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by disown 6y ago
> with each soldier that comes home dead Or the hundreds of civilians killed, raped, etc for every soldier killed. The biggest victims of war are the civilians. In ww2, vietnam, iraq wars, etc, the civilians accounted for the vast majori
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by disown 6y ago
That's funny cause it was the "chinese politburo" that liberated the chinese from the united states which invaded and occupied it for 100 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol But even if y
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by disown 6y ago
> Can someone help me to understand all of the pessimism surrounding plant-based meat? Think about what you wrote. Plant-based "meat". Would you eat a meat based salad that was created in a lab? > "it's not healthi
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by disown 6y ago
It doesn't make any sense because we don't know the what, how or the why of it yet. Consciousness makes as much sense as a solar eclipse made to the primitive man who had no conception of the solar system. A program on your comput
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by disown 6y ago
> Recently I read the statistics on the frequency of journalists being killed. I was appalled. Where? What are the stats? > I suppose I never thought deeply enough to conclude the torture and murder of Jamal Khashoggi is a manifestati
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by disown 6y ago
Just yesterday I was noting how we are moving into a subscription model world in the linux thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029829 It isn't just software, but also hardware that is going to be subscriptio
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by disown 6y ago
> Peter Jennings (also RIP) and Alex Trebek are usually the first two that come to mind. But they are americans. They chose to immigrate to the US and become americans. They didn't choose to be canadians. The only reason anyone know
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by disown 6y ago
Right... And iraq was invaded because of the truth? You think russia and china lie because of propaganda. Their citizens believe we lie because of propaganda. Whether one views another country favorably relies entirely on propaganda.
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by disown 6y ago
You have to stop reading propaganda. If we had a vote around the world, russia and china together would win over the "west" by a long shot. It wasn't russia and china brutalizing the world for 500 years. It isn't russia
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by disown 6y ago
We seem to be slowly moving from an ownership model to a subscription model where you pay "rent" with money or data. Not just software but hardware as well. How long before smartphones are simply fused shut preventing you from ope
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by disown 6y ago
Even worse, if you mention the "telemetry" in VSCode, you get a PR barrage of downvotes and comments saying it's "optional" and Microsoft isn't like facebook and they don't depend on data. Nevermind that d
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by disown 6y ago
> I always assumed there was a clean cut between jeopardy fans and wheel fans. I'm sure there some purists as there are purists in anything. But purists are small portion of the overall audience. The overlap fanbase between the sho
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by disown 6y ago
I think when he gained his US citizenship became an american. Besides he lived most of his life in the US, marriedan american, had american children, chose to die in america and his best work is in america as an american. Not sure on the ca
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by disown 6y ago
> If you’re intimidated by man pages $ man man Excellent start for newbies.
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by disown 6y ago
Please use harrassment free language. You've broken a few comment rules. Can you review the community guidelines and refrain from breaking the rules? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by disown 6y ago
> Thus, the Streisand Effect doesn't apply. Must be why we are not talking about it.
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by disown 6y ago
> We've wiped viruses off the face of the planet before Only recently. Widespread vaccine use is a fairly recent phenomenon. > Eradicating smallpox has apparently saved 5 million lives a year! It certainly saved lives but we real
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by disown 6y ago
Anyone else get weird vibes reading that? If feels like that comment was written yesterday and an eternity ago. It's feels like 4 years just passed by in a jiffy but at the same time, it felt like it was the longest 4 years of my life.
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by disown 6y ago
> No, the real call isn't until the electoral college votes on December 14th. Doubtful. Doesn't look like Trump is going to concede. Likely litigation and supreme court in the coming weeks. > The media is calling states when
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by disown 6y ago
Doesn't that actually make his tweets stand out even more? Like how putting parental advisory warnings made a cd/album even more desirable. Or how a banned books list is a form of advertising and draws more interest to the banned
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by disown 6y ago
> I find it admirable of people who can eat with modesty. You mean eat in moderation? Though I guess it's also admirable to eat with modesty.
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by disown 6y ago
> "let the magic invisible hand of the market work, and all will be great". Just because the hand is invisible doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means that we can't see it. The "invisible hand" doe
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by disown 6y ago
The headline made me think of paypal. From extremophile to tardigrade to paypal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450828 It's amazing what the human mind is capable of. That or I need to kick my HN addiction.
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by disown 6y ago
> Honest question: People who start with "honest question" usually are not being honest. > The only argument I've heard was "well most present-day hunter-gatherer societies are like this" Not most. All of them
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by disown 6y ago
Also this article posted here 2 days ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24983589
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by disown 6y ago
> "good people don't scale well on the internet" Where do good people scale well? Hollywood, news, DC, politics, military, wall street, etc?
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by disown 6y ago
Is the charity organization called "My Bank Account"? Also, what do you mean by "profits". What are the expenses? After reading about hollywood accounting, I'm always suspicious about "profit".
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by disown 6y ago
> I live in a "Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S." Become batman. That might help. > However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place. The narcissistic ego. It's not "brain drain",
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by disown 6y ago
> Billionaires are nothing more than gamblers who are propped up by monopolized politics. Also monopolized capital. Lots of people understood the prospects of the "internet" market. The question is who has access to capital and
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by disown 6y ago
If you are interested in where the name "grep" came from: g/re/p g: global re: regular expression p: print. https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html

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