prmths

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by prmths 8y ago
> It only takes 3 votes for a new story to get on the front page. That's not true because I've seen posts with far more than 3 languish in the "new" section. > It drops off pretty quickly if it gets no more votes o
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by prmths 8y ago
> but never with any support for the claim. Because it's well known and established. http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/16/israel-wont-stop-spying-u... http://www.spiegel.de/international
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by prmths 8y ago
> The Russians and Chinese manipulate the American public every day all day So does our media, government agencies, NGOs, Canada, Britain, Israel and many european nations. But lets scapegoat the russians and the chinese. > How do you
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by prmths 8y ago
What makes you think they don't do that? Of course they do that. They even send chinese women to seduce lonely pathetic FBI/CIA/etc officials to get information. There was a huge story about it a few years ago. But everyone d
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by prmths 8y ago
> I've always admired Canadian culture/values What is canadian culture? What are canadian values? I've never heard anyone mention canadian culture or values before. > would love to live in Canada one day. You are one of
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by prmths 8y ago
Exactly. Exceptions prove the rule. But this applies to everything, not just databases. Never write your own OS, unless you are faced with an exception where you have to. If you have a special case where RDBMs can't fill your need, the
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by prmths 8y ago
SCMP was founded as a pro-british propaganda newspaper in the early 20th century and has pretty much remained so while switching owners ( rupert murdoch then robert kuok ). SCMP's claim to fame is coining and popularing the propaganda
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by prmths 8y ago
Just like sql and regular expressions. You work hard to get it to work and then forget about it.
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by prmths 8y ago
One of the top stories on HN right now. "Health dangers of sleep deprivation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954079 And then we have this. Do journalists get together to troll their readers with clickbait?
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by prmths 8y ago
> All of their products, while undoubtedly groundbreaking But that's not true. None of their products are groundbreaking. It's all decades old battery tech. What was revolutionary was musk's ability to brand old tech as ne
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by prmths 8y ago
> Not to worry just yet as AI still hasn't been realized. AI has been realized. We have tons of AI in every facet of industry from the car to the food to gaming industry. AI is everywhere. > Real AI will allow machines to spawn o
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by prmths 8y ago
> I really hope Gates gets nominated for a Nobel Prize. He deserves it. For creating a monopoly and setting back computer science and computing by decades? For sheltering his billions from taxes in a family controlled charity? It's