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by knolax 6y ago
Advice #0: "Sometimes if it sounds like bullshit, it is bullshit"
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by knolax 6y ago
A typical HN-reading college student likely already does those things alongside studying. So instead of doing a different of activities like you have imagined, this hypothetical student would now be bored out of their mind by having an even
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by knolax 6y ago
> Stereotypes exist because they model people pretty well. That isn't true for any stringent definition of well. Plus you don't have to be a "did you assume my gender" person to be peeved that someone's poorly tr
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by knolax 6y ago
Calling An Jung-Geun a terrorist would be akin to calling George Washington a terrorist. The difference between freedom fighter and terrorist may be murky to some, but generally tact dictates that you don't call someone a terrorist if
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by knolax 6y ago
The ML based guessing of people's genders sounds extremely tactless. You'd think given the demographics of their userbase Twitter would've known better.
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by knolax 7y ago
Well it does require electricity, and I doubt the people who want to burn down 5g towers can tell the difference between electrical towers and telecom towers.
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by knolax 7y ago
I always used speeded for the past tense of "speeding" as in breaking the speed limit and sped as the past tense of "speeding" as in the phrase "speeding past". Similar to hang/hung/hanged where hung
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by knolax 7y ago
> Xpeng said in a filing that it’s already assisted Tesla voluntarily and in response to a prior subpoena served on XMotors, including by turning over a forensic image of Cao’s laptop and more than 12,000 documents. The U.S. carmaker’s l
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by knolax 7y ago
> it looks more like a bad copy of a French car Could you provide an example of this "French car" that they copied? A google image search for "French SUV" doesn't turn up any cars that particularly resemble the
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by knolax 7y ago
> the Guangzhou, China-based maker of Tesla look-alike electric cars The car in at the top really doesn't look like any of Tesla's cars. Googling around for the model[1] and comparing it to Tesla's SUV[0] they really don&#
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by knolax 7y ago
Guns are effectively at killing both chimps and humans.
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by knolax 7y ago
> I'm not a religious person, but the thing that the anti-religion movements have failed spectacularly at is providing a universal, teachable framework for basic morality. Given the numerous genocides committed in the name of religi
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by knolax 7y ago
Plenty of reasons to doubt the claims made in TFA, but I don't think business addresses (and as other commenters have pointed out) a shitty website are good reasons. That just seems like a shallow leap of logic to me. > They built a
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by knolax 7y ago
A google search for 'ls quoting fiasco' shows this thread as the top result. Could you explain what it is?
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by knolax 7y ago
So do white bread and white rice count? They're both processed and are mostly just carbs. White rice for example has to have Thiamin added, otherwise you would get Beriberi.
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by knolax 7y ago
What makes you think the bad actors aren't already within "our" legal jurisdiction. The "Foreign" part of misinformation campaigns is a red herring. Case in point TFA is more likely the doing of domestic neoliberals
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by knolax 7y ago
Civ 6 is still a 2D (gameplay-wise) tile based strategy game with a cartoon art style. You can't even rotate the camera, there are plenty of optimizations they could've made graphics wise.
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by knolax 7y ago
Looking at the benchmarks it's amazing how despite not having significantly more advanced gameplay compared to Civ 2, Civ 6 still manages to take up as many resources as a modern FPS.
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by knolax 7y ago
The entire concept of a Metaverse seems closer to existential horror than SciFi to me. An entire subset of your reality taken up by consumerist regurgitation of pop culture. Living your life as the Homonculus inside some Anime avatar. I hop
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by knolax 7y ago
I know TFA mentioned gas sensors but what about oxygen and carbon dioxide levels? The mufflers he put in don't seem to be big/plentiful enough to let in enough fresh air for those chickens, they're the size of computer fans a
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by knolax 7y ago
Wild how organizations like ICANN that are supposedly international are in practice wholely within the jurisdiction of some regional government. Not even the Federal government, they're being stopped by the state of California!
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by knolax 7y ago
How does that gel with TeX, whose syntax creates expressions that are nearly universally regarded as ugly?
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by knolax 7y ago
> as is the case with China, an enormous country with miraculously no infections or deaths since the day they coincidentally kicked all western journalists out Where are you getting your information? There has not been a single day since
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by knolax 7y ago
My comment was made in direct reference to a previous comment. Claiming that I "made it up" when you can very clearly click parent and see that indeed a parent comment fitting the description given by mine exists is not precise an
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by knolax 7y ago
So how do you know that the graveyards are locked? Care to share?
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by knolax 7y ago
My comment was made in reply to GP's and was a description and criticism of what he said. You seemed to have either genuinely or deliberately missed that point. When I clarified this you did not address the content of any of my argumen
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by knolax 7y ago
I should be asking you that question. Your own conduct so far would qualify as "confusing the issue" and your screed against these "pro CCP" is decidedly "off-track".
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by knolax 7y ago
I'm glad they made the correct decision of moving back to a script actually suitable to their language. I always found it ironic that Mongolia the country used Cyrillic despite the significance the creation of the Mongolian Script unde
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by knolax 7y ago
That's what GP's position is. He agrees that the content of the article is correct (or can not prove otherwise), but considers it propaganda simply because it is not as critical of the Chinese government as he would prefer. Notice
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by knolax 7y ago
> So far, all the Covid19 stats out of China proofed to be fake. I keep seeing people confidently claim that the numbers out of China are "fake" but I've yet to see a credible source. Could you please provide some?

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