brwck

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by brwck 3y ago
But he used it as justification to "give Rolling Stone a little bit of slack on this one.". It's interesting how criticizing trash publications like the rolling stone with facts and truth gets your comment flagged. Makes one
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by brwck 3y ago
> Did Chinese government ever acknowledge it's internet censorship? Yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall > While banning TikTok is not fair to me, saying Google isn't banned in China is lyi
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by brwck 3y ago
> I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden. Don't forget farmers. Most americans were farmers in the early 1900s. Today it's about 1%. Sure, jobs were eventually created for
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by brwck 3y ago
Google isn't banned. Google simple chose to leave china because they refuse to follow chinese laws because google is a state controlled corporation. Repeating the same lies doesn't magically turn it into a truth. The difference be
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by brwck 3y ago
Why? You want to host a blog in the afterlife? All kidding aside, why not just hand over your internet assets to a trusted family member who will handle everything when you are gone?
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by brwck 3y ago
> which doesn’t really make sense to me when I consider the weakness of the currency When there is war, financial crisis, etc, money seeks the safest harbor. The safest harbor in the world today is the US. Rising interest rates, war in u
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by brwck 3y ago
There's a theory in economics called "sticky wages". Salaries don't decline due to layoffs or temporary economic downturns.
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by brwck 3y ago
Neither Database Systems, Concurrent Programming nor Network Programming are foundational knowledge for CS. They are good knowledge to have for a specialized programming job, but not foundational computer science. It's like asking why
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by brwck 3y ago
The UK government banned tiktok on government phones a few days ago. https://apnews.com/article/uk-tiktok-government-ban-470538b4... The BBC is british state propaganda. So of course they have to ban tiktok too.
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by brwck 3y ago
> I don't want to reduce what you've said, but the fact is that Taiwan grew rich because of US support that helped integrate it into the global economy, and that wouldn't have come without its opposition to the mainland. T
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by brwck 3y ago
> Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world. In other words, you've built yourself a tiny echo chamber. The only way you have "zero toxicity" is that
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by brwck 4y ago
> It isn't about Russians or Russia. But the root cause of the crimes committed in Ukraine. NATO imperialism? I don't think the ICC is going after anyone in NATO. > Now he faces arrest on any soil where ICC has juristiction,
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by brwck 4y ago
It's not just a matter of our subjective experience of time, it's a matter of the laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Time moves in one direction is another way of saying entropy always increases. If time could move in the opposit
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by brwck 4y ago
Does it not drive print and cable news consumption too? CNN and Fox news are as negative as you can get and the masses flock to them.
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by brwck 4y ago
> No, it has jurisdiction over crimes on Ukrainian territory, regardless of the actors. That's not how it works. Russia isn't party to the ICC. Lets see which is more likely. Russia arrests the members of ICC or the ICC arresti
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by brwck 4y ago
> I'm weighing the need for my (possible future) children to spend time in a 3rd world country with germs & allergens for a little bit Or go outside with the kid. Visit a farm, park, whatever.
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by brwck 4y ago
> Proper manuals have examples of use This is what microsoft did well with powershell's help system. They have examples. Tons of them. Why man pages do not is beyond me when most of the time, an example or two is all we need. I bet
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by brwck 4y ago
Why stop a 0? If we can have negative interest rates, why not negative employment? Make employees pay you to work for them.
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by brwck 4y ago
When I was a kid, I remember one of my teachers saying the same thing about the internet ( google, computers, etc ). Us kids were so lucky to have such powerful tools and everyone in the future will be smarter for it. Turns out, people are
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by brwck 4y ago
I was so sure that rise of PC ownership would spell the end of consoles. I still can't believe console gaming grew and became even more entrenched the last 10 years. It would be like if blockbuster grew and became more popular with the
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by brwck 4y ago
The description reads like made up propaganda. And it's funny how quickly I got downvoted for mentioning that eucom.mil might not be the most trustworthy of sites. It's almost like there is a one-sided propaganda war waged all ove
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by brwck 4y ago
> Seems like the news companies are shooting themselves in the foot, but it sounds good to me. No. They are using their political power to extort money from social media companies. "Facebook to pay News Corp for content in Australia
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by brwck 4y ago
> This is just strange thinking to equate decline with some sort of technological leadership. Technology is one of the best indicators of power, progress, societal dynamism and hope for the future. > - The US is still at a trade defi
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by brwck 4y ago
> In what world are customers equally subject to the same risks? Perhaps not the same risk, but risk nonetheless. People forget what banks truly are. They are institutions you give money to and hope they leverage ( fractional lending ),
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by brwck 4y ago
> Like it or not, the West generally is in a state of decline. Europe is in a state of decline. The US is doing fine. The difference between the US and Europe is that we went up the value chain ( Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Netf