burfog

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by burfog 6y ago
Birth rates will go up because they are inheritable and because exponential growth always wins. The USA will be Amish. It's only a change in environment that can knock that down a bit, but exponential growth still wins. Birth control c
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by burfog 6y ago
Wolfram Alpha is pretty good for random factual queries. It will even do computation, so you can ask for the number of dietary calories in a cubic lightyear of cream cheese. https://www.wolframalpha.com/ If you are looking
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by burfog 6y ago
That document could use a clarification for the "Ask HN or Show HN" section. I didn't see an option to make an "Ask HN or Show HN" in the UI. Do we just add that text manually? Does the software recognize it as spec
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by burfog 6y ago
That sounds like the robustness principle, featured in RFC 1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) among others: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" or "Be conservative in what you send and libera
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by burfog 6y ago
This is 100% unjustified speculation. Dehumanizing an opponent helps to unleash hate. John McCain's funeral was a political event.
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by burfog 6y ago
Lots of people support the killing. When you look into the background of the 3 people shot, the reasons become obvious. The first person shot had attacked boys aged 9 to 11, raping 2 and molesting 3 others. The second person shot had a hist
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by burfog 6y ago
The original antifa and that modern antifa have a lot in common. They share the name, symbols, violence, and ideology. The original antifa was so awful that it made people want Hitler. The modern antifa might achieve a similar accomplishmen
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by burfog 6y ago
He was considered left-wing until he dared to report what he saw, refusing to censor it for the benefit of Antifa. That sounds like a reputable journalist to me.
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by burfog 6y ago
What loss, his marbles? If you mean his son, well, Trump lost two brothers. When in congress, Biden pushed for the harsh sentencing that we had, with the 1994 crime bill. Trump supported and then signed the First Step Act, which is legislat
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by burfog 6y ago
Accents and staple foods are terrible examples. We know that the sound of the human voice is determined by the shape of the air passageway, including teeth and nose. We know that these shapes vary around the world. We know that lactose tole
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by burfog 6y ago
It pops up during presidential election years. The donations are what is funding the DNC and the Biden campaign. It's an odd thing when you consider that Harris was a prosecutor who was unusually aggressive about putting black people i
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by burfog 6y ago
Right on that web page: "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree
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by burfog 6y ago
You can be, to a degree. There is a long tail. Targeting the top influencers would be too obvious. There are a lot of minor influencers that add up to quite a lot, being in total very important. Facebook knows who they are.
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by burfog 6y ago
Not every influencer is making income that way. Facebook is surely able to identify people with significant influence who aren't all that famous and who don't make any money off of it. Approximately, take the top 2% but excluding
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by burfog 6y ago
I'd like to know why this isn't standard today. I don't like the typical moldy latex paint.
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by burfog 6y ago
The PDF is a quick read, just a page and a quarter. This should help to cut down on the hostile divisive rhetoric that is getting in the way of unity and effective teamwork.
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by burfog 6y ago
Lin Wood is a lawyer defending a boy against a politically-motivated prosecution. The event was a clear case of self-defense against a murderous mob of felons. It's nearly all on video, usually from multiple angles, and the court filin
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by burfog 6y ago
This is interesting: "upper class whites and a few model minorities" Discrimination against the lower class is invisible within the white population. It just goes undetected. It is never reported to the government. Group photos do
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by burfog 6y ago
For real-life trolling fun at a university, head over to the people who are really complaining about the lack of women in STEM. They'll be in Gender Studies or something like that. Suggest that they can take action against the problem
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by burfog 6y ago
It won't generate a reasonable intellectual discussion. Some of the most common opinions on the matter are unspeakable in polite society. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has this to say on that trouble: http://www.paulgr
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by burfog 6y ago
Perform a trick to get a food reward? It sounds like training dolphins. I don't even know if that is a good sign or a bad sign, but... wow.
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by burfog 6y ago
This isn't the first case. There certainly is a non-Eurasian privilege, particularly in academia. She wouldn't have done this if it weren't beneficial.
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by burfog 6y ago
Well, sort of. They discriminated against types I and II.
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by burfog 6y ago
You can be at war, as a pacifist, in total denial of reality. That's what the USA did with China. The trade war was really active, but the USA was just taking damage without any response. The non-response was pretty dumb.
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by burfog 6y ago
Logically, the treatment ought to be for exposed people who aren't yet showing symptoms. Prime candidates would be family members of infected people.
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by burfog 6y ago
In one photo, showing a murder, the murderer is seen from the back. (as happened recently in Portland) In another photo, he is seen from the front, somewhat peacefully protesting. (his daughter was in the vicinity and held a weapon that he
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by burfog 6y ago
It's not easy. The protester seen from the front in one video could also be a murderer seen from the back in a different video. Harmless protesters are safe in the USA. They don't need to be covered up. Covering them is effectivel
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by burfog 6y ago
There is a civic duty to do that. People are getting killed, maimed, and more. The "no snitch" mentality destroys society. Covering up crimes, for example by hiding the identity of rioters, is unethical.
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by burfog 6y ago
It's pretty good for purely non-political things. Sadly, this is political.
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by burfog 6y ago
Wikipedia is pretty reliable for math, old computer hardware, and other dry technical subjects. This is not one. This is a political subject. Wikipedia is a complete disaster for anything that even remotely touches upon modern politics. The

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