BrandonMarc

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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Indeed. Greenwald helped Snowden; he has the chops to see what's going on. To wit, his subsequent tweet: Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Jan 11 Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were activ
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
If you were to scape someone's private messages from Facebook - or their private posts - and then post them online en masse ... that may or may not be illegal in Europe, but it ain't ethically white. Grey at best.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
... and the social media giants have lots of money, and are in the perfect position to manipulate. Motivation and opportunity ...
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
I'm wondering if success has ever not come through hardship. It certainly came through hardship in the past. Today seems little different. Note: 80% of millionaires are first-generation rich - they started off with little, and made t
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
> Almost half of Americans live in the 100 largest MSAs. Meaning just over half live in the rest, with far lower cost of living.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Put differently, 80% of his time gave his brain training and practice which likely improved the 20% that made it to market. Also consider, frustrating though I'm sure that was, he probably still got paid for his effort in the 80%.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
He mentions increasing salary won't lead to increased productivity ... and that's true, if the same developer remains. But what if we remove that constraint? What if increased salary means a higher quality of developer takes the p
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Woosh
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
... and Facebook's recommendation would be based on their prior activity. If their interests on Facebook (what they like, follow, etc) were mostly cat videos, Facebook wouldn't be recommending extremist groups. In the meantime, th
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
"key data" .... which would be a small subset of all data ... and to solve bandwidth issues they want to make it more scarce. This is a stunt. They want money, and are using their most popular (key) data points as a threat. Just l
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
... because a sizeable portion of readers enjoy a tangible metaphor for perspective.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Wooosh
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
# 1 would fit, if there were a proportionate number of mail-in ballots for Jo Jorgensen and Kanye West. If you have 10,000 ballots, some of those will be expected. Tens of thousands of Biden-only? Repeatedly? Doesn't pass the sniff tes
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Probably, eh? Well then sure, let's have election workers make judgment calls based on "probably".
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Wait, a dog whistle? For what? Fellow soldiers that have dog tags?
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
The NY state response included sending sick patients into nursing homes. Had other states done that uniformly we'd have even more deaths, not fewer.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Art
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Benford's law relates to a method for finding manipulation of data, such as election results. More on that here: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=46343 See GitHub for sources and charts. https://github.com
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Ongoing edit war over the Wikipedia article for Benford's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
If I understand the scam correctly, the hypothetical seller "Kleinman candles" is the one performing the scam, in order to create fake reviews. Unless the purpose of the scam is to make the reviewer themself seem more credible.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Good point. I see a spike in cases in mid-to-late June. Now ... what happened in early June that might lead to a spike in cases. Involving large crowds of very random people congregating together, perhaps shouting. Hmm. Well ...
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Very relevant point. We can't trust the science if the science isn't allowed to see certain things.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
I saw lots of protest images in June, and July, and lately, featuring very few people with masks.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Should concerns over Sturgis also be too narrowly conceived, then?
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Relevent xkcd what-if: https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/ Time for another a World Meteorological Organization expert panel! "I'm gonna go jump into one of those toxic pools."
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Moreover, in western China the labor isn't cheap, it's free. (Uighur slavery)
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
... I'm trying to think of a witty comment on how he's never seen a black hole with his own eyes, either ...
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
For all these witnesses, i haven't seen any pictures
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Thank you for bringing up Kent State. That event is taught in history classes all over the country as an example of something we did wrong, and desperately want to never repeat. Contrast this with Tiananmen Square: Beijing does everything i
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
Tell that to the baker.

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