Idontreddit

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by Idontreddit 10y ago
"Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction" (McClellan, Dorn) lays out an interest overview of how technology led science throughout world history. We naively think that science leads technology, but for much of his
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
> "Bernie Bros"? seriously? The NYTimes endorsed Hilary 6 months ago... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/hillary-cli...
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
Anti-semitism and racist speech is free speech. Hate speech is free speech. If we are going to censor "hate speech", then we would have to ban atheist speech for being hateful to the religious or pro-gay speech for being hateful t
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
> What I don't see is why this is worthy of an article on the NY Times. You left Twitter for various reasons, none of which are newsworthy. Lets be honest here. It's newsworthy because a jew is affected. The writer is jewish an
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
Wait til TTIP and TPP becomes law. Times are good now, but once hilary gets elected and these "free" trade agreements gets signed, the monied masters will immediately raise interest rates and cause a recession which will give cove
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
Money. Hollywood is running out of ideas and they've rebooted/re-imagined/re-released/sequelized/etc everything. So while we are debating whether to watch ghostbusters or independence day ( and whether our choices m
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
> Lots gets published negative about those groups. Lots? And you name one book that was marginalized more than 20 years ago. > Lots of people are at least somewhat willing to be persuaded by arguments. No they are not. Especially on m
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
Licensing is old news. The hip new thing in business is the social media model. Businesses are now trying to give you things for free in exchange for rights to your data. That's the entire social media business model. It is so lucrativ
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
That's amazing. It's both awe-inspiring and unnervingly depressing to be reminded that we are ultimately just biological machines. Reminds me of that procedure where a surgeon can freeze you, drain your blood, take out all your or
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
> What in heavens name are you talking about? I was fairly explicit and straightforward. > There are countless books and articles published in this country, in and out of academia, describing and condemning oppression of blacks, women
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
Yes it is easy to use. But too bad it also fails "transactions" silently so that you don't even know if your changes were "committed" or not. Don't worry, it only happens every once it a while so it's not
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
> If you're EVER going to read the data back and do anything with it, it has a schema. You are giving the NoSQL crowd too much credit. Some abominations have no recognizable schema at all. The data store will just contain arbitrary
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
> Something that is unusual about modern West is we make it possible to publish all the different perspectives I think we have to stop patting ourselves on the back. Yes, we claim to allow it, but it's a bit more complicated than th
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
> While it is true that complete unbiased understanding of past events is impossible, that does not therefore make it unimportant to try for. Agreed. But as long as you understand that history is ultimately propaganda. There isn't a
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
It's not even a chinese invention. It's a human invention. We do it in the US. And so do the brits, europeans, etc. After "historians" were paid to write histories extolling someone and denigrate someone else. From colum
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by Idontreddit 10y ago
Actually it wouldn't be. You are buying an asset for 50% off which will continue to go up in price. And you get to pay a rentor a cheap rent to take care of your asset their entire lives. It's a great deal if you can get it. The o