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by morby 3mo ago
People always mention the direct foreign aid but fail to mention all the other money flows. They receive many times more money each year in private investment and open trade agreements. I believe the figure is close to 90-100 billion USD ea
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by morby 3mo ago
Not true. Israel has a reputation for being exceedingly intrusive and aggresssive with US personnel. Just go watch intel community interviews online.
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by morby 9mo ago
This isn’t being realistic. The major benefit of these is peer review. You aren’t going to have enough people to peer review the work of a massively open and public publication system. On top of that the chance of finding something as you s
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by morby 10mo ago
“You could always make an argument” and people did. And I would say this isn’t a surprising finding but it is important. Assessing direct impact almost always is because it makes realities more plain.
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by morby 10mo ago
Healthcare isn’t a sector of the economy? Since when? If you hate the way they pay immigrants look at the laws of the country don’t hear the immigrants. Doing the latter is the mark of ignorance.
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by morby 2y ago
I wouldn’t say linear algebra is a necessity to being a computer scientist. At least, not the full linear algebra content. Knowing matrix math is enough.
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by morby 2y ago
You seem very confused by this in your comments. Did you read the article? The Swiss government was found to be out of line with its own policies and laws.
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by morby 2y ago
Since when is the legal system was outside of democracy?
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by morby 2y ago
It’s a multi generational issue. It’s not a question of fair when the repercussions for not addressing it are massive. Younger generations know this. It’s too bad older generations did nothing to address the issues they saw in front of them
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by morby 3y ago
I can see people using AI for setting up simple solutions. But AI, as it currently is, is dependent on human innovation to be able to generate results. Any novel problem will need human minds. On top of this AI is currently horrendous at co
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by morby 3y ago
That rules quote does not apply in the slightest. Perhaps I was glib about it, but I replied directly to the message at hand. He questioned the validity of studying a (massive) historical event (it “changes nothing”, much like studying a lo
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by morby 3y ago
Well why study history at all? Nothing in it has any more impact on us, no? Why try to determine who murdered a person even if it was decades later and the killer might be alive? It doesn’t matter anymore right? I’m not in the conspiracy th
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by morby 3y ago
It’s an amazing bit of history. Leaders of major powers have regularly been assassinated in history. Here the leader of a globally hegemonic nation was assassinated on camera.
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by morby 3y ago
To add to that. The author details how this new detail subsequently alters the version of events. Namely it suggests that the bullet that hit JFK in the back and hit Connally were two different bullets and that they could not have been fire
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by morby 3y ago
I would probably add some major points to this synopsis. The bullet was believed to have been on Connally’s stretcher. It is the “magic bullet”. The pristine bullet that was supposed to have hit JFK and Connally both. The assumption here is
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New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory(vanityfair.com)
291 points by morby 3y ago|370 comments
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by morby 3y ago
Aren’t regular expressions the abstraction to state machines? They all get converted to a DFA or NFA, no?
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by morby 3y ago
I would be comfortable calling HTML and SQL both DSLs. Given the scope of their use.
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by morby 3y ago
The vast majority of those countries have large inequality gaps. The only ones that don’t are listed under countries that have higher rates of home ownership I’m not even about to begin to touch the notion that home ownership, which has bee
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by morby 3y ago
I’m not entirely sure your point here maybe you can explain
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by morby 3y ago
Market is a term that can be used to describe “an area or arena in which commercial dealings are conducted” You can absolutely refer to the US economic market or African market and the participants there in. If not I would love a reference
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by morby 3y ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-... https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/1... https://www.epi.org/publication&
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by morby 3y ago
Regards your edit. I don’t have magical numbers to give you. I’m curious if you think that makes me wrong. But what I would like to see is a ratio where workers can buy a home, have a family, have some level of leisure, and be able to affo
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by morby 3y ago
So now we’ve moved to comparing CEOs in different industries? Your own post compares executives to workers and workers to African workers. The post here talks about CEOs making vast additional sums while workers are getting pinched. Why are
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by morby 3y ago
In fact it’s incredibly ironic considering the same people being addressed here, I.e. executives are major contributors to the exploitation of workers in the developing world. It’s the general population that has to learn about then address
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by morby 3y ago
What’s arbitrary is your choice of argument. You completely reject my point with a hand wave and make this a comparison between developed and under developed/developing nations Your point of saying the question is between if someone m
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by morby 3y ago
You’re comparing workers in two vastly different markets to workers in the same market. In the US, wages for one class of employee have exploded as wages for the rest have stagnated.
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by morby 3y ago
I think this is inaccurate. Complaints about CEO wages are made from positions that perceive their pay has stagnated and is therefore not compensatory. The facts about wage growth bare this out to be true. When you have executives and C sui
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by morby 3y ago
Well to offer the other side. What if they don’t know you have these things readily available?
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by morby 3y ago
I generally agree. A lot of contradictory statements and I would only add to that. I feel like people tend to pigeonhole each region in the US, the US itself, and indeed any other country into what “people act like”. There might be a common

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