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by dqpb 5y ago
According to this article[1], it’s not so rosy: “another real problem remains unresolved in Israel: The visceral hatred and contempt that many “Ashkenazi” or European-origin Israelis have for “Mizrahi” Jews, and the way that the media exace
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by dqpb 5y ago
Can’t read the article. Is this a cultural/religious thing or a race thing?
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Deadlifts
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In my experience, it's nearly impossible to convey information so accurately that the the receiver is likely to make the same decision you would make. There is a simple low-effort high-information solution to this problem - have everyo
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I assumed most tweets aren’t by real people anymore.
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Be careful buying kids toys from china. Many of them contain lead. In fact, it's probably best to not buy anything from a culture of people who hate you. Also, get a lead test for your child at every checkup, not just the ones where th
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by dqpb 5y ago
450-550 is great, especially since ambient levels outside are about 420. I live in an old house and with windows closed and no hvac fan running, rooms only take about 30 minutes to get up to 800ppm with one person in them. After an hour or
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by dqpb 5y ago
If you have central heating / AC, running it in fan mode also helps a lot in reducing CO2 in a room.
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This is how you know that they know that what they’re doing is unjustifiable.
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Sergey Brin is getting back in touch with his roots.
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Well, it’s also Fox News’ business model.
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I think most people in positions of power aren’t creators. Control and ownership is the only thing they know.
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2038 is approximately the Omega point, according to Jürgen Schmidhuber, so this makes sense. https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg
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That is true of human generated content as well, so I think that makes this a good thing in the long run.
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Certainly it’s system right? High performance -> happiness -> high performance.
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Also a bully and an autocrat.
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Don’t focus on the rat race, focus on the big picture. What doesn’t exist yet that you desperately want to exist? Spend your time on that. Here is a good example of taking a big picture view: Modern Artificial Intelligence 1980s-2021 and Be
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> china cannot adopt quarantine measures indefinitely. But isn’t this exactly the level of control the government wants to maintain indefinitely?
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Maybe supply chain is a better analogy than debt. Poor software increases the length and cost of the supply chain of producing new features, or it makes the supply chain more fragile, or less flexible.
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Woah, I have a huge number of flagged articles that I don’t even remember seeing. My guess is that I must have flagged these while scrolling (on my phone). When scrolling, my thumb lands right on “flag | hide”. @dang, maybe the flag links s
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by dqpb 5y ago
> the word “racist” doesn't observe the artificial distinction… Words aren’t observers. It’s you who doesn’t observe the distinction.
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Aside from the fact that they are literally wearing their country's flag, I tend to agree with you.
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China is a country, not a race.
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> I don't give a flying fuck about sports This has nothing to do with sports.
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There is a very small number of people who actually know what critical race theory is.
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> which Chinese student groups had said "incited racial hatred and ethnic tensions." Really? Was it the "Chinese Race" that force sterilized young Uyghur women? Was it the "Chinese Ethnicity" which tried to
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> We should also think about the Proud Boys and Sons of Odin who have gone to the rally to radicalize its participants. The on-the-ground experience of regular folks participating will be of being called Nazis, traitors, Klansmen, bigots
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by dqpb 5y ago
I find “believe” and “feel” to be more natural in relation to a fact which is still under investigation. As more affirmative samples come in, I feel and believe more strongly in its truth. “Conclude” implies conclusion, where no further evi
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I did read the article. It didn’t say anything about teachers inability to punish disrespectful students. Rather, it said things like this: > One of the things that students benefit from (diverse educators) is this idea of seeing themsel
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> Inability to punish students, lack of respect It sounds like you leaving the profession was best for everyone involved.

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