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by robin21 6y ago
It’s such an easy thing to lie about. “I had only one dose left and had to use it on my wife.” How do we know there was not 10 more people but he did what he could to get exactly 9. There is huge incentive too. It would be less suspicious i
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by robin21 6y ago
It seems like the guy was unlucky. But corruption is a really bad thing and I lean on the side of anti-corruption any day of the week. It’s very convenient that there was only one dose left for his sick wife. The wife was right to question
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by robin21 6y ago
You don’t know it’s false. However your comment made me curious and I was amazed that it’s still inconclusive what caused his death. And why was that... > on Wednesday, pro-Trump rioters attacked that citadel of democracy, overpowered Mr
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by robin21 6y ago
I wonder if anyway has attempted a more qualitative study on this. Asking exactly what attributes attract and what the person is thinking when they look at images of men and women. Do gay men think the same as women? Is it a spectrum? For s
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by robin21 6y ago
It’s very common for people to make decisions that they regret for the rest of their lives. If someone is straight and they have a gay experience that is something that could haunt them for the rest of their life. This seems to be less of a
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by robin21 6y ago
Performance is the challenge. Caching node_modules in Docker is a little tricky. The alternative is adding minutes to your build and deploy vs seconds.
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by robin21 6y ago
Smart people are actually more susceptible to biases. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-... Funny that I link to a New Yorker article. Fitting that it is from 2012.
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by robin21 6y ago
When and why did NYT turn to trash? It feels like they completely sold out for clicks. As if someone was watching the revenue above all else. At the same time evolved into a liberal echo chamber. Was it a leadership change or an owners stra
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by robin21 6y ago
I’d love to read something that explores why social media affects females more than males, and also a first person perspective of the social pressures of young females and how much wiggle room they actually have to remain socially accepted
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by robin21 6y ago
Great article! Unusual to read something balanced in this day and age. Free speech ftw!
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by robin21 6y ago
Yeh if you read the talk pages (which are hard to find and many people wouldn’t even know about) you will find so many people pushing an agenda rather than trying to adhere to some neutrality. Small subtle changes designed to push someone’s
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by robin21 6y ago
> Your claim is that the one thing that prevented this from being our reality today was a single man, and that man was Churchill. Yes, this is a huge leap, and extremely difficult to prove. I was more rebutting the point you made against
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by robin21 6y ago
So the question is: "if we removed Churchill from the equation...what would the effect be on human suffering". I think what you might be missing is that things could have gone a whole lot better if Churchill became PM even earlier
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by robin21 6y ago
> the Burmese military response to US military occupation will be to target their own civilian population. Everyone would have to pick a side. Look at Vietnam. > jihadism TBH, I have just read about what jihad means now and it was int
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by robin21 6y ago
From here onwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Warnings_abo...
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by robin21 6y ago
Thanks - great read.
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by robin21 6y ago
Wow. Thanks for that - such a great read.
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by robin21 6y ago
> Are you really suggesting that Churchill was the singular character who determined the outcome of the war, There is a lot of evidence to suggest that this is correct. Churchill was the only one talking about the danger of Hitler since
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by robin21 6y ago
Thanks, Russia is my weak spot in history rn.
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by robin21 6y ago
History for Millennials. I’m sure the tone of the article could be used to take down any historical figure the author wished to. Not a defence of the subject matter, but this kind of rambling writing style about history is poison. I don’t w
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by robin21 6y ago
I wonder what the formula is for victories vs atrocities in terms of historical respect and modern acceptance. It seems we have entered into a period of no matter how much good you did, there is a hard red line of unacceptability set in a m
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by robin21 6y ago
It’s always amazing to think in the complete chaos of war there were still rules to follow. Things like after sinking a ship letting the enemy know where they should come pick up their survivors. Not using hollow point rounds. Banning gas.
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by robin21 6y ago
Churchill’s ascendency to PM is an amazing story simply because everyone hated him so much. He had barely any support in parliament at the time, and even after taking over during the war he was still hated. But had he not taken over it’s li
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Ask HN: Why are we so bad at valuing public companies?
3 points by robin21 6y ago|4 comments
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by robin21 6y ago
I would look at wsb daily for the past 2 weeks. On the Monday when I googled $GME to check the price all the google news snippets that came up were “Reddit dumps gme for silver”, etc. Then I go to wsb and it’s all gme talk. And everyone is
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by robin21 6y ago
Thanks - interesting read. It sure is a but troubling, but I think unfortunately countries are spying on each other all the time. NSA spied on G20/G8 in 2010 that we know of - and nothing really came of it either. There aren't rea
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by robin21 6y ago
> Australians have never prioritized the development of a free and open society I think they are in a better state compared to the US and most of the world. Do you have examples of countries that are better are being free and open than A
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by robin21 6y ago
I know it’s easy to be cynical and that there will always be any number of reasons why it’s in the self interest of the US, but I do believe that the Bush doctrine of spreading freedom was something that many in the cabinet believed in thei
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by robin21 6y ago
> Leave them no recourse They can go along with it and then report the impact of it on their 5bn yearly profit and then they can leave not out of spite. I suspect it’s a tiny impact on their profits ans this is just an attempt to build s
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by robin21 6y ago
The fact they threaten to pull out because they are going to make a small decrease in profits speaks volumes of their bullying tactics. It’s clearly a case of: we don’t want to set a precedent in other countries.

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