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by soufron 10y ago
If you want a serious update on the current level of research on Roman and antiquities studies - including the place of the roman empire in the world, you'd better go there: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show&#x2F
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Let's say medicine was essentially accessible to rich people who could employ the rare people who could perform a bit of surgery, make a difference between drugs and placebo, etc.
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Well, his "research" amounts to some quick reading of wikipedia articles... and that's it.
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This article does not get the main difference between the Roman Empire and all these other great states. Most notably, the fact that we are still living in the Roman Empire. Property Law? Check. Marriage and Divorce? Check. Democracy and Pu
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Being lower or higher class is not only a matter of money, but also and mainly a matter of social capital. People might not be rich, but they might use the wealth of their class peers - as long as they share their codes and culture. That&#x
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Isn't that a data-bias? Everybody think they're middle class because it's the biggest class... meaning that there is an increased probability that people indeed belong to the middle class.
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We've never had more privacy than today. The problem is not with Google and others invading our privacy, but with the disparition of the public space. Conversation and debate are becoming even more ugly and stupid than they used to be.
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I am fascinated as how people are sharing "strategies" here... like "how to cope with people" or considering that social interactions are "transactions" and "investment". A little empathy anyone? Like
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It's also due to the US elections. The same thing happened last time. Negotiations will come back under a new name - and probably a slightly different scope and form, after the new administration has been designated.
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Awesome post. Thank you very much for remembering us that stuff matters outside of the IT world.
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My thoughts exactly. Also, why did they do it? Don't we have enough messenging apps already?
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It's so true. We used to have very simple and efficient music players such as winamp. The problem was that they were playing free mp3 that you stored on your hard drive. With regards to that, iTunes is not a music player, it's a m
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by soufron 10y ago
Well pardons are not granted to innocent people. He committed a crime yes. But wasn't it for the greater good?
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Lol.
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I am a lawyer yes. But let's say I have a good cv.
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If that's the thing, then I am with it.
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You're kind of right. Let's say they find the right uses for existing tech that's not being used as it should.
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Also, being a Lawyer, if someone comes to me, it's because of me, not because of the firm I am working in. And trying to rank lawyers? Why not. But what's the point. I wouldn't accept being ranked anyway.
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I worked on applying machine learning algorithms to data mined from court judgments during my PhD. You want to know what we learned? That it's better to be white and rich than black and poor. Point. Everything else was bullshit.
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The John Carmack comparison is point-on!
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I kind of like him too. But it's still scifi BS :D Funny that investors actually like it.
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Affect like how? As of today they're useless, except for Tesla who's motivating car automakers to go towards autonomous cars - but they had the tech before.
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You could say the same for TV or Newspaper. Still, they have obligations. People are not completely free to use or not use Facebook. The idea that people are autonomous in their choices is erroneous. Thus, the reason why it's fair to
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1. This won't last as people will want their own cultural and legal rules to apply on Facebook. 2. Facebook is not just a private company anymore. It's cool to have success, but that comes with bigger public scrutiny, and possibly
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There is no Facebook killer because of the lack of interest of EU industralists for the Internet. They dont care because they dont see it as an infrastructure. They think it's a gadget. De minimis non curat praetor.
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Actually, he does talk about modern approaches to AI. He just says, they don't change shit. You know when neural networks were invented? In 1943.
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Exactly.
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1. not everything is done for money, I see no ads on this website for example 2. If your question is to know wether a journalist would be concerned by the decision, it's easy to see he would not. 3. If the linker is linking to illegal
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That's what happens when you focus too much on STEMS education and forget about Humanities ;)
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That's not what the decision said. At all. The decision said that a link to illegal content can be illegal in itself when 1. it's done for monetary purposes, and 2. when the person creating the link was aware of the illegal nature

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