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Sweden was an unofficial NATO member anyways. Everybody knew this. They just didn't officially join in order to pretend to be a 'neutral' actor on the world stage, but anyone with a brain should know whose side they are on. I
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> IQ tests seem woefully outdated and highly biased at best. Maybe in the early 1900s, but not today. > As many note, the ability to do well on these tests is greatly increased by practice, as with most testing procedures. The notion
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The largest fine in history was levied on pfizer. They paid a "criminal" fine. Nobody went to jail. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/pfizer-fined-23-billion-ille... Today pfizer is one of the most trusted comp
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Everyone spies on everyone. Especially on their allies/friends/etc. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie... We are led to believe that adversaries spy on each other. The vast majo
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> But if you look at the share price of like, Tesla - it's completely insane. So was the stock prices of amazon, google, etc. You don't expect companies that are opening new industries/businesses to trade like AT&T. Yo
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Question. How feasible would it to have an automated landing system for airplanes. So that in case the pilot is incapicitated, you could flip a switch and have the plane land itself.
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You can sign up to join the army at 17 to kill and die for the elites. But you can't buy liquor til 21.
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Why not? What should we waste our time on instead?
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> I know exactly why I do it and it feels impossible to stop. The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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FYI, if ribeyes are out of your price range, chuck steaks are a decent cost effective replacement. Everyone, poor or rich, has a right to a nice juicy steak.
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> In reality, very few are going to go into public service. People in public service don't change the communities and world around them. Public "servants" are just cogs in the machine. > They are going to go work at inv
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> "With the Industrial Revolution, according to Galor, the value of human capital reached the point that parents chose to have fewer children and invest more in their upbringing." Parents didn't "choose" to have
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It could be evolution - insects with traits that kept them from cars were selected for. Perhaps changes to the license plates? Changes in the design of cars? Or a general decline of insect population?
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Nobody invented it. The culture invented.
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> The fact that people exist who actually blame Obama I don't blame Obama. I supported him. My point isn't that Obama is the problem, my point is that politics is the problem. > should be proof enough that our society was m
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Colbert's mimicry of O'Reilly was legendary. Now colbert is O'Reilly. Turns out they all work for the same boss. It's just I was too young to understand that. Just like when you were too young to realize what the WWE was
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That's because politics became injected into social media/internet. The problem isn't social media per se, it's politics, news, media, etc that has overrun social media in the past 15 years. Before Obama, the internet an
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Guns/muskets weren't that useful initially either. But the potential was there. Bows and arrows proved to be more effective for 100+ years before guns eventually won out. > So it's like using a laptop to hammer a nail. No
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I think most people would have guessed elements of saudi, israeli, british and american governments/agencies were involved in 9/11. Doubt anything would happen unless the saudis, israelis or british decide to do switch teams and j
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> Lastly, people. The dirty secret of social media is that the core problem is people. On anonymous online spaces people are hateful and vindictive. They believe crazy shit and want everyone to know about it. This is simply not true. &qu
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> There are lots of great ideas about how to tame problematic online behaviour. Isn't that what all the censoring europeans, chinese, russians, saudis, israelis, etc all say? All censors are trying to target "problematic"
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The idea was pushed by the buddhist leadership of a buddhist country - Japan. Can't claim it was anti-buddhist when buddhists were behind it. It wasn't anti-buddhist, it was anti suboptimal diet. It's something that is true e
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> But, as Karlsson points out, “anyone who’s owned eight dogs from the same breed will tell you all about their different personalities”. Even within a single litter, you can obviously track different personalities. The bigger dominant o
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Hopefully they'll take a holistic approach - from processor to memory to disk to kernel to application. India should have players in every aspect of technology. They should also invest more in research. Why does india have less superco
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Yeah, an occupied nation with no sovereignty. Who has to beg for oil and gas from russia and when we tell them to jump, they ask "how high". Vast swathes of the US has higher life expectancy, healthcare, lower unemployement, lower
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What about "// TODO !", "// TODO !!", and "// TODO !!!". Where the number of !s indicates the urgency - the more the urgent.
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> Why? We don't have them anymore in germany. Even more reason to use plastic straws. If there is one country I don't want the US to follow, that's germany. > People move on and new solutions get invented. Like toxic pa
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> Why is the world so obsesed with plastic straws? The world? It's just the media and virtue signalers who are obsessed. Far less than 1% of the population. Sadly, these people control the megaphone and makes it seem like "the
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The smart thing to do is to bet against the herd on HN. Otherwise, facebook would've ceased to exist, everybody would be using ruby and crypto would be worth $0. Bookies love to bet against the herd for a reason. > I see a lot of cr
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> We don't need meat. We do if we want human beings at their optimal physical and mental capacity. It isn't much of a secret that increased consumption of meat led to human beings reaching their optimal physical and mental pote

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