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    Comment #16942453

    > There are also deep socio-economic problems to solve. The biggest problem is that india has a mindset problem. They, especially their leaders, academics, etc do not see themselve…

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    Comment #16942349

    > I would be shocked if there's any fossil fuel generation online in 10 years, 15 tops. What? Fossil fuel usage has increased not just in china but around the world. https://en.wik…

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    Comment #16942198

    Journalists, talking heads, etc don't know why something is happening. Only the insiders ( trump/pompeo, moon, kim, etc ) know and they certainly aren't telling the press about it.…

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    Comment #16942126

    I've been saying this for years. DNA sites are a goldmine for unresolved cold cases ( rape, murder, missing persons ) where DNA is available. In the past, if there was a rape in a …

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    Comment #16942006

    > I never thought I'd see this happen. Why? Societies/nations/etc always change. Given the state of NK, what's shocking is that it didn't happen sooner. > I'm not incredibly famili…

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    Comment #16916033

    This is great news. We need more tech hubs and more competition in the tech industry. I'm still confused as to why europe decided to cede the entire tech industry to the US. Do eur…

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    Comment #16916010

    > Or advertising in those places has relatively little impact on image and produced little controversy compared to the scale of audience it gives access to. That's true of anything…

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    Comment #16912276

    It also means that their employees aren't being paid as well as they should be. It also means that they are enjoying a monopolistic position. Usually, when a business is as lucrati…

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    Comment #16912163

    The video isn't misleading. You are missing the point. It's pointing out that advertisers don't really care about how controversial the content is. > In other words, if your sales …

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    Comment #16906654

    > I'm surprised this made it by the WSJ editors. Why does that surprise you? Obviously the misleading and clickbaity headline will be chosen over the honest headline.

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    Comment #16905952

    No. That's how you write sql within your organization. Also there are syntactic differences between SQL flavors ( postgres, mysql, mssql, oracle, etc ) that make a SQL standard unr…

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    Comment #16905821

    It's so funny how propaganda works. When we do it, we call it investing. When china does it, the propagandists spin it as something nefarious or underhanded - "buying it's way into…

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    Comment #16902667

    > The premise that we think we can pack an infinite amount of information into finite space time just feel wrong to me. Why? Z = { x | ... -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 ... } I just packed an in…

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    Comment #16902656

    > North America's attitude towards people of colour, absolutely disgusts me. I simply do not understand why that a country that was founded on on the principles of freedom continue…

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    Comment #16894127

    > Ageism is still the number 1 discrimination in the IT/software industry by a mile. And it will only get worse I'm afraid. Not only is there a bias towards youth in the industry, …

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    Comment #16887581

    Did dear leader buy his team a subscription to 2600?

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    Comment #16887568

    Humans adapt to their environments? What's next? The tibetans and sherpas have adaptations to high altitude? The inuit have adaptations for the cold? Norse have adaptations for low…

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    Comment #16887334

    The icons made the mac revolutionary? What a ridiculous exaggeration. The icons were an improvement over the "textual" xerox icons but it wasn't what made the mac revolutionary.

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    Comment #16835495

    Considering I am saying russia is evil, I don't think I am. Russia attacking ukraine was wrong. Us attacking syria is wrong. Now, can you tell me what organization you work for?

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    Comment #16835485

    Right. And russia was sanctioned and attacked mercilessly by the media and the international community. That's my point. Russia was wrong. And so are we.

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    Comment #16835452

    Of course he did. Just like saddam had his soldiers kill babies in incubators. You have to be extremely naive to believe government and media lies.

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    Comment #16835444

    Lunacy. Under what rule, law or authority are we just allowed to bomb/attack other nations? Imagine if china, russia or any other nation acted like this. The media would be screami…

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    Comment #16833196

    > Most of the so called news / journalism isn't news / journalism any more than Aspartame is sugar. News was never news. It was actually branding by the news industry in the 20th c…

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    Comment #16832053

    Sure. But it doesn't take a "team" to build up a CMS. This is why media "tech teams" are viewed as a joke in the tech industry.

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    Comment #16831984

    > Is it truly "censorship" though, if one is so aggressively distasteful and difficult to deal with that nobody wants to do business with them? That's the definition of censorship.…