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by qiskit 4y ago
> The U.S., although gaining steam economically (pun intended), was still a backwater, rural, nation isolated by a whole lot of ocean A "backwater"? That forced the 49th parallel on the british in the 1810s? That took oregon te
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What other way was there to feed a city full of people? Certainly, you could have culture within a hunter-gatherer society, but not civilization. How could hunter-gatherers provide enough food to sustain a city? Unless we redefine civilizat
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The US took the oregon territories from the british empire in the 1840s. Even before the civil war, the british empire was in no position to challenge the US in north america. America was focused on western expansion to the pacific before a
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by qiskit 4y ago
Or the King George And Tsar Nicholas post from a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31414044
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Copyright laws are like medicine. Ideally you want good copyright laws just like you want good medicine. If you can't get or don't have good copyright laws, it's better to have no copyright laws rather than bad copyright laws
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So it's not ovid's deucalion and pyrrha but kinda like it.
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Maybe we should've shut down liquor stores during the pandemic.
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My guess is FB, be overly cautious, probably had their algorithm/filters allow false positives but not false negatives. Or at least minimize false negatives as much as possible. Unless there are other issues, I'm sure if you someh
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At this point, we would be better off without any copyrights laws. It's no longer about protecting the interests of artists, creators, etc. It's about protecting the interests of corporations and the useless privileged elites to t
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by qiskit 4y ago
The problem still continues. Even if you add the unprovable formula ( lets say formula1) in System1 as an axiom to System2 ( System1 + formula1 ), System2 will have its own unprovable formulas even though formula1 would be superficially pro
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by qiskit 4y ago
They were leaders of imperial britain and imperial russia, not imperial germany. Though both were of mostly ethnic german stock. I don't think anyone would disagree that the british and russian empires were two of the most terrible emp
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Who cares? Nobody invests in tesla or index funds because of "ESG" scores. Nobody cares about the ESG index. Other than useless privileged people with too much time on their hands. If TSLA was removed from the SP500, that's n
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by qiskit 4y ago
The standard 6 months of emergency fund, updated resume and just go about your life as normal. If you are a software developer, you'll be fine. Maybe it'll take you 3 months to find a new job rather than 1 month. Don't let fe
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What teardown? Why do newspapers all parrot each other and spout the same fearmongering nonsense? Stock corrections happen. Life will go on.
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The guy should have been "axed" for dating a student. Not for his opinions. Given the power dynamics at play, any professor found to be dating a student should be terminated immediately. The real scandal here is why he wasn't
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It's just another neo-colonial weapon to attack former colonies and weak nations like all "international" courts/institutions/etc. It won't affect colonial powers like the US, Britain, France, etc. It certainly
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The leaders of two of the most horrific empires in history are related? This used to be spammed on reddit years ago. They were apparently cousins.
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That's what social media should be. It should be a platform. Give more control to the users. Less control to journalists, moderators, political actors, etc. Let users individually curate the content they want to see instead of trying t
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Taking a break from all media makes you happier and less anxious. Especially if you are overconsuming media like many people are.
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Interesting list but most of it was before the idea of a nation-state. It was mostly a royal selling a piece of his property to another royal. Spain "selling" the philippines to the US was after losing a war. And louisiana/al
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by qiskit 4y ago
> The Commonwealth of Nations is a _loose_ grouping of independent nations. Not all of which actually had/have any historical association with the United Kingdom. It's the successor of the british commonwealth which is the succ
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> and this results in the conclusion that Linear B is actually a version of a regional [script, not linguistic] dialect of Linear A that was used to write a different language. I guess that's nice to know, but hasn't it always
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The word fee derives from an old german word for cow.
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> The presence of troops does not imply an occupation. 70 years "presence" of troops does. > If you mistakenly think it does, then (among other things) you'll be unable to perceive alliances. That's a nice way of s
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> This is false. There is a distinction between the Commonwealth in the broader cultural sense (Commonwealth Games, etc.) and the Commonwealth realm. Look a map of the british empire and see which it resembles - commonwealth realm or the
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No. South korea is a vassal. A vassal of the US. It has american troops occupying it. North korea is opposite of what south korea is. They have no foreign troop occupying it. And if north korea was a chinese vassal, they wouldn't have
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India is the most independent amongst the vassals. But it's not a fully independent nation like the US, russia, china or even north korea. No truly independent nation would be part of the commonwealth of nations. https://en.
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> NK exists at the behest of China. No. China and NK was created with the backing of the soviet union. They were vassals of the soviet union until they decided not to be. Both china and north korea have been independent actors for a whil
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India is still part of the british empire/commonwealth. They gained independence and left the british empire. A few years later, they rejoined it. They actually claim the british queen as their head of state - even if it is ceremonial
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No. They are the most indepedentest of the independent. They only serve one lunatic dictator and his family. And developed nuclear weapons against the wishes of US, china and russia. Can't get more independent than that. It's a co

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