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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Apparently only when china does it. Imagine the hypocritical hysteria if this was about the chinese government. Not just from the social media propagandists but also our elected leaders - many of them in congress supporting this "aid&q
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> PLEASE treat reddit as a web-first platform. Agreed. But I think they've made up their minds already. In the meantime, you can use "old.reddit.com" until they decide to take that away.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> The area they ruled (from England to Syria and Egypt) had never been under a unified rule before the Romans. To be fair, you can say that about almost every empire - mongol, greek, british, ottoman, persian, babylonian, etc. I doubt th
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> and letting private companies suppress speech, which is what happens in America. Considering that private companies are now becoming more powerful than many governments/countries, maybe this is something we should take another loo
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> That's not in the article at all. "English started out as German. Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, really is a foreign language, and requires serious study. I don't think an anglophone can learn to read it with mere
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> And, really, a reference from 2016? And what reference did you provide? Other than your supposed ability to predict the future? > Four years is FOREVER in the energy business now. It isn't. Also, considering solar subsidies hav
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Um, yes. "Full context: "English started out as German. Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, really is a foreign language, and requires serious study. I don't think an anglophone can learn to read it with mere tricks."
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> "English started out as German." Full context: "English started out as German. Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, really is a foreign language, and requires serious study. I don't think an anglophone can learn to
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Solar panels are much cheaper than when the film was made. It's this reduction in cost that's driving the energy disruption, not increase in efficiency (although that helps). Solar is a nonfactor in energy. It counts for abso
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> and in other ways the manifestations of lobotomy and morphine are similar enough to lead some researchers to describe the action of morphine (and some barbiturates) as ‘reversible pharmacological leucotomy [lobotomy]’. Interesting. Won
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> In this case it was simply a copy paste error which they pointed out. Right and life went on before you decided to play "hero". > They apologized because they were being civil and polite not out of some admission of guilt.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
No. I'm not confusing anything. "...this is probably not politically correct to say, but I did develop some sympathy for that bishop." Sympathy implies justification. Also, I clearly explained what caused the bishop's in
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
No. We are in a world where people don't bother reading comments rationally and jump to conclusions and get upset over nothing. > Are we in an alternate reality where 67 year olds immediately drop dead? This is called a straw man. W
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Agreed. There are a fixed number of PhD spots. What sense is there to give that spot to a 66 year old senior rather than someone younger who will actually do something productive with the expertise and credentials? I'm all for continue
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Is she a journalist or a social/political activist? Shouldn't she pretend to have a bit of objectivity and not become part of the news itself? Twitter has been the greatest tool to expose the news industry and journalists for what
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Global warming skepticism is exactly the kind of thing that often occurs when people trust their own judgement more than that of subject matter experts. Except that the "subject matter experts" have a horrible track record. A
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
It wasn't mean spirited and it was justified. If people are using link shorteners to hide the fact that their link is a referral, then it invites everyone to sneak referral links in their comments here. Do you really want that? He remo
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Yes. It's even disputed whether Hilbert discovered it first. But regardless of einstein or hilbert, technological advancements would have necessitated the discovery of general relativity. Just like the advances of telescopes/obser
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
A thread having nothing to do with nice. Oh lets see if I can squeeze some silly propaganda into it. You could have just as easily made your point without the old trite propaganda about china. The propaganda gets boring and ineffective afte
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Are you talking about the early-to-mid '80s No. Microsoft didn't IPO until 1986. So after the mid 80s to the early 90s. > when they were both microscopic compared to anything today? Well, both apple and microsoft were &quo
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Not a fan of people sneaking referral links here. You could have easily recommended the book without the referral link and if you were going to link it, be open about it being a referral link.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> The article on Wikipedia doesn't support your assertion that the scholars who coined the term "social science" did so "fairly recently," Fairly recently is subjective. But the article showed that they coined it
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> As someone who did my graduate work in humanities and not social science, I think there is a world of difference between social science and humanities. Don't say there is a difference. Name them. I too have a degree in the humanit
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Do you have anything to back this up? Sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_social_sciences "The term "social science" first appeared in the 1824 book An Inquiry into the Principles of
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Then they goes on to criticize political science and psychology as their poster children for the humanities, except these are social sciences Social sciences are a humanities. The term social science was invented fairly recently by sne
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
Anyone else get a huge pop up with Zuckerburg's smirking face asking them to sign in? If facebook is going to release a PR statement to the world/general public, can they at least remove that sign in pop up for that statement page
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
To be fair, there was a time when MSFT was small compared to AAPL.
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> Its much easier to trust democratic governments than autocratic ones. History shows otherwise. They are equally shady. After all, it was a democracy that broke every treaty with the natives and exterminated them. But I guess it all dep
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
What's so surprising about it when "we see it in bees and ants, and humans and throughout all of nature." His own words. If it is found throughout all of nature, shouldn't it be expected rather than surprising?
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by dntbnmpls 6y ago
> The article says "Scientists previously had determined that four motivators influenced people to behave in a way that benefited other people." I know. That's why I listed the 4 that was mentioned in the article. The rest

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