dotcommand

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by dotcommand 5y ago
I agree that societal instability stem from problems within the elites, but not sure it's due to 'elite overproduction' necessarily. I think it has more to do with divergence of interests within the elites. Even without elite
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Owners ( of assets ) have been making a killing. Pretty much any kind of asset - stocks, real estate, collectibles, crypto, etc. Of course the more you own, the better you did. So the 0.01 did much better than the 0.1% who did much better t
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by dotcommand 5y ago
You claimed that the iranian state existed independently since 1500s. I proved you wrong. > the continuation of the territorial integrity of Iran "The treaty confirmed the ceding and inclusion of what is now Dagestan, eastern Georgi
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Would have been a hilarious entry in the "Who is Hiring" thread for September.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The Founders did not write that into the Constitution. Because the founders wanted voting to be controlled at the state level, not the federal level... > Propaganda is what you're writing. Historical facts is propaganda? So wha
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The current goal is to analyze queries Then you should focus on the optimization phase. Where indexes, table statistics, etc are involved. The parsing and even translating sql from one dialect to another wouldn't give much for you
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> The "more or less" applied to "continuous", not "independent." Does that make a difference? You are either continuously independent or not continuously independent. > But if you really want to argue tha
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh ... Apple has to store data of chinese citizens in china? And Apple has to adhere to chinese laws in china? How insane. It's crazy how deluded the &
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> By Lenin's definition the all those Democratic People's Republics really were democratic. Not by lenin's definition. Just the definition of democracy and where it came from. We get democracy comes from the greeks - where
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Taken from the top comment in another thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233819
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> This is completely false when you're talking about Iran. I wouldn't say completely false. > An Iranian state has existed in more or less continuous form as an independent polity since the breakup of the Timurid Empire in
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> "Those words were spoken by a TJ father who immigrated to the United States from China after surviving the Cultural Revolution." Hilarious. These propagandists really can't help themselves. "Survive the cultural re
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> I have to refer back to these long traditional rivals Long traditional rivals? Iran and iraq are relatively new 20th century european colonial creations. Iran was carved out by the british/russians and Iraq was arbitrarily drawn o
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by dotcommand 5y ago
So eloquently stated. Couldn't have said it better myself. Hunt the minnows while at the SEC. Get hired by the whales after leaving the SEC.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> In my view, reproducibility is neither strictly necessary nor sufficient for scientific progress. In your view? Reproducibility is essential to scientific progress because it defines what science is. It's the backbone of science.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> He’s like “well look, 90% of everything is shit” I think there is a difference between "being shit" and "being fake" though. 'do you really think it’s true that 50-70% of biomedical research is fake?' Fake
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Or, we just have a natural/historical aversion to centralized power. Much of the nation initially started out believing that power should be local. Or you can simply make up nonsense about 'mark of the beast'. It's crazy
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by dotcommand 5y ago
At this point, it's either mass hysteria, a weapon of some kind or something common within this group. Are these officials forced to carry some kind of equipment that can cause this? Were they required to get some shots/drugs, imp
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Chinese belt and road projects are notoriously opaque but often have China bringing the financing, labor, and infrastructure. It's so opaque that you know who is funding, building, etc? Right. Also, who else is going to bring the
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Thought this was going to be about computer viruses and was wondering how traps could possibly combat it. But alas it's about biological viruses.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> that has stubbornly been able to avoid being conquered by the major empires in world history. Was reading Moby Dick the other day and came across this excerpt... 'Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. W
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by dotcommand 5y ago
"Climate change is an issue for which Dyson is asking for more evidence, and leading climate scientists are replying by saying if we wait for sufficient proof to satisfy you, it may be too late." https://www.nytimes.com
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> It was taught in more the general sense of how to apply critical thinking to judge news stories. Critical thinking is a general thing, not something for news stories. Besides the idea that school teach critical thinking in anything is
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Or peak oil or y2k or sars or terrorism or ebola or HIV or bad halloween candy or trump or china trade war ... I'm in agreement with what you wrote. The amount of apocalypses we lived through is astounding when you think about it. But
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by dotcommand 5y ago
> Google definitely lived long enough to become a villain. I hate to break this to you but google was born a villain. Nobody innately good has to remind themselves "Don't be evil". Imagine walking down the street and meeti
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Seems like a straightforward electric truck mileage/range problem.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
And Nike is currently valued at $270 billion. Where did reebok go wrong? What did Nike do right? Crazy how much more successful Nike was.
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by dotcommand 5y ago
Well we are "pivoting" to asia. Apparently, that's the new battlefront. Funding unrest in myanmar now that the hong kong fiasco failed. Also a few black presidents/leaders died in the last few months. No doubt isis will
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by dotcommand 5y ago
The title reminded me of an intro to one of packt's books. "At Packt, we take the protection of our copyright and licenses very seriously. If you come across any illegal copies of our works in any form on the internet, please prov
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by dotcommand 5y ago
The selling point of IoT is the data. It's the reason for the heavy investment in big data/neural networks/nvidia/etc. Preparing for the IoT world where there isn't much privacy but lots and lots of data.

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