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Yup, a lot of engineers here letting their egos be stroked. "Lawyers are bad people unlike me, a noble and rational engineer. If I controlled the government I would do things right…

Money laundering, give the money to a shell company and have them report it as income. Obviously not that simple but that's the basic explanation.

> Communism has no future so long as it's supporters refuse to understand that Marx's magnificent philosophical and political system rejects borgeous human rights. Stalin couldn't …

Glad to know I was a fool for ever joining the military...

From contemporary ethnologists who used the term to refer to the proto-indo-europeans? Because the term aryan is common amongst the languages descended from the proto-indo-european…

Did it have to be written? Who's the hypothetical person who is confused that a 1,500 year old gold disk is older than the Nazi era.

Definitely a manipulative framing on his part. He originally was convicted for MDMA and marijuana, was released on probation and then was convicted for synthetic opioids. He's prob…

I'll add on, he mentions in his blog that he was making "tens of thousands of dollars a week" selling drugs. He was not a small time dealer and certainly wasn't just buying drugs f…

MDMA and weed was his initial sentence. He's in prison now for selling synthetic opioids.

Are you concerned that if you make prison too expensive society might resort to capital punishment to reduce prison costs? Or we end up releasing prisoners who are legitimate dange…

If my employer payed for my housing and food I would not consider it unreasonable that my paycheck reflected that. > Why are they paid Because people have expenses other than food …

> You see this in the data for smoking as well, as smoking decreases, you tend to see caloric intake and obesity rise at the population level. Nicotine is an appetite suppressor so…

Can confirm it's common in the upper Midwest as well. My college apartment was furnished mostly with stuff we got from curbs. Never heard of the police taking issue with it.

Spotify just made the 'brilliant' decision to remove the "Add this song to the playlist" button. Now to add songs that Spotify itself recommends based on the playlist you're listen…

I don't have a strong preference either way but the argument is the scrollbar isn't just for moving your position on the page but also for communicating to the user where they are …

I'd also add to that: - Neural Machine Translation - English as the lingua franca

"By the 1940s, the image without the groom had become the standard version, and it created the enduring visual signs of the strongman leader – when Nigel Farage makes a speech atop…

> Countries with strong secular foundations regularly top global indexes of well-being, prosperity, and social progress. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest…

The Church of Norway became independent of the State in 2017. The Church of Sweden in 2000.

> I can’t wait till we talk about Jesus and God in the same way we talk about Hades and Zeus. > When societies cling too tightly to the faith traditions they’ve inherited—by accide…

> ...Christians get absolutely confused when you tell them that it is amazing how a middle eastern religion took over the entire Europe and the west. Some people even deny that Chr…

> In various texts, including Apocryphal works that date to around the same time as the Gospels proper, Joseph appears to suspect Mary of infidelity. This struck me as a strange st…

Strong atheistic countries like North Korea and China?

The cloud computing market is ~$600B annually. Google has a market share of 12% in it while Amazon sits at 30% and Microsoft at 21%. I'm assuming this is Google trying to stay comp…