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by gota 4y ago
Isn't Austin a city that is growing, continually attracting people? If so, it is not a valid example against their claim. If you allow some pedantry: The claim is that _cities that don't keep growing_ go broke: a->b Showing ~b
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by gota 4y ago
I guess that is my point - a more self-controlled businessman with that track record would inspire a tremendous amount of confidence I didn't mean to discredit Elon Musk as an entrepeneur; only to highlight that the chaos he raises is
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by gota 4y ago
Not to mention - and this has been true for a long, long time - every time Elon Musk makes a controversial statement he becomes, in the eyes of everyone paying attention, a little more stupid and a little less like Tony Stark (which seems t
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by gota 4y ago
It'd be great to see a list of 'adages' from ancient times and compare - which ones still hold today?
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by gota 4y ago
In age-of-empires-like terms, They were not far along enough in the tech tree to develop Husbandry and Selective Breeding
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by gota 4y ago
I guess because appropriate usage and maitenance makes that kind of hardware failure extremely unlikely, no? I can be "warned" to check for issues if the car is older, creaking, seems to be "driving" different etc A mi
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by gota 4y ago
How did "sinister agents" become "sinister agile gibbons?" Is "agile gibbon" a single term in that dictionary?
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by gota 4y ago
Oh my god, this explanation is gold. Thank you. I'm going to save it and refer to it in the future.
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by gota 4y ago
I have a theory - the anti-academia and anti-science movements propped up by social media and youtube docs (you know the pages and channels I'm talkkng about) were supported financially, if not actively orchestrated by, big oil compan
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by gota 4y ago
Yet again I have to comment that formal education levels of the parents do not affect the genetic predisposition of prole to be intelligent And that Idiocracy got the "hereditary" aspect completely and utterly wrong It was also co
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by gota 5y ago
I thought no dogs could recognize themselves in the mirror. Are you sure? Also, what breed is your dog? Is it one of the famously clever ones like a Border Collie?
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by gota 5y ago
There's potential for some wacky games between teams of developers vying for one kind of feature or mechanic over others. Branchings of A Little Game Called Mario abounding, self- and cross-referential This should be interesting. I lov
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by gota 5y ago
Being cultured and well read is very similar, I think The main difference is that a physique is more immediately recognized; all you have to do to recognize Arnold is huge is look at him. But you'd have to listen some (and have enough
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by gota 5y ago
Can most of you walk or bike to work?
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by gota 5y ago
What a terrible article. It essentially argues against a previous position that amounts to a bunch of "I guess"es... And does so with nothing but it's own, new guesses. When they do deal with data, they are both unclear and,
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by gota 5y ago
It is entirely realistic and has happened several times in modern history, at least a few in the last decade Two examples of not "single leader" protests happened in 2013, in Brazil and Turkey https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by gota 5y ago
The answer to the question 'Is there anything I can do?' in our society is almost always 'You can get a specialized lawyer' Sometimes just writing an email that is obviously written by/with legal counsel speeds thin
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by gota 5y ago
Plus the vast majority of engineers formally train (and certify) zero pupils. They may teach on the job, but they don't hand out diplomas
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by gota 5y ago
A medical doctor Just letting lurkers know the article is not about PhD programs or academia in general, as I half expected
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by gota 5y ago
I'm either too smart, too stupid or too something else, but I really, really don't see myself participating in these "Artificial Scarcity Activity Modalities" (SCAMs)
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by gota 5y ago
I truly hope we do not let technology be used to create this kind of artificial scarcity If anything, metaverse should allow you to see all works of art as if they were the real thing, all the time, for "free"* * assuming the eff
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by gota 5y ago
Uh, I just learned it ever existed. I was still studying hardcore back then and I guess I missed the cool new products for a while Thanks for bringing it up. I'd like to have played with it
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by gota 5y ago
The following paragraph is wrong, in that it is misleading and correlates things that have not happened at the same time. > The case also underscores the fast-growing appetite for cryptocurrencies in Brazil, where years of economic and p
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by gota 5y ago
It's worth knowing that the name you chose for something is used in something (midly) related - being aware let's you disambiguate if/when the need arises. I was not suggesting a name change. That said - please don't tur
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by gota 5y ago
Just letting you know SPADE is the name of pretty well known algorithm for frequent sequence mining https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Data_Mining_Algorithms_In_R/...
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by gota 5y ago
No, the paper analyses the count/frequency of profession-related surnames in a database, so it's not really dealing with that. But in day-to-day I'm sure that's true; and why so many people who could not tell the name of
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by gota 5y ago
Regarding: > (1) Genuine ethnic diversity (simply unmatched in its breadth and scale) Brazil matches and surpasses, as far as I know Edit: a quick google search indicates this is a controversial topic, to say the least Also, kudos for re
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by gota 5y ago
Another way to look at it - under what system are they (claiming to be) suffering? Naturally they'd align with a competitor system, most likely the most prominent one Tbh, though, from my brief reading of the subreddit in question, I d
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by gota 5y ago
Good point. I was recalling the movie here and also noticed that the doctor's appointment consisted of the doctor plugging the patient into a machine, too.
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by gota 5y ago
Idiocracy mixed being educated with being intelligent. Being educated is not hereditary and does not (I think) affect intelligence of your children* Satisfactory nutrition and exposure to positive and engaging environments during childhood

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