paidleaf

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by paidleaf 8y ago
> I don't really have the time to be competitively good at any of these games, and the community kinda sucks unless you are competitively good so it's kinda like what's the point? You could play with people on your own lev
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Computer science is a mathematical field. I wish we had labeled the academic discipline Computing Science rather than Computer Science.
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Elon is attempting to maneuver Tesla through a tight operating and financial envelope. He's been attempting that maneuver for more than a decade. > He is doing so with public funding. You mean private funding? Raising money on
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> China is aware of this and they control any maps their citizens will ever see. Everyone is aware of it. Maps have always been political. Maps and borders are political creations. Why is it that whenever a controversial topic comes up,
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Certainly a lot of short sellers ( and bulls ) spreading rumors online, but this seems more like the continuation of the war between elon musk and journalists. There have been a surprising number of hit pieces by a number of news companies
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> [edit: sorry, my mistake: the market cap reported is not actually outstanding shares times price, pointed out below] Actually, market cap is outstanding shares times price. It is a value per company, not per class/type of shares t
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> What makes you think marchenko is not a US citizen? The dead giveaway is "behaviour". > Regardless, my original comment said "Western Culture", not "American Culture". Your original comment referenced &
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> This is of course a value judgement. It's a biological and common sense judgment. > I'm sure many adoptees would disagree with your assessment that their situation is tragic. Ideally ( all things being equal ), adoptees wo
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> By who? "whom". By us? By our culture? By the media? > What data is there? A stereotype is not evidence; Education attainment? Income? Interracial Marriage? Sure a stereotype isn't evidence. But my point is that both
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> This statement is highly uncharitable to your interlocutor above and frankly ignorant of the history of sexual assault prosecutions in the US. Once again, we are talking about western society today, not in history. I already acknowledg
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> What makes you think that? Stereotyping perhaps? Look at the quasi racist stuff this guy wrote. He obviously doesn't like asians for some reason. "Harvard and the other Ivies don't want to keep out asian people. They wan
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Harvard insists this was unbiased, but it's pretty incredible that Asians score so low on these measures and African-Americans so highly. Considering asians are considered "model minorities" and the best "assimilate
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> The outcome is racist but there's no intent to be racist. Then why do college admissions factor in race at all? > Their grades and scores are STELLAR! But the complaint is that their grades and scores aren't stellar. That
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> I am not sure over 300,000 women a year in the US is 'almost no'. We were talking about women getting raped, impregnated and having children unbeknownst to the father. That was the "almost no" I was talking about. &
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> This sort of attitude was even pretty commonly stated in the media only a few decades ago. So not today? A few decades ago? We are talking about western society today, not in the past. > Please retract that accusation of lying and a
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Legal fatherhood is determined by law. Biological fatherhood is determined by science/genetics. Also, adoption isn't a common practice. Adoptions happen, but they are rare. Ideally, legal and biological fatherhood should be one an
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by paidleaf 8y ago
I'd assume it has the same complexity that all scheduling problem have ( like the canonical college classes scheduling that most of us learn about ).
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> even in western society many victims get blamed: No they don't. Which western society? In western society ( US for example ), we presume the alleged victim is telling the truth and the accused is guilty. In western society, we rel
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> People have always played around Most people don't "play around". We have statistic proof about it. > or to be frank, many women have been assaulted and had to keep it quiet I'm pretty sure most of the 23andme cu
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Or the japanese crash of the early 90s, from which japan still hasn't recovered. The nikkei is about 1/3 of what it used to be almost 30 years on.
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> I've been hearing about an incoming correction since 2013 We've have 2 corrections the past 5 years. We even had one in the beginning of this year. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/correction.asp
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by paidleaf 8y ago
You can start with an introductory overview ( Chuck Severance's Internet History on coursera ) and then search the RFCs, books and material afterwards for a more detailed view. The coursera course is great because it covers the interne
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Sad to see that the first 3 comments here are justifying and defending twitter shadow banning republican politicians. That's quite something. I would really love if there was an investigation into why the internet and social media all
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by paidleaf 8y ago
Don't forget too-big-to-fail banks. They got bailed out and now they are even bigger than they were after gobbling up a bunch of mid-level banks the past few years.
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by paidleaf 8y ago
No jail? As an example, if a group of multinationals illegally fix prices and gain $1 billion in extra profits and they get a tax deductible $130 million fine, where is the deterrence?
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> They mention plentiful motivated job applications I'd take anything from an advocacy article with a grain of salt. > how is the market from the perspective of a developer looking to focus on Haskell? Considering the only respon
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> For most of the states, this is not true. It's true for every state. Every state has borders, flags and histories. Every state has state governor, state legislature and state military. > but most states started off as USA-contr
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> I don't know about an LSD trip but I've often wondered what exactly a baby perceives while in the womb or as a newborn. I don't think they "consciously" perceive anything. But "unconsciously", we know
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> Also I suspect that adding together the ascii values of the characters in the key is not necessarily the best hash function. Still better than using the length of the string as your hash value. Not my proudest moment but sometimes, you
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by paidleaf 8y ago
> The parent comment was edited so of course there's no way you could have known, but it had previously equated the WSJ to being no better than "fake news." I didn't realize he said WSJ is fake news. That is a bit hyp

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