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by linearrust 2y ago
> 7 / 2 = 3 is similarly nonsense. It's just more familiar. It isn't nonsense. 7/2 represents a real number. You can round a real number up or down. So you can round 3.5 to 3. 7/0 doesn't represent a real nu
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Philippines, the weakest link in the chain of U.S. alliances in Asia. US alliances? Funny how our alliances are with countries that we've nuked, invaded and occupied. Is it aggression or is china trying to liberate these countries
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by linearrust 2y ago
> it's not like they need it. The love of money isn't driven by need. It's driven by want.
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by linearrust 2y ago
It isn't unheard of in the tech world. WhatsApp sold itself for $19 billion in 5 years. A lot of people thought it was outrageous when facebook bought whatsapp for $19 billion. Today, everyone views it as a great investment.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Imagine thinking a 0.5% return on investment is a good use of money What is waymo's valuation? How much has alphabet invested in waymo? $10 billion? What could they sell it off for today? $30 billion? More? What would the ROI be?
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by linearrust 2y ago
Imagine thinking alphabet views waymo as a tax write off.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> But the main reason I'm leaving is because people here are assholes... If I could have one wish it would be for Putin to nuke Warsaw. Good god that escalated quickly.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Tesla is basically a meme stock at this point. A $700 billion market cap 'meme stock'. Don't think so.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Solutions need to be provided for problems Agreed. It's frustrating to solve a problem and being unable to check if it is correct. It's even more frustrating knowing that if you had the answer, it would help you to solve the
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by linearrust 2y ago
> In the US, we have the Committee To End Pay Toilets In America to thank for this state of affairs. We really have amazon to thank. Major book sellers ( Barnes and Nobles, Borders, Waldenbooks, etc ) were a major source of clean bathroo
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by linearrust 2y ago
My condolences.
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by linearrust 2y ago
A throwaway peddling anti-china propaganda in a thread having nothing to do with china? How shocking.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> It was, by all appearances, purely human error — a few bad keystrokes that demonstrated the fragility of a vast set of interconnected networks in which one mistake can cause a cascade of unintended consequences. Cute. It's always
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Note that it's only the US that has an embargo against Cuba. And that's the only embargo that matters. Given a choice between an embargo by the US or embargo by the rest of the world, cuba and every country in the world would
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The well-known linguist John McWhorter argues that Shakespeare's plays should be translated into modern English since they are written in a language that we effectively no longer speak. Shakespeare is modern enough to be understan
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Morality applied to humans wasn't universal either. Yes it was. Always. It's just that morality, being a human invention/illusion, varied from culture to culture and from era to era. Your examples ( slaves, caste system,
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The Erie Canal, and the rest of the entire navigate-able water system is relatively unknown What? It's taught in american schools. Who hasn't hear of the erie canal? > but is a huge huge reason why we have a United States
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by linearrust 2y ago
> No; combining two countably infinite sets doesn't increase the cardinality of the result (because two is finite). Agreed. But pi = 3.14...pi... isn't combing 2 infinite sets. It 'combining' infinite amounts of infin
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Defined as large-bodied terrestrial mammals with a mean adult body mass of 2,200 pounds or more, today’s remaining megaherbivores comprise the likes of elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, and hippopotamuses. Was there difference in hunt
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by linearrust 2y ago
> On our side we have actual polls Our side? What side is that? Israel's side? > on your side you have a bunch of snide remarks and mental gymnastics. If that was the case, you and your buddy/alt account wouldn't be so
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by linearrust 2y ago
Do you and cupertino work in the same office? Both of you are peddling the same talking points. It's the same thing in every israel related thread. All over social media. More american tax dollars at work I suppose. > Pew [1] has a
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The belief that a normal number must eventually contain itself arises from extremely flawed thinking about probability. Yes. There is an issue with the premise as it leads to a contradiction. > Like djkorchi mentioned above, if we k
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by linearrust 2y ago
Okay. I'm wrong. That's why 38 states have made it illegal to boycott israel. We love israel so much that you shouldn't be allowed to boycott it right? But then again, if we loved israel, nobody would boycott israel in the fi
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by linearrust 2y ago
Example of how punctuation can make all the difference... '... and the problem is: The US is supporting Israel and supplying it with weapons. Neither Presidential candidate has any intention of changing that, nor is there majority Cong
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by linearrust 2y ago
> "some countries" is a pretty low bar since many large university campuses probably consume more power than North Korea. You think ASU consumes more power than a nuclear armed nation of 20 million people? You sound like someon
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Pi, if an infinite stream of digits and with the prime characteristic it is normal/random, will, at some point include itself, by chance. What you are essentially saying is that pi = 3.14....pi........... If that was the case, wou
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I almost never want brand/big name sites and the like, but that is mostly what I get. Google is doing the same thing with youtube. Youtube was a place to get away from traditional media, cable tv, etc. That was the point of the &q
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by linearrust 2y ago
You cared enough to respond. People peddling propaganda tend to care a lot.
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by linearrust 2y ago
If there was, your family member's oncologist would have informed your family member of it. Also, keep in mind that this article, like so many such articles, was probably a paid industry advertisement. I'm assuming by this time, e
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I don’t necessarily disagree, but I’ve yet to see a comprehensive elucidation of the kind of propaganda that you’re talking about in any kind of coherent or coordinated sense What? Every major global institution and nation is backing &

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