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by quonn 10y ago
I'm not sure if these are actually layoffs. In the German news it sounded more like nobody is getting fired - so perhaps they are simply not replacing workers who retire?
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by quonn 10y ago
> He knows everyone hates existing telecoms. Not true everywhere. I'm paying < $40/month for a 100 MBit connection and I don't hate my telecom.
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by quonn 10y ago
So I've checked and I agree that the numbers of mutilations that apparently happen in the UK is quite shocking. But I don't see how medical inspections in schools are the answer to be honest.
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by quonn 10y ago
For this thread I'm focusing on the claim that "Chavez tortured most of his opponents" and that he is supposedly comparable to Pot Pol (again a guy probably killed 1.6 human beings). These claims are ridiculous. Reports about
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by quonn 10y ago
I'm sure genital mutilation is already prohibited under British law. The problem with the burkas is that is it of course difficult to determine or prove that they are not worn voluntarily. I know some girls from liberal (Christian&#x2F
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by quonn 10y ago
That's not a source, that's a Google search. In fact even for your search no results come up (for me) that suggest what you claim. And I'm not even talking about the reputation of potential sources. I have actually made an ef
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by quonn 10y ago
Please post sources for your claims. edit: I did not edit my post after you provided any sources! From the start it contained "Pol Pot is responsible for killing 1.6 million people. He ran labor camps, etc. Please name how many people
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by quonn 10y ago
First of all, mixing Chavez in with Mao and Pol Pot is ridiculous. Pol Pot is responsible for killing 1.6 million people. He ran labor camps, etc. Please name how many people were killed on purpose on orders of Chavez. Please name a labor c
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by quonn 10y ago
Contraception is not fully reliable (there are 6-12 pregnancies per 100 women per year despite contraception).
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by quonn 10y ago
> Stop legal abortions at the age of viability as arrived at through scientific consensus. The age of viability could be arbitrarily early as technology progresses so I don't see how that is a good criterion. Instead I would argue f
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by quonn 10y ago
> Abortion is another I see both sides on and believe compromise is the best way forward. How would such a compromise look like? > In some cases (like abortion) conservatives have their heart in the right places. Right, but this is al
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by quonn 10y ago
Right, but in this particular case the "stochastic" and "algorithm" parts are trivial. For example, you don't really need to draw on CS/algorithm knowledge to implement or understand gradient descent.
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by quonn 10y ago
He made his money within a society. Money is not necessarily adding value (increasing the pie), it is also just shifted around. If his income were distributed more equally between many others who would instead pay taxes, the amount of taxes
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by quonn 10y ago
These competitors are trying to do too much. Someone should instead build infrastructure similar to Amadeus or Sabre. Not an amazing business, but probably good enough to make a profit. It's The Right Thing and likely better for both t
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by quonn 10y ago
> It would appear to be cryptographically pretty much identically secure as using a single password on all sites How? If a single password is used then if any of the sites is untrustworthy or stores the password insecurely (for example a
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by quonn 10y ago
Still, nobody would compare Churchill (or Bush; see above) to Hitler or Stalin. This is because Hitler was not just responsible for the people killed in WWII. Hitler and Stalin also killed people because they wanted to get rid of personal e
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by quonn 10y ago
Please. George Bush did not run a dictatorship, had very limited power and did not kill his political opponents. There would be much more to say, but I'll leave it at that.
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by quonn 10y ago
The right way to do this would have been to simply drop the association with YC and give a minimalistic explanation when somebody would ask. But this would not have served the actual purpose which was to attack Thiel (YC is just collateral
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by quonn 10y ago
Correct. The post I replied to did not talk about possible gender issues, but about certain (physical) characteristics that CEOs supposedly have.
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by quonn 10y ago
True, but let's not forget that in California 70% of the population is white. 6% are black. Most of those are at a disadvantage early on (parents, location/city, schools) before they may even start working. So it is not surprising
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by quonn 10y ago
Charisma is hard to quickly measure and height might be a bit more work, but I sampled 10 of the CEOs of the largest German companies [0]. Most of them did _not_ have a full head of hair. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by quonn 10y ago
> Guess MS is tired of supporting 30 years of hardware with each OS release. It seems they are supporting old hardware on each new OS. What they are not supporting is new hardware on an old OS.
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by quonn 10y ago
No.
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by quonn 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_column https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocortex#Anatomy
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by quonn 10y ago
He said 'conditions' not number of rides. Why would the number of rides matter, especially independently of the length of each ride? The location, weather and traffic conditions should matter much more.
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by quonn 10y ago
A quad-core CPU is worth building, because it is general-purpose, not application-specific. Note that the story already changes with - say - 16-core CPUs. Those are not useful for many users so they are not as common.
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by quonn 10y ago
Most people in fact know this and assume they are being tracked everywhere and they also assume that the service providers (Google, Facebook) can read everything. The problem is not that alternatives are too expensive, but that there are no
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by quonn 10y ago
> That day guys, 246 people have died for democracy. Some would doubt that even half of those really care about democracy as there friends are willingly following the current government into what is increasingly indistinguishable from a
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by quonn 10y ago
They are straight, because 19th century colonialism created them.
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by quonn 10y ago
Being german myself I find your generalizing comment quite offensive.

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