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by poilcn 7y ago
Although regular nuclear weapons could be intercepted only on paper, no one has tried to do it with real weapons that the other side would use yet, potentially it's believed that it could happen. So the goal is to have faster nuclear w
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by poilcn 7y ago
People talking about AI dramatically underestimate complexity of intelligence. The computation power it would require to solve such complex problems and human's ability to comprehend such complex things. We can understand how a neuron
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by poilcn 7y ago
Turkey took at least 3 mln people with the same population as Germany and nobody admires what they did. Syria itself took 1.2 mln of refugees from Iraq, nobody cared. Palestine refugees in Lebanon, Afghanistan refugees in Iran. Whole Middle
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by poilcn 8y ago
For ages, it's for how long exactly? 10-50 years of more or less "success" history is nothing. It doesn't prove it's save and works in a long run. Also consider scaling. 5.5 mln in Finland, 22 American states have m
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by poilcn 8y ago
Current "official" proposal is to make colleges pay share of the debt burden in case of the student's default to bind them with the risks.
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by poilcn 8y ago
Do they even need this sort of education? Considering "higher education" is a form of signaling and a discrimination mechanism for enterprises, not a valid way to get educated, the public sector should not be the one to take the l
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by poilcn 8y ago
It could be other way around. Such programs encourage making education/healthcare prices absurdly high as they guarantee the return without any responsibility from the colleges/hospitals/banks/loaners, etc.
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by poilcn 8y ago
I'd guess that means that there is a market of unofficial jobs in your country and the description says that they either contribute to your pension at full scale or at some degree by reporting your salary for tax services lower than it
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by poilcn 8y ago
Content creators say that demonetization is not only about the profits as such videos have less exposure as well (they won't go trending, they won't be recommended if you are not subscribed, etc.)
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by poilcn 8y ago
>Hundreds of years old, because if you want a standardized school system you have to at least seem to judge pupils by their merits in vaguely similar ways across a very diverse set of schools and educators. We can't know beforehand
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by poilcn 8y ago
Well, it isn't surprising if you consider that the European Union was build based on an organization called « European Coal and Steel Community ». Basically Coal-Steel syndicate controlled by European Oligarchs. That's the nature
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by poilcn 8y ago
That's not mainstream and won't ever be. It's kinda sensationalism. I thinks such low-effort "ideas" are republished once in 10 years. This maybe happens somewhere, but in general it's just noise. Average house
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by poilcn 8y ago
~34% of world population are children and teenagers. Of course they own nothing. Then there are young adults who just entered labor market and they don't have anything as well. So, it's roughly 40% of the world population. Plus
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by poilcn 8y ago
Ironically one section of the article refers to an article by Guardian which states that one of these regulatory agencies copy-paste Monsanto's texts. It reminded me of one of Richard Feynman's stories where he was part of the com
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by poilcn 8y ago
This transfer happened because the territory depends on the "mainland" which happened to be Ukrainian Republic. Most of the transportation happened through Ukraine, which also supplied with electricity and water. Crimea has no rel
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by poilcn 8y ago
He doesn't mean that these platforms ignores existence of these groups, he says that they cannot provide place and sufficient time for these groups to express their positions in their own words, not distorted opinions and distorted fac
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by poilcn 8y ago
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" "Fascists", "racists" and other wonderful terms are the same scapegoats, but used by other
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by poilcn 8y ago
You can find the same stories about Stalin coming from his "fans". How he recommended one person to attend to some baptist church to learn English. Or stories about North Korean leaders, what wise things they teach workers when th
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by poilcn 8y ago
The US is not the whole world. In Europe, liberalism is synonym to «market liberalism».
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by poilcn 8y ago
It could free space for possible Google "rivals". Russian Yandex for example has its own store for Android, plus alternatives for other Google products. But Google put a spoke into its wheels so Yandex sued them. Don't know t
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by poilcn 8y ago
In most countries in the world either nowadays or in historical perspective it would be unimaginable that there would be a dialog between different cluster of powers. They'd just try to destroy each other no matter what.
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by poilcn 8y ago
The author just lists a bunch of things that most people consider being bad mixing it with things she considers being bad and makes a conclusion that it's the fault of a movement called X. If you see an article in such format for the f
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by poilcn 8y ago
What if we talk about someone who's already spent hundred of hours on a certain project and this happens? It's not like you can ignore it. Or what if we talk about the creator of the project.
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by poilcn 8y ago
Well, it happened before. No CoC was needed. Reiser4.
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by poilcn 8y ago
I like Rust and all, but its hype obscures any real result. You see posts everywhere telling that the language is great and here are some features of it, but it's not as widely used as talked about. And also it's not like there is
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by poilcn 8y ago
From the web: «In March 2016, the Albany Times Union reported on hundreds of pages of emails from Reich’s research team that showed a close collaboration between the research team and labor union groups that fund the movement to raise the m
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by poilcn 8y ago
It's the US who puts sanctions on companies working with foreign military organizations and manufacturers. So, they can't freely buy chips for rockets, for example. But their PCs use Intel chips and Microsoft Windows OS. Microsoft
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by poilcn 8y ago
What I don't like in Microsoft's frameworks is that they've made lots of things multiple times in slightly different variations, like they always do with all their software (10 variations of each type of programs which were o
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by poilcn 10y ago
Many things mentioned in this article are not actually true. The publisher seems biased. Russian officials say different things. I think the most Russia will do in the nearest 5 years is the same as Kazakhstan's officials: force users