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When the Arch Duke was Franz Ferdinand was assassinated would the comments have just been about policy position in the Balkans? There are now 3 active hot conflicts in Eurasia invo…

> but at most China will sell some weapons—it won't get too involved. In the Middle-east theatre, no telling what will happen in East Asia.

> I don't know if you're being flippant but the information at universities is neither secret nor sacred. Sure, there is a stupid price for academic journals but most of it can be …

Was referring to the SAT and existing credentialism from the college and university system.

> I do wonder if our society would be better if we had more honourifics and formality. China has instituted social media rules based on qualifications. Many indigenous societies ha…

> People tell me that I'm over training, which is ridiculous, because anything less would be easy and contravene the purpose of the workout. This doesn't mean you aren't over train…

"Globally, Abbott has received reports of 736 severe adverse events (57 in the U.S.) and seven deaths (none in the U.S.) potentially associated with this issue."[1] [1] https://abb…

> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" This probably has more to do with the ty…

Steve Jobs taking Calligraphy [1] comes to mind [1] https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?si=339qOh2AlIr5QC2f&t=204

Whats the context to wanting to stop "bad guys" from using your open source project? Might want to elaborate while you're on the front page!

You basically just described what the NYC "G&T" program is. All it is smaller class sizes and less disruptive students. There are only like 4 actual accelerated learning programs o…

> the company started as the anti-Oracle. The company was founded by an Oracle executive...

Of course!

Is that the most provocative thing in the article? I thought it was just puffery.

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> Bobby Kennedy made that speech, was assassinated shortly afterwards, and Nixon won, prolonging the Vietnam War for another 6 years. Bobby Kennedy, also made a historic speech in …

I didn't watch more than the first season of the show... but the setting for the novel is an alternate history in the 1960's where FDR had been assassinated in the 30's (failed in …

> (this is one of the premises of The Man in the High Castle, which is likely to age better than most sci fi TV series) The Hugo award winning book it's based on is much better. > …

> Well, now that the US has a War Department That was the department's name for 150 years.. until doublespeak became popular in the 1940's

> is there an easy way to verify it? No, because they don't enforce their rules against obfuscation. Even if there was it wouldn't help you - extensions regularly get sold to scamm…

Well aware it's absurdly expensive. I was just highlighting that whats taking 10k/year in public school tuition (18k for Michigan (!) ) to ~130k for the degree is the living expens…

> a decent state university ... He is looking at ~$130K in costs 130k seems high for public school. How much of that is room and board?

Whats wrong with verifying the ID? The issue is they decided to roll their own extremely questionable service and insecurely store sensitive images in a public bucket Multiple SAAS…

They make a case for not trusting Hims but not sure why that means I should trust Novo Nordisk