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by yrdmb 4y ago
> I know, I live in one such apartment. I have a very good relationship with my landlord. I'd be among the first to profit if NYC decided to force landlords to lower rent. It still does not feel right. Then leave your rent stabilize
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> The cell is a living organism because we have largely defined the cutoff for living organisms at the cell; Isn't that because all living organisms are composed of one or more cells ( cell theory )? It isn't an arbitrary cutof
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? Define unsubstantive comments and flamebait. Is this not unsubstantive flamebait? "What propaganda? That it would be nice if Britain wasn't being beaten in t
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by yrdmb 4y ago
pwsh never took off because it doesn't fit the spirit of unix system administration. pwsh is object based while on unix systems, it's all about shredding text. If you are on windows, use powershell as it makes your life easier. Bu
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> But this just does not feel right. It feels like tyranny of the majority. It's not tyranny. It's just democracy. Asset owners get lots of tax deductions, capital gains benefits and other goodies because they are the majority
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Think it had more to do with Intel partnering with Microsoft and Windows taking over the PC market in the 90s.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> I hope the US takes the EU approach and regulates what data is collected The US and the EU have different goals. EU's goal is to protect their control of propaganda within their borders. Ours is to control propaganda within our bo
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Yet you fail to name a single one. No revolution in history was by the populace. All revolutions in history have been a group of elites trying to pry power away from another group of elites. From the american revolution to the french to the
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous. It also democratizes the clout, power and protection that the hollywood famous have. Without social media harvey weinstein would
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> The world needs basic income That's all we need. Basic income will allow people to get housing, internet and food.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> I find interesting that HBO, a US TV network, has become a worldwide brand name in a way that CBS,[1] NBC, and ABC didn't; That's because CBS, NBC and ABC are national broadcast networks while HBO is a cable network, like CNN
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by yrdmb 4y ago
One of my favorite stories concerning primes is how fermat thought he discovered the formula for primes ( Fermat's primes ). He only checked his formula for the first few primes and assumed it worked for all primes. Euler checked for t
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> There is no value to this comment. There is always value in truthful statements. You are right that 91 is not the smallest number as was implied by the parent. -91 is. After all it was the parent who brought in the negative integers in
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> I think history teaches us the opposite. No it doesn't. > Oppressive regimes (of whatever sort) can only persist with the consent of the populace No. You are believing in modern nonsense about "people power". The popu
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by yrdmb 4y ago
It's astounding how much "research" is part of an ad campaign. Company and industry wants to sell you X and they fund studies to say X is good or competitor Y is bad. It's all marketing.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> So by your definition, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Coumbia, U Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Oxford, Paris, Liepzig, Bordeau, Glascow, Istanbul, Granada, Strassburg, Moscow, Berlin Technical, Freiberg Technical, Cambridge, practically every maj
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> Does that mean no one buys a Ferrari? No. It just means there isn't a trend of people buying ferraris.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
People called musk a madman for paying a huge premium for twitter. > suddenly its a trend How many people do you know that are paying for social media? I personally know none.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Home equity is the largest retirement asset of most americans. Far greater than 401ks, savings, etc. Even if it was a mistake, there is no turning back now with millions of baby boomers set to retire and tap into their retirement assets.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> These were religious schools So were most of the world greatest universities - harvard, yale, oxford, etc. Modern universities as we know it ( secular, research based, etc ) started with the humboldtian model in the 1800s. https:&#x2F
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> For the past 15 years, pretty much 100% of the code running on my personal laptop and work desktop is opensource. I'm 100% open source at home as well and I'd say we are a tiny minority. No job that I've had was open sou
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Why not just set a centralized repository of "industry best practices" and have the law require programmers follow it. If they codify the best practices into law, then they have to change and update the law every time there is an
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by yrdmb 4y ago
There's no escaping geopolitics and open source is part of it. It would be foolish of China, India, Russia and much of the non-colonized world to rely on american dominated open source/tech/etc. > then we would risk the po
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by yrdmb 4y ago
I wonder what gdil.org is? Everything should be read with healthy skepticism.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Good. Lets hear what other side has to say.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Isn't theatlantic one of the leading proponent of censorship?
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by yrdmb 4y ago
> [only] "one side had slaves states" No. It implies the opposite. The assumption was that only the confederates had slave states. My comment debunks that notion. Everybody knows that the confederacy had slaves. Now they know b
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by yrdmb 4y ago
So we have less agency than a smartphone which holds more information and computes faster than we do? I don't like the sound of that.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Halting problem.
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by yrdmb 4y ago
Almost a trillion in interest payments alone. That can't be too healthy.

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