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by elfexec 7y ago
> Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique. It's expected in a "brigadable" topic - anything to do with climate change, veganism, china, gender, etc. My original comment was downvoted within a second
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by elfexec 7y ago
That's because it's true from time to time. Journalists, diplomats, NGOs, academics, etc are the top spy vectors. Do you really think russia is killing "journalists" because they are journalists or because they are spies
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by elfexec 7y ago
"More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag #AMZNSpeakOut in public statements that condemn the company for not taking sufficient action on the climate crisis." 340 whole workers? Total number of amazon employees : 750,
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by elfexec 7y ago
As awful as the theft of wealth was, the bigger crime was the prevention of industrialization. India was directly stopped by britain from industrializing because britain didn't want a competitor and rather wanted to use india for resou
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Bullshit It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. It was why europeans wanted to get to china in the first place and not the other way around. Even decades after the opium wars, euro
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by elfexec 7y ago
> So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate. It's been said that psychiatry is the new religion and psychiatrists the new priests for a reason. An
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The real effect is that Turkey will get more and more behind the rest of the world because its citizens do not have access to information Considering the censorship that goes on in Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, etc, I&#x2
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by elfexec 7y ago
Not just Apple. Microsoft had quite a rally itself over the past decade. So did tesla, netflix, facebook, AMD, Amazon, nvidia, etc. The tech sector did very well during the loose monetary period since the financial crisis. It's insane
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by elfexec 7y ago
You have to pay to watch movies at the movie theater. The movies you rent from the library are free. And if your library is part of a network of libraries, then you probably could find any movie you want to watch. Mix that with youtube, net
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The problem is that on Twitter they’ve become more like activists rather than journalists/reporters. They've always been activists. Twitter just makes it visible to the public while in the past, their biases were shielded beh
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by elfexec 7y ago
FTA: "As evidenced in prior research, as little as 40 milligrams of acetaminophen can be acutely toxic to any reptile, not just snakes."
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Really wish they went with 8 seconds instead of 6 for the videos. I mean 1 byte = 8 bits after all. Actually, a byte could and did have a variety of bits as they were generally hardware dependent. Generally, a byte is the smallest numb
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by elfexec 7y ago
> It's weird that we don't know what teeth were like before fluoride was invented. We have teeth from fossils that are a few thousand years old all the way to over a million years old. https://www.npr.org/templa
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by elfexec 7y ago
> You say that as though people aren't susceptible to influence form malicious actors spouting propaganda. If that's the case, we'd have to shut down every news and media organization. > Every news paper, book publisher
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Can you give me an example of "media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public"? Look up every war we've been involved in. The media/establishment lied. Try Nayirah testimony if you want to get s
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by elfexec 7y ago
> These past 4 months, people have been resigning faster than we can refill their spots. I'd be asking for a significant raise. Looks like you walked into a short term supply and demand issue in your favor, not to mention a bunch of
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by elfexec 7y ago
Also this bloke was a "Kapoor". So he probably had very little political clout/connections and was simply targeted for convenience and used as a sacrificial lamb to placate the masses. The Sackler's are cash multibillion
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by elfexec 7y ago
> While there may be a few bad actors The question is are these bad actors acting in support of Yang or to undermine Yang? If you were against Yang, imagine how easy it would be to set up bots to "support Yang" and then have fe
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by elfexec 7y ago
There are videos of real pyroclastic flow as well. The unzen eruption being a particularly famous one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvjwt9nnwXY It's even terrifying watching the toxic cloud spread on youtube. I wond
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by elfexec 7y ago
"A brand new day and A brand new HN post on Procrastination" I'm starting to see a pattern here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22125883
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by elfexec 7y ago
If you like 1984 and doublethink, then you'll enjoy this. Department of War was rebranded as Department of Defense three months after 1984 was published. Life imitating art? And ever since, the Department of Defense has engaged in offe
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Math and physics are solidly on the STEM side when people argue the merits of STEM vs liberal arts. That's my point. I disagree with the assertion that STEM is separate from liberal arts education. Historically it hasn't been
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by elfexec 7y ago
Isn't this like the 3rd or 4th post about procrastination on the frontpage the past few days? People seem to love to procrastinate by reading about procrastination. Haiku time. "Procrastinate by Reading articles about Procrastinat
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by elfexec 7y ago
> 11 years ago was 2009. Now that's depressing. > It's an artifact of the culture of western aristocrats. There are elements of truth in what you said. But liberal education is also the bedrock of western education and know
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I believe that New York attracts these people, from all over the country. Not just from the country and not just to NY. From all over the world to wherever there is wealth. There was a famous case of the "Fake Rockefeller" wh
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by elfexec 7y ago
It must be nice to live in such a hypocritically privileged bubble of mozilla and their ilk. Most young people are just looking to find a job that will pay them enough to pay their student loans, rent, bills and hopefully save some money fo
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by elfexec 7y ago
I wish we had a centralized archive for all of these predictions gone wrong.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Germany was export-oriented before the Euro, during the transition and with the Euro. Germany was export-oriented before reunification, during reunification and after reunification. Germany was export-oriented even before WW2. It&#x27
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Your comparison feels like talking about soldiers with PTSD and then saying "all humans have jobs and deadlines and they depend on these for their livelihood! All humans have stress, how are soldiers different?" Wouldn't
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The fact that you can even do stuff like this in Rust is amazing. Stuff like this? You mean closures? That's what you find amazing? What is considered ordinary in other programming languages is considered amazing in Rust. Amazing.

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