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It's the NYT, they have being doing this since literal Hitler.
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By the example given in the article, these 3 could only make it more explicit and transparent if they tattooed a swastika in their forehead.
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UK is becoming more and more a little piece of Russia in Western Europe.
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I'm starting to suspect the labour party is not a social democratic party as it claims, but it might be a reactionary conservative party instead. /s
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It's very charitable of you to count Dima's term as really being president of Russia.
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The thing is, I read at my speed, no more, no less. I watch videos at 2x, backtrack 5 minutes, watch at 1x, rewatch the previous 30 seconds twice, figure out I dozed off at some point and rewatch the entire thing, and end up looking for a text version.
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With (well-structured) text you can easily skim back if you missed something important, you can easily cross reference with other sources, you control the reading speed, you can take notes, etc. [2/2]
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The thing with real oral communication is that it's interactive.
Video demands full attention, you have no control over the speed of communication, it demands context switching for cross referencing and annotation, and even on well structured videos it's cumbersome to find something specific. [1/2]
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"The main learning is that most actionable way to solution this opportunity is to ideate and operationalize the onboarding of a SHISaS* provider. This is to be subjected to the bandwidth of the planning".
*Stick-Head-In-the-Sand-as-a-Service
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I gather you never had to deal with people that use "opportunity" instead of "problem" or "issue".
Corporate newspeak is a new language at this point.
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This still reads as "45% of Americans are full blown unredeemable fascists".
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And Project Plowshare has the potential to revolutionise large scale civil engineering projects /s
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That's a very bleak vision of the nature of human beings.
A world where the main motivation for artists was material gain would be a sad world.
You are confusing a constraint introduced by our economic system with a fundamental motivation.
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Either the entire international economic system crashes and burns, and none of those contract matter, or it's going scar and start to heal around the festering pus that the US became and the markets will recover, even if common people are living worse than before.
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"Good Tsar, bad Boyars" made it to the US.
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I know things are bad, but I assume US representatives still have access to cellphones and airplanes.
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Even ignoring the obvious "WTF is wrong with this person", 65 is 20 years below the average life expectancy in most of the western world.
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There's an arms race going on between websites and the AI companies, since the latter is doing everything in their power to impersonate legitimate users - i.e. human users and search engine crawlers. And until this kind of behaviour is legally considered fraud, they are not going to change.
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Since they say they are doing it because of Tesla's anti-union policy, they took their sweet time to do it.
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The 1980s seem to have been particularly tough for NHL goalies.
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The filled a niche caused by Google shutting down Google Reader and subsequent decline of RSS among less technically literate people by providing easy newsletters.
It also gives publishers more control than social media platforms, but they are actively taking that away now.
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AFAIK terrorism is almost always excluded, and since the US government is, at least, threatening to treat the arsons as terrorism, I wouldn't be surprised if insurance companies started doing the same.
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It's both. Dictatorships need to make people afraid of them because they are afraid of the people.
A great demonstration of this was the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenst.... Even at the peak of Nazi totalitarianism, when people moved past the fear and stood up for their families, the Nazis backed down.
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The endgame, as in all authoritarian regime, is to create the precedent that anyone can be locked up for any reason, or no reason at all, at any time, and without any legal recourse. And any time you are not in line for the next flight you should be thankful to your local dictator.
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If it goes like last time (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ver...), they will bury the tests, and then go back to test on "suspicion" which is where the colour chart comes in.
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What 4, China is at $143.55B, so Top 5.
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Monkey brain does what monkey brain wants, an education in philosophy just helps people rationalise what the monkey brain did.
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The only two possible life styles, extreme asceticism and unrestricted hedonism.
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That motto and its variants are so overused that's probably easier to list who doesn't use it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_astr...
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Better than "You were overreacting, you are overreacting, I hate how both sides are so extreme nowadays... hey were are you dragging me?", which is equally common.
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Never heard about Homestuck before, but by the synopsis in Wikipedia you're not that far off.
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If you are going to murder an animal and eat its corpse you can at least have the decency of tasting it.
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It's dead. I think I still got a stale DNS record.
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Are they trying to compete with The Onion? How bold of them.
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This service is not Brian Thompson level CEOs, it's for people maybe in the top 10% of income cosplaying as someone in top 1% of income.
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What an horrible day to be literate.
(For some reason every day linkedin posts make the rounds is an horrible day to be literate)
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Hate speech is not even free speech. Human rights are all equally important. It would be a paradox for free speech to include speech harmful to other human rights. To solve the apparent conflict we need to define it around what we are protecting by declaring human rights - human dignity.
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Before I found out my library has a good audiobook and e-book selection I was using libro.fm as a bonus it helps keeping local bookstores alive.
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The main difference with the uncanny valley effect, is that this one seems to be a sliding scale with increasing average quality. 1990s CGI that looked amazing back then now lies at the deepest crevice of the FX Valley.
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I think production design also suffer from an uncanny valley effect. If something clearly looks and feels like an high-school theatre set with costumes and special effects to match, our brain will fill in the gaps, but at some point we start expecting it to be realistic enough.
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Two reasons:
1 - China is abusing the Universal Postal Union to get other countries to subsidize their exports. (Which is something the US was happy to do too, when they were net senders)
2 - Trump thinks treaties and contracts are things that happen to other people.
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Is it a suicide mission? If so, he can do a 2-for-1 on saving the planet, or even better if he takes some his friends with him.