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by rjf72 7y ago
I'm sure you'd agree that there would be a substantial amount of support for these protests, and similarly more for any country or executive that would align itself with the protesters. How much support in mainland China do you th
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by rjf72 7y ago
I think you make a great point. From my perspective there are some things that cannot be reasonably proven that people may have different views on. For instance I'm sure you'd agree that social media "platforms" (as well
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by rjf72 7y ago
The original post I was responding to was pondering what would happen if the NBA pulled out. In order to try to predict this it's important to try to accurately characterize how people would behave in response. In the US we ostensibl
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by rjf72 7y ago
That's awesome to hear, but I expect you must see you would be a very small minority. Most people now a days seem to base their worldview not on any system of consistent ethics, but instead on who's being benefited and who's
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by rjf72 7y ago
I'd distinguish between prepping and doomsday types. Prepping can be as simple as having some basic supplies and nonperishable goods such that you're not going to die if, for any reason, you need to survive independently for some
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by rjf72 7y ago
Reverse the situation and imagine how you would feel. Say China was running extensive media in favor of an increasingly China-friendly group within the US equally unpopular with both average US citizens and the US government, but quite popu
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by rjf72 7y ago
We hit "peak university" in 2011. [1] In 2017 there were 1.25 million fewer enrolled students than in 2010. But this [2] is the zinger: in that same time frame, more than 300 new degree granting institutions opened up! It's b
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by rjf72 7y ago
Why would it be hidden away in some settings instead of right in your face with a nice fat button "Change how my videos are recommended..."? Even beyond that though, most online platforms today offer very limited general customi
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by rjf72 7y ago
There's a very simple solution here that avoids any and all bias and hidden agendas: simply make everything transparent. - Users get to create their own profile. For instance in your profile you get to selected whether you would like t
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by rjf72 7y ago
I'm curious why people aren't seeing China as, at least potentially, a very big customer. They have hundreds of millions of people with limited to no internet access, in spite of a rapidly increasing level of national wealth. Thei
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by rjf72 7y ago
When forming opinions on things like this, I think its important to see what happened in context. This [1] is the entire, in context, video of the controversy in question. Unfortunately I've yet to find a complete translated transcript
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Obviously yes it is possible for DDG to determine that result G is "better", and prioritize accordingly. "Better" of course is subjective, but this search is a pretty clear example that they're doing something right
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by rjf72 7y ago
What would you suggest is the minimum evidence necessary to support the view that an ideology promotes violence? - Isolated incidents of violence on behalf of the ideology? - A "sufficiently large" number of incidents on behalf of
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by rjf72 7y ago
Yes, they source their results. This is not the extent of your claims. You were stating that they directly rip from other engines meaning that, in your words, "In order for search results to get better on DDG, they first need to get be
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by rjf72 7y ago
Which keywords? I just searched (as posted above) for "extent space taco secure". It breaks bing. Yahoo returns results that are closer (including some shared oddities like storage units in Nashville), but they're still very
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by rjf72 7y ago
You know there's something weird. You could prove your little hypothesis here wrong in less time than it took you to write it. So why state something that's wrong? I tested this by choosing to search for something completely rando
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by rjf72 7y ago
You literally have NSA whistle-blowers stating, under oath, that these programs are not legal and the NSA is knowingly and purposefully violating the US constitution. [1] That testimony was part of Jewel v NSA [2] which emphasizes what happ
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by rjf72 7y ago
How would that reset their progress? The leaks have revealed that our secret organizations are pretty open (at least among themselves) about parallel construction. For instance this article [1] reveals some slides of the more harmless surve
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by rjf72 7y ago
Apologies on the formatting here. I think citing everything on this topic is absolutely critical since it's absolutely rife with misinformation. Dealing with formatting for extensive citations, alongside quotations of materials (for th
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by rjf72 7y ago
This isn't how IQ tests work. IQ test results are measured relative to a population. In particular 100 is the mean with a standard deviation of 15. So if you score 115 on an IQ test it doesn't mean anything in a vacuum. It means t
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by rjf72 7y ago
Imagine two worlds. In one world all people are completely and absolutely identical and unable to change themselves in any meaningful way. In the other world people are all completely identical, but able to radically reshape themselves as t
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by rjf72 7y ago
Normal BMI values are for adults. Child BMI differs somewhat sharply depending on age and gender. This [1] is a tool from the CDC for measuring the BMI of children. For instance a 9 year old with a BMI of 22.5 (in the middle of the normal r
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by rjf72 7y ago
Miasma theory [1], as you are referencing, was not "obvious advice" - it was the scientific consensus, worldwide, for thousands of years in terms of the propagation of illness. Germ theories had been suggested by numerous people f
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The paper is irrelevant. It's about the discovery. And a person who makes a Nobel-worthy discovery is generally not going to go "Dang, didn't get published. Guess I'll move on." Extreme success tends to involve some
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by rjf72 7y ago
I expect two major components are demographics and a lack of partisanship. What I mean by demographics is that the Chinese political system is a very tall hierarchy. Representatives from each level vote for the one above it going all the wa
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What do you think about things such as room 641A [1]? In short it is one tiny part of the NSA - an NSA office inside of an AT&T building that only NSA "minders" have access to (funny how terminology has such powerful connotati
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Does Osaka have the same school cleaning culture with a meaningfully large number of schools? In particular I know some schools in Japan (not sure what percent) do not even employee janitors because of this culture of cleaning responsibilit
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I'm curious about something. I tend to be quite skeptical, so what is your view on corruption? For instance if I pay you $10 will you say the opposite thing and start supporting an even greater integration of these businesses and perha
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I'm certain that the vast majority of scientists, physicists for certain, do "believe" in extraterrestrial life. Belief makes it sound kind of quirky though. It's essentially a probability measurement. Is it more likely
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This is the text from that article: "Police confirmed that an officer opened fire at a protester, saying he was acting in self-defense. “A large group of rioters was attacking police officers in Tsuen Wan,” police said in a statement.

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