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by simpletone 3y ago
> there is no dispute that Einstein "invented" General Relativity. Just like there is no dispute Newton invented calculus, gutenburg invented the printing press or columbus discovered the americas...
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Reportedly, a lot of people who choose to study psychology are motivated originally to figure out what's going on in their own heads People who go into psychology are more interested in what's going on in other people's
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Can you buy and sell shares tax-free if the cash > security > cash conversions all happen inside the IRA? No taxes on Roth IRAs. Even on distributions/withdrawals at a certain age ( I think it's 58 or 60? ). Roth IRAs a
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Greatness comes from character and character isn’t formed out of smart people—it’s formed out of people who suffered. Or 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them' -- Shakespeare T
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Introducing SIMA: the first generalist AI agent to follow natural-language instructions in a broad range of 3D virtual environments and video games. If it can be done in 3D virtual environments and video games, it shouldn't be muc
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by simpletone 3y ago
No issues. I didn't read it. It was a general remark about your 'idealized view of journalism' rather than about a specific article.
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by simpletone 3y ago
Not only that, don't insurers offer 'discounts' for installing tracking apps on your phones and devices?
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Wow. That's a new low standard for journalism. Whatever happened to keeping opinions and news separate? You seem to have some idealized view of journalism that has never existed. The fact that you linked to the nytimes... > And
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Because no chance in hell is China selling this thing, and Trump is already talking about how much he loves TikTok now. Which is insane because in 2020, Trump was the one trying to ban tiktok and Biden was defending it. Now the script
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by simpletone 3y ago
Good point. I guess plane occupants it is.
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by simpletone 3y ago
> He is widely believed to have memorized the entire international-English Scrabble lexicon, more than 280,000 words Definitely helps. > Nigel extended ZAP to ZAPATEADOS My problem is I try to extend the word rather than create new wo
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by simpletone 3y ago
Plane occupants? Don't we just call them passengers? Did AI write the article?
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by simpletone 3y ago
> It doesn't feel like my Russian comprehension diminished, but speaking it is a struggle. I didn't know you could 'lose' a native language that you grew up with til near adulthood. Maybe speaking has more to do with
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by simpletone 3y ago
> The NYPD actually has 'international offices': I wonder whether the media is going to write hysterical propaganda pieces about this, like they did with chinese 'international offices'. With the media, it's alwa
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by simpletone 3y ago
Nope. Most of mexico, and latin america, is owned by europeans. Just tiny netherlands alone invests and owns more of latin america than china. Always wondered where the dutch get their money. The myth about china's money is entirely th
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Younger people are talking about the pro-palestine / anti-zionist views promoted in the app as a reason that lawmakers are so motivated this time. There are a lot of pro-zionists views promoted on the app as well. But in tiktok&#x
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by simpletone 3y ago
> The Mongols undoubtedly wiped out entire ethnic groups during their conquests. They didn't. I checked. The fact that you write 'undoubtedly wiped out' without being able to name a single ethnic group, language, religion,
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by simpletone 3y ago
> The Romans, Mongols and Aztecs voraciously conquered new lands in search of power and wealth - not of knowledge. The romans conquered greece and nearly adopted ancient greek knowledge and culture wholesale. The mongols were reknown for
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by simpletone 3y ago
> But it wasn't the case that thousands maybe millions of people could be compromised (or spied on by governments) in one go. And? Besides you being hysterical. What happens? > The trend towards online everything, is equivalent t
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by simpletone 3y ago
That's fine and all, but I don't think the ancient greeks knew about DNA, alcohol processing, etc? I always assumed it was the liver because the liver physically grows back. But that is also modern medical knowledge. I'm just
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by simpletone 3y ago
> However its worth pointing out that the 40h work week was considered hugely radical and was “cutting the nose” off of the Ford motor company business when it was introduced. Not only that, the 40 hour work week, child labor laws, etc w
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by simpletone 3y ago
"Hepatocentrism was a medical doctrine that considered the liver the center of the whole human being." Puts a different light on prometheus's punishment. His liver devoured by eagle and then grown back to be devoured again. I
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by simpletone 3y ago
None. That's my point.
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by simpletone 3y ago
> I have to wonder whether there is ever a point that can be reached where people in general realise that any stuff one does online is at risk. Anything you do offline is at risk too. > Private info, finance, cash, sharing of personal
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by simpletone 3y ago
> The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps record of every company in the United States. No. SEC keeps tabs on publicly traded companies, large institutional investors and the like. Hence the 'securities' and 'ex
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Human rights. Particularly freedom of speech. Neither human rights and especially freedom of speech was a product of 'liberal freedom loving democracies'. > That torch passed to the USA in the last century. America is a eu
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by simpletone 3y ago
Now fear of fear of regret will influence our decisions.
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by simpletone 3y ago
> We may criticise our society in this forum and not be arrested by thugs. In the US because we have constitutional freedom of speech. But plenty of people in 'freedom-loving liberal democracies' are arrested for criticizing th
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by simpletone 3y ago
> Has India almost went to war with the US in the last 5 years? No. No. The US threatened nuclear war with india in the last 30 years though. https://thediplomat.com/2018/05/looking-back-the-1998-nuclea... >
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by simpletone 3y ago
> I think that really depends on what theory of copyright you have operating in your society, many European societies have a theory of copyright that is about respecting artist's moral rights to own what they have created. If that w

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