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ehmish
6y ago
_cultural_ genocide which is a very different thing from genocide
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Yep, from my understanding what you're saying is completely correct, and the treatment of those groups is something the CCP ought to be commended on. The differences are more things like the legal status of things like drugs and prost
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ehmish
6y ago
...in the United states, which contains roughly 5% of the world's population. Reddit isn't just used by Americans.
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6y ago
Interestingly a number of these things on this list aren't unfettered good things. E.g reducing iron absorption, or increasing fuel efficiency, e.g if you're vegan, or you're trying to lose weight respectively those aren'
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ehmish
7y ago
I'd say yes to both, but I'm not from the US so I have no horse in this race
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7y ago
As a millennial who has worked in open plan environments all my career, open plan offices are pretty good, so long as you've got headphones. I've got no problem with people interrupting people of they need me, but otherwise the no
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7y ago
I'd be worried that whatever new tld I switched to would just as easily do the same thing (start charging stupid money for it), with a big enough tld at least then you'd have enough critical mass to stage a protest (e.g the .org t
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7y ago
Effectively what these mean is that, for example, if your product is popular in places where a lot of people are young white people, in a single family household, in the countryside, without a university degree it is not likely to be succes
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7y ago
Can't edit it now, but noticed the negative sign was missing off one of them, "single family" should be a negative value. From the paper: These values effectively state the correlation between the odds of the product s
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7y ago
Coefficients of demographic characteristics of "Harbringers of failure" zip codes: Age -.2971 High school -.1710 Home value .2865 Bachelor’s degree .1197 Income .0646 White -.3919 Single family .4047 African American .2232 Multifa
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7y ago
Koalas probably won't ever go extinct, they may do so in the wild but they'll be plenty in zoos.
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7y ago
I was a bit curious did a bit of digging around into this, and I found this[1] article linked to on a rationalwiki article on Falun Gong. It seems to call into question the claim that china is doing a lot of secret organ transplants [1] htt
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7y ago
The Australian Government's Met service has a neat tool which lets you see live images from the Himawari 8 satelite, which shows the smoke really well. http://satview.bom.gov.au/
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7y ago
The only person who has ever recommended Joe Rogan's podcasts to me was quite a leftie so I find this article's thesis a bit odd. This could be because of this new concept of "left = acceptance" and ignoring the more his
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7y ago
Perhaps this is the answer to this question https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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7y ago
Ever since I read McKinsey's "in search of excellence" I've been a bit skeptical of these sort of "to run your company better just follow this one weird trick" pieces. The book when I read it was quite convin
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7y ago
What's more difficult to add to the dictionary before hand are things more like "samisacorrecthorsebatterystaple". Once you add in proper nouns, the practicality of pre-loading compounds doesn't work as well, since the
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7y ago
Right but if there's 6 words it goes up exponentially, even if they're short words >>> math.factorial(4) 24 >>> math.factorial(6) 720 So the password iamahorsebatterystaple is about 30x harder to crack than corre
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7y ago
Seems to be a number of assumptions: a) the words are correctly spelled b) you're only using words from macOS's /usr/share/dict/words c) there no more than 4 words d) there's no punctuation, capitalisation
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7y ago
It's CPU initialisation microcode, it has to be put in a bios update for your motherboard. Specifically it's called AEGSA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGESA
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7y ago
Currently the elites are fighting and not one united front against the non-elites (the rise of tech created a new elite group that wasn't dependent on the existing elites to exist), bit that doesn't mean one side won't either
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7y ago
This seems like it's a natural result of the US economy being concentrated in the finance, insurance and real estate sectors, i.e just shuffling money around rather than production.
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7y ago
Even better: https://www.iea.org/sankey/
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No it's more that I'd your product fulfills a real need, people will find you. The fact that people don't without advertising says it isn't a real need.
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7y ago
It's say it's more likely related to a recent sale of arms and planes to Qatar, who are in their bad books https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-10/qatar-donald-trump...
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In Australia I've also received poor care from people with the title "General Practitioner", I think the principle of "90 percent of anything is crap" applies to Doctors just as much as it does to Nurses.
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7y ago
There's a big difference between a hog farm, which no-one's trying to build in cities, and where we aren't doing it for the welfare of others, and say what's more commonly struck down, which is affordable housing and hom
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A good way to avoid people being displaced is to build enough housing to meet the demand, however there's lots of (probably well intentioned) efforts which undermine this goal, most of the people voting for these things which undermin
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The ruling part of the early United States were English settlers, so they brought their high trust society with them.
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Why do you think natural things are prima facie good ?
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