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> China is genociding Uighurs. It's simply not true. You can repeat lies all you want, but doesn't make it true. You can't commit genocide against a people who's population is increasing and whose culture/langua
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> HN has really taught me how to communicate respectfully with people who I don't agree with What HN is good at is preventing or limiting discussion so that it doesn't turn into a flame war by any side. Whereas today's red
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CS only involves computable numbers ( Turing ) which are a subset of real numbers. By definition CS is a subset of math, not vice versa.
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Since when was there any rules when it came to war? Inside "China's" playbook for global domination or ours? Everytime I read propaganda piece about china, I just replace china with the US or the West and it makes sense. We a
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CS is math...
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What's a foreigner to a country that allows more than 1 citizenship? What's a foreigner in a country that has a "foreign" royal as head of state? Why were foreigners allowed to buy homes in the first place? Most importan
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> It was never moralistically portrayed like you seem to want. How else do you portray an intentional and centuries long systematic genocide of an entire continent of nations? How do you portray the greatest genocide in human history? &g
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You have it backwards. State propaganda was what tricked me into believing history was truth. It was only when I attended college, a respectable historian educated me about history: "his story", "victor writes the history&quo
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Don't forget apple and amazon. People always forget about amazon and their media offerings tied to Prime membership. But I agree, tech monopolies are just as worrying as the media monopolies. I'd imagine the next period of consoli
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> I'm surprised this isn't a major diplomatic incident between the UK and Israel too Are you really surprised? I'd be surprised if the UK and its media made a fuss about it. Certainly we won't be making a fuss about i
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UAE is a fast growing international hub. Nobody is terrified. No more than people are terrified of traveling to germany because tourists get arrested for silly nonsense like a nazi salute or thailand because tourists get arrested insulting
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> People deserve to have self-determination now that it's a modern, globalized world What do you mean by "people" and "self-determination". If 51% of the southerners decided to secede from the US, should they be
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> I'm saying that Copernicus wrote _de revolutionibus_ in 1543 and its contents were globally accepted not before around the 1700s. That's because the telescope hadn't even been invented yet. And no scientific evidence co
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Really? I remember being taught about pilgrims and indians in elementary school and then they simply stopped being mentioned. Nowhere did I ever read the native americans were genocided. I certainly never read we were the bad guys extermina
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Depends on whether the people living in 5022 have ties/connection to us or not. "Clash over telescope at sacred Hawaiian site" "It is the burial grounds of some of our most sacred and revered ancestors" https:&#x2F
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> They were right eventually, but they were very controversial and their ideas started very strong debates. They weren't right eventually. They were always right. Are you claiming copernicus was wrong and the sun was circling the ea
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> Umbrellas are for people in cities without real weather. They only work for vertical rain. The pacific northwest often gets rain+wind, which defeats umbrellas. No. Everyone uses umbrellas in nyc and the surrounding metro area. You&#x27
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There was an article about the decline of brain size/etc yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31048591 How did I know we'd get this article today? Am I clairvoyant? So many people in denial about aging.
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> I will stop work the day I die. This has to be the saddest thing I've ever read. Modern culture/capitalism/whatever has replaced an individual's family, friends, purpose, identity, etc with their job. Truly, "a
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Seattle isn't rainy. It's pathetically drizzly. Flimsily misty more than anything. It hardly ever rains in seattle. By rain, I mean a real downpour where you can get soaked. The kind of rain you need an umbrella for. Hardly anyone
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"History is written by the victors" doesn't mean it is only written by the winning side at that time in history forever. It means history is written by those currently in charge today. Meaning today's victors get to choo
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"It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over until we forget that it's a lie." -- Littlefinger.
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Firstly , history isn't a science. History is part of humanities. > History, as a science, is a mixed bag of debates and consensus. Science doesn't work via debates and consensus. It works by hypothesis and experimentation. His
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> All of these stakeholders should have a say in what is done with twitter. I love the new propaganda term "stakeholder". Stakeholders do have a say. If you don't like twitter, don't use it. > I think these tech bi
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In the chart, all the metrics look like they are in a state of decline in your mid 30s. So we can safely assume by 40, you ( or your brain specifically ) is over the hill.
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According to the chart, the only thing that increases in late adulthood is ventricular volume. Interesting. "An increase in ventricle size is associated with degenerative brain disease and gait." https://www.mayoclinic.
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The ability to manage/disable features is meaningless. Surely the chinese government controls the source code and ensures that any install is off of their source? And tell me china isn't the only country getting their own version.
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> to choose a totem I thought totems were to test if you were in the real world or the dream world. Who knew totems had so many uses.
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Don't worry, you are protected by your majestic landfill.
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2019? Isn't that around the time google claimed quantum supremacy ( though skeptics dispute it )? I know google is heavily invested in quantum computing but would they seriously manipulate search results like this? Has there been any u

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