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by elfexec 7y ago
> freedom Well a lot of people criticize our freedom to bear arms. People criticize free speech a lot. Despite what you've been told, freedom isn't held in high regard anywhere really. We just give it a lot of lip service. >
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by elfexec 7y ago
Because we've been brainwashed into thinking we aren't brainwashed and only others have been brainwashed. Also, people love to feel superior and enjoy paternalistic condescension.
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by elfexec 7y ago
If he wants to learn .NET, he should start with C# and then looked into the Framework and if he is particularly ambitious - the IL, etc. But I'm guessing he doesn't want to learn ".NET" but rather programming against MSS
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Well, an authoritative source can still be wrong but by definition does not lie That's the type of thing I imagine someone in north korea saying. By definition does not lie? That's news to me and certainly not true of any &qu
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by elfexec 7y ago
Considering that the ground is "ground", I highly doubt that. The article states that "While currents flowed through the ground, auroras filled the sky.". There may be a correlation between the currents and weather/
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by elfexec 7y ago
> but I feel like this could be a classic case of hindsight. Well it's 2020 afterall. > Now, looking back, it makes sense that the next logical step after PCs was the Internet. But the internet existed before PCs. > and I agre
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by elfexec 7y ago
> only to find Alex Jones was one of the sources. Crikey. Was he right or wrong? I love the "appeal to authority" and "ad hominem" arguments made by people. Would you rather a lie from an "authoritative" sou
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Amtrak moves 10 million through Penn Station a year. Who cares? I already said I don't care about the NJTransit, LIRR, Amtrak numbers. I can accept 110 million from those sources. What I said was that the the NYC metro numbers was
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by elfexec 7y ago
> It's shocking how easy it is to sway public opinion or plant fake stories that could have a national impact. If you want a specific example, just read about Nayirah's testimony. How the Bush government, Kuwaiti diplomats and
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Ironically, hundreds of billions of animals are killed every year for food, contributing massively to climate change, which is the root cause of these massive fires. This is simply false. It's one of these routine lies told by veg
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Situations like this make me think that public educational systems should experiment with some form of "digital literacy" courses / exercises for young children with the goal of humanizing the processes of online communi
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by elfexec 7y ago
That's if you believe that the mind is separate from the brain. I used to think so, but I'm seriously questioning that. We can already crudely manipulate the mind via manipulating the brain simply by what we see or hear (propagand
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Or maybe it would make vegetables the new "meat" in terms of ethical concerns. Do vegans distinguish between something like carrots (where you basically kill the entire plant) and apples (where the fruits are harvested but th
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by elfexec 7y ago
> people just can't imagine that America is that bad at something. No. I'm just pointing out the absurd conclusions given the numbers. It really doesn't make statistical sense that zurich would have so much more traffic th
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by elfexec 7y ago
Study funded by whom? When I see "study finds" in a news piece, I get skeptical. You could also do a "study" showing that millions of lives were saved in the US due to coal since 30% of US electricity comes from coal? Ho
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Note that a decent fraction of the subway riders at Penn Station are going to be transfers to/from NJT/LIRR/Amtrak Definitely. But the vast majority of them are going to be NYC Metro riders, not transfers. > Remove t
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by elfexec 7y ago
> While it’s legal, it is not “normal” for VC funds to be backing out of a half dozen deals at the same time. Except that softbank vision fund is not a "normal" VC fund. They many times larger than the largest VC fund. https:&
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Russia, for example, has half the GDP of France. Only in nominal terms. Russia's economy is 50% larger in PPP terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) We can argue about nominal vs
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by elfexec 7y ago
History says otherwise. China and India dominated europe economically. That was one of the reasons for the european conquest of india and china. China, Rus, Persia, Arabia, etc dominated the mongols economically. The mongols conquered them
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by elfexec 7y ago
> From Wikipedia's numbers, it services ~110 million people annually. If you look at [Note 2], that number only includes NJTransit, LIRR and Amtrak. It doesn't count NYC metro ( which is bizarre since Penn Station is a major st
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Tax rates decrease at the very top of the income spectrum because our tax codes make a deliberate choice to preferentially tax investments and capital gains. Our tax codes were written by people working for the wealthy. Our tax codes m
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by elfexec 7y ago
> That's US$650 for 100g. ~$32 for one Nigiri, so more like $50-$80 at a restaurant per piece, and only the belly meat fetches such high prices. It's a PR move more than anything. How much press does this get the buyer and the
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by elfexec 7y ago
Yes. That wasn't nice of von braun. But what does jewish slave labor in europe have to do with the US? Did Israel ask von braun to help them with their space/rocket programs? What does british civilians have to do with the US. The
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Your hypothetical assertion is heavily undermined by the actual reality of what happened with Werner Von Braun. How so? Werner Von Braun didn't invent the A-Bomb. His rockets were more of a novelty than anything. A single firebomb
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by elfexec 7y ago
Which is odd because the northwest passage dispute is easily the most important one and the other 4 are just petty local bickering. The northwest passage dispute will ultimately be about international trade and that's as serious as any
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by elfexec 7y ago
That's an excellent point. It would be interesting to see a chart of the growth of legal pharmaceutical opiates vs the growth of illegal opiates in the past few decades. It won't necessarily show causation ( and maybe not even cor
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by elfexec 7y ago
This is a prime example of the winners writing history ( or more aptly those currently in power writing history ). Can you imagine a historian writing a book titled "The Eccentric Father of the Death Camp"? The guy helped build a
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Makes a war against them even more difficult. North Korea could be armed with sticks and stones and war against them would be just as difficult since they are backed by china explicitly and russia implicitly. If china and russia said
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by elfexec 7y ago
The study's implications are far more nuanced than that. If it was about inequality, the monkeys would be outraged that the human researcher has so many cucumbers and grapes. The study is implying that people/monkeys get agitated
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Compared to the millions China is keeping in concentration camps the border tensions aren't even worth mentioning. It's millions now? Seems like every day, the propaganda keeps increasing the number. > It's currently

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