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travisoneill1
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You must be from the UK or France, then. That means your country is very capable of designing and manufacturing world class weapons systems if you don't want to buy from the US.
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NATO is supposed to be an alliance, not a protection agreement. And what is the point of an alliance if your country doesn't have a worthwhile army? Why can't you be asked to hold up your end? Asking you to hold up your end is n
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And the government doesn't exist except via the authorization of the citizens, who own and work for corporations and run and belong to churches, which is why keeping these entities from influencing each other is a pipe dream.
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Yeah, I get the feeling that this theory is mostly based on the fact that the consent of elected representatives is required to raise taxes, but not to print money.
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The only stats I have seen on this show that the autopilot reduces the rate of collisions. So it's not really a product that kills people, but the opposite. The stats came from Tesla, though, so I can't rule out the possibility
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Addressing global warming is not a cost in the long run, but the opposite. Technology that doesn't consume fossil fuel is inherently superior to what we have now and will generate enormous profits once the engineering is there. Don&#
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You make the place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder Obviously this is far beyond our current level of technology, though.
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So if eugenicists selected for height, then measuring how tall people are would be "linked to eugenics?"
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People want life to be fair, and the fact that we are all born with different levels of intelligence disproves that.
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You make more money selling to rich people. And, yeah, having the wealthiest companies in the world counts for a lot.
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Memory access is generally much slower than computation, so I don't think you could actually speed up mining in this manner.
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Why is this material not used for MRI's?
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The vast majority of emigrants from the middle east are poor migrants to Europe, not educated scientists.
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I think they only claimed to be apolitical in matters that don't affect the company's core business.
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> What's really a deal-breaker is the always-on internet connection Do you drive with a smartphone now? > If I could buy a Cybertruck that functioned without a connection to the mothership, I would. They work offline: https:&#x
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I don't think there really is an example that takes years to get up to speed, because if you can't find someone who has the exact experience, you can find someone in a related field. It took me less than a year from writing my fi
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You need a PHD to be able to build a compiler?
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You are aware that China is a lot bigger than Puerto Rico, right?
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H1B is not going to get you someone quickly either.
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Social distancing and masks only slow the spread, so unless these measures prevent healthcare system overload, they have only delayed and not prevented deaths. So yeah, since Sweden's healthcare system has not been overwhelmed, their a
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Weed is kind of a special case because you pretty much know what you are getting just by looking at it. This is not the case for most other drugs.
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And since asthma is not curable, you should get a lifetime pass to buy inhalers, but instead you have to keep paying a doctor more money to renew your prescription.
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> Do you have a better plan for dealing with systemic racism Get rid of all the bullshit administrators to lower the cost of college back to what it was 50 years ago so that poor people can go without getting into a lot of debt.
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Useless. They topped out the SAT buckets at 1100.
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Yes, we need to rectify the injustices commited by Asian Americans by discriminating against them in college admissions.
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How do you have a business of any size without a banking relationship?
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Kind of irrelevant as the implication of the parent is that it is impossible for the person not to bring up politics. But I have discussed politics extensively, outside of work, with a gay former co worker. Most of his political beliefs h
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I have worked with many LGBT colleagues who never bring up politics at work. This "existence is political" thing is just a bullshit phrase that the obnoxious people who can't go an hour without bringing that crap up use to j
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You can prove physical harm beyond a reasonable doubt. Mental harm is frequently concocted as a bullying tactic, e.g. the recent NY Times editorial controversy where employees said running an editorial they disagreed with made them "f
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Right but if the records are anonymized, then why can't the public view them. The research is going to be published anyway and then that sample will be public anyway.
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