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by elfexec 7y ago
> Another way to think about this topic is that China's CEO is Xi Jingpin. He's more like the chairman. He sets the direction that he wants china to go in, others execute his plan. > There are a few distinctions between call
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by elfexec 7y ago
>American cities are not spectacular Beverly Hills isn't a "city". NYC isn't spectacular? > Paris is a big step up. I didn't feel it was a big step up from NYC - especially given the hype that paris has.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> I grew up in a very “red” part of the US and was given a very negative view of the French (or anyone else for that matter). Why make it political? What does "red" have to do with it. American exceptionalism is an national tra
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by elfexec 7y ago
What about the Wangs, Coxes and Butts of the world. That's a significant portion of the population Lyft is shutting out. Also, is it really "the algorithm" or does Lyft just maintain a list of entries of banned names? I know
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by elfexec 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that the language with the fastest growth rate is a major established language like C with a large user base. Fastest growth rates usually come from new languages with hype. A language which grows from 1 user to 10
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by elfexec 7y ago
Newton could be called the first of the new magicians. The idea that some invisible unknown force is acting upon entities far away is rather a magical idea if you think about it. The idea that the position of the moon influences events on e
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Childbirths went down everywhere easter and central Europe Yes, warsaw pact nations and former eastern european soviet nations also suffered. But russia suffered the most since they were the core of the soviet union. > And it is not
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by elfexec 7y ago
> The world is full of “thoughtful” people who have been taken in by frauds - Theranos is a recent example Even more recently, "John Carmack and Amazon's $30 1TB thumb drives" https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Ww2 hit russia harder then west which was hit super hard. I know. Russia suffered greatly in ww2. That's my point. It's why I compared ww2 to the soviet collapse. That's how awful the soviet collapse was for russia. It
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by elfexec 7y ago
There was a great coursera course by Charles Severance ( UMich ) about the history of internet. Along with the technology history, he also had interviews with major players.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> the US appears to be experiencing a kind of “die off” whose only analogue I can think of is post-Soviet Russia. Not even close. Russia's 1990s "die off" was so severe that the current russian population is lower than it
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by elfexec 7y ago
> For those that don't know, bloom filters are really good at determining when something is not in a set. So if says "not in set" that's 100% accurate and super fast. Agreed. It allows for false positives, but disallo
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by elfexec 7y ago
First time seeing two mit submissions on the frontpage on the same day. "Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs (mit.edu)" "The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution" What are the odds?
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by elfexec 7y ago
> This happens MUCH less today than at any time in the past. Really? You know this how? > Only 2 generations ago, stuff like this was happening on a daily basis everywhere in the world. And it magically stopped? > This was basicall
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die... They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure. Told by whom? Oh that's right, the news media. People really need to go look into why the NYTimes,
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by elfexec 7y ago
Money can't buy happiness, but it prevents one of the worst things in the world for people/families - financial stress. I bet financial stress is one of the major causes of divorce/destruction of families, child underdevelopm
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Alternatively stop exporting jobs and outsourcing joining a race to the bottom. Isn't that's just one half of the problem. Isn't the importing of labor the other half of the problem. We've exported jobs and imported
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by elfexec 7y ago
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Well done. Kudos.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> Generational Change I could do without paid PR fluff. "When I started Facebook, one of the reasons I cared about giving people a voice was that I thought it would empower my generation" I'm pretty sure this was not one o
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by elfexec 7y ago
Ah, 90s kids' nostalgia. How fun was it to start a large download before school and then running home to see if the download completed or was interrupted because your mom used the phone during the day? I remember it would take hours up
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by elfexec 7y ago
> What, exactly, are you talking about? I happen to have done a double major (computer science and philosophy) and don't recall any "separate the art from the artist" unit there. You never took a "philosophy of art&qu
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by elfexec 7y ago
> MS has a long history of being a provider of tools and not really competing with partners. MS claim to fame was by providing tools to a partner and directly competing with their partner. "In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develo
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by elfexec 7y ago
There is a difference between a reservist and a psy-ops reservists. But yes, in general, you'd think and hope that reservists of a nation are biased towards their nation at the very least. I'm sure this guy is heavily biased towar
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by elfexec 7y ago
> idk what to do about all this; it's pretty easy for me to pass on rereading Asimov or MZB anyhow. Then you probably can't read any great books, look at any great art, watch any great movie, listen to any great music, laugh wi
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by elfexec 7y ago
I'm reminded of a haiku. "Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave."
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by elfexec 7y ago
Salsa, cheese, sour cream and guacamole can make anything taste good. Is there a better combination out there? Only if guacamole wasn't so expensive. > The lungs, heart, and liver of a sheep boiled, ground, seasoned, mixed with oatm
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by elfexec 7y ago
Haven't we been trying to genetically alter entire species to wipe them out already? I thought the plan was to make mosquitoes genetically sterile or infertile and wipe them out forever? "Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes"
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by elfexec 7y ago
The EIA has a great chart of energy consumption and sources. The "historical primary energy consumption from 1950 through 2018" chart shows you how the US energy sources has grown over the years. https://www.eia.gov&#x2
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by elfexec 7y ago
Another way to visualize it is to view each decade as a chapter. Say that you live to 80, so you have 8 chapters. So if you are 40, half of your book is done.
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by elfexec 7y ago
> - So, how did you learn Vim? I heard there's quite a learning curve. You can go through the interactive vimtutor. Type :help tutor Or you can just type :help and find the link to the vimtutor. If you are using gVim, then it shoul

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