rKarpinski

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by rKarpinski 1y ago
"Idea co-founders" are less valuable than they think. Unless they are carrying a number (funding, sales, users etc.) they aren't even doing "business"
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
Baylee is 6' 2"?
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
It predates the files release by about ten years but I found Robert Cairo's latest book on LBJ, 'The Passage of Power' pretty enlightening on the coverup (not the crime).
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Usually it's the investors who get people on these lists.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> Zuckerberg has drawn comparisons between himself and the Roman dictator Julius Caesar Thought it was Caesar Augustus? IIRC Zuckerberg has even claimed that his hairstyle is inspired by him.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
For context Measles has (by unforced error) been a problem in the US for years generally with with much less discussion. 2024: 285 Measles cases (primarily in Minnesota and Illinois) 2019: 1,274 Measles cases 2018: 381 Measles cases 2014: 6
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Sure, maybe "political" + "boundary" was redundant. But clearly missed the announcement that declared Eurasia to always having been Asia.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
It's not pedantic, Russia is part of Europe and according to your link has 80% of its population in Europe [1]. The exclusion from the list of European Nuclear powers is incorrect and politically motivated. [1] https://en.m.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> France and Britain are Europe's only two nuclear powers. What about the European power with the worlds largest nuclear arsenal?
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> How would Russia help “contain” China? They have a giant land border. An adversarial Russia-China relationship is expensive for both powers, and is a major reason for the USSR going bankrupt in the cold war (also the USSR propping up V
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> I cannot possibly think of a US intervention that went well for the receiving end. Germany, Japan and the post WW2 order in question are probably the best candidates.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Canada actually didn't support the Iraq war either, it-least officially [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93...
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> Yet they stood by the USA in all their fair or unfair endeavors in the Middle East. France and Germany both openly opposed the US on the Iraq war [1], France even threatened to veto any UN resolutions for an invasion. Hence the whole &
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> Sure, if you want to reduce a university down to simply existing for money's sake, then go ahead, but then you might as well say that about literally everything No it doesn't apply to literally everything. We are talking abou
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
This makes complete sense when the universities grand purpose is to perpetually aggregate money to manage as a tax exempt hedge fund.
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
U Pitt's endowment is 5.7 Billion! The funding cuts are big but it's only ~2% of the endowment, why are they pausing PHD admittance rather than using the resources they have readily available?
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> 1. There are claims that federal spending is out of control. How do you square that with the fact that spending as a percentage of GDP is only slightly elevated compared to the historical average going back to at least the 1970s, with
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> the employees refused their requests and called sheriff's deputies. The men had left City Hall before deputies arrived. > "We do not believe the individuals requesting access to City files were representatives from DOGE,&q
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> The local commercial, which advertises how people can use “AI for every business”, showcases Gemini’s abilities by depicting the tool helping a cheesemonger in Wisconsin to write a product description By copy/pasting another Chees
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
The US has a pretty extensive 100+ year history of imperialism, destabilization and violence in LATM [1], which is where they are from. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Plenty of topics sensitive topics to the CCP are allowed on TikTok. Being allowed on Douyin is another matter...
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
How could you bring yourself to marry someone from that class! I never approved of Shamans and Paladins being on the same faction
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
I watched the YT video. The bootless Gnome was in MC within a month of WOW launching, which kind of completely changes my perspective on it. Maybe I'm viewing it with nostalgia but that actually sounds hardcore. Playing with modern Add
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Thats not my experience at all. I wasn't on a particularly competitive server, but on ours my guild got the second horde Nef kill. Raids were full with 40 people, 3+ hours/six nights a week and there were requirements for attendan
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Clearing MC like that sounds impossible. Even if everyone was familiar with it by practicing on non hardcore servers they won't have the gear they need. Are people even clearing Scholo/Strat/UBS on hardcore servers? Probably
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
They might "overspend" compared to retention, but I don't buy that recruiting is actually valued and over-budgeted by most companies. It's a cost center and there are very few direct incentives & feedback mechanisms
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
The referenced project is open source https://github.com/wttdotm/traffic_cam_photobooth TIL NYC traffic cams have a live feed on the web "NYC DOT traffic cameras only provide live feeds and do not record any foota
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Basically the same thing that happened with the rapist in June who kidnapped and raped two random middle schoolers in broad daylight. Prints & and DNA were in the system, he was living in an apartment NYC was paying for and people calle
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
Soft power and the institutions of the west are a big part of the US power projection that prevents war. Those countries are very lightly militarized (<2% of GDP on military), and it's because they are under US protection not becaus
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by rKarpinski 2y ago
> Democracies are messy, but a lot less warlike. Current peace in Europe, after centuries of endless bloodshed, is nice to have Democracies are much nicer places to be citizens of but not particularly less warlike. And the more peaceful

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