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by tlear 6y ago
Where in Russia? Level of school while it is supposed to be same is night and day. The special Math/Physics school is one thing, but under that there are “good” schools in the city, ok, shitty then you have countryside etc Same thing a
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by tlear 7y ago
Lets say these lessons are a politics seminar discussing whatever PRC finds objectionable, then family of the student back in the old country get their social credit score deducted. Or even better use those recording in the future as compro
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by tlear 7y ago
Lord of the Rings. My mother bought first two books(translated into Russian) randomly because she heard it was good(it was one of the books that Party did not approve of before the Perestroika). I saw it lying around when I was 14. I procee
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by tlear 7y ago
How many could face the Eye of Sauron and be themselves still.. Aragorn? Some of the council maybe. Great Eagle, quite likely not. They come to save ringbearer once Sauron is overthrown. If they tried to do it when he was bending his whole
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by tlear 7y ago
So what happened to Louvel? From article it seems he was tortured to verify his testimony? Never confessed, I am guessing executed later?
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by tlear 7y ago
It is not the economic loss that is the problem, it is the totalitarian control that is now being advocated with foam in the mouth all over the place. “Those damn neighbors let kids out! Put them in prison” PRC is new model of what we shoul
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by tlear 7y ago
I am curious if the pickpockets still run rampant all over the tourist areas and subway. Few years back in 3 days: 1. Dad ran into undercover cop who on subway who told him to watch his stuff better :o 2. Got his phone stolen next day on su
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by tlear 7y ago
If I started a remote job and walked into that.. :o Of course I would not be truthful. Most likely would be looking for a new place unless $$ was amazing and work itself great. Quote from a book on corporate HR I read years ago stands out.
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by tlear 7y ago
Immigration is not panacea to it, just delaying the inevitable. One way or another developed societies need to come up with a way to sustain 2.1 child rate. Immigration will prolong time we have to figure it out but it will not fix it. In m
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by tlear 7y ago
Not necessarily. Take Japanese highway system. It is well maintained, has “rest” stations where you can park car for free. If you could get an app that can drive drunk salaryman, or not even drunk just tired from Tokyo interchange to closes
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by tlear 7y ago
This is privilege speaking. As a upper middle class it is easy to scale back.. have more time blah blah Now try that if you are under the mean. Good luck. It is absolutely the case that SOMEONE has to pay the bills. If you are making 40-60k
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by tlear 7y ago
In my own read Roosevelt was clearly heavily involved in the first attempt. Second one he mostly took credit for things he wish he could do. Wiki might be incomplete but compared to npr agitprop it is much better
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by tlear 7y ago
Please if you are interested in this read more. This article is just garbage. Start with wiki it is actually surprisingly good. “The official pretext for the start of the coup was Mosaddegh's decree to dissolve Parliament, giving himse
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by tlear 7y ago
Talk to lawyer. You company did.. you are playing game where you are utterly clueless while the other side has a professional working for them.
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by tlear 7y ago
Many lawyers are very good at negotiating. It is part of the job, in many corporate deals idea is not to fuck the counter party but come up with everyone is sort of happy solution. If you are in Canada I can recommend someone who is good, f
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by tlear 7y ago
So let me get this straight these busybodies wrote some code to spam companies lawyer with notifications.. and they did not get all fired on the spot?
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by tlear 7y ago
That is activation mapping. I understood that what he was suggesting is using another objective that is optimized to define why network decided what it did. But need loss function for that For let’s say identifying a car we could come up wi
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by tlear 7y ago
Could you give a link to a paper? I could take a unet and plug a classifier to it hmm. I tried something like that before but it did not work that well. Maybe what I did sucked and there is a better way
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by tlear 7y ago
I live in Japan as well. Hiking.. have you actually hiked anywhere in else in the world? Most places you can fill a garbage bag in an hour just walking on a trail. Took my climbing friends from Canada on a long Hike in Kita Alps, they broug
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by tlear 7y ago
Of course they can revolt, and the Emperor/King/Chairman can drown them in blood. HK would a be a bitch to pacify, densely populated city with a ton of diaspora all over the world that can support insurgency with money, weapons et
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by tlear 7y ago
They were miserable, mountaineers however are used to misery and suffering it is part of the activity. The hard part is that you become much slower, weaker and you judgement is impaired. Also different people have different ability to adopt
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by tlear 7y ago
There are pile of problems with this. 1. Testing 12-14 year olds to decide their lot in life is.. well unreliable. Not to mention brutal. 2. In US race card will be played once it is apparent that proportion of people with different ski col
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by tlear 7y ago
Free education only works when you have a selection system where you are tested and then put where you fit(shoveling dirt, laying bricks, trade school, college, university). In US any graduate from HS can go do 4 year degree in “something”.
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by tlear 7y ago
She better be on a plane to US. Probably the only place PRC kidnap squads can’t touch her.
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by tlear 7y ago
I have 2 kids.. first one was terrible, she did not want to sleep more then 2-3 hours till she was 8 month or so. Wife dealt with it, fed her and took care of her at night, while I worked, cooked during the day, took kid out for walks etc
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by tlear 7y ago
It is the martyrdom story that is dumb. There are two of you there is absolutely zero reason for both not to have decent sleep. First couple weeks sure after that.. get a second bed, couch whatever. Separation of concern works way better on
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by tlear 7y ago
Finding people who are willing to police some of the areas in US(it really is only certain places) without resorting to what they do now is VERY hard. Being a cop in an area like Japan, where you mostly drink tea and stand watch outside of
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by tlear 7y ago
You only become first generation aristocrat once there is at least couple more generations. You might like him or not, but he got what he got and not inherited it or gained it from a name.
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by tlear 7y ago
Thiel is an immigrant whose dad was a Chemical engineer. Aristocrat he is not..
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by tlear 7y ago
But you do need to believe that you can make an exit.. that is a big IF. Vast majority don’t.

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