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by lurk2 10mo ago
> For you it is just pictures from Internets happening far far away, you never know why do they find themself being drone striked. I’ve seen more than one begging for his life getting blown up by a grenade dropped out of the sky. The kil
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> all you could use was tech from 2000 and before you would have a pretty stable stack that just worked The improvements made during the late 2000s and 2010s mostly had to do with making the functionality of these technologies accessible
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by lurk2 10mo ago
90% of the time I try to come up with systems more elaborate than a spreadsheet, I realize I’ll spend longer designing and maintaining it than I will actually using it. You really only see those efficiencies across larger organizations and
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Interesting that I read elsewhere that most Venezuelan oil goes to China due to the sanctions. It's possible China has built out its infrastructure in the past 5 years and can process this oil now, but in the 2010s the more common
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by lurk2 10mo ago
I had looked for it on New but didn't find it. Cheers.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
I don’t even disagree with you, I just find it weird that someone who benefitted from the immigration system would be so fixated on nativism.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Calibri is a Sans Serif font and because it has been the default Microsoft Office font for more than a decade, it is fake email job haver coded (i.e. it appeals to young and middle-aged women who work in HR, this demographic being predomina
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US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela(reuters.com)
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Our societies globally have become hugely polarised and are manipulated daily because of social media. Watching 18 year old kids getting drone striked every other day has done more for the anti-war movement than a hundred years of post
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Your comment history is very odd. You talk about America as though you are a citizen but several of your comments have grammatical errors that indicate you are a foreigner.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> You could write a few paragraphs summarizing theology, philosophy, and family dynamics that could be read in 10 minutes, but that doesn't come close to matching or replacing Dostoyevsky. The author of the post is not Dostoyevsky.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> The better I got at competitive RTS's the less interesting the game got for me, it just kinda of felt like chess where there was only going to be one or two interesting interactions in the game if played well, otherwise its just a
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> It's a poignant observation about how similarly inane arguments are perceived as evidence of mental illness or deep insights based on the social perception of the speaker. It’s not a poignant observation. This is the issue I had w
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Those numbers would be more realistic, amounting to around a thousand dollars spent per each EU citizen per year; this seems a little high if replacement rates are hovering around 3 years on average, but not impossible like the other figure
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by lurk2 10mo ago
Are you being sarcastic?
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Before she started playing, she took a second to explain how love is in the air and in the trees and in the water. "And we're all, like, made out of water, you know!" she said. "And water is, like, you know, life!&
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by lurk2 10mo ago
The first article does not look to be informative; it values the EU smartphone market at around 465 million USD, which is impossibly low. If you assume a smartphone is valued at $1,000, a market of that size would only amount to 465,000 dev
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> And buying the newest thing every year is kinda frowned upon here in the EU now. Is there any evidence that Europeans aren’t buying new phones at the same rate that they used to?
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> so assuming internet penetration implies computer literacy is a fallacy, as most households globally instead use a cellphone as their primary computing device I was using computer literacy as a stand-in for technical literacy. > Ste
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> You're building your arguments on a false premise, that ALL resources are distributed from some magical mutually exclusive abstract bucket. There is nothing magical about the idea that a resource used for one thing is unavailable
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> My point is simply that the amount of productivity a given population can exercise is not bound to the amount of money in circulation. It is bound by other constraints.
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by lurk2 11mo ago
The main draw of these devices does appear to be telecomm; the Pew article is from 2018, so the numbers have probably changed by now, but back then the majority of users were using dumbphones. I can remember watching videos as early as 2014
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> There actually isn't a finite set of resources when we're talking about human capital. Wrong.
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by lurk2 11mo ago
It’s not a false dichotomy at all. There is a finite set of resources that can be deployed at any given time. $1 spent on a laptop is $1 that isn’t going to medicine. This usually a curve rather than a straight line (so usually you’re bette
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> Heck, most policymakers in LDCs panned the program at the time as well not actually prioritizing the aid that was needed [2] I don’t have any insight as to what sort of aid would have been more effective, but quite frankly some of the
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> but insisting it's an inevitable result is just uninformed blabber. There’s one failed program indicating that it didn’t work. Are you aware of any successful programs showing that it could?
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by lurk2 11mo ago
The level of technical aptitude the average westerner has just by proxy of being surrounded by electronics is one of those things like running water that gets taken completely for granted. Even a lifelong ditch digger is going to benefit fr
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> Following schools over time, we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression.
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by lurk2 11mo ago
> An unfortunate yet unsurprising report to those familiar with the literature on cognitive ability. The conclusion of that literature being…?
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by lurk2 11mo ago
Instagram is still massive. Twitter was never that big, it just had an outsized cultural influence because the people who used it professionalized being terminally online. Facebook is the one that baffles me because the only people I know t

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