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by gabbygab 8y ago
If we are being honest, Facebook easily gets most of the scrutiny here because of the rampant news hysteria. Google is a very distant second. But I agree that Apple seems to get a pass here and in the news coverage as well. Perhaps because
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by gabbygab 8y ago
That may or may not be true, but Europe is more of a content powerhouse than a internet/tech powerhouse. Their content is a bigger money maker than their tech. So it is in their interest to punish tech and protect tech. It's also
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by gabbygab 8y ago
They aren't two separate wars. They are two campaigns within the same war. You wouldn't divide ww2 into two separate wars because the germans and the soviets were allied in the first half of ww2 ( when they invaded poland and divi
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by gabbygab 8y ago
I'm not so sure. I think poor quality sleep and proscrastination are a symptom of not wanting to do something. Poor quality sleep never got in the way of me doing the things I wanted to do. Whether it is prepping for a field trip I was
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by gabbygab 8y ago
I agree. And to add to your point, we are bombarded with the demographic problem message every day. So what's the solution from these experts? Are we supposed to continuously grow the population forever? I've read our social welfa
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by gabbygab 8y ago
What does that matter? If we get it from directly from plants we eat or indirectly through meat, you are still getting pesticides.
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Perhaps they should have used a better example than rotten tomatoes. RT is owned by NBCUniversal and is terribly unreliable as a movie ratings aggregator. At one point it was a very useful site, but now it is useless. Might as well ask disn
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by gabbygab 8y ago
And some of the comments on this thread is a master class of virtue signaling as well. All sides seem well represented here. Also, who is putting up walls? Be specific please. I too come from a low income "unprivileged" family and
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Is it just google or all business? As china gets wealthier and as they develop, doesn't that also erode our military advantage? Isn't the overall economic growth a greater threat than one company, no matter how important? Not sure
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It might be natural or innate. Even young children associate taller with good and shorter with bad. I forget where but there was a documentary where children were asked to associate qualities to stick figures. The children gave the taller s
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by gabbygab 8y ago
The NYT also enabled harvey weinstein and spread lies about yellowcake which caused an illegal war and countless dead middle easterners. https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-... Giving your family sub
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by gabbygab 8y ago
The WSJ is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world. Why are you begging people here to buy a subscription? If you can't make ends meeet, why not ask one of the riches men in the world to invest more in his company? And for ever
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Renewable energy will grow for sure, but every national survey in the US and every international survey of energy use definitively shows renewable won't be anywhere near majority anytime soon. https://www.statista.com/s
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Good point. But one way the internet is being decentralized is along national boundaries. The chinese, russians, south koreans, japanese and even the EU are now looking to protect it's turf. Wouldn't shock me if the internet truly
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It's what the media and the extremist left call everyone who isn't extremist left.
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by gabbygab 8y ago
More like someone does something for media attention. Isn't it funny how all of these things happen after the media started using pewdiepie for clicks? For years, pewdiepie went about his business and nothing happened. Then one day the
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by gabbygab 8y ago
She quits social media and writes a public article in traditional media so that people can talk even more about her? Is this her idea or the idea of her mother who probably is friends with someone working at fastcompany? I'd be interes
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by gabbygab 8y ago
You mean like the british royal family? Politicians? Movie stars? Which the news exploits for money as well? It's so funny how the media pushes neverending anti-social media stories and yet exploits children themselves for money. Is it
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by gabbygab 8y ago
How many WSJ journalists come from elite college? How many of them are sending their children to elite colleges? I bet most to both categories. Elite colleges aren't worth it if you want to live an average life. If you want to be a 9-5
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Aren't we helping britain, much of europe, australia, etc build orwellian states too? What about our firms, government and military helping build an orwellian state in saudi arabia and israel? Everyday, all I see are articles about orw
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by gabbygab 8y ago
But the progress of our system has been to go from diverse to less diverse. Ever since 1776, we have become ever more centralized. We went from state rights to federal power. From many political parties to a persistent duopoly controlled by
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Or maybe they hire the best engineers who interview well? Being a great engineer and being a great interviewer aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. You can be both. Also, after 20+ years in business, google engineers are still highly
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by gabbygab 8y ago
We've had ghost villages since colonial days ( where native americans chased out of their villages or wiped out ) before being repopulated with european settlers, ghost towns from countless boom and bust cycles ( fur, timber, oil, gol
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19429724
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Thank you. My sentiments exactly. Did they interview 12 year olds or actual millenials in the 20s or 30s? This study and article seems so amateurish and intended for clicks and agenda that I can't take either seriously. Really "li
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by gabbygab 8y ago
I wonder if Holmes was able to charm and dupe this director like she did so many other people. I read that sociopaths could be exceptionally manipulative and conniving. The only goal of Holmes was to make money. Just like everyone else. The
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by gabbygab 8y ago
"Scientific authority"? Science isn't a religion, it isn't politics. Why talk of it in that manner? There shouldn't be an appeal to "scientific authority" but rather to empirical replicable testing and the
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by gabbygab 8y ago
"This statement is false." For all you philosophy majors.
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by gabbygab 8y ago
The title is rather disappointing as it implies that nobody at the nytimes understands the difference between computer code and programming language. As an analogy, computer code to programming language is what a book is to a human language
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Or a career as a cow whisperer.

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