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by fnovd 9y ago
If you really wanted this plan to work, why would you publicize it? Is your enemy the SV companies that delete hate speech, or the people you use hate speech to attack?
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Bitcoin isn't growing in value because it represents shares of a business that makes real money: it's growing in value because demand is increasing. You can directly connect AAPL's profitability with the value of the phones a
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Everything has declined in value over the past 6 weeks compared to BTC.
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When the next recession strikes, people will attempt to liquidate their Bitcoin to pay their bills and find out that no one really wants to buy them.
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Great blog post, but I had to take pause at this line: >Economist: More than happy to keep our discussion grounded to Earth. Of course we can't just keep ramping up terrestrial energy production ad infinitum. All evidence points to
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>But... there is the question of whether our economic growth brings us closer to the absolute carrying capacity of spaceship Earth. Are we inching up on the absolute carrying capacity of Earth? Perhaps. But what about the carrying capaci
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>Whatever the reason was, that a family or people where able to accumulate that much wealth: I believe, there should be an upper limit. And what should that upper limit be? Who decides what it is, and how do we ensure that people powerfu
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So you solution (highlighted in point 4) is to move to a Western country and become part of the problem?
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EA recently released a statement that their "Loot Box" mechanic, a system by which players can only purchase items by buying them in a randomly-generated bundle, does not constitute gambling. If you were looking for a specific ite
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The null hypothesis signifies a lack of relatedness. Give circumstance A and outcome B, we make no assumptions, i.e. we assume A and B are unrelated by not assuming they are related. This is the null hypothesis. In order to reject that, w
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Could you name some other streamers that have similar setups? I have never seen any.
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He's involved with boom.tv, which is creating a suite of tools streamers can use to interact with viewers in real time. He's not necessarily the best player or the most highly-paid streamer, but the production value of his stream
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I'm not defending all of Shaw's ridiculous critiques of Python 3, but the Turing-complete thing was a joke. The conversation, IIRC, was something like this: ZS: Why can't I import or translate Python2 into Python3? P3: That w
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It's what happens when you treat history as a story rather than a lesson.
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Think about Facebook the way you might think about alcohol. For many (if not most) people, even the occasional overindulgence isn't going to cause too much harm. But for some, it has an insidious effect and sometimes the best strategy
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>A house at $250k at a 3.5% interest rate would cost you $72k in interest on a 15-year mortgage or $154k in interest on a 30-year mortgage. At that point, it is worth sending additional payments (especially early on in the mortgage) to s
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>Surely you see someone clearly messed up after doing drugs. You may not start to see the negative impact of drug use until years later. By then it's too late.
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Keep in mind that Americans live in a country where you can drive for hundreds of miles in any direction and still end up somewhere where English is spoken. We can hop around from state to state and opportunity to opportunity without having
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Is this a problem that needs solving? >What if independent bakeries baked only what they thought they could sell and no more? Then they would lose money, period.
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>I just can't see running the Facebook app. Facebook on the desktop, sure, but why on a phone? Other than checking in once a day or so to see what my friends are doing, Facebook has nothing I want. This is like saying, "I just
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by fnovd 9y ago
It's not "just a label," it's a political viewpoint. Liberal/conservative aren't just funny sounding words we made up to describe different "teams." They actually have meaning behind them and describe
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These people are not liberals; they are leftists. I consider myself a liberal and find myself having more in common with centrist Republicans than I do with some members of my own party.
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I read the memo, and compared to the stuff I read from the real "deplorables" (on 4chan, The_Donald, etc.), it was pretty tame. Yes, many of his ideas are backwards and unjustified. At the same time, many of his arguments were per
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The operative word here is "all."
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What good are your altcoins when the developers/miners give up on the project? A bar of gold is always a bar of gold, no matter what the price of gold is.
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The WHO is a fairly reputable source.[0] [0] http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
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In a natural world, these animals would have the choice to reproduce (or not). You're forcing them to reproduce and then saying, "Well, it's OK, because they wouldn't exist otherwise." If these animals truly wante
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>A thing you two aren't considering is the that US and the UK are the world leaders on the offensive side of this same technology Exactly, on the offensive side. I'm not particularly concerned about our ability to retaliate p
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I'm surprised to see even people on this site downplaying how worrisome these attacks are. The ability to shut down an enemy's computer systems remotely is an awesome power, and will only become more impactful as we rely more and
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Of course they did. It was heretical to imply that something conceivable by man would be impossible for God to create. If we can imagine it, he can do it. A rather roundabout way of arriving at a theory of parallel universes, but fascinatin

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