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> I don't really have the time to be competitively good at any of these games, and the community kinda sucks unless you are competitively good so it's kinda like what's the point? …

Computer science is a mathematical field. I wish we had labeled the academic discipline Computing Science rather than Computer Science.

> Elon is attempting to maneuver Tesla through a tight operating and financial envelope. He's been attempting that maneuver for more than a decade. > He is doing so with public fun…

> China is aware of this and they control any maps their citizens will ever see. Everyone is aware of it. Maps have always been political. Maps and borders are political creations.…

Certainly a lot of short sellers ( and bulls ) spreading rumors online, but this seems more like the continuation of the war between elon musk and journalists. There have been a su…

> [edit: sorry, my mistake: the market cap reported is not actually outstanding shares times price, pointed out below] Actually, market cap is outstanding shares times price. It is…

> What makes you think marchenko is not a US citizen? The dead giveaway is "behaviour". > Regardless, my original comment said "Western Culture", not "American Culture". Your origi…

> This is of course a value judgement. It's a biological and common sense judgment. > I'm sure many adoptees would disagree with your assessment that their situation is tragic. Ide…

> By who? "whom". By us? By our culture? By the media? > What data is there? A stereotype is not evidence; Education attainment? Income? Interracial Marriage? Sure a stereotype isn…

> This statement is highly uncharitable to your interlocutor above and frankly ignorant of the history of sexual assault prosecutions in the US. Once again, we are talking about we…

> What makes you think that? Stereotyping perhaps? Look at the quasi racist stuff this guy wrote. He obviously doesn't like asians for some reason. "Harvard and the other Ivies don…

> Harvard insists this was unbiased, but it's pretty incredible that Asians score so low on these measures and African-Americans so highly. Considering asians are considered "model…

> The outcome is racist but there's no intent to be racist. Then why do college admissions factor in race at all? > Their grades and scores are STELLAR! But the complaint is that t…

> I am not sure over 300,000 women a year in the US is 'almost no'. We were talking about women getting raped, impregnated and having children unbeknownst to the father. That was t…

> This sort of attitude was even pretty commonly stated in the media only a few decades ago. So not today? A few decades ago? We are talking about western society today, not in the…

Legal fatherhood is determined by law. Biological fatherhood is determined by science/genetics. Also, adoption isn't a common practice. Adoptions happen, but they are rare. Ideally…

I'd assume it has the same complexity that all scheduling problem have ( like the canonical college classes scheduling that most of us learn about ).

> even in western society many victims get blamed: No they don't. Which western society? In western society ( US for example ), we presume the alleged victim is telling the truth a…

> People have always played around Most people don't "play around". We have statistic proof about it. > or to be frank, many women have been assaulted and had to keep it quiet I'm …

Or the japanese crash of the early 90s, from which japan still hasn't recovered. The nikkei is about 1/3 of what it used to be almost 30 years on.

> I've been hearing about an incoming correction since 2013 We've have 2 corrections the past 5 years. We even had one in the beginning of this year. https://www.investopedia.com/t…

You can start with an introductory overview ( Chuck Severance's Internet History on coursera ) and then search the RFCs, books and material afterwards for a more detailed view. The…

Sad to see that the first 3 comments here are justifying and defending twitter shadow banning republican politicians. That's quite something. I would really love if there was an in…

Don't forget too-big-to-fail banks. They got bailed out and now they are even bigger than they were after gobbling up a bunch of mid-level banks the past few years.

No jail? As an example, if a group of multinationals illegally fix prices and gain $1 billion in extra profits and they get a tax deductible $130 million fine, where is the deterre…