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by elfexec 7y ago
> Most wars between nations are fought for something like honour: This is not true. Wars are fought for wealth or to protect wealth ( perceived or not ). "Honor" ( like freedom, human rights, etc ) is the lie the elites employ
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Fake news isn't the biggest issue with media. It's obvious and can be easily taken down or discredited. Fake news can be a big problem. Especially in the short term when it comes to major issues like war. The last two major w
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by elfexec 7y ago
> C# Nullable<T> is near useless because it only works on value types. I.e., you know, the types that are least likely to generate NullReferenceException for you. You are completely missing the point of Nullable. It was introduced
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by elfexec 7y ago
Also, why was the guy filming the video in contact with an iranian "journalist" in britain? The right with the right tools at the right time with the right connections. Very convenient. The entire trump-iran situation is very odd.
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by elfexec 7y ago
Same thing with Theranos. It was people on the internet who discovered theranos was shady and WSJ was the one that "broke the story". At least the WSJ acknowledged and credited the people on the internet who first pointed out the
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by elfexec 7y ago
> What useful thing has been produced by the internet? Is this Hacker News? This is the type of nonsense I expect on the NYTimes comment section. > I'd much rather have humans enjoy nature than writing about it on the internet. W
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by elfexec 7y ago
> So we won't solve it because we're just not capable of globalism as a species We already have globalism and globalism is what cause climate change. Economic globalism is why we are where we are. How do you think oil, coal, n
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Not sure about the first example If you are that well versed in the lives of weinstein and peterson, you most definitely are aware the first. But being as woke as you are, you probably can't admit it to yourself. > but Bret We
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by elfexec 7y ago
> What I wrote does not enjoy the benefit of citations, which I don't have handy. It's something that's uncitable so I don't think anyone holds that against you. It's really a discussion on human nature. I can&#x
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by elfexec 7y ago
> It's not cherrypicked at all. 1980 is an ideal date to refer to. Stop with the strawman. My issue wasn't with the date. It obviously was with the nations you chose. You only selected nations who declined relatively to the US,
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by elfexec 7y ago
> So how far would the US have to fall economically (the base of its military power is its economic output, the ability to tax & fund it), compared to where it was at in 1980 versus other powerful nations, to no longer be considered
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by elfexec 7y ago
Aren't a lot of topics already taboo in science/academia? I'd say cancel culture has been in science for a while now. Afterall it is part of academia. Didn't a female brown university professor's study on transgende
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The US has had plenty of moral lapses in its military adventures, but one suspects that the powers of the past 500 years would have been far more willing to obliterate entire nations without concern for civilians. Simply not true. Ther
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by elfexec 7y ago
> After WWII, the US had confidence in its own system of government, and imposed it on Germany and Japan with a sizable occupation force. Neither Germany or Japan's governments are modeled after the US system of government. https:&
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Its a difference of belief It isn't a matter of belief. It's a matter of history and society. The proles don't have the capacity to do what you claim they can. Individually, a clever prole can rise up, but not collective
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Currently, my simplest definition is "any self-aware organism capable of predicting the future to some degree." Frogs and certainly embryos are not self-aware. > I think we are rapidly getting to the point where we will be
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I prefer to see us pursue technologies that don't require the harvesting of parts from intelligent life, even if we deem that intelligence to be low or embryonic. How do you define "intelligent life"? If frogs and embryo
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Each part of society is trying to maximize for its own good. No. Only the elites are even capable of reasoning about their own good nevermind trying to maximize it. The vast lower class are incapable of even formulating a concept of &q
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by elfexec 7y ago
No. I understand perfectly what "toxic masculinity" and its political/social/cultural agenda is. That's your problem. And sadly for you, more and more people are waking up to it and virtue signaling has a very short
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by elfexec 7y ago
Library data could easily be anonymized, especially for what we are doing looking to do here. We wouldn't even need account info, just information on books ( category, author, etc ) and the dates it was checked out.
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by elfexec 7y ago
Or why not release the data so that we can run queries on it ourselves? I doubt the entire dataset would be larger than a gig. Then we can run queries on top 10 by genres, by authors, by decades, by age group, gender, etc. Whatever we want.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Unfortunately, the two causes the article cites (dissolution of family structure and rise of single male households) are unaddressed. It's unaddressed because it's the journalist class and their kind that has waged a war agai
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by elfexec 7y ago
> we select for what we think is right as a social collective/organism. This is simply not true. Our values are something the elites ( not all necessarily but enough ) bestow or force upon us with either carrots or sticks. Look at a
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by elfexec 7y ago
Do we really want something fundamentally important as the foundations of physics to progress or change quickly? History of science and the philosophy of science has shown that the foundations of sciences progress a little here and a little
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The target here is China. Welcome to the trade war. > They alone are responsible for the largest transfer of wealth the world has ever seen (Trillions $$ in IP theft from western tax payers). The largest transfer of wealth was eithe
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by elfexec 7y ago
> You're making misleading use of language so it's hard to believe you're arguing sincerely. Misleading? I thought I was being straightforward and honest, hence "stolen". > Offering someone compensation for do
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by elfexec 7y ago
Probably not too well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting There are documentaries of wolves and wild dogs hunting large prey by chasing them until the large prey is so exhausted and overheated that it co
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by elfexec 7y ago
> This ignores the fundamental insight of economics that people can cooperate motivated entirely by self interest. How is that a fundamental insight of economics. It's the insight of the smallest group all the way to cities and civi
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by elfexec 7y ago
> From memory, most of these casualties are from landmines that are still planted in South-East Asian countries during the Korean and Vietnam conflict? What is South-East? Did you mean Southeast-East? Korea is an East Asian nation. Vietn
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by elfexec 7y ago
As another commenter pointed out, this seems like dollar stores' competition with deeper pockets just trying to get rid of them. If cities truly cared about their residents'poor diets, they would ban the foods these people are buy

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