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by erklik 4y ago
> Providing a loan of millions of dollars to a poor African country to build infrastructure, and when they default on their loan, China takes control of the land, effectively having a military base. Are there specific examples of such ar
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by erklik 4y ago
> Iraq to prevent WMDs from being used against the USA This is something that was proven to be a lie. There were no WMDs, and Bush knew that there wasn't enough evidence that they existed.
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by erklik 4y ago
> The concept of Pi and the irrationality of sqrt(2) predates the universe itself. Think about it. How? Get rid of the universe, and the concept of pi doesn't exist. Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's dia
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by erklik 4y ago
Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching. How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great uptime, or I have terrible memory.
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by erklik 4y ago
I love how none of this mentions an illegal war based on lies. Feel like things are slightly biased.
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by erklik 4y ago
Nearly all UBI is a recurring payment. Otherwise it's not really capable of living on.
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by erklik 4y ago
That's a massively good point that I somehow failed to remember. Thankyou. My bad.
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by erklik 4y ago
Who doesn't have uBlock Origin in this day and age? It blocks essentially every ad that Youtube pushes. Now, if you want no sponsors as well, go for SponsorBlock, it skips parts of the video marked as "sponsor" etc.
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by erklik 4y ago
and they were right? Resources are practically infinite on a universal scale. We just keep progressing and we will get there. Trees are literally infinite. Just plant enough of them while you cut them down. Oil is not, but oil is energy, an
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by erklik 4y ago
> That's a very selfish view. Not sure how advocating for more people is selfish, but okay. > More people also means more energy need, more recourses use, more garbage too. There is not unlimited recourses to exploits. Energy can
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by erklik 4y ago
> That's because humans exploited all natural recourses to the max and it created climate change and extinction of many species, exploited so many animals too, just look at Earthling the documentary. But whenever people talk about p
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by erklik 4y ago
> More people means less energy and resources per person though, and people with little resources wont be using their brains to solve problems. I mean .... why? Why are we assuming that more people aren't working to create more ener
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by erklik 4y ago
Why? I don't genuinely understand this pessimism. More people means more brains, more intelligence, more energy to achieve things. More people means more Einstiens, Newtons, Da Vincis etc. I do think our systems need changing. Our soci
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by erklik 4y ago
We don't even have a Concorde though. It's genuinely frustrating to me honestly. I feel like the level of advancement during that time was truly fascinating and it impacted people's life. Today, what do we have? Another iPhon
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by erklik 4y ago
> The great part is that tech (and other white collar) workers used that small window of opportunity where they had tremendous bargaining power to push for policies that will make it even easier to replace them. Any examples of those pol
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by erklik 4y ago
So, is this the Extend part now? Embrace is over? (I don't understand each of the terms of the slogan enough) Side note, I am guessing this means that Vim, Emacs etc using LSP don't get C# intellisense anymore?
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by erklik 4y ago
Ahh. You mean your "in-group" of people who don't believe in "in-groups". This is tongue-in-cheek. :)
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by erklik 4y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Plus, as someone else commented, it does seem like Safari/Webkit is catching up now. From an ethical/ideological pov, I really quite agree with you. I use Firefox :P More power to an alternative to the C
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by erklik 4y ago
I am not sure if it's been answered somewhere before. Why Webkit? Seems like a bad idea to use an engine that is currently running the "new IE"
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by erklik 4y ago
> intellectual property laws are the only thing stopping Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's product Is that really the case? Does it work? Isn't Instagram basically cloning TIkTok right now? and cloned Snap befor
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by erklik 4y ago
> Gun crimes usually happen in strict gun controlled areas because criminals know it's unlikely they will be met with force. Huh. That's an interesting point. I wonder if there are statistics showing that there is less gun crim
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by erklik 4y ago
Hilariously, I have literally asked companies to give me a 4 day week and take away the salary for the last day. I don't care. I just want a free day, but nope, no-one bit .. even the "smaller" employers.
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by erklik 4y ago
> reselling at an opportunistic time Are they reselling? I don't think China is really exporting any grain at all in any major amounts. They can't satisfy domestic demand and prices are soaring. To then sanction a country for n
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by erklik 5y ago
> In terms of active conflicts happening right now in 2022, none I could name off the top of my head. That's not say there isn't any, of course, but they're not as big/well known as the American ones. Looked it up. Th
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by erklik 5y ago
> around the world I am curious. What conflicts or wars is the Chinese governemnt funding around the world or is involved in? Who are the Afghans or Yemenis of the Chinese government?
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by erklik 5y ago
> We’re talking about 18 year old kids who are absolutely not well-informed and their knowledge about the military will be what the recruiter tells them. I mean there weren't front-page news stories about the US bombing weddings and
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by erklik 5y ago
> That being said, these other countries are often not saints themselves (looking at you China). Depends on who you are, isn't it? Ask the Chinese. I am sure they love their government (I believe surveys have shown that there is hig
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by erklik 5y ago
> Either way they do so with some expectation that the intel is sound, that they're helping to protect America/American values, that they're attacking Threats and not random civilians. With the amount of information that&#
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by erklik 5y ago
> Excuse us Mr. S. Pamking from Armenia, paying with a credit card of an elderly french lady, could you please send us some id? Amazon's cool with it. I guess they don't care as much? I do wonder where the fraud prevention requ
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by erklik 5y ago
A surprsingly large amounts of time I use Google, is to mainly to search on either reddit, stackoverflow, hackernews etc. Even searching for other sites is helpful using those sites i.e. searching for developer blogs gets far better results

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