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I guess that's one definition of static webpage. My understanding was that static webpages are static. Meaning it has no dynamic content and that everyone accessing the static page…

I respect and admire the risks Musk is willing to take and am amazed that he is able to find financial backers for his projects. But I have to wonder whether the internet connectio…

Why are there so many of these non-news articles from the nytimes lately? "You don’t want a child prodigy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20003367 The latest. "The Surprising…

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You can specialize and play a bunch of things. Pretty much everyone does it. You can be a chess prodigy and still play checkers, monopoly, video games, etc. Using your logic, nobod…

Right. And I'm giving examples of prodigies who made it. My point is that "one size fits all" doesn't work. I'm sure for every Tiger Woods or Serena Williams, there are late bloome…

I know lebron played football. I'm sure he played some baseball and soccer too. Everyone you listed specialized in a particular sport. Specializing in a particular sport doesn't me…

It depends on whether you think non-STEM endeavors like athletic performance or art enriches society. Does michael jordan dunking from the free throw line enrich society? Does moza…

I suspect rising income inequality and increasing housing costs are the primary drivers of CC debt. You generally can't pay rent with a CC and if rent goes up but income doesn't, t…

Sure. But then we won't have mozart or lebron james or turing or messi or most of the olympic athletes, etc. It's a question of breadth vs depth. Specialization vs generalization. …

I suspect more and more funding will go to the Space Force and less and less will go to NASA. Looking at the budgets, it's clear that the military has far more pull in washington t…

Wasn't the "legislative" council filled with appointees and served as an advisory role to the british governor ruling over hong kong? Where is the democracy there. Also china playe…

How juices ( orange, grape, etc ) became a "healthy" is just as ridiculous as cigarettes being "healthy" at one point. Misleading ads via industry and regulator collusion is why we…

So in addition to all your personal ( family/friends/etc ) information, it'll have your spending history as well? So the only thing it needs is your medical history, income/job and…

Previously free? Hong Kong was a colony of britain which ruled with an iron fist and disallowed voting or democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was never free nor democratic until it b…

EU didn't reduce anything. The just shifted a significant part of their emissions to china. Just like they shifted a ton of their plastic and garbage to china. Most of china's emis…

Chimps have been shown to use tools and pass on the knowledge to their offspring. https://phys.org/news/2016-10-wild-chimpanzee-mothers-young-...

I didn't say the US is the most censored country. I just said we have to deal with censorship here too. Once again, you harp on censorship. I'm against it too. But what does that h…

The "US" didn't lose. Nixon lost because he went up against the establishment powers who backed the NYTimes. So the "US" won. The supreme court isn't an "independent judiciary". Th…

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The high percentage of NYT on the internet and especially social media is due to the NYT spending the last few years bullying social media platforms into giving it special treatmen…

Really? Censorship? And here in the US, people are trying to circumvent censorship too. So what? Doesn't mean we are going to side with china over the US. Also, there have been art…

"Storms of our Children"? Were you the same person recommending "2012 end of the world" books a decade ago? Also, "science" hasn't refuted anything I said. I'm the only one who lin…

It's not just the UK. The US, China, Russia, EU, New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc. The first thing you see after a terrorism incident is a controlled government+me…

You can't sanction major economies without hurting yourself. It's why sanctions are used on nations with weak economies. Systematically important economies like the US, EU, China, …