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by basetop 7y ago
North Korea became north korea because of censorship. It is the most censored country in the world. And the point is that there is not "extremism" in north korea because censorship allows only "authoritarianism". That&#x
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by basetop 7y ago
There was an interesting video on youtube about global recycling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gNZtI7hbvI Since china exports so much and we export so little, rather than send empty shipping containers back to china, we
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by basetop 7y ago
Historically, a combined effort by corporate and government interests to take away your rights was called fascism. But I guess if it is the far left doing it, it's okay.
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by basetop 7y ago
Of course not. They are going to promote it. They are going to give the pro-war "authoritative sources" preferential treatment. It's funny how so many of the pro-censorship comments here reference ISIS. These same people woul
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by basetop 7y ago
I rather live with the remote threat of extremism rather than live in a censored world. Would you rather live in North Korea with no extremism? You have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than dying from extremism and yet you&#
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by basetop 7y ago
When Assange exposed Bush/right, the journalists and leftists loved him and the right hated him. He won a bunch of journalist/humanitarian prizes. Now that Assange exposed Hillary/left, the journalists and leftists hate him.
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by basetop 7y ago
Considering how politicized wikipedia ( like most of tech industry has gotten in recent years ), doesn't shock me. Jimmy Wales has pretty much come out and said wikipedia will no longer be user driven but ideology driven. Which is one
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by basetop 7y ago
It is a declarative language like SQL. If you come from traditional imperative programming side, it is very difficult for you to get used to. I forgot who said it : "With imperative style, you code the precise steps to get what you wan
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by basetop 7y ago
"Europe has a special place in the venture because it was the final destination of the original Silk Road." Is this really true? Wasn't China the final destination of the original silk road. Isn't it why we call it the &
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by basetop 7y ago
You forget the key words in my comment. "Like a cow". I know you can process some vegetation. I eat a lot of vegetables. But your gut biome can't process vegetation like cows. Go try eating grass or vegetation exclusively and
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by basetop 7y ago
That's only for city folk who essentially trap their cats or dogs in their apartments to help with their loneliness. Frankly I think pet ownership in cities should be made illegal because it's harmful to the pets and wild animals.
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by basetop 7y ago
Simply not true because humans can't process vegetation like cows can. It's why we feed animals vegetation and we eat the animals. Also, even if what you said were true, that only applies to human raised livestock. Even under you
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by basetop 7y ago
Bull markets always draw retail. Smart money needs suckers to hold the bag.
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by basetop 7y ago
I suspect most of the hate vegans get are from other "more pure" vegans. Purity is how vegan cult members judge each other. Not how normal minded people judge vegans. As for "some good", you might really want to get off
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by basetop 7y ago
Or as Richard Feynmann wisely and correctly called it - pseudoscience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo It's pseudoscience used by people to push ideological and political agenda. Ever since science pretty
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by basetop 7y ago
That's the pathetic "liberal" sexist caricature you see on TV and media. And like most caricature in media, it's nonsense. The problem is that both men and women are deciding to having less kids. And that trend has conti
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by basetop 7y ago
This article really isn't saying attention span is getting shorter ( or it's misunderstanding what "attention span" means ). It's that global interest timeframe is getting shorter ( aka how long a product or news is
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by basetop 7y ago
And Miami, NYC, LA, London, etc. But then again, dirty money ( opium wars ) is how modern banking in the industrial age got started. Though, we should expand "dirty" money to more than drugs and crime. Legally attained money could
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by basetop 7y ago
It's insane the level of vindicativeness that government can reach. Worse than any bully and more fanatical than any terrorist. Of course the government is like this to mere peasants. If you are the wealthy elite, the government acts l
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by basetop 7y ago
Only 10% of you at the cellular level is you. The 90% of you at the cellular level is bacteria. https://bigthink.com/amped/humans-10-human-and-90-bacterial
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by basetop 7y ago
I said china is a multi-ethnic nation unlike south korea, didn't I. I highly doubt tibetans or ugyhurs would celebrate going through 90s russian life. Tibet and Xinjiang ( and to a limited degree hong kong ) are interesting because eur
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by basetop 7y ago
It's propaganda. It's a caricature coming to life. A caricature created by the establishment media. It's like if foxnews ran a story "What happened to my 13 year old daughter after consuming establishment media or democr
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by basetop 7y ago
"A hypothetical Chinese transition to democracy would probably have followed the East Asian pattern, not the Eastern European one. In Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union didn't so much democratize as disintegrate. China might have st
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by basetop 7y ago
Why just facebook? Why not Amazon, Google, JPM, Disney, etc? "Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, says the company is so big and powerful that it threatens our democracy." "threatens our democracy". I've heard t
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by basetop 7y ago
It wastes time, space and energy, but it also lowers the bar for programming ( don't have to know or care much about memory ) and removes the potential for errors. It's like programming on training wheels. Sure it, there are costs
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by basetop 7y ago
Tech companies are deleting evidence of war crimes and everything else at the behest of media companies like the atlantic. Youtube, facebook, reddit, google search, etc have all been targeted by the atlantic, nytimes, washingtonpost, cnn, e
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by basetop 7y ago
Zuckerberg copied Page and Brin's share structure. Page and Brin control Google just as much as Zuckerburg controls Facebook - totally. As for ego, I don't know these people personally so I'll take your word for it.
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by basetop 7y ago
Would caching also be a form of "guessing" what's next? Cache hits could be considered guessing correctly and while cache misses is guessing incorrectly.
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by basetop 7y ago
Google is a few years older, wiser and has far greater political clout. Being older, google went through what facebook is going through a few years ago. So they are much more savvy and also much more powerful ( politically at least ). I sus
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by basetop 7y ago
Incredible. I've never seen such a thing in the wild. An actual dupe of a dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838320 And just like that, it's #1 of HN. Must be good to be king.

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