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by qiskit 5y ago
Did you expect an army of whistleblowers? Aren't most whisteblowers solitary and generally disgruntled former employees? Your first point has some merit but is diminished by your attack on the whisteblower. Whistleblower laws exist to
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Have you visited reddit lately? It's all bot/propaganda activity. It's just one sided today. At least in the past, you had bot propaganda from all sides which prevented it from being an echo chamber.
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The absolute worst thing is false negatives. No tests should allow those. We can live with false positive to some degree. But we should nonetheless try and minimize the false positives since high false positives might do more collective har
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My first thought was I could have sworn I read something about coffee being bad for you not too long ago. Second thought, I wonder who funded this study. Thirdly, there was research showing that most nutrition research is nonsense. Everythi
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Reddit didn't turn into an echo chamber due to time and algorithm. It became one as a result of company policy and censorship. For much of reddit's history, every form of viewpoint, opinions and speech were allowed. Everything cha
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Here is feynman on AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRvjS7q1DI Feynman turned his focus to computing ( AI, heuristics, quantum computing ) later on his life.
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> Yeah, never mind the dictator who used chemical weapons against the population of Iraq on multiple occasions. Who was allied with said dictator and provided the chemical weapons to use on iraqis and others? I wonder. Which is more evil
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In honor of stephen wilhite, though I am an ardent proponent of pronouncing gif with a hard g sound, I'll pronounce it as "jif" for the rest of the week.
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> What war are you talking about? Albright and the Democratic Party were not in power in either 1991 or 2002, the two invasions in Iraq. They were in power when they sanctioned and starved millions of innocent iraqis after the war. You
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Is present synonymous with "now" and "gift" in italian? Can you provide an example? Regardless, it certainly doesn't apply to chinese.
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She survived, thrived and became a monster just like the monsters she fled. Millions of innocent iraqis and others who suffered directly or indirectly because of her probably wished she had not survived. A war criminal died, but I doubt the
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> He was a prolific writer on social and political issues, while Tolkien, bless him, was deep down the rabbit hole of Middle Earth (as demonstrated by his writings and letters). Tolkien was a social/political writer and lord of the
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> For a user-base that is so knowledgeable I get the opposite impression here. The impression I get is that most aren't even tech people let alone hackers. They are here because they are not knowledgable and want to learn. This for
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> A colleague told me the best way to level up coding skills is to read excellent code. The best way to level up is to code. Reading code can be a complementary activity that can bring insights but it's not a way to level up. Active
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> On the contrary, fascist movements despise coherent philosophies. Because it isn't a philosophy but rather a defensive reaction against the liberal democratic empire on one side and the communist/marxist empire on the other
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I agree with most of his premises but I don't see how his premises lead to his conclusion - US collge education is near to collapse. 1. School loan debts aren't ideal and we should look for ways to eliminate them permanently. It&#
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It's been going on for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee What's going to happen if there is a "big splash". Nothing. Has anyone in intelligence ever been arrested or punished f
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Hate to be that guy, but network packet. But yeah, it's quite the revelation especially when you realize other people can also sniff the network and capture the unencrypted traffic. Remember thinking nobody would waste so much time and
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> I think it’s tremendously important for academia to study what factors have allowed certain countries to develop stable, prosperous democracies. It's no mystery. You need a politically united elite. You need political stability&#x
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> In 2021 they were using the blue suit. They were different teams of russians. Each team gets to choose their own colors. The one in 2014 ( "Oleg Artemyev" ) and the one in 2022 ( "Oleg Artemyev" ) are the same perso
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The fourth photo captioned "Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev with toys used as indicator of weightlessness by ISS crews." https://web.archive.org/web/20141124185343/https://www.rt.co... Unless t
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Are you saying coconuts migrate? One of the greatest comedic lines in film.
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I agree with most points in the blog except for the last point which struck me as a bit of misinformation itself. > P.S. Yet another form of misinformation is political lies of the sort that we’ve been seeing most notoriously from Russia
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> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But when the "stupidity" always leans in one particular political direction, it's difficult not to attribut malice to it. > But th
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Simulation hypothesis: God did the first simulation with a computer, everything else is a simulation of a simulation.
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Cosmonauts are wearing almost entirely yellow uniforms and the media is twisting that as support for ukraine? If that doesn't show you that media is all propaganda and how desperate they are to latch onto anything, nothing will. Maybe
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Japanese costanza.
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Wondering this myself. I remember reading ( not too long ago ) that europeans lived longer and had better mental health because they napped more than americans. Wasn't it even encouraged to take naps at work for better mental function.
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It's because we have no national purpose because we are no longer a nation. Instead we are an empire controlled by a conglomeration of vested interests ( foreign and domestic ). We used to be able to build massive projects like cross c
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> by blackmailing, intimidation, and literally murder by bulldozing houses with people in them when they refuse to leave That doesn't explain nail houses though... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery&#x2F

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