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by gerland 6y ago
I'm not an expert, but it seems to me than other than a PR some of those dates are also set to provoke higher efficience and appease taxpayers. Once the project is underway and billions were spent it's much ahrder to back out.
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by gerland 6y ago
So this basically a place where EM haters can get their daily fill of "he's a fraud!"?
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by gerland 6y ago
What are we actually measuring though? Wealth is always relative, so we are trying to measure positions between different groups towards each other. If you give each of your kids 5$ and charge them 5 bucks for a pie and then one of them get
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Types of IT Companies for Beginners(stronglyagainst.com)
1 points by gerland 6y ago|0 comments
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by gerland 6y ago
The reason why we cannot get the right balance between freedom of speech and the right to silence the "abusers" is that by trying to do that we are uncovering an inconvenient truth. It would not be a problem to let the conspiracy
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by gerland 6y ago
> YouTube's policies reflect mainstream social mores. The real problem is that YT also influences those social mores. It's a snowballing effect that no one is able to stop. New social trend >> YT starts to promote it >
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by gerland 6y ago
Is modularisation really an answer or is this another case of "A Hundred Authors Against Einstein"? The reason why many people are still driven to Amazon is that dealing with separate entities is just annoying as hell. Small busin
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by gerland 6y ago
Does it really matter? It sounds like a philosophical question without any real meaning to me. I can overtake the turtle even though he moves. I can tell that I should not trust this particular man from this point on. It's very easy to
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by gerland 6y ago
I mostly agree, but I think there was a bit of a difference in quality up until about 15 years ago. This was due to the nature of the competition between news outlets. It you have only few suppliers in any domain, then a possibility of a &q
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by gerland 6y ago
The point is that we often overlook the things that really shape our reality. What every ideological and/or political movement knows is that no one will fight the ideology if it's fed in very small increments. We will simply overl
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by gerland 6y ago
Punishment is always the desired outcome in the journalist world. If something dramatic does not happen, then from the perspective of NY Times nothing has happened at all. There is no story, no people to smear that were the villains, no her
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by gerland 6y ago
It's a bit like that with every friend that you make. Most people lose contact with firends they made in school. Even family ties seems to be not that strong after all. It's all a matter of context. That being said, what do you ac
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by gerland 6y ago
There will always be stupid kids in a world where intelligence levels vary. In the 80s and 90s some attempts were made to try to escape this reality by changing the question. Multiple-factor intelligence models were proposed and widely acce
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by gerland 6y ago
I've never seen a bad programmer who starts to produce good code when project begins to fail. Excusing toxic managers because the project is still rolling does not make sense, since we ignore how much better would it be with someone wh
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by gerland 6y ago
People are more willing to acuse elites about some nefarious play, than to "believe" in vaccines. Our cranium has been shrinking for the last 10k years for a reason. We eliminated individual level natrual selection to a large degr
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I'm less alive than Elon Musk(stronglyagainst.com)
1 points by gerland 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerland 7y ago
Central and easter Europe is also lacking in total number of performed tests. You also have to take into account that there were more severe shutdown policies introduced. Since there is significantly less international travel in the east th
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by gerland 7y ago
A devils advocate summary: 1. he is just changin one stock for another 2. second part of this "donation" is fuelling an openly sexist cause 3. third part goes toward something that is supposed to ease up the populace in the wake o
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by gerland 7y ago
https://stronglyagainst.com/ I started writing speculative and opinionated pieces about anything that catches my attention. Also I translate P.Graham, just to pick up the mojo. Not sure how long I will keep this up, but if
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by gerland 7y ago
Here is a puzzle for today - should we post links to articles that have significant content, but are behind a paywall? Should we post all links behind paywalls? Should we just say - it's ok, you can steal it by disabling JS? The slider
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by gerland 7y ago
Or society can learn that a 12yo has a very poor judgement and treat seriously the thing that actually matters - that most people have no knowledge or common sense with regards to security. If a 12yo can distrupt your corporate meeting, the
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by gerland 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that pretty much all of the people doing that will be using vpns. I mean come on, vpns are one of the most known services on the internet. In the wake of shadowbaning, global silencing by social networks and being penal
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by gerland 7y ago
Which makes a great point about how big Canada is compared to the US. We seem to misuse the term "America" to point only to one part of one of the Americas. Maybe it would be actually less confusing if we would refer to North Amer
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Transgenderism and Futurism(stronglyagainst.com)
1 points by gerland 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerland 7y ago
I was switching between gaming PC and console for the last 15 years and to be honest I had much more trouble with PC games. Just after I buy a PC everything runs very smoothly, but the performance declines very fast with new games. It'
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by gerland 7y ago
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's wo
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by gerland 7y ago
That's exactly my point. Why would someone downvote because he finds an opinion controversial? Offensive, unrelevant, I can understand. Unpopular, controversial? That's pretty much how echo chambers are made. Is omeone wants to he
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by gerland 7y ago
Are we more of a "X is shit" crowd then? You cannot evaluate the health system based on the information management system itself. I would argue that you cannot evaluate HS on anything more than your anecdotal evidence. If you have
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by gerland 7y ago
IMHO the state of the restaurant industry is - why does it still exist? I would have expected it to move to a service oriented model a long time ago. Taking into account how underpaid are the workers comapred to how overpriced they usually
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by gerland 7y ago
It's also funny that people are ready to downvote anything they do not agree with. Let me explain to you how it works - the downvote button is a tool that should serve to mark comments that are unnecessarily inflamatory or provide no v

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