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by linearrust 2y ago
Probably a legacy of primitive humans only being able to count to 2. Such limitations are reflected in our language. Hence why we have 'half' rather than 'twoth'. You can think more about that the week after.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> how can one differentiate between burnout and being done with the field? Money. If you are financially independent, you are done with the field. If you are financially dependent, you are burnt out.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Was about to type out a comment defending China Right. You spewed standard anti-china propaganda in your other comment and yet we are to believe you were going to 'defend china'. Good one.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Well that one's quite easy. It currently has: My comment already addressed that: '... Credit both? Credit neither since neither discovered the concept of 'the limit'.' Neither newton nor leibniz discovered what
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Someone flagged what I thought was a good comment so I couldn’t respond to it unfortunately. The best and the worst comments tend to be flagged. Not sure why we aren't allowed to continue the discussion within 'flagged'
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by linearrust 2y ago
It isn't a matter of keeping people happy. It's that 'facts' and 'truth' aren't as obvious and straightforward as people believe. Take something as innocuous as calculus. Who discovered it? British say new
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by linearrust 2y ago
> If you want more than 2 kids it’s rarely feasible in USA What? Anyone can do so if they wanted. There are plenty of people with 3+ kids in america. > but not an issue for Europe. And yet much of europe has a lower fertility rate. &g
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by linearrust 2y ago
Stanford isn't an ivy league school.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The problem isn't that we had nothing to do, but that we had to pretend to do something. We couldn't just stay home. We had to show up every day and waste 8 hours at our desk before going home. Why slashdot, digg, reddit, hn,
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by linearrust 2y ago
> A quick keyword search on the phrase easily refutes the supposition you're making here. You don't have to do a quick keyword search. The 'ethical journalism' the guy referred to in this comment thread is a US govern
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by linearrust 2y ago
What a bizarre response. But not unexpected.
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by linearrust 2y ago
Never heard of him. What is he selling that you can't get enough of him?
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by linearrust 2y ago
That only works for now because we are so close to 2000. So there is little ambiguity whether "the 2000s" refer to the century or the decade. But in the future, "the 2000s" will refer to the century. Just like the 1900s
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by linearrust 2y ago
> A good NYC bodega is as stacked as a 7-11 in Tokyo. No. And it isn't as clean, orderly and organized either.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Every annonymized communication strategy that touches state owned isp as endpoint is bound to fail. What major ISP isn't state 'owned'? > which is why starlink is such a game changer. That has got to be one of the mos
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The Irrawaddy does detailed and ethical journalism about Burma/Myanmar, a part of the world ruled by an authoritarian regime. Why does it feel like every time someone promotes 'ethical journalism' here, it's always
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by linearrust 2y ago
If AI is good enough to teach math, why not have the AI 'do the math' instead? At a certain point, wouldn't we have to ask whether it makes any economic sense to teach math to the masses? If AI is good enough to teach people
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I'm going to assume you don't travel much cause on our side of the pound we can very much speak out loud of many things the US can't. Pound? What country are you from? Why are people so sneaky? Hiding behind 'the we
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by linearrust 2y ago
> No one is claiming that "lonely conspiracy theorists living in their mom's basements are secretly controlling the world." The article and the study is. > But it is obvious that some conspiracy theories such as replace
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Distribution of porn is illegal there and they do their best to block it from outside. Good. Why should any country be a conduit for porn? Most sane countries frown upon and limit things like porn, gambling, drugs, etc. Like we used to
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The question I ask with these studies is "what is a conspiracy?" Everyone here seems to be missing the 'essence' of the study and article. Do these conspiracy theorists influence global pandemic policy? Do flat eart
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by linearrust 2y ago
> The copy once held by the University of Virginia, Poe’s not-quite alma mater, was stolen in 1973 from the McGregor Room vault in Alderman Library. If it is never recovered, an unfortunate possibility, the number of known copies drops t
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Conspiracy theories undermined global efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus during the pandemic What? Which ones? Undermined how? > and were used in the lead-up to the January 6, 2021, raid on the Capitol. I thought a major politica
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by linearrust 2y ago
Everyone works hard. Everyone doesn't win. Hard work may be a necessary condition. But it isn't sufficient.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> If Assange showed any interest in also undermining Russia or other authoritarian regimes I would feel more compassion But russia is a democracy... > States have secrets its just the nature of the world. That's an anti-democrat
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by linearrust 2y ago
> So smooth they apparently opt to blow red lights instead of stopping abruptly. Surprised traffic lights aren't updated to communicate with cars directly. Why not have traffic lights broadcast 'stop' message along with tu
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by linearrust 2y ago
Considering bell's experiment proved bohr right and einstein wrong... Einstein was wrong about the most fundamental aspect of physics of the 20th century. Also, einstein's papers weren't as 'pivotal' as the media le
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Most of the independence stories are complete B.S. Not most. All. Including ours. All independence stories are nonsense if you bother to think about it. > They were enabled by the US to kick out the Europeans out of their colonies.
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I think the most enduring mystery of #Vannevar Bush is why his name is no longer a household one today, in the way that Edison's is or that we have every reason to expect Musk's to be 80 years from now. For the same reason ne
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by linearrust 2y ago
> He wanted to end slavery not to benefit blacks (he wanted to build a railroad to send black people to South America), but to benefit poorer whites. Interesting. Abraham Lincoln also wanted to expel blacks. Lincoln was a member of the

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