fromMars

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by fromMars 4mo ago
Seems rather depressing to me but maybe I am a Luddite.
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by fromMars 4mo ago
Is it really higher quality? I had a membership for a year and didn't find much I was interested in purchasing food wise, at least.
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by fromMars 6mo ago
It's screens. We don't allow my son to use social media and he is still addicted to using an Ipad. We have to forcefully remove it. He just wants to play games on it constantly. Heck, I am constantly looking at hacker news on my p
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by fromMars 6mo ago
Do you have any sources for this? I know a lot of Jews in the U.S. support Israel, but not sure why they would care about settlements if they don't live there. And if what you say is true, why is Netanyahu still in power? That said I d
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by fromMars 6mo ago
Agree with your post. As a Jewish American, I have been advocating that it would be better for Americans and even Jews if we stop sending money to Israel and put political pressure on Israel to abandon illegal settlements, end the war on Ga
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by fromMars 6mo ago
As a Jew and I don't think that is true at all and feel it is a bit of a dangerous characterization. Jews have just as much scruples as any other groups. What I do think is true is that Jews have more fear of others based on past treat
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by fromMars 6mo ago
As a Jewish American, I don't think it's antisemitic. We really shouldn't be sending any money or weapons to Israel or joining them in any wars. What I do think is a bit antisemitic is the suggestion that Israel is somehow un
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by fromMars 6mo ago
No idea why this is being downvoted. It seems only en-vogue on HN voice outrage about Israel.
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by fromMars 7mo ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by fromMars 7mo ago
There are multiple different conversations which you are referencing there which is making it difficult to respond to your points. On Epstein, I do think the Catholic Church scandal was of a similar magnitude, considering the number of prie
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by fromMars 7mo ago
Thanks for the perspective. It could be that I am being overly sensitive to the discourse around this. As someone who avoids forums where these ideas are promoted, it's hard to know when people are talking about things like "Satan
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by fromMars 7mo ago
I am not trying to rehabilitate Epstein. He was a vile and disgusting sex trafficker, rapist, pedophile, whatever you want to call him. I am all for going after anyone else who can be proven to be involved. He is also dead. I just don'
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by fromMars 7mo ago
Sure, there are tons of conspiracy theories about Nigerian spies... But I'm not sure why it's more likely that Epstein was a Mossad spy over CIA or Russian or any other spy agency. I am not sure what the evidence was that he was a
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by fromMars 7mo ago
Nice spin on what I said. Never "defended" Epstein or claimed what he did was legal, rape, sex trafficking... Nor did I defend "old farts fucking teenagers". What I did do was point out that this behavior seems to be vie
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by fromMars 7mo ago
> The age of consent being this low is to avoid prosecuting 15-20 yo having sex with each other. Not for gross old men to coerce minors into having sex with them. I don't buy this argument. That is addressed by age gap laws which so
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by fromMars 7mo ago
Not shocking that this is downvoted around here. On X and the amount of anti-semitic content this is fueling is scary. As a Jewish person, I can't help feel that the magnitude of the outrage is because Epstein and quite a few of his as
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by fromMars 7mo ago
Shocking this is downvoted with the age of consent being 15 in countries like France.
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by fromMars 7mo ago
The OP also mentioned Epstein, a Jew, and then made the leap that he must have been associated with Mossad.
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by fromMars 7mo ago
The antisemitism is here. Pedophilia is essentially legal in Europe with the age of consent in many countries.
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by fromMars 7mo ago
As far as I am aware, Gates was not knowledgeable of the extent of Epstein's crimes. At the time they met in 2011, Epstein had been convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008. How did he help him and call him a friend?
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by fromMars 7mo ago
There is a lot of hyperbolic vitriol in your post. Saying that Gates "has no qualms in killing children..." is quite a stretch. Using words like "Big Pharma" to make working on vaccines look like something awful is also
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by fromMars 9mo ago
This is a brilliant article and shouldn't be dismissed so quickly. I think the framing is dead on.
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by fromMars 1y ago
Most definitely. Many problems do not have giant datasets and it also depends on what is your task.
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by fromMars 1y ago
I don't why people get so excited about quaternions, like they are some mystical concept. Personally, I think one is better off learning some Differential Geometry and Abstract Algebra to really appreciate the broader context in which
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by fromMars 1y ago
We can't really know for sure. We have the anecdote about the workbook but what about earlier and did he absorb any of his dad's teachings or aptitude by osmosis. Even if we accept he didn't he still went to college and had a
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by fromMars 1y ago
This story is a bit of a misnomer when you look deeper. His dad is a statistics professor and he was mentored by well known mathematician in undergraduate so it's not like he didn't have a lot of schooling.
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by fromMars 1y ago
Exactly, especially in the conditions workers in other countries tolerate. It's the wrong solution to income inequity.
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by fromMars 1y ago
The world is an interdependent eco- system these days. The idea that a country can isolate itself an reproduce expertise that has flourished elsewhere is a bit silly and tilting at windmills. Globalization is a fact of the world today and t
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by fromMars 2y ago
Did you read the book? Some of those are distortions. Regarding the negging incident, she left out important context in her summary of this part of the book. Feynman went to a bar where it was clear that some of the women at that bar were i
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by fromMars 2y ago
When I hear someone's brake's squealing, I try and avoid them at all cost. I've been behind an old car that when it braked, I was coughing for hours afterwards.

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