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by fnovd 10y ago
Typing "define:conspiracy" into Google, I get: "conspiracy (noun): a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful"
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As we've seen recently, the power of the POTUS is not unchecked.
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>(What I don't really understand is why US conspiracyism limits itself only to things that don't exist - you don't hear so much about Watergate, Iran-Contra, COINTELPRO and so on.) There's an easy answer: you can&#x27
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>“Ad blocking is a detriment to the entire advertising ecosystem,” Paul Verna, an analyst at the research firm eMarketer, said in a statement. “The best way for the industry to tackle this problem is to deliver compelling ad experiences
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As someone who never really "got" Snapchat, I found this interesting: >Snapchat has done an impressive job soaking up attention by covering three different use cases with a single app: private messaging, social media Stories br
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That survey is from 2015. 2016 saw a surge in harassment (or, at the very least, a perceived surge in harassment). I'm sure this donation is somewhat of a preventative measure, given our political climate.
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>Alphabet didn't miss anything; the analysts mispredicted performance. Taken to the extreme, no company ever underperforms and every unrealized expectation is the fault of the analysts.
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The numbers in the article and the numbers in your spreadsheet differ. The article contains analysis and categorization that your spreadsheet lacks. The data in your spreadsheet come from a public dataset, as I'm sure the data from the
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>His most effective skills are publicity and marketing, but now that he's reached the presidency I'm not sure how much more those skills can help him. Did you see his tweet against the GOP's gutting of the Ethics Office? H
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Investing is simply buying something you think will increase in value over time. US stocks have traditionally been an excellent vehicle due to their rates of growth. You could also invest in bonds, purchased annuities, real estate, gold and
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The big problem with this table is that it assumes that you want to live on the same amount that you do while saving. If I'm saving 50% of my income to retire in 17 years and then decide I can bump it up to 65% of my income (let's
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Anywhere from 6 to 10 hours, with the occasional 5-hour or 12-hour nights. If I could, I'd sleep from 1:30-2AM until 10-11AM. I can get away with this every now and then when my schedule permits. I'll spend 30-45 minutes on email,
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It's coded language. See: 'illegal immigrant'. The phrase could, and in a literal reading does, mean anyone entering the US illegally. When politicians talking about deporting 'illegal immigrants', it's underst
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Bitcoin is not a blockchain-based VC company. Bitcoin simply uses a blockchain. They are not comparable.
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Bitcoin is a currency. Twitter is a company. The comparison doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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When people talk about 'gibs', they aren't talking about the government assistance provided to people like them. They're talking about the (functionally identical) government assistance provided to black people.
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>I don't care about your problem with NPM, I neither mentioned it nor do I used it beyond amusement purposes. The commenter who you said had "by far the worst line of reasoning I've ever encountered" was annoyed at ha
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>Then I started to grow up and accept that minor chores are part of life. The entire reason why I got into programming was to eliminate the need for "minor chores". I want to tell the computer how to do it and then never think
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>When I see comment sections, on YouTube or elsewhere, disabled it makes me really sad because in my opinion people should have the ability to share their opinion on stuff. The argument that those comments turn ugly is really nonsense (t
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>That included studying other societies and keeping an open mind about what works best. Yes. What works best for the individual is different than what works best for the state, though. 'What if the state should be more important tha
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The profitability of Yahoo isn't everything. Verizon can just buy it as a loss leader in order to convert more users to their profitable products. The value of Yahoo to them is more than numbers on a spreadsheet. It isn't as simpl
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Thank you for the links.
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>I heard somewhere that That's not going to cut it. If you can't source it, don't say it.
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Title: W. Brian Arthur popularized an economic theory that changed Silicon Valley My interpretation: Mr. Arthur popularized an idea and in doing so shared it with the technologists in Silicon Valley, who applied it to their work. Truth: Mr.
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Misleading headline. From the article: >"People in Silicon Valley," says Arthur, "knew a lot about this phenomenon intuitively. But nobody had really written about it clearly."
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We've been using "lite" ML for phenotype adjudication in electronic health records with mild success. Random forests and support vector machines will outperform simple linear regression when disease symptoms/progression
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As a Ruby developer who doesn't like the syntax of JavaScript, Babel and ES6+ have changed my perspective. After the initial hurdle of figuring out what the hell webpack, babel, and npm (now yarn) were doing, I've found Javascript
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It's a definition that's ripe to be abused. It means topics can be censored and discussion silenced, not for breaking any specific rule, but by possessing too much of some subjective quality.
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>There are a ton of other sites where you can follow and debate politics all you want. But where do you draw the line of what is 'politics' and what is 'cool nerdy tech stuff'? Is a breakdown of 538's method of p
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by fnovd 10y ago
The existence of trolls doesn't mean that neonazis can't exist. Your doubletalk isn't fooling anyone. The words and actions in Spencer's talk were beyond explicit. Wake up.

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