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by qiskit 5y ago
> The irony is that Bolivia is a hotspot for lithium production. It's why there was a coup in bolivia a few years ago. Guess who was involved in that one? Hint, the same one involved in coups in ukraine, venezuela, iran, etc. Discov
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by qiskit 5y ago
We are talking about mastercard/visa here. I never said Mastercard/Visa represented 99% of all credit cards.
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by qiskit 5y ago
I would love to see an example of true altruistic patriotism you speak of. All people are selfish and everyone works for their own self-interest. Nationalism/patriotism exists because of each individual's recognition of that self-
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by qiskit 5y ago
> MasterCard/Visa cards issued in Russia will not work abroad, cards issued abroad will not work in Russia. So it does nothing then. So russians will be able to use visa/mastercard within russia? They just won't be able to
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by qiskit 5y ago
Why? I'm not a fan of wikipedia and don't wish to use my time to assist it in any way whatsoever. I've grown weary of wikipedia and much of tech/social media that profits off of free labor essentially.
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by qiskit 5y ago
Why does an oven need this? Is the idea that everything will be connect to the internet and need the manufacturers permission to use? Will I need American Standard's permission to flush my toilet one day? Where does this end? After rea
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by qiskit 5y ago
I call bullshit on this. All you have to do is visit a supermarket anywhere to see it. Go to restaurants. Maybe 1 in 10 cut back on their meat consumption ( and even that should be met with skepticism ) but the idea that 1 in 10 don't
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by qiskit 5y ago
No. Economic sanctions are an act of war. Just like blockading a port is an act of war. War doesn't necessarily mean killing human beings. You could bomb an empty munitions factory and it would be an act of war. Economic sanctions is t
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by qiskit 5y ago
Same here. Sprouted potatoes look absolutely horrible but I can't bring myself to throw out a bag of potatoes just because they look awful. Just cut away and boil or bake. It even creeps me out to even hold sprouted potatoes. I wonder
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by qiskit 5y ago
Using your logic, Alonzo Church should be credited with the Turing machine and the halting problem since he solved Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem before Turing did. If everything follows trivially from an answer to the same question, t
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by qiskit 5y ago
Even worse, Amazon the company is so economically/culturally dominant that I immediately thought of Amazon the company rather than the most important rainforest on earth. I almost wish we could force amazon the company to change its na
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by qiskit 5y ago
> You should still believe the reporting of actual events done by the major international news orgs. Would you say we should believe major russian news orgs? Healthy skepticism is required, especially during times of war. There is a reas
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by qiskit 5y ago
"Jack Copeland (2004) attributes the introduction of the term halting problem to the work of Martin Davis in the 1950s.[1]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem Martin Davis did in the early 1950s af
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by qiskit 5y ago
You can't. Anything that is editorialized will skew to an extreme over time. In the past, wikipedia was bad because its quality of information was generally terrible. "Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve t
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by qiskit 5y ago
> The terms of the bet require the car to navigate through New York in the winter. By NY, do they mean manhattan, new york city or the actual state? Because much of manhattan is gridlike and almost made for self-driving cars. Though the
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by qiskit 5y ago
That's a very naive take. They weren't russian colonies but they were within its sphere of influence. Just like cuba, canada and the entire western hemisphere is within our sphere of influence. Do you know what would have lead to
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by qiskit 5y ago
> But to say that what Russia is doing is somehow US's fault, that really does not make any sense. He's saying it is US's fault because Russia has been accommodating the US for decades. Russia allowed NATO to gobble up cou
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by qiskit 5y ago
Interesting fact I learned a while back. Belarus is named white russia because mongols used color based cardinal directions ( gold = center, white = west, black = north, red = south, blue = east ). So white russia means west russia ( west o
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by qiskit 5y ago
The suggestion was to demote the native language in favor of english since english had the knowledge. My point was to elevate the native language by bringing that knowledge ( english, arabic, russian, chinese, french, etc ) into your native
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by qiskit 5y ago
Feels like a watershed moment. Though we've had countries ( india, china, US, russia ) block or try to block each other social media before. EU has already don't this to russian media/social media. Though it's not techni
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by qiskit 5y ago
> Wouldn't Africa be better off if English became the most spoken language? No. Superficially it may seem like it but practically it would stagnate their native languages and dumb down the population. > There are more resources,
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by qiskit 5y ago
NYTimes was never about investigative journalism. NYTimes's value comes from the fact that it's the 'paper of record'. It's the paper that 'the state' uses to communicate to the public. Others investigate
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by qiskit 5y ago
> I never knew until recently how tied up Russia's oil strategy was to their military / political thinking. Oil strategy is tied to everyone's military/political thinking. Especially the top oil producers like Russia
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by qiskit 5y ago
Our racial history is so screwy. Asians actually sued to be classified as white ( mainly for immigration reasons ). "Instead, he claimed that Japanese people should be properly classified as "free white persons"." https
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by qiskit 5y ago
> Also Peter Thiel doesn’t manage or control Rumble but is an investor. An investor is just another word for owner. He owns part of Rumble. He has more say than any employee in the company ( including the CEO ).
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The likelihood of nuclear war is pretty much 0. But if you want to prepare, I can only think of off-grid homesteading or farming with known community ( aka it has some friends or family that you know ). People will need help from others&#x2
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by qiskit 5y ago
Ideally, the basics ( reading, writing, arithmetic, etc ) should all be done at home with their stay at home moms ( or dads ). Once they reach a certain level, then schooling should start ( maybe 7th grade or high school even ). Not only wo
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by qiskit 5y ago
> But what are you gaining by turning off the runtime type checker? It's not clear. Only possibilities are a tiny boost in speed or a tiny improvement in memory footprint? Can't think of anything else. > PHP in particular te
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by qiskit 5y ago
So that must be why he didn't mention microsft, windows, C# and .Net. Hard to take the article seriously when he ignored 95% of the actual desktop market. Not to mention Sun's failure with their java based OS and its own eventual
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by qiskit 5y ago
> Because "That's why the West staged a coup" is also a lie. I proved I was right in the original post. Also, it is not a lie. It's factually correct. > And if you wonder why, read some history. Does it appear to y

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