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yes. any set of complete functions form a vector space and can be used in a linear sum to appropriate other functions in the same space. the dot product tells you the value of the …

I think you missed my point when I said "the terrorist didn't win but we certainly lost". Everything you say about how we've lost our identity, optimism, and freedom is exactly wha…

idk why this is downvoted. the 90s is the period between the end of the cold war and the start of the war on terror. its the only time in living memory where there was no enemy. 9/…

>gouge visitors >save $50 on a hotel how the hell can you simultaneously be gouged and save money? what makes the long term resident more deserving than the short term visitor? why…

Quit trying to make this into a culture war thing. America is generally pretty swell even if youre not an older white guy. Just don't be poor.

if the gov has to physically send someone with guns to someones door to enforce a law, the economic feasibility of enforcing the law has already shifted massively away from the pas…

iirc the stasi employed half the population to report on the other half of the population. Thats a lot of wasted money and labor. It simply isn't a sustainable system. Chinas socia…

"if amazon doesn't fuck people over someone else will" yeah i said that. "so who cares" no i didn't say that. I said the best defense isnt the benevolence of corporations willing t…

what I'm saying is we should assume that whatever mass surveillance mechanisms the government is trying to buy, it will eventually buy and whatever legal safeguards there are to pr…

constitutional rights (and a culture that enshrines them as sacred) is just one layer of protection for civil liberties. The other, Often overlooked layer is the fact that running …

I don't get the creepy vibe the author is claiming. looks like mundane office posters of the period to me.

that doesn't solve the problem it just offloads it. wikipedia could collapse under the weight of being the internets authority of epistemology.

/r/neoliberal has a fantastic slogan/soundbite for you to use. "legalize housing" a people ideologically against government intervention should be all for removing government barri…

you can recurse in excel. its disabled by default but you can set the max depth on circular references in some menu. I haven't used it since the 2007 version

As the conventional wisdom states, China is the future. There will come a time when us Westerners will need VPNs as well.

see this is the difference between being a skeptic and a contrarian. The contrarian will call everything wrong and sometimes by pure happenstance they have a point. The opaqueness …