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by gertef 9y ago
Your second link is a copy of the first. What are the units on that graph?
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by gertef 9y ago
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edmundburk377528...
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by gertef 9y ago
Not the point. Whoever you are, if you have ill-gotten gains (more than average at least), even as a gift, you have a moral obligation to use them to counter the ill.
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by gertef 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 offers an alternative view. "Offering aid to your enemy, to highlight their weakness" is a standard propaganda technique, not to be taken at face value. &gt
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by gertef 9y ago
Conceptually, this is the same idea as concurrent network programming with futures, yes?
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by gertef 9y ago
The concept Free Speech transcends the specifics of the US Constitution's First Amendment. "Complies with US First Amendment" != "Free Speech"
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by gertef 9y ago
https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html """ I am careful in how I use the Internet. I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship wi
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by gertef 9y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk... has overlap
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by gertef 9y ago
and the rebuttal, which argues that nearly all of the increase in infections is due to a bacteria wave that started before the ban and was international in breadth: http://berkeleyblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads&#x
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by gertef 9y ago
Nothing modern about it, it's one of the classic old selling techniques.
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by gertef 9y ago
it's possible they rejected your photo because they did a reverse image search and it matched the magazine?
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by gertef 9y ago
but will the ER know what to do with that name?
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by gertef 9y ago
movie stars are very close to the wealth level of execs at big companies. Chris Pratt is American actor who has a net worth of $30 million dollars McDonalds CEO Don Thompson's cumulative net worth is $20,000,000.
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by gertef 9y ago
Bill G used a mixture of cuthroat and illegal activities to crush competition and create a monopoly. In his absence, we may well hve had a thriving ecosystem of compatible adn far more secure technology. Or some other cutthrouat like Steve
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by gertef 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_for_All ) "The 400 richest Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 150 million combined. " http://www.investopedia.com/news/how-much-income-p
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by gertef 9y ago
They are HOURs, not "hours" > One Ithaca HOUR is valued at US$10 and is generally recommended to be used as payment for one hour's work, although the rate is negotiable.
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by gertef 9y ago
Then why do class action lawsuits exist?
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by gertef 9y ago
> met with a lot of liberals cheering it on because liberals are in favor of the inflationist fiat monetary regime and think that "kooks making money out of silver" should somehow be prosecuted citation? The only match I find
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by gertef 9y ago
How does harvesting animals cause less suffering, in the real world we live in? The usual answer is "well IF you are friends with your cow/chicken and give it lots of pasture and then you squeeze it for milk occasionally and one d
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by gertef 9y ago
Stanford has many majors -- what are the means and interval sizes per Stanford major?
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by gertef 9y ago
When in the past was the peak?
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by gertef 9y ago
Well sure, but they were natives that weren't part of the "culture" one pictures when one imagines an average New Zeala---ohhhhh
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by gertef 9y ago
Professors are expected to have some self-awareness and avoid stating their opinions as facts.
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by gertef 9y ago
"White Culture" was invented as a defense of Slavery and Colonialism. Remove racially-based oppression as well as its legacy, and you remove the notion of "White Culture"
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by gertef 9y ago
This is a classic reactionary comment that doesn't understand the asymmetry between the "bourgeoisie" and the lower classes. The "hegemonic" "bourgeoisie", secure in the status quo, sees politics as a game
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by gertef 9y ago
This is sage advice for business as well.
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by gertef 9y ago
Aligning values isn't the same as matching personalities. What's important is that each appreciates the other's personality -- that they complement each other, not that the personalities are the same.
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by gertef 9y ago
It's just branding and packaging. If people like buying stuff from a pretty female face, it's not the engineer's sin to satisfy the bias of the customer.
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by gertef 9y ago
Yes, similar to how SpaceX isn't liable for Tesla.
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by gertef 9y ago
It's not a security standard.

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