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by xibalba 7y ago
Just so we're all clear, the TTSA you're referring to is "To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences", an org founded by former Blink-182 band member Tom DeLonge and staffed by kooks and wackadoos, right?
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by xibalba 7y ago
> (say people who have watched them) the full video has even more amazing things Link? Who are these people? Are they credible? Do they seem rational, reasonable, and (highly) skeptical? > They still are sitting on 99.9999% of it, is
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by xibalba 7y ago
The military verified that, yes, those were videos captured by the them. However, the videos themselves are inconclusive. As Neil DeGrasse Tyson said (paraphrasing), "the 'O' in UFO is highly non-specific". Others have s
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by xibalba 7y ago
If the military has developed several breakthrough technologies, why in the world would they patent them, thereby making them public? Given a revolutionary new tech, no foreign government would respect a U.S. patent, nor would it be enforce
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by xibalba 7y ago
> Apple is currently dependent on Chinese manufacturing This seems like the single most overlooked aspect of this. Bc of this, China has existential leverage over Apple.
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by xibalba 7y ago
> we're not just talking about a market to sell goods but their entire supply chain. This is a critical and massively overlooked consideration. China has huge leverage over Apple because of this.
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by xibalba 7y ago
This is a vexing problem. It seems that many here would want Apply to defy China. This will result in Apple's expulsion from China/HK. Those users will then move to other phone mfgs/services providers, with higher probability
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by xibalba 7y ago
Mine is shorter.
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by xibalba 7y ago
Tldr: we're not going to sever ties with ICE.
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by xibalba 7y ago
You aren't, by chance, referring to Rocketdyne and Simi Valley are you? Bc I lived in Simi in the 90s and this is freaking me out.
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by xibalba 7y ago
> "Where's Dave?" > "They're in the garage, I think" I am born and raised US, have lived all over west coast and midwest, and have traveled extensively throughout all regions of US. I have never heard peo
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by xibalba 7y ago
As asked: https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2064709.html
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by xibalba 7y ago
I suspect that the average user of SE will not care one bit about this whole drama. I do find it frustrating, puzzling, and sad how SE appears to have treated Monica Cellio. She provides an excellent summary (from her perspective) here: ht
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by xibalba 7y ago
Agreed, but maybe you have to assume that the scientist knows very little about coding for data science, which is effectively what we're talking about here. I think a major contributing factor to problems like this is people going into
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by xibalba 7y ago
I predict Microsoft will acquire SO in the next 5 years.
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by xibalba 7y ago
This attitude is amazingly shortsighted and revisionist. Presumably you also take issue with Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla? Why didn't those idiots choose renewables like wind and solar when commercializing electricity? How about For
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by xibalba 7y ago
As an American, I would say you've basically got it right (IMO). What is most troublesome to me is how easily and consistently these dynamics are exploited. And I'm not just referring to the disinformation campaigns of the previo
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by xibalba 7y ago
> GM is very healthy and profitable This seems to be the Crux of the issue. A quick look at the financial statements shows positive net income (though not consistently). The statement of cashflows, which is where companies go bankrupt or
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by xibalba 7y ago
In contrast to the 2nd hand opinionated recollections of your friends, actual facts were presented in the article: > David Gibson brought statistics from the Oberlin Police Department to the college showing that of the 40 people arrested
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by xibalba 7y ago
> ...explained a lot to me about why a young man ... would do something like this I see no facts presented in this article that align with your claims. This is pure speculation and ideological projection on your part. This kind of overwr
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by xibalba 7y ago
Often attributed to Keynes, but appears to be an original quote from A. Gary Shilling: "...the stock market can remain irrational a lot longer than you can remain solvent."
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by xibalba 7y ago
> No, it hasn't This was a 2 minute search of Google Scholar: ^1 "...the mainstream press in America operate within a narrow range of liberal beliefs... only a narrow band of liberal thought is supported by the press" ^2
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by xibalba 7y ago
> And I don't think it's the media who has a leftward bias Leftward bias has been repeatedly demonstrated in the literature. Your belief that there is no media bias may in fact be evidence of your own biases. This too is suppor
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by xibalba 7y ago
This is not a secret: https://www.facebook.com/help/216219865403298?helpref=faq_co...
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by xibalba 7y ago
This was my lame attempt at parodying what does seem to be the theme of this thread: crackpot conspiracy theories.
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by xibalba 7y ago
The high proportion of green usernames in this thread makes this all feel a lot like an info op.
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by xibalba 7y ago
Applying for college, yes. Applying for loans at 15? No. In the U.S., loans are generally applied for on an annual basis and disbursed on a semester basis. So once again, we return to these people being 18-22 ( adults ). My actual point was
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by xibalba 7y ago
Yes, the 18-22 year old "child". Otherwise known as an adult.
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by xibalba 7y ago
But that $60k has to come from somewhere, right? So what we're really talking about is where to shift that burden. Who pays? And regardless of who is paying, society just doesn't value liberal arts degrees.
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by xibalba 7y ago
Who to blame then? Your parents and other adult advisers? Your college? The government? I do agree that parents/teachers/principals etc bear some responsibility, but surely so too does the individual student, no?

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