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by qubax 8y ago
> Already happened in the UK: Sargon of Akkad and CountDankula joined UKIP and are out there speaking out about their brand of alt right/lite YouTube politics. It's so strange to see people parrot media talking points. But that
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And how does the author know what the inside of a shoe tastes like?
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> Every YouTube creator that I follow has at least one video whose purpose is to rail against YouTube's mystifying demonetization policies, their trigger-happy DMCA policies that aggressively favor major copyright holders To be fair
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> I never understood why colonizing Mars is needed. For the same reason in tech we have backup servers, HA clustering, disaster recovery sites, etc. A bit of redundancy helps in case something goes wrong. > Earth would be more "h
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> That's orthogonal to what the Article 13 really says. It's not orthogonal at all. What the CEO said lines up precisely with what Article 13 says. > If anything, it will "force" the platforms to prioritize origin
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If you are interested in the brain, there are good royal institute lectures on youtube. The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRel1JKOEbI The Neuroscience of Memory - Eleanor Mag
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On the one hand, harvard and the left repeatedly say we should live in a colorblind society. Race is not important and it isn't even real. It is a social construct of no importance to who the person is. They tell us only raicsts are ob
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But everything he's said turned out to be true. The propaganda smear campaign against assange wouldn't be so great if what he was saying wasn't accurate. Governments want him silenced because he's telling the truth. Sure
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It really whips the llama's ass! Wow, I haven't heard of or used winamp since the early 2000s. What's next? mIRC or napster?
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Something like this only happens when there is a rift within the elite/intelligence community. Both apple and bloomberg are heavily back by intelligence and elite community. Bloomberg would never have published this story without the a
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So strange to see so many people celebrating 1984 style censorship. What the hell is "right to be forgotten". That isn't a right. Media gets to be less and less reliable and less truthful. If people want to be "forgotten
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> It's incredible that someone could donate billions of dollars and do unequivocally great things, and people like you still think it's bad. He did a lot of bad things as well. Microsoft the Monopoly set back computing by many
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[Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18246130
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I hear LA ( downtown ) is turning into manhattan as well. The earth is turning into a world of boring stale cookie cutter cities full of starbucks and mcdonalds.
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It became a ghost town because of the elites and their supporters like theatlantic. Manhattan now is just a place where people from the outer boroughs, nj, connecticut, etc come to work and then go home. For a city that pretends to "ne
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by qubax 8y ago
> I get the feeling this article is conflating birth rate with actual population growth. It's not. Fertility rate for the US and the developed world is below replacement. And in the developing world, it has been dropping consistent
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> How long will it take to recoup his $28 billion in donations? He "donated" to his own charity which he and his wife controls. But since you asked, about 5 years. His net worth was about $67 billion in 2013. Now it's abou
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by qubax 8y ago
Actually it's not that simple. Is it more environmentally friendly for 100 people to work in one office or for 100 people to work in 100 homes? Is it better to heat or cool one office of 100 people or to heat or cool 100 homes?
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Not just tech billionaires.
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We think that 18 year olds are too irresponsible to drink alcohol, but they are wise and responsible enough to take out $50K in student loans. If that isn't pure evil, I don't know what is. Adam Smith said debt is slavery for a re
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> I've been applying for everything from senior engineer to VP of engineering. Ever since I turned 60 last year, I'm getting no hits on my resume. For senior engineer, the sweet spot is around 10 years of experience ( like earl
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Quicksort ( especially implemented in a functional language like haskell ). It's a perfect mix of an elegant algorithm and a beautiful implementation. Simple, elegant, beautiful and powerful. What more can you want in an algorithm.
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You aren't missing anything. It's just a far left propaganda outfit keeping with the message - "alt right", "right wing", "far right", "gamer", "incel", etc. Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v. Also,
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Actually, propaganda is agreed to be a good thing for a democracy. It's why we have free press and free speech laws. Many of the founders ran printing presses or newspapers to push their own propaganda. The most prominent being alexand
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Stranger? We already knew our solar system was strange. At least compared to the other solar systems we observed ( admittedly a tiny fraction - a couple hundred out of 200 billion solar systems ). We already knew gas giants ( a major cause
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The problem with hacker news and social media in general is that "real" news is targeting it for clicks and views. Bloomberg, nytimes, washingtonpost and almost everyone else have social media teams dedicated to spreading their ar
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I know. China was asked to increase their debt during the financial crisis. John Paulson flew there directly to ask them to leverage. I'm just pointing out the pathetic chicken little clickbaiting by bloomberg. As I said, it isn't
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Yep. It's down. "pbjreload=10". Seems like an old issue related to cookies. But who knows.
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>We've gone from a damaged company worth 48b in January to a 120b valuation in a few months. I remember some here were ragging on Softbank for overpaying in their Uber investment just a few months ago. Amazing how a few months can c
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May? Well do they have it or not? So sick of these clickbait nonsense. If you want to know why bloomberg and financial "news" is a joke and a waste of time. Nobody in the industry takes them seriously. Only the masses who don&#x27

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