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> Who controls the media in the US? Not the president. That's an improvement over Russia. Is it? The people who control the media also control the president. Don't think it is any better. > Who has done more genocides than
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> Yeah... re-read history without the biases, and you'll see that that is absolutely false. I have re-read history. Who has committed more genocides than the US? What non-democratic country has nuked a city? I don't think I
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> At least 53GB of free disk space (Desktop install) Wowsa. I know disk space is abundant but that is still shocking. I've never used MacOS, but why does it need at least 38 GB free for MacOS update? > You need 15GB for Asahi Lin
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> If the population rises and we refuse to build more houses, the existing ones will get more expensive no matter what. Mix in low interest rates and you get a major property bubble. Population growth and low interest rates are the two m
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We used to call it "learning by breaking things". As with all things today, it's been rebranded with a catchier name.
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> It isn't normal (at least in a democracy) for the local rulers to have that kind of control over businesses. Democracies are preventing businesses from operating in russia. What exactly makes democracies so special that it isn
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Chinese elites get preferential treatment? Wow. It never happens in any other country. That's for sure.
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> History shows that utter devastation can tear through a civilization, killing as much as one in three people, but civilization will rebound within a generation or three. That news to the ancient egyptian civilization, mesopotamian civi
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Even better, just play the ad and after the ad finishes, give the user a quiz on the ad to make sure he was paying attention. If you score 80% on the quiz, then you can browse the filesystem. Otherwise, they have to watch the ad again. Dark
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Message box: DO you want to watch this 2 min ad in order to browse your filesystem? [Yes] [No]? Who am I kidding, why would they even give us the option. Microsoft said they were looking to put ads in their software and I guess they are fol
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> No, despite your assertions to the contrary, we have addressed your arguments. Who is we? Are you working with someone? Are you part of some goup? > Please read the links provided. I have. Even before you provided it. What about &qu
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> But the reason why so many historical figures were tutored or homeschooled is because there was no adequate public education system. By definition no public school can be as good as anything Russell got. Russell had the privilege of hi
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> I am not sure I know a single person whose morning wake-up time is dictated by the rise of the sun. I try to when I can. But you are right. Most people's lives revolve around work. For most of human existence, our lives revolved a
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> I find it mildly curious how much you're struggling here Where was the struggle? I point by point debunked your claims. > to make your point against something that is exceptionally well documented. So well documented that you c
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Seems to be the M.O. of these companies. Get a comfortable and safe/monopolistic position and then screw the users over. It's so funny how everything seems open and promising until they reach a certain size and then it suddenly st
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Using your definition of genocide, then anything qualifies as genocide cause everyone is a member of a group. To show you how absurd your definition is, the ughyur classmate committed genocide because she caused serious mental harm to membe
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That's interesting. I never could figure out why vimeo even existed as everyone uses youtube. But I guess it has a niche. Any idea why creative professionals gravitated towards vimeo?
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Also, it's not beyond the realm of possibilities that anti-russian people created this fake pro-russia account in order to "expose" it and therefore taint any and all pro-russia news/propaganda. I remember they did somet
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ZZ also does the trick, but I always do :wq out of habit. After all, you only write and quit once per file.
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> Fun idea It happens when you try to make sense of a crazy senseless world sometimes. > except it (predictably) didn't work at all Some would say it worked precisely as expected. > because producing steel isn't economica
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> Headline is a bit misleading, as this isn't all of Seattle and just one specific location. It's mainly the tourist part between king street station and pike place. And pretty much outside of 2nd and 3rd, you don't see it
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> It was a plainly inefficient and pointless use of labor and resources, mostly for political signaling purposes Or. Maybe china was facing the threat of nuclear attack from both the soviet union and the united states, who both had absol
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Gas prices rise up by 40% in a matter of days and no one you know is concerned about gas prices? You must know a lot of privileged people then. > My teenagers still drive around the city needlessly with their friends. My brother still dr
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> the words aren't 'content'. The words are content. How can you say it isn't content, when the words are what you are trying to guess? Otherwise, why would you be so supportive of censoring them? > The NYT removed
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> helped kindle the European Renaissance as we know it. The italian renaissance started in the 14th century for sure and maybe even in 13th century depending on who you ask. Though the exact date can be disputed, nobody disputes the fact
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Anyone look into how the noise might affect insects/animals? Personally, nothing ruins my day more than hearing a lawn mower starting on a quiet morning or afternoon.
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> What's user hostile in taking words off the list? That's like asking what's subscriber hostile about netflix taking movies off their service. Certainly limiting choice affects user experience. > Adding trackers is the
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If it was anywhere close to being commercially feasible, you'd first see it in oil/gas futures. Money will know long before you or I or any news outlets will know.
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> I would encourage you to remove the tinfoil hat I gave you historical and economic facts. All you have done is respond with childish ad hominems. > and I think you’ll realise that distribution of power and decision making played an
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Also, India has been sanctioned by the US as well. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9805/13/india.us/ The Indian elites know ( or they should know ) that the US and the west are their enemies as
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