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by gustavus 3y ago
Wow that's quite the high and mighty response. I have about 10 years experience across multiple domains and can program across a dozen languages. You know what my salary sits around 150k. You're attitude reflects part of the probl
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Exactly after all the conspiracy theorists were only right about - Iraq WMDs - MkUltra - The Crack Epidemic - Watergate - Glados - Paperclip - Robert Kennedy car crash - Epstien But they just got lucky a bunch.
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> It's not unreasonable to trace the Sunday's horrors in Israel to that event in 1953. It actually goes back much farther than that to WW1 and the dissolution of the Russian Empire and the fighting that happened amongst the mid
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I'm sure this conversation will not decline into a raging flame war by self proclaimed "experts" on both sides.
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I too find the web unusuable on mobile without FF mobile with ublock origin. Hey maybe Mozilla could focus on that rather than "reclaiming our online digital creative spaces"
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Because your options are Beijing or DC. We like to pretend the age of empires is past but realistically we still live in a time of where there are two major world powers and everyone gets to decide which side of the line they want to fall o
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> The same type of thing is in play in military schools. There will be few-to-no kids of poor single moms. All the kids will be well fed and groomed and socialized. I grew up near a military base, and that describes very very few people.
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> The regulation plans are revealed in a letter from ISED Minister François-Philippe Champagne to the Industry committee studying Bill C-27, the privacy reform and AI regulation bill. The government is refusing to disclose the actual tex
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Healthcare and medication are different things and as long as we continue to conflate the 2 everyone will be talking past each other.
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Well you have to remember that the US had basically won the war until millions of Chinese troops were sent over the border to flood them with bodies. The point is McArthur was probably right.
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> Ostensibly the amount of the fee was to be left to negotiations between the platforms and the publishers. But if it was not already evident what a sham this was – the negotiations were to be backstopped by that most impartial of arbite
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What if Alexa became self aware? [video](youtube.com)
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by gustavus 3y ago
Regardless of the reasons they spout I have 0 belief that the C suite of LM or any company for that manner would make any decision that would make them less money. Whatever excuses they come up with at the root of it is the idea that they w
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by gustavus 3y ago
> There aren't really legitimate use cases for phone number spoofing Very valid reason, I want to sign up for an internet account somewhere, Google, Facebook, etc and not have it be traced back directly to me because I value my priv
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The article is interesting and informative, it also points to why we are seeing the death of the open internet, and of the anonymous internet. > Over the past year, more than 500 schools in the United States have been subjected to a coor
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by gustavus 3y ago
There was an article a few days ago about how wall street firms put pressure on tech companies to do layoffs in order to reduce wages.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I've heard this narrative over and over again yet every time I look at it the NHS budget has been consistently increasing year over year for a long time.
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by gustavus 3y ago
> In short: one in five respondents say they have received explicit instruction for a ‘no white men’ policy. Another one in five say they’ve been implicitly instructed to follow this kind of a policy.
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by gustavus 3y ago
AI Detection services are the oiliest of snake oils. Seems like education is going to need to change drastically in the next few years. Maybe we'll go all the way back to oral examinations again.
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One of the best indicators of what the results of a psychotherapy study/experiment will be is what the scientist doing the research already believes. I doubt this is limited to simply psychotherapy. https://slatestarcodex.co
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by gustavus 3y ago
Actual title of the study: The Impact of Working from Home on Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study of Canadian Worker’s Mental Health during the Third Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic I wonder if there could be any possible confounding facto
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by gustavus 3y ago
> To commemorate this moment, we are hosting a five-day event at the Alte Münze in Berlin this Oct. 12 to 16 that embodies all of what Mozilla has been, what it aims to be and what it envisions for the internet. If Mozilla really wanted
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by gustavus 3y ago
Exactly, Like if you think about plumbing, Christianity, anything Europe, WW1, the Renissance, or Government all those things have pretty direct ties back to the Roman empires, and more if you include the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine
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by gustavus 3y ago
If you are a fan of epic fantasy, might I suggest The Stormlight Archives, my favorite fiction series ever.
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Link to another discussion pointing out that M$ layoffs were the result of wall st. investment firms and hedge fund managers wanting to reduce tech salaries. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37643608
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by gustavus 3y ago
I honestly believe this is probably the biggest problem, it isn't the other issues, it's the dissolution of the family, many poeple got in big on the 80's "divorce" culture that promised that divorce would liberate
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by gustavus 3y ago
You misunderstand. The NSA has collected massive amounts of data on everyone, they could easily solve many murders, burglaries and most other crimes. But they don't, in fact they don't event really stop terrorists. So why collect
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by gustavus 3y ago
"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bl
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by gustavus 3y ago
My friend, I have been eagerly gobbling up all the good literature I can get my hands on recently, do you have any suggestions on books that you feel do a decent job of examining the Shlieefen Plan? Besides The Guns of August which I just f
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To an extant yes, but another example where it seemed forces more than men moved things was Verdun. Halfway through the battle both the Germans and the French generals commanding the armies wanted to pull out because it was so horrible, but

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