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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Alphabet didn't break itself apart. It reorganized. There is a big difference. Standard Oil was broken apart into different companies.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Battery powered ships to transport all the oil they are selling?
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> but now read The Economist, The SF Chronicle, Stratechery, and a handful of blogs from authors I trust. I I'm the complete opposite. I've gone from being a subscriber to the economist, nytimes, npr, etc and accepting them as
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Especially given SQLite being started in 2000, C really was undeniably the best choice, and the existing code in C is a strong argument in favor against rewrites. That's not much of an argument considering the CLR and the JVM are
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
The only reason he's saying that is because reddit has given BBC "special status" and BBC's social media team controls a bunch of subreddits. Reddit has turned into a crazy echo chamber - a crazy echo chamber that is in
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
What a turn of events. I remember the media was clickbaiting nuclear war/ww3 with north korea ever since trump got elected. Just goes to show you how little the media knows.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> I don't think that's a fair way to measure "worst year yet". Then what is? What were you referring to when you wrote "worst year yet"? > If your agency's sales drop by 20%, it doesn't console
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Also, I am told by industry insiders, a “blockbuster” study on media performance in the UK is coming in the next few days. It will make the digital ad industry apoplectic and have them screaming. Hard to take someone seriously when th
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines holds again.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Ok, sure, yeah, I guess I can agree that if a false accusation actually happens, all sides' stories should be heard. You misread what I wrote. My point was when it is proven that a false rape accusation is made, people turn the fo
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Well stated. In the west, we have veered from one extreme (pro-male) to another extreme ( pro-female ). One example is false rape accusations. People say false rape accusations are bad because it makes it that harder for women who have been
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Parsimony. Cut out the fat. Read Elements of Style for tips. Also, read more and write more. You can only get better by doing more.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Absolutely. There is no substitute for walking the walk. Also, if it is intimidating to do a whole project from scratch, break it down into parts and tackle those first. Small successes in the beginning can be the boost you need to finish t
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines : "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." This is why I canceled my subscription to the NYTimes and stop following the news so much. Everything is an epidemic.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Seems like every major part of the internet is under attack by the media, the courts, governments and the elite. Every day, it's another major part of the internet having to defend itself.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Interesting. Would be great to see what DNA can teach us about migrations within africa, out of africa, in asia and even americas ( though this might be difficult considering the genocide of the natives ). This information could be a tremen
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> since Linux is successful, it must be because of his toxic personality. Who says this? Just because he is harsh, abrupt and straightforward doesn't necessarily mean he is toxic. And even if he was, nobody is forcing anyone to work
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> The social media bigs aren't attacking political opponents, they're attacking hate groups. Who defines what is a hate group? So if saudi arabia labels atheist groups as hate groups, should social media ban atheists? If china
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
If a theory isn't predictive, it isn't falsifiable. If it isn't falsifiable, then the theory isn't truly scientific. This is a major issue/concern in advanced theoretical physics. Is it really physics if you can&#x2
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Isn't everyone trying to police what people say online now? Least of all the nytimes and the rest of the media? Europe does it. We do it. The media advocates for it. Is it just bad when the chinese do it? 90% of the time everyone here
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Age 16-20 was a crucial time in my learning computer programming at a deep level. And even greater opportunity cost is the lack of in-depth knowledge of your own language. Language isn't just grammar rules. It also has cultural&#x
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> What is "censorship"? When I learned about the concept, I learned the definition that "censorship" is to block a person's speech in a purely public space. You seem to be alluding to a more abstract right than t
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> What I'm afraid of is with this capitalism with Asian values What's "asian values". > But I don't share the hope of my liberal friends - give them ten years, [and there will be] another Tiananmen Square dem
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> HSBC was the bank of money laundering of the mexican drug cartels. HSBC was created in hong kong by the british to launder opium money after the Opium Wars. ""The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank" was founded by Scotsman Sir T
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Good old "civility". The excuse that tyrants, dictators, liberals, conservatives and social media tycoons use to justify censorship. Surprised the other excuse ( "won't you please think of the children" ) wasn'
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
If you think snopes is an objective "fact" checker then you are too far down the rabbit hole.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> You pay income tax on the value of your options, and also capital gains tax on the appreciation in their value after vesting. Yes. That was my point. > That’s only a tax advantage if you get options in a worthless company that later
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Is 21 million (according to 2015 census) an insignificant number? 21 million out of 350 million is a very insignificant number. Also, that number is grouping chinese, japanese and koreans with indians, pakistanis and bangladeshis. Do y
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> You keep saying this, but they're just over 5% of the total US population as of the most recent census. 5% isn't a lot. And it's 5% only because indians, pakistanis, bengalis, etc are classified as asian along with chine

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