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by knolax 6y ago
> That is probably where the complaints comes from. You read something in a foreign language (English) that has become a lingua franca, and come across a unit expressed in what is not a lingua franca. I've only ever seen non-native
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by knolax 6y ago
I'm going to go farther than you and say that US customary units are superior to metric in certain regards. A foot divided by three is 4 inches, a meter divided by three is 3.3333333333333333333333333 decimeters. What annoys me is that
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by knolax 6y ago
More economic saber-rattling. We need less of this jingoist bull.
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If 42 years ago Intel sold a processor that burned my house down, I might not be the biggest fan of Intel even 42 years later. This isn't about expectations, it's about reputation. Not everyone has a goldfish memory.
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by knolax 6y ago
The front page has an article about a processor from 42 years ago. What's your point?
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Context for why someone would want to burn a police car?
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by knolax 6y ago
"Fuck Nvidia" ---Linus Torvalds
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by knolax 6y ago
It's interesting that despite the fact that walled-garden platforms are concrete examples of companies using their marketshare to rent seek and stifle competition, the recent anti-trust investigations have been going after more nebulou
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by knolax 6y ago
I think a better analogy would be like a world class chef not wanting to feed their kids McDonald's.
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by knolax 6y ago
But how long was Angular in vogue before React? If it was also ~5 years then a shift in frameworks every 5 years of calm + 2 years of chaos still isn't ideal.
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Racism is the definition of weak thinking. The idea that you can somehow forgo logic if your goals are sufficiently important is even weaker thinking. The US Government has had a history of targeting (in hindsight) unrelated people in their
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by knolax 6y ago
Or the people investigating did so with the belief that "the Chinese target Asian men" and ended up rounding up a bunch of Asian men. If "the Chinese are targeting Asians", why would the most prominent example be a non-A
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half a dozen paragraphs and I still can't tell what this "United Front" does. The closest thing to a concrete example is: > oversee United Front work by throwing money at foreign institutions that are willing to toe Beijin
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by knolax 6y ago
It's worrying that it's hard to tell if this comment is even sarcastic or not.
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"who air pollution map shut down", "who air pollution map china" and "who air pollution map" turns up no results. It's a green account and their first comment was accusing someone of being a shill, so my b
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by knolax 6y ago
Why is this comment downvoted.
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> That's handy because you're the one who brought them up. There's a difference between bringing up the fact that somebody exists and putting words in their mouths to help your point. > ...someone with the good sense to
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by knolax 6y ago
> Oh and nice job implying that Chinese dissidents have the duty of "proving" to the world that the Chinese government surveils them. Chinese dissidents didn't make the claim that the Chinese government is surveilling Zoom
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There are plenty of Chinese dissidents, including the the activist that is the subject of TFA. The default assumption is to assume noncorrelation between things until proven otherwise. That's a defensible position, yours isn't.
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We have definite proof of surveillance by the Five-Eyes, why would China would be better at hiding evidence of surveillance. Claiming that something can't be measured at all doesn't help your argument either. That type of reasonin
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by knolax 6y ago
> Is there any reason not to assume that the Chinese government is surveilling Zoom calls en masse? The burden of proof lies on you to prove they are.
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That already happens with google and topics such as self harm or racism. Googling "I hate X" is going to turn up multiple results like "History of Discrimination Against X" and no articles that actually express hatred fo
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by knolax 6y ago
If you make a claim the onus is on you to provide evidence. I did google your claims and the source of your Nov. date comes from articles with an unnamed source claiming that the NCMI gave reports in November. If you don't want me to m
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by knolax 6y ago
The only evidence you provided is that the first case in Washington was in Jan 19, long after COVID-19 was public. You provide no links to back any of the other dates in your comment. Your claim that US intelligence knew about COVID-19 in N
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by knolax 6y ago
If you look at the actual source for that link you'll see the following statement from the Pentagon[0]: > "As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence
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by knolax 6y ago
The popularity of searches for SARS never went above 7 before late Dec. when cases of pneumonia were already popping up in the news. There was no signficant difference between searches from July 2019 to November 2019. If you look at the sam
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by knolax 6y ago
> While queries of the respiratory symptom “cough” show seasonal fluctuations coinciding with yearly influenza seasons, “diarrhea” is a more COVID-19 specific symptom and only shows an association with the current epidemic. Since when is
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by knolax 6y ago
> We are talking about a continuation of a huge line of the same thing that happened in Europe of thousands of years. It’s not really a question foreign cultures, just the clash between different cultures. I'm not really sure what y
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by knolax 6y ago
Fine, an individual priest committed cultural genocide and torture. It's still morally wrong and indefensible. It's even sloppier thinking to somehow justify this by treating one small aspect of a culture as immutable and inherent
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by knolax 6y ago
> You’re mixing cultural genocide with actual genocide. The Spanish conquest of the New World was undeniably a genocide in the literal mass murder sense. In a sense it was a continuation of the same genocide against Muslims and Jews that

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