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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> What I'm curious about is whether LIC condo prices are really going to increase dramatically compared to similar projects in other parts of NYC? It depends on whether NYC/NY will invest in it. People have talked about LIC bei
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Can we stop using the term ‘math prodigy’ for someone who was essentially a quant monkey - that too at best a decent one? The guy was a math prodigy though. What else would you call one of the top math students at cambridge? > He a
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Agreed. Bloomberg rejoined the democratic party this year. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/10/michael-bloo... He also expressed his interest in running for president in 2020. This is obvious
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> OT - anecdotally, I'm seeing an uptick in anti-China reporting. Are you feeling that too or is just me? There is always anti-[something] "reporting". The russia hysteria has died down so now it's time for the china
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> An Instagram spokesperson disputed this, saying that the company hashes and salts its stored passwords. If that's the case, how did they extract the plaintext password from the stored password to embed in the URL? Possible scenari
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
In a 100 game matchup, AlphaZero had 28 wins 72 draws and 0 losses. I'd classify that as orders of magnitude better. https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-... But yeah, it would be inter
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Considering AlphaZero was orders of magnitude stronger than stock fish, it would be interesting to see AlphaZero's analysis if it was available. Edit: Alphazero's record against Stock Fish is 28 wins, 72 ties and 0 losses. In a 10
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Why do so many modern projects feel the need to include the language and/or the tech stack used as part of the project name? It's advertising or propaganda for the language. Whenever a language is "hot" and going th
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Another "facebook is the devil" propaganda hit piece. This is getting to be so freaking exhausting and so obvious. You know what's becoming worse than facebook and their execs? The news industry and their editors.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
But most of the atrocities in china in the 20th century were committed by the chinese against other chinese? And most of the atrocities in the 19th century were by european imperialists. Also, everyone committed atrocities against everyone
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
"The west was sure the chinese approach would not work"? Is that why the west invested trillions of dollars in china over the past 4 decades? I expect very little from the nytimes, but this is a new low for them. Did the nytimes a
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Japan has been a power ( relatively speaking ) in the aerospace industry for very a long time and it was never a secret and they certainly weren't quiet about it. What they have been quiet about is that their aerospace industry is also
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Male and female humans fall under the first two. No. Male and female anything fall under the first two. For example, when we talk about our dog, we say "He's a good boy". People use he or she for animals too. > Not lo
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> That's a relievingly admirable way to look at these creatures. What's "admirable" or not "admirable" about. It's just language. If you read about the way orangutans are treated in indonesia, I doubt y
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Also it creates an overbearing psychological impact on people like big brother's telescreens in 1984. Slavery is freedom.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> What's the point of war in the modern world? The point of war today is the same as it was throughout history - wealth. > Some kind of weird power play that results in a takeover but is not disruptive enough to damage what was t
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
I forget whether it was in medieval europe or in feudal japan ( or maybe both ) where someone wrote that the gun was so horrible and easy to use that it would make war unthinkable. The thinking was that the art and skill of the warrior and
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> The USA has the first military power in the whole world and could go and invade a bunch of countries if they wanted to and nobody would oppose them. This is false. Have you heard of the korean war or the vietnam war? Or the afghanistan
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> If the number one channel in Germany is in English, then maybe YouTube still has some more fundamental challenges to overcome in Europe. You underestimate the amount of people who speak english in germany/europe. The #1 youtuber i
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> I watch a decent amount of YouTube, but if it went away, I don’t think that it would be a net loss to humanity given what YT shows to children The good old "think of the children" argument used by authoritarian puritans. >
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
I believe the technical term is liability. Workers are liabilities. You are right. A part of capitalism is to increase the assets and reduce liabilities.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
It seems you are just accepting the globalist media's caricature of nationalism without thinking about it more deeply. All nationalists take a moral position. That's what nationalism is. And all nationalists think through the cons
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Just to play devil's advocate here. What is it that people want? Countries and companies to stop doing business with murderous regimes and governments? Then who is there to do business with? Should anybody do business with the US, EU,
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Was anyone of the US Government criminally charged for this whole thing or they only bothered to charge the guy who exposed the crime? For the same reason no one was charged for hiroshima or nagasaki. Or the illegal iraq war. It was sa
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
"200 million million", "actions per second" and "100 million moving parts". Why write like this? Either the writer is trying to dumb it down to a ridiculous level or they have no idea what they are talking abou
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Don't forget ads in movie trailers! Now that is "ingenious". Forcing you to watch an ad to watch an ad. The guy who thought of that deserves "Advertiser of the Year" award and a "Crime against Humanity" ch
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Or it was intentionally left vulnerable with names of people the CIA wanted dead in Iran? If I were the CIA and I wanted a few of Iran's top nuclear scientists killed, I'd just make it seem like they were working for the CIA and l
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Is Facebook just a fancy machine for auctioning off the electorate to the highest bidder? Yes. Just like TV, radio or newspapers are. Who decided elections in the past? TV, radio and newspapers/journalists. Today, those old platfo
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
The same thing affecting academia ( mostly humanities ) is the same thing affecting journalism. Instead of being institutions for seeking truth and knowledge, they've become institutions of political advocacy and agenda.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
All religions started out as a cult. Christianity was a cult until it won. The difference between a cult and religion is the same as the difference between a molehill and a hill. It's hard to say exactly when a molehill turns into a hi

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