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by porpoisely 8y ago
Because reddit's user base is small compared to whatsapp's. Reddit has about 330 million users while whatsapp has 1.5 billion. Not only that, whatsapp's user base is the more lucrative smartphone/app/mobile while a
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Don't forget the anti-BDS laws state politicians have passed at the behest of israel. I think more than a dozen states have already passed this unconstitutional ( in my opinion ) law. Now congress is looking to enact it nationally. ht
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I agree. The superbowl is a day long celebration of ads. Football is just a sideshow. Now as for ads themselves, they've gone from selling products to social engineering and selling an agenda. Is this a result of monopolization of indu
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What you say is absolutely true. But on the flip side, young people chasing unrealistic dreams is why we have a lot of art, music, literature, science, business and progress. Where would rock and roll or rap be if so many young people didn&
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Consciousness without the concept of self is general consciousness. Like animals or infants. A consciousness that can experience and react to the environment, but has no idea of itself. Consciousness with the concept of self is self-awarene
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You are fooling yourself if you think the parents' of facebook employees' aren't proud of them. What's with the neverending facebook bashing. So much of it is propagandistic and unreasonable. It's funny how the medi
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I disagree. Anonymous environments bring out the best kind of discourse with the occasional annoyances. There is a reason why most people agree that reddit's golden age was around the 2008-2012is period. Before all the censorship and p
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Just because I focused on hiroshima and nagasaki doesn't mean I don't think the firebombings were any better. They were war crimes and crimes against humanity also.
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Firstly, there is a world of difference because a munitions factory within a city being a viable target and the whole city itself being a target. Are you seriously justifying the destruction of hundreds of elementary schools, hospitals, sh
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And some ancient greek doesn't hurt either ( philosophy, philadelphia, telephone, etc ). That neither latin nor ancient greek are part of the public education curriculum is a sin.
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You are unfairly conflating the people who voted for brexit with the anti-brexit elites. I doubt the people who voted for brexit are fine with saudi money.
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It isn't debatable because we know hiroshima and nagasaki had no bearing on the japanese decision to surrender. If the nukes were the cause of japan's surrender, hiroshima would have been enough and nagasaki wouldn't have hap
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A world where the elites curate everything we learn is the world of fake news. We are living in a fake news world and have been since forever.
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I didn't say the military didn't see the utility of the atomic bomb, I said the military saw no military utility in hiroshima and nagasaki. There is a difference between using the bomb to kill soldiers and to destroy/irradiat
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Now or 12 years ago? 12 years ago, it was the stories getting the most traction. It was mostly user driven, objective and fairly diverse. After the large news companies attacked google news many years ago, they essentially turned over the p
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What an interesting read. Also, is it just me or are there a surprising number of german related topics on the frontpage right now? "We only had one man working on it and they may have had ten thousand" This is why I always chuckl
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You make a good point, but I think it's a corporate problem, not a google problem. Expecting loyalty from businesses is pointless. Look at NFL franchises. They'll move from cleveland to baltimore or Oakland to Las Vegas or from LA
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A noble effort, but futile in my opinion. Trying to get the tech world to agree on something is like trying to herd cats. It's not going to work. What's to prevent another organization(s) from "forking" their own definit
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Yes you do. I supposed it is possible to be "healthy" on an all meat or all veg diet, but that's not optimal. Especially for veg diet since they need tons of supplements and/or have to track down all kinds of exotic veg,
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No. Eating a balanced meal improves mental well being. A balance of meat, veg, fruit, etc. These "studies" are so intentionally deceiving since they take lower income people who gorge themselves on processed junk and them claim &q
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Yes. Companies follow the law. But companies also write the laws. Pretty much every tax loophole/shelter/etc ( international or domestic ) was created at the behest of companies and their hordes of lobbyists and lawyers. Slave own
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FYI: It's called shellcode because the load in the exploit/buffer overrun are actual machine instructions to start a command shell. So essentially it is code to open a shell ( shellcode ). If you want to hack a system, the ideal p
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You are describing reddit 8 years ago. Reddit today is a mess of political propaganda and fake content. Hardly anything knowledgable or interesting. Certainly the only "enthusiastic" people are the hordes of democratic party emplo
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Most of the content on reddit's frontpage in 2016 was anti-trump just like it is today. Reddit changed its algorithm because reddit admins supported hillary. The donald subreddit is no different from politics. The only difference is th
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I assumed it was self evident. All major organizations ( especially international organizations ) are built by the elites. Who else has the time, money, influence and knowledge to create international organizations? https://en.wi
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Wall Street firms get financial feeds from zacks, edgars, morningstar and a whole slew of other financial data providers. Finance sites, like yahoo finance also get their data from these sources. They don't have to scrape anything for
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I read Freakonomics and Guns, Germs and Steel in college and was initially 'amazed' by it. Now, I see it as mass market rubbish used to influence a particular demographic. But that goes for pretty much everything really. Catcher i
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Generally, sushi grade fish is frozen to kill any potentially harmful parasites. The FDA recommends -4°F or below for 7 days ( which any freezer today can do ). https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation
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The government didn't step in to end slavery because slaves were the "aggrieved class". The government stepped in because northern industrialists want to industrialize the entire nation and expand to the pacific. The southern
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Just a legal version of "keep voting until we get the vote we want". But it shouldn't be shocking that the elites get what they want. The EU was created by the elites for the benefit of the elites, not ordinary europeans. The

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