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by disown 6y ago
> The loss of letters in the modern era (replaced with video calls) will be felt by future historians. What? There are orders of magnitude more "letters" for future historians to look through. We have email, text, facebook post
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by disown 6y ago
> Can't believe all the Apple apologists here. Really? HN has been a den of Apple, Microsoft, etc worship for a while now. In another thread on the frontpage, people are encouraging people to buy Apple TV. It's partly the socia
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by disown 6y ago
Is there anything to help one stop wasting time by reading about how to stop wasting time? People must waste more time reading about how to not to waste time than anything. Just like all these people being unproductive while reading about h
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by disown 6y ago
> Unless the people is willingly supporting corruption, a corrupt state cannot be democratic, by construction. There is nothing about democracy or its construction that precludes corruption. You literally just made up nonsense. > You&
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by disown 6y ago
> Climate science is not political, climate policy is. The problem is climate policy determines climate science. > I also think the blame for that can be placed squarely with those who have chosen to attack institutions of scientific
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by disown 6y ago
> It makes me think the solution to today's anti science bias isn't just "educate more". "Anti-science" is just a propaganda term extremists accuse each other of being. It's a very easy tell. Nobody is
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by disown 6y ago
This nonsense again. If china has control over reddit, how come there are so many anti-china propagandists like you on there? The china subreddit itself is entirely an anti-china propaganda cesspool. Hasn't been anything china related
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by disown 6y ago
> If google was selling youtube today, would anyone even buy it? Of course. It's the premier video platform not just of the US but the world. And it's only going to grow. > How many companies can afford to keep it running? H
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by disown 6y ago
> I'd like to think that after the nth discussion of this topic we could all generally agree: It's either this or the neverending "How do I become more creative", "How do I become more productive", "Tri
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by disown 6y ago
I think something that obvious was intentional. Especially since it fits directly with the protagonist's mental state and his phobia of water. Water features prominently in that film for a reason.
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by disown 6y ago
The headline says "meat was banned" but according to the article the eating of birds, fish, dolphins, whales, etc were not banned. Last I checked the birds, fish, dolphins, whales, etc are animals and meat is the flesh of animals.
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by disown 6y ago
> The Central Intelligence Agency has awarded its long-awaited Commercial Cloud Enterprise, or C2E, contract to five companies—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM So every major cloud service got a contract? I guess th
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by disown 6y ago
> Why does it feel like no other software company has these sort of branding issues? This caught my eye. My initial reaction was to disagree that google was a software company and that it's more of a "tech/search/soci
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by disown 6y ago
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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by disown 6y ago
For most of the past decade, news companies demanded preferential treatment on social media and search. They wanted to be seen first and prominently. I guess that wasn't enough for them. Looks like in the 2020s, they are going to deman
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by disown 6y ago
> It means I have one place to manage subscriptions, one place with my credit card details, one place to manage family payments You are right. Choices and options just are messy. We should just have one company that does everything. Lets
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by disown 6y ago
Apple's market cap is $2 Trillion. Apple settling for $113M is like someone worth $2 million settling for $113. I don't think anyone at Apple is losing any sleep over this.
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by disown 6y ago
> Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it. Don't sleep on the EU. They are largest economic/political entity in the world. Not america, not china, not russia. The EU represents the world's largest market
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by disown 6y ago
Right on cue, a propagandist tries to turn this into a china-relate issue. What's with you people? Almost every other thread that has nothing to do with china, you people show up?
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by disown 6y ago
> Imagine if the iPhone were heroin. Ah yes. This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. I remember when the tv ( aka idiot box ) was attacked for being addictive. > Would we be so casual in dismissing it? Who is casually dismis
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by disown 6y ago
Did no one besides you read the article? FTA: "My husband and I said she could have a phone when she turned 14..." People are arguing about everything from extended school hours, excessive homework to climate change in this thread
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by disown 6y ago
> honestly reminds me of a bunch of climate change deniers What does this have to do with climate change? Ever consider getting help for your climate change addiction? "My daugher was a creative genuis, and then we introduced her to
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by disown 6y ago
There is a difference between science and "corporate science". "Corporate science" once said tobacco was healthy for you - doctor recommended cigarettes. Also science can be corruptible as well. It was once scientific fa
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by disown 6y ago
Pretty sure the dominance of ASCII on the internet and the efficieny/compatability of UTF-8 in relation to ASCII paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere. It is the standard unicode encoding of the internet. If anything, I would say the UTF-
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by disown 6y ago
> In fact, the proliferation of "bad speech" on social-media platforms has become politically untenable, and now all social-media platforms are actively fighting "bad speech." "Bad speech". That's rathe
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by disown 6y ago
So you haven't bought a smartphone, computer, camera, etc? Give me a break. You should boycott australian goods too. It's committed genocide and stole land/resources from the aborigines and got rich selling resources to china
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by disown 6y ago
I remember not too long ago, many were saying that Tesla was a scam and it was going bankrupt. It was one of the most heavily shorted stock. People laughed at Musk's $420 stock prediction. Now it's trade at many times the 420 leve
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by disown 6y ago
And you are puppeting think tank scripts too. Why not calm down and let the facts speak for themselves instead of trying to bully people into silence. That isn't going to work.
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by disown 6y ago
> There were many (and still are) many sovereign indigenous nations in what's now known as Australia There are no sovereign indigenous nations in australia. You will not find them as members in the UN, you will not find them on maps
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by disown 6y ago
They are looking for that one time where people are either not paying attention or are too exhausted to care. What is the saying? We have to win every little battle, but all they have to do is win once. > generating a slew of copystrikes

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