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Comment #15717731
> This company has a decidedly pro-Trump stance, and they require the local stations they control to air pro-Trump commentary. Whether they do, or they don't, that is exactly how i…
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Comment #15716408
When I read these types of articles, there is always an underlining irony present there... Out of all the diverse groups of people in the prison, only the racist whites (Nazis) wou…
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Comment #15699711
If you want to be correct, its more like "we've looked at your model and talked to the people that created it, and everyone that worked on it agrees that the debate is being driven…
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Comment #15697832
The last time this was suggested on the news (CNN, etc), I did some quick math. To ship gas to Europe, the US will need to spend about 50B-100B+ (minimum) building LNG facilities o…
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Comment #15681139
The speculation driven movement of the BTC cannot be compared to the speculation on the USD or any other currency. 0.01% and 50000% are all percentages, but the number is so differ…
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Comment #15673065
But they have already solved the engineering problems (at least 10 years ago). They already have "qbits". The interface issues look to be 98% solved. And the temperature cooling, t…
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Comment #15672531
I've been following quantum computing since D-Wave made its press release some years back. Now I'm a complete skeptic. The huge red flag I can't get over is if it is as so, why can…
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Comment #15664477
That makes sense. Ironically though, just as another anecdote (and to the best of my knowledge), the very first "fake news" right-wing site who's operator was confronted, ended up …
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Comment #15663875
> A fake news site owner said conservatives are more likely than liberals to believe and spread fake news. In fact... Why would you believe what a "fake news" site operator tells y…
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Comment #15663550
When someone says that I cannot discern fake from real, and for my own well being I should be protected from "fake news" (otherwise I'll start to believe that global worming is rea…
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Comment #15663420
> Facebook tried doing this to combat actual fake news (the one that ironically comes from the political segment in the U.S. most likely to cry wolf about it). This process was the…
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Comment #15613061
Also the giant monolith/megalith structures in Russia are out of this world. Personally I think some of the footage and pictures of them are more impressive than the pyramids. The …
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Comment #15604368
You've named all people who could be removed just as easily as they where placed into power. That is not a dictatorship. I'll provide an example - Saddam Hussein was a dictator... …
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Comment #15603749
> The office of President wasn't created until 1990, and there was only one person to hold that office. I was being general (and going throughout USSR's history, not just after 199…
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Comment #15603500
Name 1 dictator after the Stalin? I lived there before the collapse. It was a communist state. With centralized planning. And all the waste that goes with it. After Stalin, the Sov…
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Comment #15602869
Oddly enough almost all of the people that spent time in the Soviet Union never saw it as a "dictatorship", but as the communist "CCCP". Also oddly enough, all the students from gr…
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Comment #15575611
That is more or less the main way the media in the US, the EU, and some other world regions, is operating right now. For each major story, they remove all the real details, even th…
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Comment #15461207
Is there an upper limit on how many different periodic orbitals a 3-body system may have?
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Comment #15443459
I don't know how bad it is at the high school level, but it does get worse as you go up to the University level... For an example, take the 2014 CEDA Championship Debate held at In…
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Comment #15351473
> Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials. Name one person harmed by t…
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Comment #15112715
These types of drinks have nothing in common with milk... The manufacturing process involves grinding almonds, oats, etc, into a very fine particulate powder, mixing it into water.…
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Comment #15044081
Aside from all the innuendos and made-up proof, the one true statement you can make here is that Kaspersky is not, nor ever will be, providing backdoor services for the FBI.