maga_2020

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Aids Prevention. Less Than Half Went to Medical Supplies and Health Workers(web.archive.org)
4 points by maga_2020 1y ago|0 comments
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by maga_2020 1y ago
>If one accepts that the talent gene is randomly sprinkled around the planet, it seems obvious that the region where the majority of humans exist should be the epicenter of dynamism. It was true in the pre-industrialized world, with Chin
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by maga_2020 1y ago
I also agree with your sentiment. Excel is coding for people who are not programmers. But I think the author conflates 1) engineering practices 2) Programming 3) Expressing domain knowledge using tables, charts and numbers Most excel user
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by maga_2020 1y ago
original poster here. I read this site as a 'permabear' for financial news. A contrarian. Meaning that they help to filter out what's bushtit in a bullish sentiment. But I would not use them to guide me for what to invest in
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by maga_2020 1y ago
A thing about strategies, if it is good (even for a particular set of circumstances), if it is leveraged by other traders, it become less impactful if my strategy is good, could you confirm that it will not be copied by anybody? (not that I
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by maga_2020 1y ago
Not sure that the arguments are reasonable. This 3rd-level-derivative blaming Microsoft for innocent causalities in the war against terrorism... may work for some people, but certainly would not work for many OSS developers. Using this 3rd-
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by maga_2020 2y ago
I would like to have a substitative discussion of how to validate the claims that DOGE is not saving as much as they claim. Should I trust the Intercept's article [1] that New York times is referring to? I guess a larger point is that
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by maga_2020 2y ago
> This is all very basic, can someone explain what I'm missing here? Why people are pushing for this thing that doesn't make sense whatsoever? So do the analysis from another point of view. https://x.com/zerohed
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by maga_2020 2y ago
No, it is not a single thing that drove US citizen to give Trump unprecedented mandate to fix the country. It is: 1. the selective outrage judicial system that corrupted the trust in the process , the judges and the prosecutors. Not only t
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by maga_2020 2y ago
I am sure there are multiple views on this. Some I had read: " Federal law prohibits paying people to vote, rewarding them to cast a vote, or even for registering to vote — however, compensating people for signing petitions or convinci
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by maga_2020 2y ago
I keep thinking that these kinds of sites, e.g readthedocs.org should be LLMized. It is certainly easier and more efficient to browse through them via an LLM prompt, rather than the old search box.
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by maga_2020 2y ago
>"But much of his rhetoric on politics has trended rightward. In July, Zuckerberg praised the former president for how he handled the shooting at his rally, saying it’s why “a lot of people like the guy.” In the August letter to Jor
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by maga_2020 2y ago
Not just hedge funds. Congressional democrats, and i am sure republicans too can outperform S&P 500 -- >" An exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the stock trades of Democratic members of Congress has been outperforming the S&
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by maga_2020 2y ago
Not sure why my post was flagged here.. .but My counter answer to yours is: -- I suspect that many of the people in some public / high-net-worth / high-visibility positions that support Trump, actually share most of his views (on
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by maga_2020 2y ago
Seems like the Biden alternative being propped on all the left-leaning search engines. So most likely the Clinton/Obama machine chose Whitmer to replace Biden in the last minute.
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by maga_2020 2y ago
they should not do that because Meta is not a platform for constitutionally-allowed free speech, instead, they are a platform for selective filtering. So let them stay that way. It is good to have the moral clarity of what they do, enforced
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by maga_2020 2y ago
I am guessing, it is same original source that Finnucane had about Hunter Biden's laptop being a 'russian plant'.
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by maga_2020 2y ago
Waste is a huge problem, clearly human made, clearly responsibility to address in every current generation. Cost of products sold must include recycling and waste management costs. Otherwise, the manufactures will keep making devices/i
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by maga_2020 2y ago
Dan's text explaining the presentation https://overreacted.io/the-two-reacts/
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by maga_2020 2y ago
Try MS robotic automation (they may have a cheap / free account) https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/process-invoi...
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by maga_2020 2y ago
We live in the time when there is sharp decline in trust of public institutions and academia. What is considered 'safe' to use, or 'unsafe' -- is debated at the level of a layman (a person without specialized knowledge i
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Up Phone the Privacy Smartphone(unplugged.com)
3 points by maga_2020 2y ago|0 comments
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by maga_2020 2y ago
Famous quote by Benjamin Franklin (from 1755) : “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” ... "... Franklin was thus complaining of the choice facing the legi
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by maga_2020 3y ago
A hear-say: it has typical liberal-city corruption and crime issues, and, of course, with a very high cost of living in safer neighborhoods. Better for taxes if you are ultra-rich, but otherwise you will be commuting 1.5 hours into an offic
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by maga_2020 3y ago
Since you lived in other places, can you comment/compare on judicial system (level of corruption to get things approve, to have contract-related case litigated, medical malpractice issues, etc). Also schools for children (cases of bul
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by maga_2020 3y ago
>it's really crazy how wasteful we're being with electronics in general. Indeed. from non-replaceable batteries, to weak headphone and charging port connections, to breaking cables, to mobile phone OSes. Most of consumer-orient
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by maga_2020 3y ago
You hire consultants. You paid them a million, you also made a million on the product they produced that year. So they were not really 'researchers', working out on unknown with high risk probabilities, instead they were building
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by maga_2020 3y ago
Not an accountant But I think, they are thinking that software devs should be consultants ( unless they are researches doing something very risky, something that may not work (from technical not business sense)) This way, they are an expens
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by maga_2020 3y ago
I posted it here, just to show how bad, incompetent, and corrupt these authorities can be, together with promoters. These contestants are essentially earning themselves, real, long-lasting damaging disabilities. The head of Nevada State Ath
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by maga_2020 3y ago
>"Study author Dr John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, said: “Not only do antidepressants not reduce suicidality, but they also actually increase it for many, and for some they provide the me

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