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by qiskit 5y ago
> At the time I had extremely negative views around the practice, thanks to growing up in the USA where we celebrate our freedom to choose the perfect partner. For most of american history, "arranged" marriages were the norm an
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Same. Never seen that symbol in my life. I've seen ¬, ~, !, etc used for not/negation in computer science, math, logic, etc. And some commenters said they used it to mark proof by contradiction, but why is there a need to mark it
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> There's such a low cost of entry on most forms of digital media / art now that more people than ever just seem to be copying what's popular and adding to the non-stop barrage of beige unoriginality. There is low cost of
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> 1) The corporatization of social media is a big factor. Yep. There was a time when I trusted internet/social media reviews because they weren't bought and paid for access media. But now, it's clear that they are also bo
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> I don't care if someone is just wrong about some belief. You sound like you care very much. I've known many zealots who want everyone to adopt their orthodoxy. > I care when they have a megaphone and they're convincin
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> I can build up a relatively vivid mental image of my walking route to school (from the bus terminal) over 40 years ago. Is it accurate? Who cares. It's not just decades old memories. Memory of recent events is likely to be suspect
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> What debate is being stifled? Everything you deem to be wrong? " Allowing for there to be these separate "sides"... " > It's settled science. Everything is "settled science" until it isn't. Li
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When it became mainstream and old. Popularity and age kills all things cool.
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> One thing we need to step away from is this framing that there are "sides" to be on. Two sides/devil's advocate is the basis of philosophy, thought, learning, etc. To claim otherwise is to demand blind obedience to
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Tragicomedy. Too tragic for tears. Too comedic for laughter.
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by qiskit 5y ago
> A certificate saying I got a jab is nothing to all this, and doesn't enable any interesting tracking that wasn't already happening. Do you have to provide your passport to every shop, bus, train, etc that you use? There is a
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by qiskit 5y ago
Just as notable is that china passed laws to stop this practice in 2015 as the article noted. The same year taiwan stopped the practice of taking organs from prisoners. Yet the propaganda is rather one sided. I wonder. I'm against all
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by qiskit 5y ago
We did invade vietnam. Vietnam beat their brutal french colonizers and won their independence ( 1st indochina war ). But we decided to get involved and seized half the country. ( 2nd indochina war ). > North Vietnam was the aggressor. No
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> All problems seem to be attack oriented, not defence. Probably because it's easier to design puzzles for mating/attacking and people want to attack/mate. > As a result in a chess match I constantly look for ways to at
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Hope so. IP is rent seeking and should be abolished. Or china might as well demand everyone pay IP for firecrackers or paper. India, middle east, ASENA, africa, etc should steal as much IP as they can and develop. Just like china did. Just
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Interesting. They literally have a bridge to sell you.
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> Every human being on the planet who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship subject to the whims of one or few strongmen, or to be disappeared with no legal recourse for saying or thinking the wrong thing, or to have the valuable t
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by qiskit 5y ago
Hopefully they'll send more drones to mars, moon, etc and less rovers. Unless there are technical reasons I'm not aware of, why wouldn't they scout with drones instead of rovers?
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> $2000 barely covers rent ( 1 br LA/SF). The market will develop housing for basic income people or you could always move to lower cost areas. > We’d also need rent control legislation to prevent rents from rising to absorb the
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by qiskit 5y ago
> Russia and Venezuela simply never developed a civil society in the modern sense. Isn't that the fault of democracy then? How can democracy be so great if it can't even help develop basic civil society? So now you are moving t
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by qiskit 5y ago
Instead of all these regulations, why not institute basic income. If every adult was given $2000 ( or whatever figure we come up with ) you wouldn't have to create so many laws. Minimum wage, work hours, retirement, diversity, etc laws
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> Democracies have stable, predictable rule of law. Really? Russia? Venezuela? They are democracies. Also, do you realize that many of the world's poorest and unstable countries are democracies? India has been a democracy for nearly
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by qiskit 5y ago
Once a decade, there is a story about middle managers becoming irrelevant. Somehow they manage to cling on. I'm sure in another decade, we'll get another article about something else making middle managers irrelevant.
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> This is great to hear about India. It is and I hope india is able to develop. > The more developed and economically successful the world’s largest democracy is, the better for the world in general. Who cares whether india is a demo
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> No, see, that's but one example of how your unwillingness or inability to accept any complexity or nuance gets in the way of thinking. Or maybe I've heard the "tv license" excuse for many years now. Nothing you wro
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> The BBC funding is primarily through TV licensing fees, so it's essentially an optional tax. That's a long-winded and highly convoluted way of saying government funded. You have to admire the BBC. They've done such a go
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by qiskit 5y ago
Sure, unwarranted cynicism isn't helpful. But neither is blind optimism. Moore's law has proven itself for decades. Fusion has failed for even longer. A little bit of cynicism is not only called for, but healthy in this case.
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> They're all Muslims. Islam establishes that ethnicity does not matter. Yes I know. That's my point. The arabic domination of the muslim world was ended by the mongols. The mongol empire helped the rise of the ottoman and pers
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> The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. CLIs are available on every OS. > I always forget how to use `tar`; You can increase the amount of command history you keep. Or keep a file with oft used
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by qiskit 5y ago
RT's funding doesn't come from the government?

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