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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> There are also deep socio-economic problems to solve. The biggest problem is that india has a mindset problem. They, especially their leaders, academics, etc do not see themselves as a major nation. It's why india is still part of
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> I would be shocked if there's any fossil fuel generation online in 10 years, 15 tops. What? Fossil fuel usage has increased not just in china but around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bp_world_e
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
Journalists, talking heads, etc don't know why something is happening. Only the insiders ( trump/pompeo, moon, kim, etc ) know and they certainly aren't telling the press about it. The noise in the media is just tabloid nonse
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
I've been saying this for years. DNA sites are a goldmine for unresolved cold cases ( rape, murder, missing persons ) where DNA is available. In the past, if there was a rape in a city, the cops couldn't force everyone in the cit
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> I never thought I'd see this happen. Why? Societies/nations/etc always change. Given the state of NK, what's shocking is that it didn't happen sooner. > I'm not incredibly familiar with the situation as
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
This is great news. We need more tech hubs and more competition in the tech industry. I'm still confused as to why europe decided to cede the entire tech industry to the US. Do europeans love us this much? That they want us to have all
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> Or advertising in those places has relatively little impact on image and produced little controversy compared to the scale of audience it gives access to. That's true of anything on youtube. > I think Laura Ingraham is pretty g
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
It also means that their employees aren't being paid as well as they should be. It also means that they are enjoying a monopolistic position. Usually, when a business is as lucrative as google's, competition arrives. But it seems
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
The video isn't misleading. You are missing the point. It's pointing out that advertisers don't really care about how controversial the content is. > In other words, if your sales team is essentially the "black box of
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> I'm surprised this made it by the WSJ editors. Why does that surprise you? Obviously the misleading and clickbaity headline will be chosen over the honest headline.
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
No. That's how you write sql within your organization. Also there are syntactic differences between SQL flavors ( postgres, mysql, mssql, oracle, etc ) that make a SQL standard unrealistic. The only generic rule is "be consistent&
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
It's so funny how propaganda works. When we do it, we call it investing. When china does it, the propagandists spin it as something nefarious or underhanded - "buying it's way into europe".
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> The premise that we think we can pack an infinite amount of information into finite space time just feel wrong to me. Why? Z = { x | ... -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 ... } I just packed an infinite amount of information in a couple of characters.
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> North America's attitude towards people of colour, absolutely disgusts me. I simply do not understand why that a country that was founded on on the principles of freedom continues to act this way. North america isn't a countr
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> Ageism is still the number 1 discrimination in the IT/software industry by a mile. And it will only get worse I'm afraid. Not only is there a bias towards youth in the industry, there is also a growing move in the industry to
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
Did dear leader buy his team a subscription to 2600?
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
Humans adapt to their environments? What's next? The tibetans and sherpas have adaptations to high altitude? The inuit have adaptations for the cold? Norse have adaptations for low levels of sunlight? Is this really "news"?
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
The icons made the mac revolutionary? What a ridiculous exaggeration. The icons were an improvement over the "textual" xerox icons but it wasn't what made the mac revolutionary.
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
Right. And russia was sanctioned and attacked mercilessly by the media and the international community. That's my point. Russia was wrong. And so are we.
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
Of course he did. Just like saddam had his soldiers kill babies in incubators. You have to be extremely naive to believe government and media lies.
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
Lunacy. Under what rule, law or authority are we just allowed to bomb/attack other nations? Imagine if china, russia or any other nation acted like this. The media would be screaming bloody murder and calling other nations evil, deprav
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> Most of the so called news / journalism isn't news / journalism any more than Aspartame is sugar. News was never news. It was actually branding by the news industry in the 20th century that duped everyone into thinking t
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
Sure. But it doesn't take a "team" to build up a CMS. This is why media "tech teams" are viewed as a joke in the tech industry.
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> Driving cars for hire has always been a shit way to make a living There are plenty of drivers who made a good living. I had a friend in college from britain. His father was a taxi driver and who was able to provide for his stay at home
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
This is what is so weird. The stock market is at historic highs. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/S_and_P_... Our housing bubble just surpassed the housing bubble of 2007. Interest rat
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
A CMS team? Christ, no wonder NYTimes is losing money.
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> I think it's always strange that the media frames this as "threatening" to shift power. Why is it strange? That's the purpose of a nation's propaganda organizations. The chinese media does the same thing. Every
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
What if you visit their websites?
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
> I think the entire foundation for their business is unethical. Then much of modern business is unethical. What facebook is doing isn't very different from what newspapers do, what tv networks do and what much of tech does. What do
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by youpassbutter 8y ago
>The real q is, why does government even subsidizing home ownership in the first place? Firstly, older people own homes and they vote. Secondly, homes are a significant part of people's retirement assets. As companies do away with p

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