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by disown 6y ago
> These insanely expensive defense projects are wealth transfer programs that make contractors like Lockheed and their many sub-contractors rich, and also create jobs in these communities. I wish we'd go back to calling the "D
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> It may be technically correct, but you don't hear about how the GIs murdered a bunch of Nazis on the beaches of Normandy or whatever other war suits your fancy. Save for the particularly one sided conflicts. That's because th
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by disown 6y ago
> I'm not upset. "I'll just respond with most of your horseshit assertions with one statement:" Seems like you were upset. > Just correcting false facts propagated by ignorant folks. Such as yourself. Seems like yo
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by disown 6y ago
Seems like everything is hitting all-time highs. Housing prices, stock market, bitcoin. If you have a lot of assets, it's honestly the best time. Especially if you owned a lot of tech stocks the past decade. If covid and the worldwide
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by disown 6y ago
> Agadmator is a very charismatic speaker but he does very little analysis. It's good enough for the vast majority of chess players. Most chess players are casual fans. They aren't interested in deep analysis. And besides, if y
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by disown 6y ago
Also, why is this story on the frontpage? If it wasn't an NPR story would it gain any traction here? Not only is it not newsworthy, it is uninteresting. It's more spam than news.
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> India isn't a unified secular democracy (at least constitutionally) because of Britain, but in spite of it. I agree. Not sure why you were so upset. I didn't say britain made india a democracy. Britain didn't bring democ
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by disown 6y ago
veganism is an inherently unhealthy diet. it's why they have to take supplements.
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> After two weeks on potatoes, you go to a plant based, vegan lifestyle until you hit your target weight Aren't potatoes "plant based, vegan"? I swear people go from one extreme terrible diet to another. Going from one ter
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> China is 90%+ ethnic Han with one-language-multiple-dialects, one-party state with most population concentrated in a few provinces. Indian elections might have a hundred plus candidates running for one-seat for parliament. India is a m
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by disown 6y ago
> to bring diversity of opinion to the newspaper But the author of the article is a bloomberg employee. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ASj7dG4ftKY/andy-m... > that's where "op-eds&q
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> We need a way to manufacture our own hardware. Just like we can already write our own software. We may write code but we didn't write the compiler which compiles the code. We didn't develop the runtimes, kernels, etc our soft
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by disown 6y ago
> No, it's about whether Switzerland is "Not much for developers who are looking for interesting challenges" "Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers..." > Maybe you know that life science is
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by disown 6y ago
We are talking about Silicon Valley though. A specific kind of "high-tech". Regardless of what the OECD definition is, we are talking about computers/software/internet/etc.
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Exactly. It's great that so many people are getting jobs, but it just means that many small businesses closed. And as amazon gets bigger, it'll put even more pressure on smaller businesses. With amazon getting into the pharmacy bu
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by disown 6y ago
> Do you regularly record interactions with your coworkers, on the chance they may say something incriminating? That's a silly response and you know it. If there was systematic racism, as the article seems to be implying, then yes,
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by disown 6y ago
They don't call it the human resources department for no reason... If you look at cities/modern civilization, it's really no different from an industrial farm. People who run industrial farms are focused on the production of
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by disown 6y ago
Those aren't key factors. They are petty nonsense. > * Everyone hates ads. Yet ads are everywhere. > since there is too much competition that doesn't rely on ad revenue What competition? What is the challenge to google searc
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> at least 11 of them informed the human resources department or their managers about what they said was racist or discriminatory treatment ... One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing dru
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> Before you ask, I do think that they should be paying more rather than less. Maybe the 99% should have more wealth and income so that they could pay more taxes instead? The mantra about wealth and income being about merit/hard wo
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by disown 6y ago
I thought it was quantum computing? It's crazy how quickly the hype switches. What ever happened to graphene? I remember reading a bunch of articles in 2015 that it would revolutionize society by 2020.
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> This is exactly how online political campaigning works these days. Not just online propaganda. All propaganda. > That's why billions of Facebook ads spreading 'fear and uncertainty' over things like immigration and b
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by disown 6y ago
Apparently GOOG is dying and that's why it gained $1 trillion market cap the last 10 years - the vast majority of it in the last 5 years. The article is so full of nonsense, it's unbelievable. > Google made almost all its money
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Journalists exist to push a narrative. They don't exist to present facts. Only naive children believe in that fairy tale. Anyone paying attention realizes now that journalists are partisan political activists and should be treated as s
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by disown 6y ago
Concentration of capital is the essential point of capitalism. It's the ultimate end goal. Also, capital is a unit of power in a capitalist system and in all systems, power wants to concentrate. Power has a gravitation pull.
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A lot more animals are killed to raise plants/vegetation. And I'm not talking a little more, I'm talking 1000X more. What will you do now?
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> I wonder where anti-abortion people come down on this. I don't think it matter whether you are pro-abortion or anti-abortion since it's a chicken we are talking about. The abortion debate is about human life. Why post such fl
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The power of WFM and Zoom classrooms. If there is one thing people will pay extra for, it's their employment and especially their kids' schooling. When a school tells a parent that they need high speed internet for their kids&#x27
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Also Zoom classrooms for kids/students. Work and school from home is probably the catalyst for higher inter speeds as employees/parents need faster internet speeds for Zoom. It would also correlate with the rise of Zoom stock pric
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No "computer enthusiast" is enthusiastic about apple. People who used apple products are generally laughed at by computer enthusiasts. Apple products are for non computer enthusiasts. Apple products are for sheep. Computer enthusi

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