agent00f

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by agent00f 2y ago
This is the only comment that matters in this thread. The US currently can only put 50 something hulls in the water, so even if they ALL somehow converge on TW, that's not enough to keep that factory busy for more than a week. Also to
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by agent00f 2y ago
These are likely using smaller turbojets. Eg. the ADM-160 MALD were supposed to be using the TJ-50, all in for <30k. Of course like most defense projects, they ended up with the "B" version which were supposed to be 120k, but e
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by agent00f 6y ago
> Higgins' analyses of Syrian weapons The ironic and actually instructive part of this is that his work was used to rationalize the Syrian war for the west, which has left an absolutely devastating trail of misery for countless mill
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by agent00f 6y ago
> Because of the greed and stupidity of Western governments and companies Interesting how you left out the folks who buy the products in question.
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by agent00f 6y ago
Thanks for at least admitting the goal is regime change, same as for the "Arab spring" which has left much of that region as failed states. It's always amusing when people who cause the most misery in the world shout the loud
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by agent00f 6y ago
Uh, there are many accounts from people who were at various camps if you just search, because the typical stay is much shorter than let on in propaganda. In fact, pretty much all accounts are from people who were released. These are much cl
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by agent00f 6y ago
Tibet really is the perfect case study for US agitprop. The typical audience for this material literally know nothing about the region outside of state dept/cia pr. For example, the Lamas ran a feudal theocracy but get played up like d
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by agent00f 6y ago
Statements in sources you cite seem rather deceptive, for example insinuating that censorship delayed response. Wiki has a pretty factually sourced timeline with precise dates, and it shows the infamous Dr. Li in question messaged a private
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by agent00f 6y ago
The WHO said there's no clear evidence of h2h on Jan 14. The Chinese cdc team didn't conclude their investigation until a few days after, and the advisory was changed after. Your sort know perfectly well why your statements are mi
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by agent00f 6y ago
The comment you replied to asked for a source, the fact you can't produce any despite all this bluster is revealing.
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by agent00f 7y ago
The problem with Taleb is that he's incapable of recognizing any error, and he's not smart enough to do novel intellectual work. I recall pointing out some trivial mistake in the stat reasoning on some Facebook post of his, in a c
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by agent00f 7y ago
Can you explain why you're taking conservative bigots seriously?
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by agent00f 7y ago
I'm curious where all these concerned westerners were when hk was undemocratically ruled by the Brits as a colony. Were they ignorant of what they meant at the time or did they not care so long as others were ruled by their own?
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by agent00f 7y ago
These types of protests are largely encouraged by the West to deepen division within it's enemies, same as with sunni/shiites in the middle east, or gop/democrats by the Russians. You can tell because the West didn't giv
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by agent00f 7y ago
The occasion political content here that's often just fox news level "we're the good guys" talking points makes me question the objectivity of the rest of the tech content.
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by agent00f 7y ago
These are $10/month subs which are akin to channel packages. Just because some will also sub to the Disney chan package doesn't mean they'll drop Netflix. Would surprise no one if the author were shorting Netflix.
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by agent00f 7y ago
Huawei is a massive org which does tons of technical work, and beyond a handful of things it's already down to ring tones, which only shows how desperate the accusers are. You might as accuse Google of ip theft due to that Oracle/
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by agent00f 7y ago
> It seems like you went in with preconceived notions about the subject. This rather seems more applicable to the wsj and you. The op points out how weak some of these claims are, which is a sign that the wsj is desperately throwing ever
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by agent00f 7y ago
This comment gets to the crux of this matter, where everyone recognizes industry coding is for the most part not sophisticated enough to warrant a university degree. The majority of jobs are technician 2 year trade school level, but just ha
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by agent00f 7y ago
The point of assignments and such is to guide students through the thought processes useful to understanding material in depth. It's arguably true that some students can get by via guessing or whatever, but the disservice is mainly to
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by agent00f 7y ago
The fact that so many here place so little value in their education (I would guess esp the liberal arts portions) reflects more on them than the edu system.
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by agent00f 7y ago
All education is inherently time/resource consuming and thereby expensive. What many are proposing here is expending that into trade schools/edu, which I suppose makes sense for what most coding consists of. But what's most r
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by agent00f 7y ago
Higher ed in form of universities aren't meant to be trade schools. Their purpose is to produce thinkers instead of technicians, which unfortunately industry isn't well equipped to utilize. Also, parroting political talking points
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by agent00f 12y ago
Obviously not everything of this sort is the same everywhere in all cases, but the parent statement is largely true. It's also exceptionally true in high turnoff corporations like Amzn. Even in the corner cases where the manager/H
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by agent00f 12y ago
Thanks, fixed. Have no idea why they got broken.
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by agent00f 12y ago
> I don't see a reason to ban someone over this behavior as long as you can make sure that the fraudulent votes don't actually add any value to the content, which they shouldn't. Visibility of the content is essentially pr
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by agent00f 12y ago
Why this matters: Visibility on Reddit is essentially predicated on early votes. Get a few upvotes and even mediocre comments will often remain at the top due to momentum. Less than -4 and it's doomed to oblivion (ie. downvote the comp
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by agent00f 12y ago
> Controversies like these make me glad I work in the field of programming...while arguments over what algorithm or frameworks work best are less sexy than what the sciences cover, at least with narrow claims, it's easier to concret
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by agent00f 12y ago
I wonder if such studies are susceptible to bad stats of confirmation bias as many business studies are. What I mean is whether they had proper controls to assess whether each average person is more likely to succeed than each "sma
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by agent00f 12y ago
> Being good at school is not a sure sign of high intelligence - school is an artificial environment that values short-term memorizing of facts, over critical analysis and independent decision-making. This is a common but mislead read of

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