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by qubax 8y ago
> Why Democracies Are Turning Against Chinese Influence "Democracies"? I get that foreign affairs is a propaganda think tank, but I wish they'd be more honest. People aren't uneducated saps anymore. "why some in
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by qubax 8y ago
> - options pricing in move of almost 10% The options sellers win again. Collect them juicy premiums boys. Like stealing candy from a baby. > - North America DAU was relativly flat Shocking considering the dozens of articles saying ev
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by qubax 8y ago
> The best solution, and currently in effect as law in many European countries, would be to stop political ads altogether on Facebook and the Web. I disagree. Not only is that against the first amendment and it is discriminatory. Why sh
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by qubax 8y ago
9000 porn sites? I can understand that if his job involved researching porn. Otherwise, who has time to visit that many websites at their job? Where does he find the time to do actual work with his busy porn-viewing schedule? And most impor
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by qubax 8y ago
> Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their "scientific research" whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice. The whales they research aren't endangered.
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by qubax 8y ago
Yes and Power9.
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by qubax 8y ago
> There's a lot of space to go around though Not really. There is a finite amount of arable rich land which can support life. A lot of "space" is frozen or desertified wasteland. > most of it undeveloped for e.g. agricu
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by qubax 8y ago
Most of the environmental damage so far has been done by the wealthy developed countries to maintain a high standard of living. Most of the population growth is in the underdeveloper world that hope to be developed. What's really worry
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by qubax 8y ago
> Whereas on the same exact screen, firefox/chromium are gateways to madness. Oh my god, what hyperbole. This is like the cringey hyperbole equating rock 'n roll with devil music back in the 50s. Things will be fine. Every olde
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by qubax 8y ago
> I was an avid "gamer" growing up. I wasn't always the most responsible with it. Probably overdid it a lot. But I can see with my own child, this is a different ball-game altogether. People said the same thing about WoW a
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by qubax 8y ago
> Kind of funny how the NYT publishes the original story to generate outrage The older I get, I realize that more often than not, these companies don't report the news, they create/generate/manufacture the news. Half the t
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by qubax 8y ago
> I'm sorry but this is simply incorrect, I mean it's not even close. It isn't incorrect. It's history. Europeans have been colonizing east asia for a long time. China and most of asia consider what the europeans did
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by qubax 8y ago
> in much of East Asia the Rising Sun Flag is seen as a symbol of oppression and Japanese imperialism The british flag, spanish flag, french flag, russian flag and even the american flag are greater symbols of oppression and imperialism
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by qubax 8y ago
Just like programming languages can only have two out of three concepts ( soundness, completeness, decidability ), the creators of the internet had to choose two out of three concepts ( openness, robustness, security ). It's theoretica
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by qubax 8y ago
Anyone know if tuition costs are part of inflation?
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by qubax 8y ago
> Google is a company that has explicitly stated its ethics over and over and over. Isn't it usually the company or person who shouts loudly about virtue that end up being the least virtuous? Whether it is the most vocal anti-gay re
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by qubax 8y ago
> Waking up early is good for your career interests given that you work in a capitalist system, but not good for your other interests Isn't that the gist of the article? Whether you serve capitalism or whether capitalism serves you?
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by qubax 8y ago
> Why would an entire country that’s not undergoing a war or revolution stop speaking a language basically all educated people speak? Usually nationalism and self-interest. It's why england switched from norman french to english a f
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by qubax 8y ago
Google has changed it's search to favor corporate interests. It doesn't reflect the real internet anymore. Search for movies, you get a list of newspaper reviews instead of the forums or independent reviews. Everything, even recip
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by qubax 8y ago
Yeah. Both numbers seem very low. Are they confusing monthly visitors with page views? Pretty sure on DEC 2014, the monthly page view for reddit would be near a billion and HN would be in the tens of millions.
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by qubax 8y ago
> Looking at the official languages of countries, French Countries with french as an official language only have a total population of 434 million people. And a few of them, like canada, has english as an official language as well. Also,
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by qubax 8y ago
It's the neverending battle between the short side and longs when it comes to TSLA. Whenever there is some negative news, the shorts just spam social media. The same with the longs.
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by qubax 8y ago
> Scientists often abhor citing from blogs, forums, and Wikipedia, as those publications "are not peer-reviewed by trustworthy professionals". Which is sad because most peer-reviewed material are not trustworthy either. https:
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by qubax 8y ago
Basically when the quality of writers declined and when everyone was going through the motions for money. It got old, stale and boring.
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by qubax 8y ago
> Anand basically argued that the global elite spends a lot of time looking for ways to help the global impoverished I have a hard time believing this. The elite spend a lot of time looking for ways to help themselves. The elite spend a
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by qubax 8y ago
> I'm zero'ing in on your use of the word 'extremism' because it's a loaded term meant to paint your target as outrageous and unreasonable. It's not. I'm using it the same way far-left journalists use i
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by qubax 8y ago
> and atheists in the USA seem to have some sort of uphill battle to be recognised as people who could be vaguely competent at anything. If you are from the UK, what could you possibly know about the US? I'm atheist and have been si
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by qubax 8y ago
> Putting aside that it's a slippery and malleable label to apply to undesirable speech, there is an elitism hiding in these ban-hate-speech arguments. It's also about control. The biggest whiners about "hate speech"
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by qubax 8y ago
> "Tech companies" is just way too broad a designation to use here. No one is seriously asking Apple to police hate speech in iMessage or Facetime, for instance, or Verizon to police hate speech in SMS. Sure they are. Microsoft
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by qubax 8y ago
> Can you give an example of far-left extremism in the media? By far-left extremism in the media, I'm saying that the media is far-left extremist. > I haven't seen any communist bomb threats lately. Google antifa and protes

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