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The point of LINQ was to get a native data querying into .Net framework - primarily targetting database servers ( SQL Server ), but also XML, enumerables, etc. The query operators …

> is up 37% and now brings in more revenue than the Mac or the iPad But less than 1/5th of iphone revenue. > And, for that matter, how services revenue is now a higher percentage o…

> Tim Cook has added $1 trillion dollars to Apple's market cap since he took over. No he hasn't. What's with the PR style nonsense with every earning release. Whether it's microsof…

> Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique. It's expected in a "brigadable" topic - anything to do with climate change, veganism, china, gender, etc. My orig…

> You pic a time frame, were China was indeed ahead. Any time before the 1800s? > Yes. It basically tells us, that while China was ahead I thought you said they were never ahead? >…

That's because it's true from time to time. Journalists, diplomats, NGOs, academics, etc are the top spy vectors. Do you really think russia is killing "journalists" because they a…

> Well, this was after Rome, and while after the middle ages, still before the industrial revolution. I don't know what you are trying to say here. > The reason why Europe explored…

"More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag #AMZNSpeakOut in public statements that condemn the company for not taking sufficient action on the climate crisis." 340 whol…

As awful as the theft of wealth was, the bigger crime was the prevention of industrialization. India was directly stopped by britain from industrializing because britain didn't wan…

> Bullshit It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. It was why europeans wanted to get to china in the first place and not the other…

Of course it's misleading. It's PR/virtue signaling by wealthy privileged european nation. It's like how Ireland was one of the great recycling nations of the world. Did you know t…

> So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate. It's been said that psychiatry is the new religio…

> The real effect is that Turkey will get more and more behind the rest of the world because its citizens do not have access to information Considering the censorship that goes on …

Not just Apple. Microsoft had quite a rally itself over the past decade. So did tesla, netflix, facebook, AMD, Amazon, nvidia, etc. The tech sector did very well during the loose m…

You have to pay to watch movies at the movie theater. The movies you rent from the library are free. And if your library is part of a network of libraries, then you probably could …

> The problem is that on Twitter they’ve become more like activists rather than journalists/reporters. They've always been activists. Twitter just makes it visible to the public wh…

FTA: "As evidenced in prior research, as little as 40 milligrams of acetaminophen can be acutely toxic to any reptile, not just snakes."

> Really wish they went with 8 seconds instead of 6 for the videos. I mean 1 byte = 8 bits after all. Actually, a byte could and did have a variety of bits as they were generally h…

> It's weird that we don't know what teeth were like before fluoride was invented. We have teeth from fossils that are a few thousand years old all the way to over a million years …

> You say that as though people aren't susceptible to influence form malicious actors spouting propaganda. If that's the case, we'd have to shut down every news and media organizat…

> Can you give me an example of "media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public"? Look up every war we've been involved in. The media/establishment lied. Try N…

> These past 4 months, people have been resigning faster than we can refill their spots. I'd be asking for a significant raise. Looks like you walked into a short term supply and d…

Also this bloke was a "Kapoor". So he probably had very little political clout/connections and was simply targeted for convenience and used as a sacrificial lamb to placate the mas…

> While there may be a few bad actors The question is are these bad actors acting in support of Yang or to undermine Yang? If you were against Yang, imagine how easy it would be to…