dntbnmpls

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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
What a misleading title. Apparently there are 4 motivators to benefit others. One: The recipient of a kindness is inclined to do something nice for the giver in return. Two: A person is motivated to do something nice to someone that she saw
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> How do they think Google became what it is, or most American companies like Amazon? Because of us government funding which created silicon valley. Silicon Valley itself is pretty much a DoD project. The foundation of the internet and m
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Biological weapons are more restricted by the fact that they're impossible to control, and so using an effective one is a suicide mission. It isn't a suicide mission if your side is immune to it. For example, biological warfa
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> What are some examples of English words or phrases that are so loaded with cultural significance that they are difficult to translate? There's more than one way to skin a cat. The whole nine yards. Also, there was a thread where a
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> That's incorrectly ordered, Rupert Murdoch wishes he was Mark Zuckerberg. Can't say he didn't tried. But even murdoch and his billions couldn't outzuck the zuck. "News Corp. to Acquire MySpace" https:&#x2
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
That's not how it works. They can't censor. It's why they don't. Can you show me anyone who has been #Canceled from their phone service? Ever wonder why nobody demanded Harvey Weinstein or Trump lose their phone numbers?
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Even better, 25 lbs from 60' up lol Oddly terrifying. Could be a trailer to a new horror film - The Drone Chainsaw Massacres.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Asians do not have a historical baggage in USA. This is simply not true. Though we associate lynchings with blacks, the first mass lynchings in the US was of asians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_o
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Yep. Not to mention sharing your true opinions on deep/intimate topics to strangers is generally a terrible idea especially on camera. Also, these types of posts make me wonder what the goals of the project are. Is the intent here to g
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
What about the privacy implications for your students? Do you have a way you handle that? Aren't you giving microsoft tons of your students' info ( including grades ) without the students' permission or even awareness?
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> No. But you said "Yes" two lines above. > They are common carriers. These common carriers are private companies, not public companies. They aren't owned by the government. They are owned by private shareholders. AT&am
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> You're ignoring the potential effects on property value. Bingo. Surprised nobody else brought this up. Not to mention the neighboring home/property owners are going to be pissed off because it's a potential drag on their
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Intelligence is situational — there is no such thing as general intelligence. Not sure about that. But certainly human intelligence is far more general than goldfish intelligence similar to how a turing machine is more general than a f
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> It's not they can't censor, it's that if they do then their legal status changes in a way they do not wish it too. In other words, they can't censor as they are. A private company cannot censor.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> This is why Canada detained Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou. That isn't why. Canada detained her on US orders because we are engaged in a trade war with china. No trade war, no arrest. Huawei's dealings with iran are so insign
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> This has nothing to do with the Constitution and everything to do with their licenses for public airwaves. Public airwaves? This applied during the landline days and it had more to do with the idea of monopolies/utilites/trus
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> There's literally no way you can read the 1st amendment and think it should apply to non government entities. It specifically mentions congress only. It already applies to non government entities. Telephone companies can't de
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Their peering points are all in the US. So it's not global yet.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Go programs compile down to a single binary with all dependencies included. In contrast to C#, no runtime is needed, so applications may run in very thin containers such as scratch or alpine. This was by design and not necessarily a ba
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
You are being deceptive here. The original point is "How do you deal with programming languages' being so based on English?" Nobody is saying that C or C# is the english language. Of course C and C# are programming languages.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
The media didn't document the crime. It was ordinary people with smartphones.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> I do not see programming language as English. Sure it may use alphabet and borrow some english word but to me it still hardly english. Assembly language was invented and created in english to make it easier for english speaking develop
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Just because you "delete" the accounts doesn't necessarily mean they are deleted. The social media companies most likely just set the flag in the "deleted" column. Not only that, it's almost a certainty that s
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
So what? If you offered a reason for why this particular article was better, then your comment would have added value. Otherwise it seems like a poorly paid social media worker at the nytimes spamming here.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
A lot of people agree with you. He had an exhibit in central park a while ago and most people I knew thought it was a pure waste of time and resources. Only a few who were in art school at the time cared about it. They even volunteered to h
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Crowd-sourced news is coming of age. That's what people thought around 2010, then we got censorship and control. If you like r/news now, then you would have loved it 10 years ago when it was more "crowd-sourced" wit
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
"And the Jew squats on the window sill, the owner, Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp, Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47254/gerontion There
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Retrospective law does not exist in civilised societies. They exist in "civilized" societies when it suits their interests. The most famous being the nuremburg trials. Edit: In case the downvoter truly didn't know ... h
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> How does a standardized test benefit nonconformists? Because it's an objective standard? You don't have to kiss your teacher's ass for good grades, you don't have to conform to extracurriculars to boost your standin
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
If you include all human activity - like home building and farming, it's probably in the quadrillions.

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