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by yongjik 4y ago
And also ensuring that the party does not collude with accomplices to hide money and/or evidences. I'm not totally confident the bail's terms would keep SBF from doing that.
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by yongjik 4y ago
Meh, a person has to pick their battles. If you think Amazon is a worse company than Tesla, by all means, boycott Amazon, and feel free to tell us why.
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In Seoul's subway stations, elevators usually take forever to close, like long enough to make you think "Geez if I just walked I would be on the other floor by now!" And that's exactly the reason, i.e., to shoo away thos
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by yongjik 4y ago
Have you driven I-5, going through CA's central valley? They have such lovely signs as "Congress created dust bowl." People will absolutely blame Democrats for the drought (or Republicans, it doesn't matter) if that mea
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by yongjik 4y ago
That's one way of looking at it. Another way is that Nest built subpar products that was hurting Google's brand, and eventually its leader got pushed out. Anyone remember the glorious video of a bunch of Nests screaming "Can
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> GNOME is designed to avoid overwhelming the user with information overload as much as possible, which is a really important topic for usability for the average computer user. Therefore, it does not follow the traditional desktop paradi
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> Supposedly, there was a court ruling that held a bank liable for a customer’s losses due to lack of security precautions. You already wrote as much in the article, but (AFAIK) the reality is even worse: there were court rulings that ex
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by yongjik 4y ago
The original version isn't a code smell. It has a very important advantage: read the function and you know that a user can be only one of the two things, a "customer" or an "admin", and you never have to worry abou
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by yongjik 4y ago
Is this all there is? Because this sounds more or less reasonable, if a bit naive, and a far cry from "the government will decide whether you need shoes." It's so anodyne, you could have titled it with "CNN interviews P
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by yongjik 4y ago
Unfortunately, "the basic urge of a species to expand over all available domain" does not lift a thousand ton of people and equipment to an interplanetary orbit. Money does. Well... money might do, we don't know for sure,
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I'm not sure about that. America similarly diverted billions of dollars to land men on the Moon. It barely made a dent in the balance of the Cold War.
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What's up with these comments that are completely detached from any aspects of South Korea? Do they look at the phrases "middle aged men" and "lonely death", and just go auto-pilot on political rants?
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Of course, if you define "democracy" to mean absolute free speech, then countries without absolute free speech are not democratic, by definition. That's not exactly insightful.
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As other comments said, this argument, while sounding superficially logical, does not agree with reality: most Western European countries don't share the same idea of free speech as in America, yet they continue to be democratic.
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Yeah I'm also curious. When I was at Google there were a list of things you were never supposed to ask a candidate because that's Super Illegal(TM) and could expose the company to lawsuits. That included sexual orientation and m
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Well, in my case I had a really bad experience with United in 2011, connecting at LAX. After that I just never fly United or fly to/from LAX. My sanity is worth more than a few hundred bucks.
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Sure, but a major flaw of the American system is that it's deliberately pushing its people into being distrustful of the system (and each other). Not trusting the government, or wanting to make it less effective, is considered a vir
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by yongjik 4y ago
Maybe in the US, but not worldwide. When you compare, countries where citizens trusted the government and generally followed the government's plans fared better than countries where individuals fought for their rights to choose what
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by yongjik 4y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Since the bubble burst, Japan's GDP per capita has been flat for 20+ years. And South Korea is on the verge of a population implosion, with its pathetic 0.81 fertility rate. 2020s will be a challengi
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So you want America to publicly declare that it will not lift a finger to defend its ally, and instead skim the top of the cream of Taiwanese society and leave their friends and relatives to die in war? If the Taiwanese wanted to defend th
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> So, either they are all convinced that religions are false - or they are hardly the most impartial deciders, and are great at making sure any newcomers don’t get different ideas. If some news article suggested that biologists are not i
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But the thing is, all these things are happening not because Twitter is social media; they're happening because Twitter is led by Elon Musk. I'm not saying everything is fine under Zuckerberg or Pichai, but whatever their flaws a
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> Him owning Twitter, the way he's currently operating, will force a critical eye toward a lot of bad behaviors that we all experience but nobody really talks about on every network. Are you talking as a communist meaning "The
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I don't think Musk calculated that much, but a lot of people who cheered for Musk "because he was for free speech," are still cheering for Musk because... whatever. Because it's his company now and he can do whatever he
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"We said we were running on renewables, but we were also dependent on burning Russian gas, and we plan to keep burning gas for the foreseeable future, sans the buying-gas-from-Russia part" sounds like a pretty important detail to
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> In 1997-1998, South Korea was in the midst of a financial crisis. It required a substantial loan from the International Monetary Fund to restructure its debt and it left South Korea, at the time, with a tarnished national brand. Fearin
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TBH, I think it's more like the SK government trying to bank on the unexpected popularity of Korean culture, to which the government itself had contributed little. Frequently the government actively got in the way: the director Bong J
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Well, I don't think anyone's suggesting it can be done overnight. So, of course, we will need a stopgap measure (of LNG terminals). For now. IMHO, what people demand is that Germany should recognize that the current crisis is th
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> Natgas is being used by the industry and for domestic heating. Nuclear power plants were used for electricity generation. Yes, and people are saying this is exactly the problem. There is no law of physics (or even economy) that demand
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Hancock has been publishing since 1990s. If someone was publishing made-up theories in my professional field for thirty years (and becoming a globally known celebrity, sort of), then I'd also be pretty cranky about that.

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