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by linearrust 2y ago
> '“It felt like the right thing to do here,” Caceres told WIRED at the time. “If they don’t see we have teeth, it’s just going to keep coming.”' Ask yourself. Do 'hackers' talk like this or military/government e
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by linearrust 2y ago
Horses were domesticated thousands of years prior to the development of agriculture.
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> Alexis de Tocqueville noted in the 1840s that slave-holding America was much poorer than non-slave-holding America That's because the north, in particular new england, started industrializing in the late 1700s. While the south, du
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Industrialization is what brought prosperity to the masses. Industrialization brought prosperity to the elites, just like colonialism and slavery did. You act like the poor masses were the biggest beneficiaries of industrialization. Mo
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> What has happened to people that even on HN a good number of the comments here are sympathetic towards harassing academics because they say something you don't agree with? Where is your paranoia coming from? I'm not seeing an
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by linearrust 2y ago
> But the subtler truth seems to be that finances, family, and social fitness are three prongs in a happiness trinity. They rise together and fall together. I don't think all three necessarily rise and fall together. You can be filt
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by linearrust 2y ago
> It’s not hard to understand the spirit of his question. Agreed. That's why I answered as I did. > If your answer is none, that’s great, I think the follow up sermon was unnecessary. You proved it was necessary. Might want to lo
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by linearrust 2y ago
> basically what would your ideal job be Easy. A nonexistent one. If you didn't need money, why would you be seeking a job? > would you contribute towards making society more rational, healthy, and well-coordinated? How does a jo
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Also, seems like they picked the wrong target since they basically had nothing to pressure the prosecutor with, Makes you wonder what dirt they have on our politicians. The republican party acts like they work for the israeli governmen
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You aren't american. It's been established many times here by many people. What 'we' are you referring to?
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by linearrust 2y ago
> why would US let ByteDance reap billions of dollars in profit from US market when Google and Facebook are not allowed to participate in Chinese market and reap profits as well? Google and facebook are allowed to participate in the chin
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by linearrust 2y ago
> That, to me, doesn't "look like industrial espionage", but rather is pretty clear cut. If the article is to be believed, it's two chinese co-workers who transferred to canada and started two competing firms in canad
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I am a China hawk. You are also 'american' too right? > But nothing here implicates the CCP. Yet you wrote: "He stole anti-drone technology from a Canadian company and gave it to China." > One, their ethnicit
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by linearrust 2y ago
> So yes, Samsung will do these things and is open about it in places where most people including government don't understand the importance or care about privacy. Why would samsung bother with the warning where the government doesn
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> TL; DR Founder appears to be a serial liar per court decisions in China and Canada. He stole anti-drone technology from a Canadian company and gave it to China. You never stop with the anti-china propaganda. 'The two met when work
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by linearrust 2y ago
> That was the point of my post. My parents’ generation would and mine won’t. And the point of my post is that it's a lie. That parents are parents no matter when or where. > I don’t know anyone I grew up with who would have been
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by linearrust 2y ago
> In America, they'd be kicked out of home as soon as they turned 16. This is a lie. Are you american? I've never met a single person who was kicked out at 16. This include kids who were drug addicts, high school drop outs, pre
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Yea, but the acceptability of adult children living at home with their parents has really changed since when I grew up. For nearly all of american history, children ( adult or not ) stayed at home with their parents until they got marr
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by linearrust 2y ago
> I really don't think you read my comment in good faith Because your comment wasn't written in good faith but driven by agenda. > By "meant by", I really meant "evolved for" What fruits, plants, animals,
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Nope, sorry, personal anecdotes are not evidence no matter how many times you repeat them across multiple threads You wrote : "I definitely did meet progressives who thought vaccines were dangerous, but I met many more conservativ
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> Isn't there also a real risk of catching tuberculosis via raw milk consumption as well? Just like there is a 'real risk' of catching parasites from eating plants. Or any foodborn illness from any food really. > but it
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> Combined with the text "Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause." Another example of Elon's bullshit. Fertility rate isn't determined by how many children men have but by how many children women have. Sure his
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by linearrust 2y ago
The UN was created when india was a subservient colony of britain. When veto powers were being given out, india didn't exist as an independent country. That's why the UK has veto power while india doesn't. There definitely ne
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> and will likely never be a part of the People's Republic of China. What's your definition of 'likely'? That taiwan will be a part of the mainland is pretty much a certainty. It's demography, geography and econo
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ICQ was the primary tool for my friends and I to play games online ( quake, doom, starcraft, etc ). Not only with each other but people all around the world. Every time we joined a server our list of icq friends kept increasing. I still rem
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You beat me to it. As soon as I read the title, I heard it in my mind.
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We just had this same story yesterday. 'ASML and TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426843 Besides, who really cares? China isn't going to invade ta
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by linearrust 2y ago
What does this post have to do with china? Are you just going to post anti-china comments with your account?
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by linearrust 2y ago
> Political unity has only ever been achieved at a point where the severity of outside pressures forced a group of people together. Political unity generally comes from 'within' not from 'without'. A group of elites o
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It generally means the mods find it interesting but not necessarily the community. The frontpage isn't a popularity contest. The frontpage is curated and moderated. Dang himself said certainly articles get boosted while others get thro

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