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by jack9 10y ago
Job security (and availability), not groupthink. Groupthink is the side effect.
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This is non-news, when talking about Display Ads. Relevant: http://www.businessinsider.com/its-more-likely-you-will-surv...
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Trump prefers to view the world from the mind of a simpleton/common man, which means he exhibits some regressive views. Since many liberal activists gained agency, during Obama's administration, I don't think some liberals wi
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Large is a nonspecific value, as is the valuation of the loss. Is the $1000 life insurance policy large? The limit is practically somewhere around the lifetime administrative costs or we would see even smaller (like you do in non US countri
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> I don't like Facebook at all, but they are here to stay for a while, until something else replaces it. Just like MySpace. At the time, MySpace was the defacto standard of communication for most young people of a minimum socioecono
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Im reminded of the multimillion dollar AI-based image recognition system the military developed, in the 80s or 90s to analyze images looking for tanks. When the system was tested on photos, that were not from their pool of stock test photos
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This is a repeat. It hasn't even been 3 months before it comes up again?
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If you go through all the available studies on Glyphosate (there aren't that many peer reviewed), you will find Monsanto consults or is directly involved in EVERY SINGLE ONE. This is because, while Monsanto does not have a monopoly on
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Is media a structural threat? No. Facebook is a very very weak form of media. So no. The huge response of sentiment about how it is (or might be or whatever) is silly. Grand statements about people's feelings as the premise for these
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It's the ubiquity of physically robust infrastructure that allows for telephones to persist, not some "standard". > I don't think myspace is a fad. > It's the default communication mechanism for many people. T
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Usage monitoring (charging) sits squarely next to traffic shaping and filtering. Just no.
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> 59.2% is quite misleading because it includes students and retirees. Misleading does imply context, which is used to confuse the issue and has traditionally been used to alter the statistic to meet agendas. People who aren't looki
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What if all inheritance was collected and evenly distributed? - at a rate of X assigned at birth based on existing pool to be awarded at age Z or by medical need... In general, people do not value governmental transparency so we always have
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It's shocking, just plain shocking, how short people's memories are, in regards to their own governmental details. The manipulations to deflate the unemployment numbers, I was cognizant of in high school, have never stopped. New t
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"Painting this trend as anything but dangerous to the individuals most at risk of exploitation -- travelers crossing our borders and everyone they're connected to -- is so flagrantly irresponsible it's inevitable that we&#x27
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This is a trash list. Live Free Die Hard is on there, because Kevin Smith? SMH
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These are different goals (that might share a component) than divesting US Govt from Christian-style marriage.
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Isn't that what MOND is doing, to some degree?
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A constant is a lot more constrained (existing in a specific context) than a class of matter that can't be observed, which is used as a hand wave to any measurement that is unexpected because not only is it not observed, it's not
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> Changing it would require a constitutional amendment. That's a matter of opinion. "Settled legal doctrine" changes all the time. Every administration advances their own agendas by changing the context and arguments or st
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No. Definitively. That's not the same as not needing an education. Some US college is optimal imho. US High school is specifically socialization now (thanks to the teacher's unions). Nowhere was this more evident than in pursuit o
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by jack9 10y ago
> It is not close to equivalent. It's equivalent, with different (unknown) constraints. Aurora is specifically for scaling workloads in the same way. You can say it's horizontal (machine) over vertical (resource) but it's
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It links to a github... https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat-doc/blob/master... which mentions MongoDB, causing me to discount the project altogether as a pipe dream by people who don't know what
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I would say there's not 1 small minority, when there is multiple small minorities even within small communities that are (or feel they are) "suffering". Some groups are just imagining persecution as a proxy. A desire to contr
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This is not "governed federally". Making a state eligible for Federal assistance is not the same as being a legal requirement. How you confuse these things is an example a simple comprehension failure or possibly someone who doesn
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You don't have to be a good swimmer in the ocean either, but if you have a specific goal, you might not reach it without. As an engineer, you have to have the passion to keep learning so, despite the confusion introduced by the (almost
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by jack9 10y ago
> I don't see counterarguments Probably because you aren't interested in a discussion. > Unchecked gun ownership leads to loss of life at a shocking scale. The tendency toward loss of life is known and acceptable, much like
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> it's peace, stability, and prosperity In the absence of other factors, it's every known system itself. This is not the same as them being causes. The observation is that humans have not found a suitable system.
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Or that those concepts are a direct result of human learning behaviors, rather than an external directed tactic. Anything can be taught, as long as it is reinforced by existing learned behavior.
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But not the subsequent ones? "the ISO has imposed short rotating outages in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2015, mostly related to unexpected transmission line or power plant outages during periods of unusually high demand." - Rueters

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