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> I guess part of the issue is "who decides what is 'contentious'?" You can write "russia is genociding ukrainians". You can write 'china is genociding muslims". That isn't hellish flamewar. G
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> The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users. If that was the case, chinese state media ( where the chinese government actually has direct control over the content )
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Camels as well. The ancestors of camels migrated from america to asia via the bering straits thousands of years ago.
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> Unlike the current Autocratic regimes, like Putin's Russia, or Xi's China, the "Western Worlds" - whatever that means - don't hide or rewrite their History. Sure we do. All the time. > WW2 started in 1939, n
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> Instead, Jaynes claims, these poems originated in the unconscious right hemisphere and were blindly recited by those who could not ignore the metered, schizophrenic prose forced upon them by their bicameral mind. There is nothing &#x27
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> They were fired for blocking a senior executives private office. That must be it. That must be why the media, congress, colleges, etc are all cracking down on protests. Where were they a few years ago when 'peaceful protests'
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> The existence of democracies, especially Taiwan, threatens Xi and the CCP's legitimacy. Has nothing to do with democracy. Taiwan could be a monarchy or communist and nothing changes. It's about national territorial integrity.
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What a difference a few years makes. Top comment here : "Don’t do it at work." Top comment a few years ago : "If you work at Google and you have participated in this protest: Thank you." https://news.ycombinat
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> SV was very lax with this in the past. They just adjusted to how it is normally handled in corporate. What's remarkable is that SV allowed protests against US, china, russia, anyone really. But protest against israeli war crimes i
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> The point is some cultures are clearly not part of Western culture That's my point. No culture belongs to 'western culture' because there is no such thing as 'western culture' or western civilization. > So i
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> The myth is not in 2nd chances; our ability to adapt is sometimes hard but doable - ex: 1st time immigrants searching for the American dream. Isn't that an example of a 2nd chance? A person fails in his own country and gets anothe
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It's been like that for a while now. News and political subs are the absolute worst. Those subs and mods coordinate with news companies and political parties. Sports, movies, music and other commercial subs are just advertisment platfo
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> There were certainly interactions going on between cultures in Europe and the Middle East in ancient times Sure. > and Greek culture was certainly influenced by Egyptian, Mesopotamian Persian cultures (which are often not considered
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> England was part of the Roman world just a few hundred years before the period in question. England was never part of the roman world. It was the collapse of the roman world that allowed the anglo-saxons to settle and create england. E
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Now it's 1st and infinity. We haven't made any progress. We can do better. Flag on the play. Pass interference in the endzone. Defense, number 74. Ball will be placed at the 1 yard line. 1st and goal. Now we are getting somewhere.
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> I totally agree that there is no hard and fast line between Western and non-Western cultures There is no line because there is no western culture, civilization, values, anything. It's a political term invented for superficial poli
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No blinking neon text that could send a blind man into an uncontrolled violent seizure?
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Given his trajectory, probably was busy in the lab and about to find the cure for cancer. Then lunch happened.
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> Listen I don't like the ring of it either but we need less engineers building adtech and more engineers building drones and bombs. The US is the largest weapons manufacturer already with the largest military-industrial complex. Ho
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> Such laws should be seen as barbaric by future governments. Only because future governments will have far better methods of surveillance and population control.
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> If TikTok is just a business, like ByteDance insists, any business would rather get something than nothing. So ByteDance would sell. Using that logic, facebook, google, etc are not businesses either since they chose to be banned from c
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> Of course factory farming is an aggravating factor for the spread of diseases. Modern industrial farming has been the greatest source of limiting disease, parasites and sickness. Before modern industrial farming, human life was rife wi
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> A few centuries ago, philosophy was a knowledge. It's still the love of knowledge to this day. > Now that sciences and technology rule the knowledge field, philosophy's enthusiasts just claim that philosophy helps learning
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And the media will provide cover by calling it the tiktok bill to distract the people from the $60 billion given to ukraine and $26 billion given to israel. Wonderful isn't it?
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> My comment was in response to someone who was an order of magnitude off on price and time. I agreed with you there. That commenter exaggerated the costs. My response was directed to the 'first class' portion of your comment.
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Biden signs bill into law giving $60 billion to ukraine and $26 billion to israel. Isn't that what the bill actually does. The tiktok part is just legal distraction as it punts the tiktok issue to the next administration.
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We are well into that era already. Nvidia tried to buy ARM from softbank but was blocked by regulators a few years ago. It's amazing that a company known for video game graphics cards is now a $2 trillion company. Nvidia's market
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> It takes just over 3 days to travel from the Bay Area to NYC. The price is $281 [1]. How many days does it take to fly from SF to NYC? > Now if you throw in some rooms, you are talking about first-class travel that includes all meal