germanlee

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by germanlee 7y ago
Why don't they just support the growth of their own homegrown "WhatsApp"? With government support and financial support, india could easily have an indian "whatsapp". WhatsApp isn't technological sophisticated.
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by germanlee 7y ago
I told you why your assumptions were false. And please don't use philosophical and logical concepts you clearly don't understand. > To give an example, if news A presents a factual statement, and news B presents a lie that cont
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by germanlee 7y ago
You forgot other Pulitzer Prize gems. Pulitzer Prize winning news source : Nayirah, Yellow cake, assad syria chemical attack, Trump working for Putin conspiracy. But then again, Pulitzer was the founder of yellow journalism, the original fa
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by germanlee 7y ago
There is a difference between bad science and "not being a science" ( aka pseudoscience ). The difference is that in one you can formulate replicable science. In the other, by its nature, you can't. Because on deals with &quo
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by germanlee 7y ago
1. I didn't say all news sources are "equally biased". Saying all news sources are biased is not the same as saying equally biased. Some are obvious more biased and more propagandistic than others. But without a doubt, every
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by germanlee 7y ago
It's in a replication crisis because pretty much none of it is science ( no replicable testing possible - hypothesis, experiment, theory ). It's why Richard Feynmann associated social science with pseudoscience. https:/&#x2F
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by germanlee 7y ago
HTTP is the Web. HTML is just the superficial face of the web.
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by germanlee 7y ago
Rather than being an honest game to reduce "disinformation", this game is simply defending mainstream media. It's message is essentially "trust mainstream media". Not that shocking coming from cambridge considering
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by germanlee 7y ago
It's called propaganda. Go back 4 or 5 years ago. The NYTimes, Bloomberg, WSJ, etc all ran the same stories back then. The comments were the same. Usually some "expat" living there giving his "expert" propaganda or
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by germanlee 7y ago
I didn't say HN was "all tech oriented". Please stop misquoting me. I said "There was a time when reddit, HN, digg, etc were all tech oriented. Meaning "HN was tech oriented", "reddit was tech oriented&quo
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by germanlee 7y ago
I suggest you read 1984 critically instead of repeating the nonsense you were told. Which "news organization" in 1984 was punished for reporting on topics that made the state look bad? Did you even read the book? The point of 1984
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by germanlee 7y ago
There was a time when reddit, HN, digg, etc were all tech oriented. The problem is that once a platform gets slightly popular, journalists, NGOs, PR, foreign actors, think tanks, etc sneak in and push their wares ( sometimes with the help o
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by germanlee 7y ago
Newspapers aren't competing with google or facebook. No more than newspapers were competing against news stands. Newspapers are competing against each other and those that have the power to force google and facebook to give it preferen
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by germanlee 7y ago
WSJ didn't break the story. Other people broke the story. That story was "broken" on forums all over the internet. A WSJ journalist just collated the story and wrote a book about it. And keep in mind the WSJ journalist who br
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by germanlee 7y ago
It wasn't a book about prophecy. It was a book on his present. He just set it in the future since he couldn't afford to tick off the censors in britain. 1984 was inspired by his work as a propagandist for the BBC Eastern Service d
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by germanlee 7y ago
I didn't credit them with creating the world. I credited them with creating society, culture, etc. It isn't really a matter of debate. It's well understood the elites create societies and the institutions underlying them. The
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by germanlee 7y ago
Feminism is a symptom rather than the cause. The cause is the commoditization of humans into productivity and consumption units in a post-industrial environment where the state and corporations dominate. Corporations want to extract every b
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by germanlee 7y ago
"All Companies Are in the Tech Business Now" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-08/all-co... "Every Company Is Now a Tech Company" https://www.wsj.com/artic
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by germanlee 7y ago
If I remember correctly, the runtime keeps size of the array in the header of the object along with sync block, etc. If you have VS, you can view the object in memory to see the sync block value, array size value, etc.
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by germanlee 7y ago
How could peak democracy be ww2? The only significant democracy in ww2 was the US. British Empire, Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, China, etc were not democracies. There was the US and everyone else was a non-democratic empire or a colony of
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by germanlee 7y ago
Warren Buffet had an interesting take on "being rich". He defined it as being able to withstand economic, medical, etc catastrophe and still being able to maintain your standard of living and be able to rebuild your wealth in a re