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by eplanit 5y ago
Interesting -- that sounds very good. They're actually community-based schools, in a very true sense.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I think you can use some enlightenment, as well. You should visit the US/Mexico border to see the "some". Generalizations are never 100% complete (by definition). But so much poverty and corruption, and so much desperate mi
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by eplanit 5y ago
You mean the 2 North American countries? Yes, the U.S. and Canada are similar in that they have functioning economies, and citizenry that is not desperately trying to flee.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Then why are so many migrants crossing Mexico (walking, spending lifes' savings on coyotes, sending children alone, ...) to come to the US?
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by eplanit 5y ago
Surely there are photos of the early Apple engineers in the 1970s, with their _laptops_ in each other's garages. /s
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by eplanit 5y ago
Wow. I stand corrected. Thank you.
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by eplanit 5y ago
A symptom, at most. Mexico and South American countries have very few assassinations, yet all of them are failed states.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yes. In the end, the piece is really an ad for her analytics business.
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Nominalism, Nihilism, and Modern Politics(thepublicdiscourse.com)
1 points by eplanit 5y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
And next comes automatic detection and nullification of thoughts and feelings?
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by eplanit 5y ago
It has been over 10 years for me, with no regrets. I'm fine with Hollywood being a 20th century relic -- way past time to move on.
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by eplanit 5y ago
That logo of money changing hands makes a bad impression IMHO. It made me laugh, but I doubt that's their goal. It seems like self-parody, though I'm sure it's not.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Off topic, but she looks like a close cousin to Greta Thunberg. Related in ideology if not genetically.
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Snake-like robot can destroy radioactive objects with a laser(mashable.com)
1 points by eplanit 5y ago|1 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
"Charging cables are heavy and require precision making them difficult for many disabled people to use. Also few charging stations have been added to disabled parking spaces." Interesting. Why isn't the ADA used to require s
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by eplanit 5y ago
My respect for Nobel prizes ceased when they awarded the peace prize to Obama for simply having won an election. Nothing against Obama, but it revealed how meaningless and political Nobel prizes are.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's not about Copilot, per se -- but it's clear that most users probably didn't understand when then signed up that they're giving Github (now Microsoft, let's not forget) the right to use their code, at all. I&#x2
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by eplanit 5y ago
Why fill to capacity? Even at small scale, a venue might hold 500 people, but it's probably a nicer experience if there are far less than that many there.
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's a taboo topic because of people's fears and anxieties that it triggers. A (cold) rational perspective sees that many (if not most) challenges facing society share a root cause of there being simply too many people.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I completely agree. But there was hypocrisy: Google allowed (maybe still does) conversation on that topic -- but the views he had on that topic didn't agree with the narrative that was/is popular. Those chips fell quite unfairly
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It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights(sfconservancy.org)
5 points by eplanit 5y ago|1 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
The CCP has grown to be so effective that they're managing ours, too.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Google infamously fired a male engineer for speculating on such things. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Ch...
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by eplanit 5y ago
A worldview which sees only The Oppressed and The Oppressors, and maps people into one category or the other. For Marx class was used, now it's race... and complete bullshit.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yes. TFA is racist, anti-capitalist nonsense. I'd rather celebrate stories like the one featured on HN just the other day[1], about the Vietnamese immigrant who started Huy Fong Foods and _very successfuly_ popularized sriracha sauce.
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by eplanit 5y ago
We're within days of Bezos' departure, and Amazon is immediately signalling traditional, boring "Mission Statements" (this one about 'leadership'). Oddly, the statements (which often refer to we, our) are sign
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China's Most Surreal Tourist Spot Is Fake(insider.com)
5 points by eplanit 5y ago|4 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
Handicapping FAANG companies could be beneficial to society, overall. Covid-19 brought a few positive outcomes -- less pollution last year, more WFH, ... Following that up with a decline or temporary slowdown in FAANG would be another.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Why is it a goal to populate the world to a maximal amount? Yeah, we could make room for more people by restricting the lives of the others... but why? Why not identify a comfortable, sustainable level, and keep the level there? The ear
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by eplanit 5y ago
Parents shape one's character (usually), where the offspring generally become similar to the parent, or in other cases the antithesis. In this instance, it seems the apple didn't fall far from the tree. https://idioms.

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