French Championship and won his second Classique Championship" (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe... There
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It's growing in popularity for sure. Nakamura's streaming, Magnus's tournament and everything moving online due to covid helped. But I wouldn't call it "taking over" and I doubt it has staying power. How long
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> For anyone reading this and considering seeking help: There is a strong anti-psychiatry movement online following in the footsteps of the anti-vax movement. There has been a strong anti-pschiatry movement in academia/science. It&#
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> Please expand on that. If you don't even know this, why are you making comments here as if you know what you are talking about? "Even though it excluded areas not in rebellion, it still applied to more than 3.5 million of the
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> I don't have a car. Get rid of the roads. So you don't have a car. Should you pay for other people's car maintenance? Should you pay for other people's gasoline and the gas tax? You do know that the gas tax pays for
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6y ago
Huffman coding, Turing Machine, Amdahl's law, Boolean algebra, Currying, Ada, etc
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I asked you to stick to the "substance". Lets please keep to that going forward. > Since you seem to have totally missed my point, let me try again. "Even if you think you're saying that in good faith, don't do t
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> It’s selfish of them to be resentful. Isn't it more selfish to expect preferential treatment, privileges and time off just for having kids? > Kids are the ones who will be working when these people retire (whether by then they
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K&R is easily one of the best CS/programming books. Short, concise and to the point. Another way to learn pointers is via assembly. Either learn assembly or just look at the disassembled code. Look under the hood and it'll bec
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The north had slaves too ( just not that many ). So using your logic, the north wasn't a free market either then. Once again, you are confusing what "free market" means. "In economics, a free market is a system in which
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> You seem rather clearly to be violating HN's guidelines, the assumption of good faith. And no assumption of good faith towards me? > On to substance: You can have lots of things within a country that make the economy "more
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> The Constitution prohibits tariffs internally: Yes because that's the point of a nation. In other words... tariffs are for foreign nations. All you've done is proven me correct and you wrong. You just debunked your own claim.
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> It did have tariffs on trade with foreign countries, that's right. Who else would you have tariffs on? Yourself? > Tariffs don't automatically make a country "not free market", any more than taxes do. Actually, t
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> Wanna try again? No need. Everything you linked is self proclaimed tweets. By someone obviously very good at selling himself. I'm sure I can link to Zuckerburg tweeting about how concerned he is about privacy issues. Does that mak
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The north wasn't a "free market economy". It was a protectionist economy rife with tariffs. As a matter of fact, it was the south that wanted a "free market" economy. They wanted little to no tariffs so that britain
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> (I dropped out of a non-prestigious school and had work experience at one company, have raised $120m+ in <4 yrs). In other words, you had connections? I'm guessing you weren't a poor single mother who dropped out of school
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I'd be interested in proof/data (if it is even possible) rather than "some investment banker claims", etc. The finance industry is huge and even softbank with their $100 billion is a tiny player in the market especially
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Stars and Stripes is a government ( DoD ) newspaper. How does it speak truth to power when it is a pentagon run entity?
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> That vs. Fox News, which was designed from the start as arm of the GOP and is a fount of intentional misinformation. What do you think the NYT was designed from the start as? Charitable saints interested in the truth didn't create
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> Zuckerberg owns Facebook in a way that no other major company (to my knowledge) is owned. He is a monarch that can override any and all board politics. So can brin/page. They own more than 50% of the voting rights of alphabet. Zuc
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> I was hoping this would be an article for beginners to understand daemons Why? On hacker news, you hoped for that? > Growing up... Placebo effect, demonic possession, alien abductions, etc? What's going on here? Your comment ha
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From 30-35% in all big ten athletes with covid to... "At this time, there have been no cases of myocarditis in covid-19 positive student-athletes at Penn State." So walked back from the entire conference to a single university whi
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It makes you wonder. Why isn't commute included? At the very least, shouldn't it be compensated 50% since it is activity done partly for work while not work itself?
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> More dangerous are the people who would implore you to ignore all sources from what they perceive are enemies and pay attention only to their (or your own) bubble and prejudices. Okay. > Posts with catch phrases like "establish
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> This brings humanity back to a pre WWs mentality. While I agree that ideally we shouldn't have international cooperation based on power and submission, I don't think your depiction of post and pre-WWs mentality is accurate. T
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> You haven't understood my comment. No I understood your point perfectly. You are not understanding mine. Throughout history, people have posited your idea. A "universal" language - latin, french, esparanto, etc. Now go b
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> Shakespeare can definitely be considered "original". To be fair, the idea of inventing new words isn't very original and not limited to shakespeare. Ordinary people/writers/etc have been coining new words since
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> Kids don't universally like anything (good or bad for them--thats kids in general) Didn't say they did. Just said there is a reason why they universally don't like one thing - school. > so that argument is irrelevant.
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> I don't know why it's a big deal to identify yourself when flying on planes? Yes, why? Why do you have to identify yourself to fly on a plane? Do you have to identify yourself to travel on a light rail? Take a taxi? Cross the
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