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Not in the least. But they are the preferred "news" provider here and get spammed 24/7.
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Equifax really isn't a financial institution. But yeah, in a capitalist system, it shouldn't be surprising that capital has power over you just like in a monarchy, the monarchs have power over you.
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What is politically extreme? Would a company that hires someone like sarah jeong be viewed as politically extreme? The problem isn't youtube. The problem is the news. The news has become politically extreme and that has seeped into you
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> It's purely just down to shock media reaction. It's more than that. Journalists hate Elon Musk because he called them out a few months ago. The same media outlets ranting and raving about how terrible our marijuana/drug
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> In the modern day though, there's better sources of food than whales. That's why there is far less whaling today. > IIRC only Japan still does it Nope. We do it in the US ( it's now mostly our inuits). Norway, Iceland
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> colleges refusing to host talks by people who traffic in trolling and bigotry. But that's just me. It's not just you. There are plenty of fascist minded extreme leftists who are working hard to censor everything they don&#x27
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Anyone else thought this was going to be news about the tv series Breaking Bad?
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Or people who feel less pain gravitate toward being "mindful". Not that we can get an objective definition of "mindful" and "pain". Also we have no objective way of measuring either.
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> How can any human come up with the idea of hunting creatures that are 200 years old? What does age have to do with anything? If people are hungry, they will hunt. If there are resources that we need, we'll use it. Trees grow for t
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There are other forms of taxation beyond income tax. Sales tax, property tax, etc.
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> "91?" Beg your pardon, but this computer guy was in his fifties. 0x51 to be precise. Not sure the math quite works out.
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More like complaining about government's audacity to spy on and take from citizens. IRS takes from citizens, it doesn't do anything for citizens. > If you don’t like taxes blame congress, the IRS like the police just quietly av
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> Why the stagnation for so long? Because it tooks us a long time to understand and harness energy. To go from primarily human energy only to external energy. For example, the ability to turn a barrel of oil into work changed the game. P
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You read a lot into my comment that simply wasn't there. By freedom I was talking about freedom of speech. > ...do you have an abyssimal rate of reintegration of ex-prisoners to literally every other Western country? What does this
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Probably for the same reason they have been censoring themselves on israel and saudi arabia. Probably for the same reason social media has been censoring content about china. $$$. Why does hollywood censor themselves when it comes to israel
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> I can watch them in double speed so that I can done quicker and my mind doesn't get bored and wander Such an incredible time saver. I can't watch vids at normal speed anymore. Also, the ability to pause and rewatch all or par
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It's partly that a strong USD means that people are buying dollars or moving money to the US. More money to the US means less money to others. It's partly borrowing. Lots of developing nations' loans are denominated in dollar
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What's with all the comments supporting censorship all of sudden? Every social media site now has hordes of "people" defending censorship. Is it just more european users on social media now? Or is it just government funded tr
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> That is one long non-article. CNN...
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Yeah. It's obvious that these claims are lies or at the very least exaggerated. And if they aren't lies, then we should be demanding real evidence. I don't get why people are downvoting me. Of all places, you would think that
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> Having taken Carl Sagan's axiom to heart that we have a very limited number of books we can read in our lifetimes and should therefore hold them dearly, I read few books older than 200 years. It's so strange how the same idea
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> ...defensive technology always lags offensive technolog Because the best defense is a good offense.
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What clickbait nonsense. Do people really believe this? Are people this naive? He was raised by humans at least to the age of 7. Then he was "abandoned" and he lived by "himself" in heavily populated spain? A few miles f
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> No rote memorization for starters. I have found that if you want problem solvers, it's usually not people from rote memorization cultures. Rote memorization is the basis of all learning. It's actually the first step and it&#x
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> This is just elitism with a little bit of "back in my day" thrown in. That wasn't my intention and I apologize if it came off that way. Also, I'm not that old and I certainly didn't start programming with assem
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> One of the things I find interesting about ancient Chinese math is how computational it was (in modern terminology we would say they were only interested in computable numbers); This isn't just the chinese. The ancient greeks reje
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Firstly, the assumption by google should be innocence rather than the guilt of the youtube creator. The burden should be on the accuser and not the accused. Secondly, if 3 copyright violations gets the accused banned, then 3 false copyright
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To learn what programming really is and how systems really work. You can't really understand programming without having built a compiler. Or at the very least having done assembly programming. I don't think you can truly understan
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Yesterday's more indepth discussion on the same topic from the economist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875803
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> The big hedge funds pay big dollars for direct lines of data from the credit card companies. Not just hedge funds. All finance institutions buy ( "share" ) data from and with each other. Even if you "opt out" ( we s

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