4ntonius8lock

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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
What prey, would you do with the list of 5.5 million gun owners? Basically, 4% of US adults.
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
My grandfather was part of the Danish resistance. Him and his 'pea shooters' caused nasty losses to the Natzies, and ended up saving quite a few people. The 'pea shooters' of Russian peasants (together with acquaintance
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I feel sorry for the children of such people. I grew up in an environment of alcoholics. Many of my family were alcoholics. My sister and I are most definitively not alcoholics. We purposefully avoided such a path. My cousins also. We are s
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Funny how the more capitalist outlets will classify workers as being in 'shortage', but commodities are never in shortage, they are in 'high demand' and there are 'price spikes while the market adjusts to new levels
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Amazon isn't against paid reviews. They are against paid reviews THEY don't control. I'm sick of seeing news pieces where they focus on some mommy blogger who made $15k (which they play up like it's a tone of money) by p
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I guess what you are saying is: We all have the same access to system 2. Like everyone having access to start a car, everyone needs to put in effort to start their car, but someone with low intelligence is like someone who has a car that ha
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
You might not like the use of 'emotional thinking' vs 'critical thinking', but that's what this sub-thread is about. The introduction of words like rational was purely on you. I agree system 2 is only activated on d
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Same to you. It's nice to be able to hash it out, even if we fundamentally disagree. To be clear, I never said, nor do I believe: > "simple minded" people are biased by their 'emotion' but smart people are not &g
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
What the US government really wants is all your public online accounts. They used the broad and not fully defined definition of the word to their advantage. What a social media site is, is something I think we are all collectively defining.
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Jimmy is a brilliant man. He created one of the most valuable sites on the net. But I think he is suffering from being in a bit of a feedback bubble. Problems of success I guess. I don't know anyone who says: I want a social media comp
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I'll go along with this re-stating people's posts to get to the bottom of it: Someone Else: Laments 'simple minded' for literally putting innocent people in jail for the inability to follow very simple logical constructs
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Because of one of Clarke's laws: > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The mostly tech illiterate boses and the unthinking masses can't really parse the deep fake story. For most, there's
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Did you actually read the book? You say things that seem odd for someone who read the book cover to cover. I know a lot of people read a few pages or the intro... but not the whole thing. Your painting a false dichotomy and mischaracterizin
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
For the newspaper, a 'deep fake' story sells better. For the executive who messed up, by using the 'deep fake' story, they become blameless. If they admit to a voice actor, they can be questioned for incompetence. Everyo
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I'm with you. I hate debt and don't mess with it. My cars were all purchased in cash and I live well within my means. But I like to keep in mind not everyone is in my position in life. IF the couple has paid their student debt, an
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
But how else will they push their narratives? Look at the language used: > "lower prices and a glut of the type of stones ... have pushed the global diamond trade into crisis ... struggling to make profits" They've literal
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Someone said: > Unfortunately, most people are simple minded and are unable to separate their emotions from reason To which you answered: > Psychology seems to point out that we all make emotional decisions first and then rationalize
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I can't say about the exact details, but this is what I understand: We live in a fiat system; money is literally created out of nothing. When money is created, it then needs to be injected into the system (economy) This could be done a
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
Sort of. We have system one and system two thinking. We all have system one. Some people have system two to a greater or lesser extent. It's a lot more complicated than 'decisions originate in our emotional centers... only justifi
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
We all lie. We are all hypocritical. There seems to be a threshold upon which someone is deemed a lier, hypocrite or simple minded. That we all do something doesn't mean that we all do it to the same degree. For some reason when talkin
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I've been the victim of a similar scam then the one mentioned in the article. Having said that, I still use the platform. Why? I've traveled a lot and generally on the cheap, and I have run into scammy/terrible hotels. I mean
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
> Honesty has nothing to do with meritocratic (in markets) Again, I can't really talk about economics and capitalism with someone who believes what you wrote. Either we agree that honest markets are more meritocratic (in which case
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
> They are not, or they would be priced the same. If this was market based, you'd be right. But if it is legislative based, then this is the definition of circular logic. Given that the structure of preferential stock is legislative
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
If you agree that both put in $50 worth of something, then why does one get something while the other nothing? How is that honest? The employee was investing time for the stock, the investor fiat. The employee was offered 1% of the company.
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
The key here is deceit. I have no problem with employment where money is exchanged for time. But that wasn't the case. The employee got paid for time in the form of money and stock . You are conveniently ignoring this part. If the sto
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I feel sorry for people who value their time at nothing.
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
They got paid for it in the form of money and stock. If the stock is worthless, why offer it? The answer to me is obvious, they are being deceitful (the start up and its investors). As stated, the SECs' mission is so that people who de
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
So people who work for a start up aren't taking risk? Employment is more than just the paycheck. It's security. It's a career trajectory. Otherwise, why do consultants get paid more than employees? You can see it that employe
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
> Why shouldn't they, when they put up all the money that the company's been burning? Because there is another group that's putting up all the work. In startups, that work is generally more intense and risk laden, which is
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by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I rarely get caught up on pay walls. Firefox with Ublock origin + Decentraleyes + NoScrypt + Cookie AutoDelete

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