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I agree that societal instability stem from problems within the elites, but not sure it's due to 'elite overproduction' necessarily. I think it has more to do with divergence of in…

> I think you're really fundamentally misunderstanding treatment modalities that allow people to be better, because you're conflating having an injury with weakness. I don't think …

Owners ( of assets ) have been making a killing. Pretty much any kind of asset - stocks, real estate, collectibles, crypto, etc. Of course the more you own, the better you did. So …

"That we allowed the proliferation of emotional support animals in the first place tells us a lot about the evolving nature of the civil rights industry...A network of trial lawyer…

You claimed that the iranian state existed independently since 1500s. I proved you wrong. > the continuation of the territorial integrity of Iran "The treaty confirmed the ceding a…

Would have been a hilarious entry in the "Who is Hiring" thread for September.

> The Founders did not write that into the Constitution. Because the founders wanted voting to be controlled at the state level, not the federal level... > Propaganda is what you'r…

> The current goal is to analyze queries Then you should focus on the optimization phase. Where indexes, table statistics, etc are involved. The parsing and even translating sql fr…

> The "more or less" applied to "continuous", not "independent." Does that make a difference? You are either continuously independent or not continuously independent. > But if you …

> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh ... Apple has to store data of chinese citizens in china? And Apple has to adhere to chinese laws in china? How insan…

> By Lenin's definition the all those Democratic People's Republics really were democratic. Not by lenin's definition. Just the definition of democracy and where it came from. We g…

Taken from the top comment in another thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233819

> This is completely false when you're talking about Iran. I wouldn't say completely false. > An Iranian state has existed in more or less continuous form as an independent polity …

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> I have to refer back to these long traditional rivals Long traditional rivals? Iran and iraq are relatively new 20th century european colonial creations. Iran was carved out by t…

So eloquently stated. Couldn't have said it better myself. Hunt the minnows while at the SEC. Get hired by the whales after leaving the SEC.

> In my view, reproducibility is neither strictly necessary nor sufficient for scientific progress. In your view? Reproducibility is essential to scientific progress because it def…

> He’s like “well look, 90% of everything is shit” I think there is a difference between "being shit" and "being fake" though. 'do you really think it’s true that 50-70% of biomedi…

Or, we just have a natural/historical aversion to centralized power. Much of the nation initially started out believing that power should be local. Or you can simply make up nonsen…

At this point, it's either mass hysteria, a weapon of some kind or something common within this group. Are these officials forced to carry some kind of equipment that can cause thi…

> Chinese belt and road projects are notoriously opaque but often have China bringing the financing, labor, and infrastructure. It's so opaque that you know who is funding, buildin…

Thought this was going to be about computer viruses and was wondering how traps could possibly combat it. But alas it's about biological viruses.

Shocking. Oh all the months for it to be friggin hot outside, it had to be august. Who would have guessed.

> that has stubbornly been able to avoid being conquered by the major empires in world history. Was reading Moby Dick the other day and came across this excerpt... 'Grand Contested…

Why is a weather article from august 11 being brigaded to the frontpage now. A 2 day old article about the weather?