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by qubax 8y ago
It's a lot more common in the wild than one thinks. Lions, tigers, wild dogs, alligators, fish, sharks, baboons, birds, hyenas, worms, bears, etc all eat animals that are still alive from time to time. Animals want to conserve as much
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by qubax 8y ago
It the worst during winter. Wake up it's dark. Come home it's dark. Hello darkness my old friend...
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It's a bit strange that we are remembering the "hero" but not the 500 or so innocent vietnamese men, women, children and infants who were raped, tortured and/or killed. Strange how we always have to make ourselves the go
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by qubax 8y ago
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive..."
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Google being google. It's strange people are still so shocked by what google is.
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> This seems like the worst part (not that the rest is not bad), anyone has an idea of what this "pixel trackers" are and how they actually work? This is very old tech. "Invisible" image linked to a url. Pretty much e
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You know what also kills girls' confidence? Telling them their natural rite of passage into womanhood causes them to lose confidence. So puberty kills girls' confidence. Then they have college rape campuses to look forward to. Tha
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> You can't generalize this to all Americans, as it largely seems to be localized to the Baby Boomer generation, who were responsible for roughly 2/3rds of automobile sales in 2011. You mean the largest and wealthiest demograph
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> Does anyone know exactly why? I conjecture to say it's broadly the result of capitalism. This is a tricky question. Easily the biggest factor is china. China being the most populous nation was the largest source of poverty a few d
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There is always talk of mass transit when gas prices momentarily increase. Then we forget about it once gas prices drop. The same thing with small economical cars with great mileage. Remember a few years ago when gas prices rose above $4 an
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> If it's just the built-in AIs, you're right that it's much less impressive. They should be winning 100% of the time. Absolutely. Unless the win-loss ratio includes all games while the AI "learns" to play the ga
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by qubax 8y ago
The oldest verified impact structure is in south africa as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892966 I have a sneaking suspicion that journalists spend most of their time on social media sites like HN and just rep
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> Facts that you don't agree with are not prejudice. Who is disagreeing with facts. It's the interpretation that people disagree with. "Tiannamen square massacre" vs "Bringing order to tiannamen square"? I
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It's ridiculous how the exact same people going crazy over china's "digital dictatorship" will defend "digital dictatorship" here as long as it aligns with their own biases and agenda. I guess ideals and princi
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> I don't see what's controversial about that Really? You don't see what's controversial about a pro-life employee seeing pro-choice results and deciding to alter the search results? Or what if a republican employee d
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by qubax 8y ago
Sure, social media isn't perfect. But lots of real news spread through social media too. Real news like the weinstein story that the nytimes squashed. That's the difference between social media and the nytimes. You can't sile
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by qubax 8y ago
What does that even mean? I'm sure some like me more than I think and some hate me more than I think. But mostly 99% of the people don't care because they have their lives to lead. Are there people I like more than they know. Sure
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> The author advocates starting with database design before software. Some other people advocate the opposite: the database is just a detail. If the database is just a detail then you most likely are working on a small toy project. Or a
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A newspaper that quashed the weinstein story 13 years ago wants us to tell it secrets? https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-... The NYTimes should be the last company anyone should be telling secrets
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by qubax 8y ago
How's the saying go? If you aren't paying for it, then you are the product? Nothing is free. You are paying one way or another. Even if they aren't actively tracking your movements, they are collecting data on you and passive
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The candidates you listed shows that it is a genuine attempt at soft power. Just because it's soft power directed to people we don't like doesn't mean it isn't soft power. China is using their "peace" prize as
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> This is weird because Bombes are really, really not computers That's why it's generally called machines rather than computers. But the media plays loose with words to make the story more interesting. Also, the british bombes
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> I'm starting to think that the Nobel Peace Prize should only be awarded posthumously That's never going to happen. Nobel Peace Prize is a political tool and has always been so. It has nothing to do with peace but advancing po
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There are videos on youtube and elsewhere of people eating the military field rations of their country. Pretty interesting stuff. Some even had packs that would "cook" the food.
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Why? We are not chinese. We don't live in china. I'm more worried about censorship in the US and especially europe since europeans seem so intent on bringing their censorship to the US and the entire world. At least the chinese ce
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Here you go from a few hours ago. "China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4B citizens" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18026060 They aren't even waiting 24 hours.
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> This was very cool. I'm only 23, but I'm always thinking about the future, always planning for when I get old. Okay. > I definitely don't ever see myself "retiring"-- and I mean that: I will never not be int
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I disagree. I get that there are a lot of media employees here, but it would be better if people stopped defending such practices. And it isn't every thread. It's usually the most egregious examples that people point out.
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It's not free. People are paying the economist with their time.
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Big "philanthropy" isn't a new concept. It's more than a 100 years old and was created by the "robber barons" of the gilded age to shelter their money from taxes and keep the wealth under family control for gen

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