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by qubax 8y ago
You completely misread my comment. Of course it's smart for time magazine to sell a worthless business to a billionaire. My point is why are tech billionaires buying money losing businesses? It certainly isn't for profit or becaus
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Something ridiculous about the media environment today. If time magazine can't survive, why not just put it out of business. The same thing with washingtonpost or theatlantic. Why are tech billionaires buying up these companies? Just t
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Sure do. And I know we have a lot more diverse culture than say sweden or spain or any european country. Maine to NYC to new orleans to texas to california to the midwest to las vegas and throw in puerto rico, alaska and hawaii. Feel free t
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It depends on your age, what sector the startup is in, the prospects of the startup and your relationship with the founders. 1. Is it a real startup doing real/cutting edge technology work ( aka cybersecurity, data, etc )? Will you be
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> What controls and experiments can you do in astronomy? http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/ > The scientific method is a thin veneer best left at in the high school curriculum where it belongs. Are you
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That's simply not true. Most americans have traveled outside of their own state. Like 90% of americans. And the 10% who haven't are mostly young children.
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> Can you cite sources for your numbers? It was a general ballpark number. Population of british commonwealth, population of western europe + turkey, US, SK, Japan, etc would come out to be near 10X the population of the soviet union. An
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> It’s prohibitively expensive and simply out of reach for many (most?) people. No it isn't. It's just that we have a huge country stretching from the western pacific ( guam, hawaii, etc ) to the arctic (alaska ) to the caribb
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According to which soviet defectors? US and our allies outnumbered the soviet union nearly 10 to 1. The US and allied GDP had even a greater advantage in terms of wealth/GDP. The soviet union was much poorer and weaker than the US alon
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There could be a replenishing or beneficial aspect of hurricanes on land. By depriving a particular region of an occasional hurricane, we might unknowingly be setting up an ecological disaster. Just like how we worked hard to prevent wildfi
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> I have always subscribed to the adage that one is as old as they feel; and I don’t feel old. You don't feel old? How about if I told you that a child born when you turned 18 is now a sophomore in college. If you had a kid when you
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> but the Vietnamese war in particular was a horror show. It wasn't any more a horror show compared to any other war. > Study the history as much as I'd like, I will never understand how "start killing people" beco
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That's the case in all organizations - academic, government, business, military, charity, etc. You can get your foot in the door by being competent. If you want to rise within any organization, you either have to know someone or you ha
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In one word - syscalls. What do I win?
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> - Nonstop media barrage favoring both wars. This is the cause of your top 3 points. When the propaganda machine is going full force, it's hard be the dissenting voice. When the editorial board of the washingtonpost says that there
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> It pays American soldier salaries It pays soldiers to do "useless" work. These same soldiers could have been working as construction workers, teachers, factory workers, etc doing something productive. Instead, they've sp
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> they can immediately prescribe you Ambien which not only causes dementia and other neurological problems in long term use, but systematically makes people do absolutely batshit crazy things they'll never remember the next morning.
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> Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly. That's the assumption of google/youtube, facebook, microsoft, etc. Once you reach a domin
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A more important question is when will the new yorker and the rest of the media fix itself before it breaks democracy. Seems like the new yorker's ( and most of the media's ) definition of "breaking democracy" is when pe
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> Good. Because it doesn't threaten Free Speech as understood by virtually all democracies in the Western world Not good. Most of the western world doesn't have free speech. > it merely threatens the extremely expansive int
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You say it isn't facebook's fault and then go on to say they should be punished. Why should anyone be punished for something they didn't do?
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Or they moved to instragram. That'll really show zuckerburg what's what.
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> So you train for many years and acquire knowledge of a particular area and then what? You can't actually make money from the skill you learned? Sure you can. But you shouldn't be regulating the companies you hope to work for.
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It's why I stopped going regularly. The smell and of course during winter, the constant coughing. But mostly the smell. Wish libraries would be quicker about growing their online presence. I still don't know why they have stacks a
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It's not that we are doomed to forget it. It's that humans ultimately don't care. We are selfish creatures. The most obvious example is what the jews did to palestines in palestine/israel a few years after ww2. Look at w
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> but at age 35 I’m really happy that my job involves serious adult challenges Highly doubt that if you are commenting on a social media platform. What's an "adult" challenge? > and that my success in life isn’t dependi
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Thanks. Also, so many guardian stories all of a sudden.
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> Maybe allow moderation at the sub-community level (as Reddit does with its subforums), but no centralised censorship Reddit most definitely has centralized censorship. They have additional subreddit censorship left to the discretion of
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The smart thing to do is liquidate your investments and keep a nice pile of cash ready to reinvest when there is a bailout. And I guarantee you there will be a bailout. Usually you will hear news of a bailout and the president will come out
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Which has been posted about on HN numerous times already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14855796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150

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