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by hospes 1y ago
Charlie's comments are referencing merit, skill, laws and policies, and are not about one race being superior or inferior. And he was right, affirmative action, DEI and any other race based preferential policies and laws are unconstitu
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by hospes 1y ago
By all reasonable metrics Charlie Kirk was a moderate republican, just like half of the US. Calling everyone that is at your right on the political spectrum "fascist" is intellectually dishonest.
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by hospes 5y ago
>> An uneducated guy bringing on other uneducated guys that talk about something as if they're experts. He often has leading scientists and subject matter experts on his podcasts. >> Joe is an "average dude"… Aver
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by hospes 6y ago
> US passport is great because it allows easy employment access to US tech companies, who pay absurd amounts of money; US companies don't pay absurd amounts of money, companies in other countries are the once that don't pay eno
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Nasdaq pushes diversity requirements for company boards(washingtonpost.com)
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by hospes 6y ago
Azerbaijani dictatorial government turned off their social media so Azeri people do not know what is happening in their country. This politically correct/cautious language is just insane, these are not "clashes with Armenia",
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Sacha Baron Cohen: FB, Google, Twitter 'greatest propaganda machine in history'(theguardian.com)
6 points by hospes 6y ago|0 comments
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There may be no immunity against Covid-19, new Wuhan study suggests(scmp.com)
18 points by hospes 6y ago|2 comments
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Oxford Will “Decolonize” Degrees(thetimes.co.uk)
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Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood(japantimes.co.jp)
197 points by hospes 7y ago|91 comments
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by hospes 7y ago
>> Tatars are really the oldest owner of Crimea and they do not support Russia... Tatars are not the oldest owner of Crimea. 2500 years ago Crimea was a Greek colony, then it was part of a Persian Empire, then Roman Empire, then Byzan
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by hospes 8y ago
Very sad news. "Last Giant" of French song. Aznavour, who was born Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian in Paris to Armenian parents, sold more than 100m records in 80 countries and had about 1,400 songs to his name, including 1,300 he wr
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by hospes 8y ago
>> Gave up the serious pain meds the next day since the side effects (zero attention span) were more annoying than the bit of pain. Next time you can try Ibuprofen + Tylenol, to avoid mentioned side effects. Ibuprofen Plus Acetaminoph
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by hospes 8y ago
>> Self-checkout is all about cutting labor hours, period. That is exactly the case. If you pay 10$ an hour for 3 shifts 8 hours each, this makes 3x8x10 = $240 a day. That is $7200 in 30 days per one checkout spot. To setup equipment
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by hospes 8y ago
>>Absolutely incorrect. The US has deployed laser-based weapons since the early 2000s. Used for missile defense mostly. As you can imagine, they perform well in the vacuum of space. Can you provide an example of a laser weapon(s) that
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by hospes 8y ago
>>What stopped Soviet tanks from rolling into West Berlin? It wasn’t a brigade of huggable teddy bears. The same thing that stops them now, nuclear weapons, huge military and NATO. No one is suggesting to not have defense or to stop s
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by hospes 8y ago
They are already developed. Money is already spent.
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by hospes 8y ago
There are reasons why they gave up the idea of having weapons in space. Weapons in space are very expensive and dangerous. And they can be easily destroyed. Currently there are no serious weapons that can be useful in space.
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by hospes 8y ago
>>The first time someone knocks out one of our GPS satellites, you'll be asking, "why don't we have a Space Force to protect against this sort of thing?" It is extremely unlikely that someone will start knocking do
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by hospes 8y ago
What kind of weapons do they have in space?
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by hospes 8y ago
If government wants to boost space research then it should increase NASA's budget instead of creating "space force". >> There are hundreds of examples of military research boosting tech Increasing military spending to b
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by hospes 8y ago
What is a "space force"? And why we need any kind of weapons in space? There are already enough weapons to destroy every living thing on Earth multiple times, what makes you excited about new military spending?
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by hospes 8y ago
We still can spend money and save 50000 kids, it is not an A OR B problem. There is plenty of money and resources out there to save all kids dying from easily preventable diarrheal diseases. There is no political will to do that.
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by hospes 8y ago
Meanwhile in 8 months in India they have built 648 MW solar plant that costs $679 million [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/gM-0lrIxCnE
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by hospes 8y ago
>> That's a pretty amusing claim given China is a wildly regressive Communist dictatorship. That is true that China is a dictatorship and I am not suggesting that China's system is better than US's. Their dictatorship d
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by hospes 8y ago
In 2017 SF had about 7500 Homeless people, if your numbers are correct (cannot find the source), then it means city spends per homeless person annually somewhere between $40K to $53K, which seems to be insane amount of money.
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by hospes 8y ago
>> It's still unclear whether China will be able to achieve technological parity, but it's quite probable it will overtake the US as the foremost economy this century. China is already #1 by GDP (PPP) with ~$23 trillions [1]
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by hospes 8y ago
There certainly will be some increased demand, but it can be easily controlled by just simply taking top X% of performers, where X% makes as many students as particular university is capable of handling. Even now, when public colleges are n
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by hospes 8y ago
Just to put things into perspective, if pentagon optimizes it's spending and saves $125 Billion, all public colleges can be tuition free and government will still have ~$62 Billion left. [1] Side note: Public colleges can also be made
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by hospes 8y ago
For the reference https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-burie...

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