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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> I personally think HN might have been targeted (though Meta isn't announcing the smaller forums). Perhaps. I'm sure most countries target all social media for 'influence'. But you hardly ever see pro-china 'inf
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> We haven't heard a peep since. Good. But just to be safe, you should check your credit report from time to time to make sure they didn't send your account to collections.
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> and the second example is New York state New York and pretty much all states east of the mississippi suffer from an overabundance of rainwater/water. Water will never be a long term problem here, at least not for a very very very
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Article wasn't about benedict arnold's dog.
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Most people, probably including those who created the time capsules, like nice 'round' numbers for some reason. It's why we have terms like centenial, bicentenial, etc. People bury time capsules in the hopes that it is uneart
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It's more fundamental than that. The jewish god is just zeus stolen right out of greek mythology literally atop a mountain slinging lightning. Exodus 20:18 - "When the people heard the thunder and the loud blast of the ram’s horn,
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Instead of individual passengers, why not weigh everything together - passenger + luggage + carry-on + etc? That way you don't have to embarrass some people.
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'Protect' mexico? Like russia is 'protecting' ukraine? If you read up on US-Mexico history, you'd realize mexico needs protection from the US and nobody else. But your point is ultimately correct. We'd never al
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> I’m not a vet, but I wonder if it comes from working in an environment that is so massive, at times wasteful, and your contributions feel insignificant Simple formula ( greed + opportunity ). Everyone from politicians to doctors to low
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> One concern I have is that, every time he talks about the maintenance roles, I'm automatically thinking it's unglamorous, and marking a career plateau (perhaps decline). For the rare and lucky few, it could be a stepping ston
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> It means the business can't practically be sold What? Of course it can be sold. To someone else who wants to run a mom-and-pop operation. > might as well just go get a job for someone else. Or be your own boss? > That ultima
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> Why are we scoping down to just Russia? Because the soviet union was russia. Russia is the successor state of the soviet union. Which country would you use? Moldova? Estonia? > If you scoped broader to include the other post-Soviet
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In comparison to ww2, the fall of the soviet union was worse than ww2. https://www.rferl.org/a/life-expectancy-cis-report/24946030.... To put it into perspective, after ww2, the russian population recovered in a f
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> You've been downvoted, though not by me, because you introduced a petty insult about an unrelated topic. What's unrelated? Many vegans claim that veganism is the natural human diet. That humans originally were vegan but becam
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> Secret to whom? To propagandists hired to write propaganda.
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Economic development? Control over your own media? Surely this is not a serious question. Heck, controlling your own media and tech stack is far more important to a country like india than landing probes on the moon. Ideally india should do
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> That's such an incredible amount of money. It would be fair to say they are really just an arm of the government right ? If so, then every major US bank, oil, car, tech, transportation, banana, etc company is just an arm of the go
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> If I read correctly, this is now the most watched live video on YouTube! Which is disappointing. India should have their own video sharing/livestream platform.
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> No, he's just an elected representative of the people, a government servant. Yes. The elected leader is the boss of the executive branch of government. One doesn't negate the other.
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> I wrote here years ago that it is in every countries best interest to do the following: Been saying the same thing myself. Every major company should own their own tech, media, etc stack. They should ban all competitors until they have
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> There are credible questions regarding ByteDance's independence No there isn't. There is no question at all that any major company - tech, media, oil, banking, etc is independent. All major companies, anywhere in the world, a
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> I only discovered Powershell recently, and it's impressed me how "batteries-included" it is. Meh. Powershell, like most things windows, is just a dumbed down version of its unix equivalent to cater to its 'lower-ski
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But doesn't coffee contain 10 to 100X the amount of caffeine than say a bottle of soda? I always thought you had to go to the bathroom after drinking coffee because coffee had so much caffeine. But that's purely conjecture. Makes
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Hackers, programmers, coders, lend me your ears...
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> Why’d it explode one day almost like we got a helping hand? The fundamental difference between the past civilizations and modern civilization is that all past civilizations relied primarily on human/animal power and modern society
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> And statistically, the chance that you would be someone who is remembered 100 years from now is kind of slim. You won't be remembered. The image of you is remembered. Not even that. It would be a photograph of a photograph of phot
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> Did the Soviets really believe in Marxism or did they just want to take over in place of the Tsars? Do the Iranian Mullahs believe in Islam or are they just making up excuses too? Who cares? Your example has no relevance to my assertio
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> It didnt have its sovereignty until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. What? You have sovereignty as soon as you decide it. Especially if you are fighting a war to maintain your sovereignty. If the treaty was never signed, the US
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> I don’t really see US foreign policy in that era as imperialistic. US has been imperialistic from birth. Heck the revolutionary war was fought to secure our right to be imperialists and commit genocide against the natives. Our reason f
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No such thing as white savior complex. White savior complex is mislabeled white exploitation complex. Nobody is a saint. Everyone acts in accordance to their own selfish interests. Even white people. Altman is doing this not to save or be

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