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by evgen 6y ago
Censorship is not a problem on Facebook, it is disinformation. There are no problems limiting information on Facebook, the problem is the opposite in that you are constantly bombarded by an endless stream of highly-targeted bullshit that i
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by evgen 6y ago
> I would expect China or India to have a higher number of deaths overall if the data were available. You would be incorrect. Perhaps the reason this death rate was mentioned is because the US is an outlier in both absolute numbers as w
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by evgen 6y ago
I have seen people imagine what those ores are worth when they pretend that they are somehow magically transported to the surface of the earth, but I have never seen these same people budget the cost of the energy to retrieve, return, and l
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by evgen 6y ago
The problems with this theory (and with asteroid mining in general) is that it is extremely unlikely that anything you mine in space will be economical to get back down. Most people forget that it costs almost as much delta-V to get down a
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by evgen 6y ago
I believe that some are keying in on the word order and how 'killer whale' sounds like a term for a particularly carnivorous whale when in fact the creature in question is an ocean predator who sometimes happens to kill whales.
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by evgen 6y ago
All of those things are incredibly rare occurrences, and there is still a greater probability that you will be the victim of one of them than that the country becomes North Korea.
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by evgen 6y ago
You don't even have to go that far. The writer and leading creative force of one of the two shows in question (Aaron Sorkin) was forced out after getting busted for weed and shrooms at the Burbank airport. Actors (probably the closest
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by evgen 6y ago
Oh, you mean the people they are already paying for the trademark license?
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by evgen 6y ago
George registered the TM via his company LucasArts (whose parent LucasFilm was purchased by Disney), which licensed the TM to Motorola, who was purchased by Google.
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by evgen 6y ago
No pressure is buildilng because no one cares. Other than an extreme fringe of the chattering class subset of the digerati, nobody cares about the fate of Julian Assange. As soon as he ran to the embassy he was guilty in the eyes of the m
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by evgen 6y ago
Yet Sweden's positive covid test rate still remain above the levels of neighboring Norway, Finland and Denmark. Sweden's economy also fared no better than its neighbors with less GDP growth and worse unemployment rate, so the cla
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by evgen 6y ago
It is not 'how the media works' or any sort of proof of a PR campaign, it is just wrong. That is why it is being downvoted.
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by evgen 6y ago
All of those so-called challengers who died were ones that basically were killed by Facebook in its rise to power. None of the 'global competition' is really competitive outside of China, and the new entrants are copied as soon a
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by evgen 6y ago
I think we now can clearly see why you think the BBC is left-wing. You are in no possible way a centrist. You may toy with a bit of libertarianism now and then, but for the most part your extensive comment history shows you to be a bog-stan
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by evgen 6y ago
It's neighbors would be the countries with which it shares a border: Norway, Finland and Denmark.
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by evgen 6y ago
"Participating" covers a broad range of activity when it comes to this program, and would include things like having a portal to provide the legally mandated info that must be returned upon proper presentation of a warrant. Is it
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by evgen 6y ago
You seem to be quite prone to making unfounded hyperbolic pronouncements about Apple in several different threads lately. As the responses show, it might be worth toning down the rhetoric and staying true to proven reality for a while conc
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by evgen 6y ago
Compare Sweden to its immediate neighbors like Norway, Finland, and Denmark and the cost of Sweden's failed response becomes pretty obvious.
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by evgen 6y ago
Given how poorly Sweden has fared compared to its neighbors you really need to stop trying to use it as an example of good policy.
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by evgen 6y ago
This is a consequence of the required resources for the experiments. If it takes a ten billion dollar piece of equipment to produce your results then chances are you are going to be one little cog in a very big machine. There are not pape
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by evgen 6y ago
The alternative to this will then tend towards the extreme you see with papers like the one out of CERN that had more than 5000 co-authors. Eventually you need to set a limit and accept the fact that some people will get screwed, if not th
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by evgen 6y ago
If you break the rules of the contract what makes you think you get your money back? If you want a refund you should be required to prove that the company was the one that violated the agreement.
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by evgen 6y ago
Well you do get to start at the baseline of your peers assuming that you are competent and have some right to be there, which is frequently not the case with regard to women and other minorities in tech. It is easier to 'be good'
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by evgen 6y ago
The vast majority of the train system was built on public land that was provided to those private builders for free. If they had to pay for the land they never would have built in the first place.
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by evgen 6y ago
Motorists kill more motorists than they do cyclists. Did your car calculation include the odds of getting hit by some other moron in a car while you were driving to your destination?
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by evgen 6y ago
Disregarding what the Supreme Court says the Constitution says != disregarding the Constitution. Important distinction that will become more important in the future.
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by evgen 6y ago
Sometimes these weird questions can lead to more practical applications down the road, e.g. once we know how to do something it gets added to the toolbox and eventually used, somewhat like how Euler's totient was a cute mathemtatical c
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by evgen 6y ago
"In a 54-46 vote the Senate approved the bill from the House which cut the funding of the Supreme Court to minimal levels and removed any funding at all for hiring clerks." Is John Roberts going to whip out his checkbook to cover
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by evgen 6y ago
Marbury is nothing more than a power-grab by the judiciary that we have all decided to abide by, for the moment. The judiciary has no power whatsoever other than that which comes from its perceived legitimacy; legitimacy which has been heav
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by evgen 6y ago
If it actually had the cost that people in this thread are claiming do you really think they would continue to build these sort of offices, year after year for almost two decades? Do you seriously think that they have not looked at the imp

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