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by mahranch 11y ago
Sure, but those ownerships are a recent development. They didn't own them from the beginning, or even for the majority of their existence.
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by mahranch 11y ago
> YouTube Seeks Streaming Rights to TV Shows, Movies I find it hard to believe that they haven't attempted to do just that a long time ago. And probably many times since. I can only conclude that they were unwilling to give up cer
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Where Are All the Aliens? What Is Fermi’s Paradox?(zidbits.com)
2 points by mahranch 11y ago|1 comments
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by mahranch 11y ago
Yes, but how is the title sensationalist? I think it's quite accurate. They're borrowing money just to pay off the interest on previously borrowed money. 8 trillion Yuan just in 2015 alone. If anything, the title of the article ma
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by mahranch 11y ago
Clathrate gun hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
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> China has near clones of the F-35 Lightning, the Comanche stealth helicopter, the best of Russia's newest generation of tanks, etc. So they say. There's no way I'm taking China at their word. They're only slightly l
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by mahranch 11y ago
> once again you've successfully spurred a country to move away from its dependence on American technology, while doing nothing to meaningfully improve our security. That's only if they are successful. And success, especially i
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by mahranch 11y ago
Yeah, everyone keeps mentioning the whole "evil" aspect, but I was fairly sure google left due to the many, many attacks on it by Chinese hackers (who they believed to be the Chinese government) attempting and successfully steal
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by mahranch 11y ago
But is that ethic and morality something that is impossible for other cultures to emulate or adopt? If so, why? I think "culture" is a dynamic thing, it's changeable. I think the evidence of this is abundant & widespread
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by mahranch 11y ago
My buddy took this picture of his trip to Kyoto: https://tokyokawaiietc.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kyoto-sce... I would assume Kyoto is just like any city. However, my buddy did say he was amazed by the cleanline
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Never heard of Kyocera being anywhere nesr tge top of Best Places to Work surveys I've never seen one of those surveys that were actually legit, though. They use completely subjective factors to measure & determine happiness
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by mahranch 11y ago
> I don't think Google's looking to decentralize in any way shape or form. I think google's looking to do what's best for their bottom line. If it becomes more profitable, or even much more profitable to decentraliz
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by mahranch 11y ago
> which is why I put the "approximately" symbol in front of the zero. Ah, I missed that somehow... Haven't had my coffee.
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by mahranch 11y ago
> No, the EmDrive does not work That is simply inaccurate to say. Just because they have not ruled out all of the errors in testing doesn't mean it does not work, that's premature. You're suggesting that you know with abs
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by mahranch 11y ago
> ~0% Violation of conservation of momentum. I don't think the chance of violation of the conservation of momentum would be 0%. Unlikely? Yes. Highly unlikely? Most definitely, but not zero. Why? Because we don't yet have a &
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by mahranch 11y ago
> this puts you outside the reach of big ad $, which is moving towards programmatic buying and serving retargeting ads. Not if the big ad companies (google's adsense) create a plugin or program that serves the ads up locally instead
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by mahranch 11y ago
> You can read the accounts of plenty of expats who have lived in Japan the frequent struggles they face as foreigners, with the entire system being set up to put them at a disadvantage. I've read them, and I disagree with 99% of th
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by mahranch 11y ago
I don't think your one-off experience (a personal anecdote)invalidates an entire academic study. My point, and the point of the article I linked, is that all countries are racist to one extent or another. It's just that relative
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by mahranch 11y ago
> And even if you buy that silly study I love how the study doesn't agree with your preconceptions so it must be "silly". The study was done by 2 Swedish researchers at a university, not by some online poll. It's bac
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by mahranch 11y ago
You don't think they took those factors into account? They did. Did you even read the article? They didn't ask people outright "Are you a racist?" They tricked people by asking them other indirect questions. Like, "
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by mahranch 11y ago
One thing that conflicts with people's preconceptions, is that Japan isn't as racist as people believe. Usually the reverse is true, Koreans and Chinese claiming Japan is racist, while being racist themselves. Take a look yourse
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by mahranch 11y ago
This gets repeated a lot (the whole "Japan is racist!" trope) but it's nonsense. Actual studies carried out proved Japan is not only the least racist country in Asia, it's equal to most European countries. They're a
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by mahranch 11y ago
> No, that's exactly why they're not needed. You can't prevent those things, period, get used to it and adapt because no matter how many idiotic technical measures So your logic is that since people will do it anyways, we
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by mahranch 11y ago
> It's the basis of much of our law, innocent until proven guilty and this applies on a personal level as well as it does on a larger scale. It's also the basis for much of our laws to preemptively tackle many potential problem
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Meanwhile in Shenzhen, nobody gives a fuck and you can get any permutation of electronics you can imagine for fraction of the western price, and it's often user-servicable. And this is exactly why China is on the road to nowher
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Why economists don't trust China's GDP figures(businessinsider.com)
1 points by mahranch 11y ago|0 comments
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by mahranch 11y ago
> but it also means people here have access to those designs as well as tools and expertise to iterate on them, tweak them and repurpose them. I don't see how that's relevant. If they're designed elsewhere, then who is goi
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by mahranch 11y ago
> Everything Facebook, Google and Microsoft designs gets built here (or nearby) anyway. I'm going to have to disagree here. The vast majority of stuff is designed or thought up elsewhere. Things might get assembled or manufactured i
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by mahranch 11y ago
> You can only abuse it as long as you have points. You seem to be implying that this is some sort of road block or hurdle for those interested in gaming the system. Unfortunately, it's not even a speed bump. I think you underestima
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by mahranch 11y ago
The problem is promoting quality content people want to read. What if hackernews was just all viagra ads from spammers? Would you be fine with that? I sure wouldn't. That's the problem. Instead of quality content making it to the

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