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by tompccs 5y ago
This might not be foul play - lots of textbooks are formally out of print and printed on demand by the publisher. The quality is lower for that reason.
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by tompccs 5y ago
The Ural mountains divide Europe from Asia. It can also be argued that the division of Europe from the Mid East (East Med) is between Christianity and Islam.
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He didn't plagiarise his programming assignment: he's just an Arsenal fan(vanityfarce.com)
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The Bat Bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tompccs 5y ago
Are you sure this isn't related to tracker blocking activated by default in Firefox? I use Brave and almost always when something is broken it's because the browser is blocking some external script
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by tompccs 5y ago
I think the commenters here have forgotten that we are in the middle of a pandemic, that the government has implemented a strict travel ban which also applies to British citizens, and that this policy was vigorously supported by the Guardia
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by tompccs 5y ago
They are supporting it in that they consider this newsworthy.
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by tompccs 5y ago
Why the hell is anyone travelling for a job interview in the middle of a pandemic? I thought we all knew how to use Zoom now? Can't work it out with the Guardian, last month they were calling for travel bans, now they are supporting
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by tompccs 5y ago
I mean, as a TSLA shareholder I'm...fine with that? A few years ago people were predicting the company would go bankrupt before they ever became profitable, now the bear scenario is that they become the largest company in their sector
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by tompccs 5y ago
49% of Brits would support the reintroduction of the death penalty. I suspect that the same is true across Europe and that you are living in a bubble. [0] [0] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/shou
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by tompccs 5y ago
> Even discussing other factors arguments and considerations dilutes the core point... Fair enough, I understand that those are your beliefs (they are mine too) but you'd be surprised how poorly they hold up in the real world agains
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by tompccs 5y ago
I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but this sort of remark is why the left and intellectuals more widely fail at winning politically. Rather than use arguments that are amenable even to people who disagree on the fundamentals, y
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Bitcoin: The Idea That Eats Smart People(vanityfarce.com)
62 points by tompccs 6y ago|135 comments
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Zoom is the solution nobody asked for, to a problem that doesn’t exist(vanityfarce.com)
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Zoom is the solution nobody asked for, to a problem that doesn’t exist(vanityfarce.com)
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Zoom is the solution nobody asked for, to a problem that doesn’t exist(vanityfarce.com)
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by tompccs 6y ago
As much as we love to hate targeted advertising here on HN, it's a godsend to small businesses. And, dare I say...some people like it? Step outside the techie bubble and I have friends who actually curate their Facebook interests to ma
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by tompccs 6y ago
I think this is fair. More broadly I'd add that we've become quick to accuse the speaker of bad intent and too rarely consider if the listener could have been more charitable. And god help you if there's someone in the room i
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Nicholas Pepe(vanityfarce.com)
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by tompccs 6y ago
Absolutely - in fact in 2021 you might even be accused of mansplaining, when actually the purpose of asking these questions is to genuinely learn more about why the world works the way it does! (And of course there are the occasional exampl
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by tompccs 6y ago
Of course, an outsider can't simply declare something to be true by dint of being an outsider. You need to reason it. Or, in the market, bet on it, and you'll see who wins out. But experts should be held to the same standard.
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by tompccs 6y ago
Fair enough, it's more the condescending attitude that rubs me up the wrong way. And if the words regulators use mean to them different things than they mean to everyone else (the people whom the regulations are ostensibly supposed to
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by tompccs 6y ago
I am so sick of this 'stay in your lane' attitude. Time and time again, experts have been shown to have consensus opinions which are wildly off from reality. You can almost set your watch to how often an outsider will analyse a si
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Nicholas Pepe(vanityfarce.com)
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by tompccs 6y ago
The number of people killed in a year by toasters never deviates more than a couple of standard deviations from the mean. The number of people killed by terrorists in history could be exceeded in a single event. Likewise, at the beginning o
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by tompccs 6y ago
"Cognitive biases inflate the subjective odds of disaster: If a scenario is imaginable, it seems probable." Let's take a minute to remember that our brains are shaped, by millions of years of evolution, to model existential t
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by tompccs 6y ago
$499!? That puts it in the same price category as: Palm Pilot, Blackberry Curve and Nokia N95, among many many others. Honestly, I don't understand why you would buy these when there are a lot of established professional phone companie
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by tompccs 6y ago
Not only that, printed word used to be expensive ! There's a remark made by George Orwell somewhere in which he addresses the claim made in the early 20th century that the working class don't read because they can't afford b
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by tompccs 6y ago
Musk is on his way to becoming the richest man on earth, I hardly think in a conversation about billionaires you can discount the example of someone who represents a couple of hundred of them.
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by tompccs 6y ago
It's ok the Hyperloop Wikipedia page. SpaceX has funded competitions, and SpaceX is majority Musk

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