The point of LINQ was to get a native data querying into .Net framework - primarily targetting database servers ( SQL Server ), but also XML, enumerables, etc. The query operators and the syntactic sugar tries to mimic…
> is up 37% and now brings in more revenue than the Mac or the iPad But less than 1/5th of iphone revenue. > And, for that matter, how services revenue is now a higher percentage of the non-iPhone revenue And? All you…
> Tim Cook has added $1 trillion dollars to Apple's market cap since he took over. No he hasn't. What's with the PR style nonsense with every earning release. Whether it's microsoft, apple, etc, every thread has these…
> Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique. It's expected in a "brigadable" topic - anything to do with climate change, veganism, china, gender, etc. My original comment was downvoted within a…
> You pic a time frame, were China was indeed ahead. Any time before the 1800s? > Yes. It basically tells us, that while China was ahead I thought you said they were never ahead? > the culture had big weaknesses. Every…
That's because it's true from time to time. Journalists, diplomats, NGOs, academics, etc are the top spy vectors. Do you really think russia is killing "journalists" because they are journalists or because they are…
> Well, this was after Rome, and while after the middle ages, still before the industrial revolution. I don't know what you are trying to say here. > The reason why Europe explored more during that time says more about…
"More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag #AMZNSpeakOut in public statements that condemn the company for not taking sufficient action on the climate crisis." 340 whole workers? Total number of amazon…
As awful as the theft of wealth was, the bigger crime was the prevention of industrialization. India was directly stopped by britain from industrializing because britain didn't want a competitor and rather wanted to use…
> Bullshit It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. It was why europeans wanted to get to china in the first place and not the other way around. Even decades after the…
Of course it's misleading. It's PR/virtue signaling by wealthy privileged european nation. It's like how Ireland was one of the great recycling nations of the world. Did you know that they recycled nearly all of their…
> So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate. It's been said that psychiatry is the new religion and psychiatrists the new priests for…
> The real effect is that Turkey will get more and more behind the rest of the world because its citizens do not have access to information Considering the censorship that goes on in Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore,…
Not just Apple. Microsoft had quite a rally itself over the past decade. So did tesla, netflix, facebook, AMD, Amazon, nvidia, etc. The tech sector did very well during the loose monetary period since the financial…
You have to pay to watch movies at the movie theater. The movies you rent from the library are free. And if your library is part of a network of libraries, then you probably could find any movie you want to watch. Mix…
> The problem is that on Twitter they’ve become more like activists rather than journalists/reporters. They've always been activists. Twitter just makes it visible to the public while in the past, their biases were…
FTA: "As evidenced in prior research, as little as 40 milligrams of acetaminophen can be acutely toxic to any reptile, not just snakes."
> Really wish they went with 8 seconds instead of 6 for the videos. I mean 1 byte = 8 bits after all. Actually, a byte could and did have a variety of bits as they were generally hardware dependent. Generally, a byte is…
> It's weird that we don't know what teeth were like before fluoride was invented. We have teeth from fossils that are a few thousand years old all the way to over a million years old.…
> You say that as though people aren't susceptible to influence form malicious actors spouting propaganda. If that's the case, we'd have to shut down every news and media organization. > Every news paper, book…
> Can you give me an example of "media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public"? Look up every war we've been involved in. The media/establishment lied. Try Nayirah testimony if you want to get…
> These past 4 months, people have been resigning faster than we can refill their spots. I'd be asking for a significant raise. Looks like you walked into a short term supply and demand issue in your favor, not to…
Also this bloke was a "Kapoor". So he probably had very little political clout/connections and was simply targeted for convenience and used as a sacrificial lamb to placate the masses. The Sackler's are cash…
> While there may be a few bad actors The question is are these bad actors acting in support of Yang or to undermine Yang? If you were against Yang, imagine how easy it would be to set up bots to "support Yang" and then…
There are videos of real pyroclastic flow as well. The unzen eruption being a particularly famous one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvjwt9nnwXY It's even terrifying watching the toxic cloud spread on youtube. I…
The point of LINQ was to get a native data querying into .Net framework - primarily targetting database servers ( SQL Server ), but also XML, enumerables, etc. The query operators and the syntactic sugar tries to mimic…
> is up 37% and now brings in more revenue than the Mac or the iPad But less than 1/5th of iphone revenue. > And, for that matter, how services revenue is now a higher percentage of the non-iPhone revenue And? All you…
> Tim Cook has added $1 trillion dollars to Apple's market cap since he took over. No he hasn't. What's with the PR style nonsense with every earning release. Whether it's microsoft, apple, etc, every thread has these…
> Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique. It's expected in a "brigadable" topic - anything to do with climate change, veganism, china, gender, etc. My original comment was downvoted within a…
> You pic a time frame, were China was indeed ahead. Any time before the 1800s? > Yes. It basically tells us, that while China was ahead I thought you said they were never ahead? > the culture had big weaknesses. Every…
That's because it's true from time to time. Journalists, diplomats, NGOs, academics, etc are the top spy vectors. Do you really think russia is killing "journalists" because they are journalists or because they are…
> Well, this was after Rome, and while after the middle ages, still before the industrial revolution. I don't know what you are trying to say here. > The reason why Europe explored more during that time says more about…
"More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag #AMZNSpeakOut in public statements that condemn the company for not taking sufficient action on the climate crisis." 340 whole workers? Total number of amazon…
As awful as the theft of wealth was, the bigger crime was the prevention of industrialization. India was directly stopped by britain from industrializing because britain didn't want a competitor and rather wanted to use…
> Bullshit It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. It was why europeans wanted to get to china in the first place and not the other way around. Even decades after the…
Of course it's misleading. It's PR/virtue signaling by wealthy privileged european nation. It's like how Ireland was one of the great recycling nations of the world. Did you know that they recycled nearly all of their…
> So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate. It's been said that psychiatry is the new religion and psychiatrists the new priests for…
> The real effect is that Turkey will get more and more behind the rest of the world because its citizens do not have access to information Considering the censorship that goes on in Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore,…
Not just Apple. Microsoft had quite a rally itself over the past decade. So did tesla, netflix, facebook, AMD, Amazon, nvidia, etc. The tech sector did very well during the loose monetary period since the financial…
You have to pay to watch movies at the movie theater. The movies you rent from the library are free. And if your library is part of a network of libraries, then you probably could find any movie you want to watch. Mix…
> The problem is that on Twitter they’ve become more like activists rather than journalists/reporters. They've always been activists. Twitter just makes it visible to the public while in the past, their biases were…
FTA: "As evidenced in prior research, as little as 40 milligrams of acetaminophen can be acutely toxic to any reptile, not just snakes."
> Really wish they went with 8 seconds instead of 6 for the videos. I mean 1 byte = 8 bits after all. Actually, a byte could and did have a variety of bits as they were generally hardware dependent. Generally, a byte is…
> It's weird that we don't know what teeth were like before fluoride was invented. We have teeth from fossils that are a few thousand years old all the way to over a million years old.…
> You say that as though people aren't susceptible to influence form malicious actors spouting propaganda. If that's the case, we'd have to shut down every news and media organization. > Every news paper, book…
> Can you give me an example of "media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public"? Look up every war we've been involved in. The media/establishment lied. Try Nayirah testimony if you want to get…
> These past 4 months, people have been resigning faster than we can refill their spots. I'd be asking for a significant raise. Looks like you walked into a short term supply and demand issue in your favor, not to…
Also this bloke was a "Kapoor". So he probably had very little political clout/connections and was simply targeted for convenience and used as a sacrificial lamb to placate the masses. The Sackler's are cash…
> While there may be a few bad actors The question is are these bad actors acting in support of Yang or to undermine Yang? If you were against Yang, imagine how easy it would be to set up bots to "support Yang" and then…
There are videos of real pyroclastic flow as well. The unzen eruption being a particularly famous one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvjwt9nnwXY It's even terrifying watching the toxic cloud spread on youtube. I…