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by dnomad 8y ago
This is pretty silly. But then the article is also really silly. Psychopaths are not superheroes. They don't have magical powers. And, believe it or not, they are absolutely not narcissists who need stimulation from other people. In si
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by dnomad 8y ago
The mental gymnastics at work here are to be expected. There's really a total lack of integrity when it comes to Europeans admitting the extraordinary crimes of the past and providing redress. This is why absolutely nobody takes seriou
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by dnomad 8y ago
The presence of an SEC investigation is cause for concern. But why not just say that? Why repeat absurd rumors about billion dollar investor lawsuits? What does it gain you to spread, by your own admission, completely baseless rumors? I kee
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by dnomad 8y ago
According to rumors I heard that Tesla's internal legal team has determined that Musk will have to give up one of his children. But then that could be just pure bullshit like all of these Tesla "rumors" turn out to be. When d
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> I don't see a problem with this, so long as doctors can earn a decent living. There's an enormous opportunity to disrupt doctors. Doctors, particularly in the US, are grossly overpaid for the value they deliver. As I said b
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by dnomad 8y ago
That's a very strange way to consider salaries. 7% of the healthcare output is extraordinary. By any measure US doctors are obscenely overpaid for what is ultimately not very creative or challenging work. On average US doctors earn 2-5
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's always strange watching programmers defend go's obvious deficiencies. I mean, this sort of "appeal to simplicity" could be used to defend anything. The reality is most go programs are (1) very difficult to understan
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is exactly like the wild claims about "Iraqi babies being killed in incubators" [1]. It's an absurd, baseless claim but somehow it gets regularly accepted as true. At some point you would think that journalists would s
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Isn't it strange how in just a few days we go from "credible reports" of 1 million individuals to a fact of two million people in one "massive" "camp"? What's going to happen by Monday?
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by dnomad 8y ago
Forgive us if we completely disregard anonymous sources. This sort of "reporting" is not based on any kind evidence or actual investigation. It is pure gossip. At this point we know only that there are people inside Google who are
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by dnomad 8y ago
That excerpt was definitely the stupidest fucking thing I've read this week. It's always a bit shocking to see what passes for economic analysis in libertarian circles. It really is just a bunch of old people and wannabees spinnin
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by dnomad 8y ago
It will absolutely never happen in the US but similar ideas are floating around France where there is real support and likelihood of something happening before 2025. The Accountable Capitalism Act is too complicated. The remedy here is quit
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's strange, isn't it? It's a ritual at this point: an anti-China post is submitted by adventured, rapidly voted up, and then filled with comments that are a competition to see who can denounce China the most. What do you su
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by dnomad 8y ago
The entire idea is a bit wacky. But then it really demonstrates why "coding interviews" that consist entirely of algorithm questions and puzzle questions are pointless. If your interview can be studied for then you're not hir
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is what really irks the West. China did not allow themselves to be controlled by external debt like the Soviet Union. The Chinese have not only avoided debt slavery they have actually begun to weaponize their own debt power and such
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by dnomad 8y ago
The Big Six made most of that money and they don't do much actual traditional banking these days. The other 6500 US banks are hardly raking it in.
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by dnomad 8y ago
You don't even need $500m to start a "real" bank. The problem is that banking is a business for suckers. Banks only make money because, theoretically, they have low capital costs. But these days there are many, many entities
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by dnomad 8y ago
> I can go on Facebook right now and post any opinion I like of my government. No you can't. Facebook regularly censors content just like every other rational organization on the planet that hosts a forum. (Though it's a bit am
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by dnomad 8y ago
I don't think you understand what constitutes "evidence." A NY Times article that doesn't contain a single verifiable fact or even a first hand witness account is not evidence, by any actual reasonable basis, that a mill
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by dnomad 8y ago
> At the risk of sounding nationalistic, I think companies in the United States and other democratic countries should reconsider any and all business relationships with authoritarian regimes like those in China and Russia. It just sounds
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by dnomad 8y ago
> How kind of the government to forcibly separate families and relocate Uighurs to camps where there culture is eradicated, all in the name of poverty alleviation. And what makes you think they're forcibly separating families? Did y
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's not whataboutism to point out that the vast majority of anti-Chinese propaganda being posted to HN is just that. There are real problems in Xinjang. Noted Xinjang politicians and academics do disappear. China has both secret court
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by dnomad 8y ago
At this point the only thing this thread actually demonstrates is the intensity and the stupidity of the latest anti-Chinese propaganda. These fact-free Two Minute Hates against the endless enemies of the West are very much not about common
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> To deny something that exists, and if there is open evidence that it does exists, really has to hurt one's own credibility. What evidence? The UN says it has "credible reports." There's absolutely no information abo
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> Maybe they don't need money, and Musk is just taking advantage of undervaluation to make a great deal. But it's certainly not crazy to think that they do need money, and if so, taking the company private may be the only viabl
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by dnomad 8y ago
How is it a "narrative"? The widespread and coordinated use of drug laws to persecute minorities is a matter of historical fact. Are you disputing the historical facts? Are you familiar with the rigorous academic research on thi
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by dnomad 8y ago
Ironically, there's probably no organization on the planet that you should trust more with your personal information than Google. No organization takes privacy and security more seriously and spends more money and time getting it right
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Mathematics is not science nor would any mathematician claim to be a scientist. Pseudo-science necessarily adopts a scientific pose hence the name. None of this is particularly controversial but you can see by the downvotes how committed pe
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No, it's not allowed, because this is pseudo-science. For future reference you can detect pseudo-science very easily because pseudo-science is just the formalization of non-observable entities . The "scientist" in this study
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by dnomad 8y ago
No, it's pure propaganda. There's never been any evidence at all that Huawei has exported a compromised device. But there's been a powerful propaganda effort: the US government spews baseless accusations about Huawei, the US

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