eighthnate

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by eighthnate 9y ago
Isn't this just tautological nonsense? This applies to everything. If you have 1 friend rather than 5, you can focus and be more creative with that 1 friend than 5. If you have 1 sibling rather than 5, the same thing. If you have 1 boo
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> I would like to see western governments treat Chinese censorship as non-tariff barriers to trade when negotiating trade agreements. Considering the west censors also, the chinese would laugh in our face. Weren't there chinese tour
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> I think the problem is deeper than the author suggests. Not only are certain groups of people not getting the resources they need, there is also the matter of a cultural disconnect between the people in power who control the resources,
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by eighthnate 9y ago
I'd say the reason why we are miserable is because of the media and the increased consumption of rubbish clickbait from the media. We are miserable because useless journalists have to write something everyday to generate controversy, f
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Same here. Not sure why you are being downvoted.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Being in politics is supposed to mean being a public servant. That's what the powerful tell the naive. Politics is about power and money.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
They are ugly and they are noisy hence why most people don't want them near them.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Could you imagine something that equalizes the playing field more between men and women? It really wouldn't because women would lose the societal benefits of being child bearers. So at best, it would be a wash. > This provides
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> it's that businesses accept data as identity. Even worse. It's that businesses accept it and the individual bears some or all of the liabilities and hassles.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> A C/C++ program is usually an order of magnitude longer than what a FAUST program would need to be. That's true for all functional/scripting languages vs imperative languages. There is a study that was done years ago wh
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Sure. But most people don't understand that. They think it is like the nobel prizes in science - based in achievement.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Fortunately, USA still has robust immigration (despite political efforts), so we have nothing to worry about, compared to Japan. Really? So the population has to always increase? When does it end? > American population and culture i
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Using prizes to push a political agenda. What could go wrong? Remember the nobel peace prize to obama for nothing? Or the clock in the suitcase boy a few years ago? Yes, lets ruin the good name of science to push a political agenda. Then we
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> and it's just a political hitpeice It is a political hit piece no better than awarding obama a nobel prize before he did anything as president. I'll make you a bet. There will be a syrian or a refugee who will "win"
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by eighthnate 9y ago
That's all tech giants in pretty much all countries. And not just their own people, they spy on foreigners too. There's a reason why russia and china kick out foreign tech companies from time to time. There's a reason why EU
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Can't Uber continue to operate at a loss for a few years until they can switch drivers for self-driving vehicles and significantly reduce cost instantly? Sure. Uber can survive years/decades through losses if wall street&#x2F
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Likely not. It'll most likely be India as they are the largest generics manufacturing nation by far. India is to generic drugs what we are to non-generics. Israel is another major generics manufacturer so it could be them. China's
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Naturalized citizens cannot be deported unless the government first proves in an Article III Federal Court that they obtained citizenship fraudulently and the court revokes their citizenship. So naturalized citizens can be deported whe
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by eighthnate 9y ago
If there is anything more toxic than social media, it's traditional media. If you value your mental health, uninstall facebook, end your subscription to NYTimes/WaPo/news media, turn off foxnews and go do something else.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
The clickbaiting never ends. WaPo is worse than youtube pranksters.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> I like to joke that I have more documenting showing my legal right to be in the US than my wife's grandmother. You are mistaken. Your wife's grandmother ( assuming she is native born ), even though she may not have "pape
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by eighthnate 9y ago
It's an op-ed piece by a highly biased individual in washingtonpost. It's meant to push a particular position, not to espouse truths or facts.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
I used to have a KVM to switch between my many boxes with many OSes. Now with virtualization, I have box with a few virtual machines. Now if I want to use windows, debian and freebsd, I don't have to switch between 3 physical boxes, I
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by eighthnate 9y ago
People brag about their FICO scores. What do you think FICO scores are? Just glorified citizen score.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of propaganda. The top voted comments here are praising reddit for cracking down on "upvote rings" when reddit hasn't. Reddit, even their admins, actively work to push liberal propaganda on thei
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by eighthnate 9y ago
This, boys and girls, is why you don't want to support censorship. I'm laughing at all the pro-censorship commenters here who are getting upset because their side is now being censored. Give companies/governments/etc to
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> Reddit has had ring voting protection for years It does? Is that why reddit is inundated with political propaganda everyday?
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by eighthnate 9y ago
It's just another guardian clickbait. No shortage of that unfortunately.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
I personally prefer 2 or 3 monitors rather than one large monitor. One monitor for code. Another for debuggin. Another for servers,VM, testing,etc.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Sure. But did they break the story on the connection between anti-brexit organizations? It's funny how the guardian mostly published anti-brexit propaganda.

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