s1k3b8

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by s1k3b8 7y ago
It's also interesting how every thread involving russia, china, etc, someone always comments about trolls but doesn't provide specifics. It seems like a naked attempt at poisoning the well so that one side is prematurely smeared a
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> I did it not for the posted reasons, but just beacuse it felt right to me. It probably felt right because it's natural. Newborns pretty much stayed with their mothers 24/7 for all of human history. This is true for chimps ( o
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
Sure. But diseases do even better when people are concentrated, especially infectious diseases which are the prime targets of vaccines.
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> "Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" In american english, lure has negative connotations - like pedophiles luring children with candy or human traffickers luring vulnerable people with the false
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> charlatan like Musk If Musk was a charlatan, we wouldn't have this problem. Musk would have failed to put spacelink satellites in orbit and we wouldn't have this problem. The reason why we have this problem is precisely becau
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
That's par for the course when it comes to propaganda. It's even worse when it comes to international news. How many times has china "conquered the middle east" or "colonized africa"? A lot more than you think
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
Systems programming concerns the code between hardware and the application programmer. So pretty much kernel programming. Application programming concerns the code between kernel and the ordinary user. Essentially, systems programmers write
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
It's quite eye opening to learn about the origins of the modern education system. The how and the why of the modern school system. Especially the people who brought the public school system from europe to america. They certainly weren&
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> If that’s true, at what point do we stop vaccinating for it? We stop when we have a way to actually cure the disease or we create a society where people aren't living on top of each other. Just like industrial farming requires mas
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> It is already known that white sharks flee whenever one of their own is killed by anything But white sharks fight each other, kill each other and even eat each other on occasion. We know that white sharks fetuses cannibalize each other
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> People seem to forget that democracies are supposed to be for the people. Not for corporations. Not for those in power. Not for the wealthy. That's what we are told. But if you look at actual history of democracy and how it came a
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> We shouldn't regulate speech, but you should own the consequences of your actions -- speech included. This is simply terrifying. Actions should be penalized, not speech. > If you're spreading anti-vax propaganda, you'
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> This would be similar to UN trade sanctions that are imposed on bad state actors. UN sanctions are not imposed on bad state actors. They are imposed on weak state actors. UN sanctions have never been imposed on the US, China, Russia, B
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. The biggest backers of the ridiculous copyright and IP laws are media companies - Disney, News Corp, etc being the most egregious examples. And these companies are only getting bigger as they consolidat
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> Yes there are. What are they?
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> In physics we have a dozen different models of gravity We have general relativity. Newtonian gravity is kept around for legacy's sakes and ease of calculation. Also, there is a difference between "different" models of gr
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
Many years ago, I remember that avast was one of the antivirus software recommended over norton/mcafee/etc. Seems like all the idealistic and "good" tech/software eventually goes bad. Is it money that ultimately cor
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> This comment is just completely nonsensical and intellectually dishonest. I'm sorry you feel that way. Would be interested to find which parts you felt was "nonsensical and intellectually dishonest" so I expand on it and
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> A lot of this article reminded me of the techniques used by climate change deniers to sow doubt. And a lot of climate change advocates' technique reminds me of the religious zealots of the past. Even down to the ad hominems like &
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
There were dozens and dozens of "climate models" which predicted everything from global cooling to a fiery wasteland and everything in between. Of course you could go back and find a model that "predicted" correctly beca
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite scifi short stories - Finis. I won't spoil it here, but it's definitely worth a read.
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
The difference between US and "a lot of European countries" is that we have global financial power and they don't. If the US truly wanted to have a wealth tax, we can make it globally binding for US companies/citizens. M
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> I'm curious what their continued involvement will look like. Page and Brin, combined, are currently the majority shareholders of alphabet. Each controls 27% of the voting power ( 54% combined ). They are still in charge. They just
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by s1k3b8 7y ago
> Problems occur when the spent money is vacuumed up by mega companies that do not invest into the communities they operate in thereby depriving communities of the cash flow they need to survive. Feels like this is where government shoul