Chardok

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by Chardok 9y ago
Its not hard to see why exactly Americans are dying younger. Hell, just look at the headline here. When you have increased wealth concentration flowing upwards and more involvement of profit machines in people's lives (healthcare, co
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by Chardok 9y ago
Unfortunately it would need to be a hack that purposefully gets itself caught in order to drive any point home. I can imagine the risk vs reward on something like that would be very undesirable.
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by Chardok 9y ago
Regardless on your opinions of the memo, this article nails it right on the head; Gizmodo and other major news outlets handled this very irresponsibly, posting their version that had no citations, and leading the reader, even at the very
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by Chardok 9y ago
Unfortunately she is listed as a past owner.
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by Chardok 9y ago
He states it in the video: they are incredibly overwhelmed with data coming in and are just using "old search methods" such as word search that he deems ineffective. My understanding is that this bulk data gathering is not as much
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by Chardok 9y ago
While I would love this and ultimately believe it would be the best route for Reddit, there is just too much advertising potential for people to not want to throw money at it. The "reddit hug of death" is a term that was coined
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by Chardok 9y ago
I am of the opinion that trying to turn a profit on something like Reddit is a catch 22. The concept of Reddit, which is user generated content curated by users, doesn't have a lot of need for a middleman, more of just a few moderators
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by Chardok 9y ago
Just because you can't think of abuses to your couch-to-coffee table distance or your floor layout doesn't mean that they could potentially be privacy-invading, especially when they are fed into massive AI databases. You could c
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by Chardok 9y ago
Shifting costs from the hospitals and insurance to the patients, plain and simple. This is merely the tip of the iceberg for what for-profit healthcare is developing into. You cannot have sound medical decisions being made when money is so
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by Chardok 9y ago
I can't think of a time where customer experience, user experience or overall quality of a company improves after a large merger like this. Less choices for the consumer typically translate to more power for the companies.
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by Chardok 9y ago
That was on my mind as well. The pessimist in me was concerned that this article will either get /r/opiates banned or will become a honeypot for law enforcement.
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by Chardok 9y ago
I honestly believe drug addiction is a symptom of a greater issue in someone's life. There is no person who wakes up and says "I think I'll get addicted to heroin today"; it becomes a means of escape and relief from some
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by Chardok 9y ago
Every time I bring this up people look at me like I am insane for suggesting such a thing. What people don't think about is the extra societal costs associated with drug addition: thefts/violent crimes, prison costs, unproductive
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by Chardok 9y ago
The core of Reddit has become rotten not from the_donald; the site admins are 100% at fault. Trying to make their site 100% advertiser friendly has subsequently killed all transparency in what votes do, how subreddits are ranked, and killed
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by Chardok 9y ago
Your reasoning seems to ignore the evidence in this article; there does seem to be a business model of fraud and, even if he did lack a fundamental understanding of the stock market, I would hope we could all agree that action needs to be
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by Chardok 9y ago
In order for proteins to be produced, there is usually a very specific start/stop sequence that has to be present in order for the mechanism to take action. Most likely this is just "junk" DNA that has no physical manifestati
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by Chardok 9y ago
While I enjoyed the article, something about labeling a group of people by their gender and race really irks me (White men, with a capital W). I can't help but feel it betrays the original message, which is a small proportion of super
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by Chardok 9y ago
I honestly wonder how much of this has to do with the fact that it is associated with Facebook. Purely anecdotal, but in my gamer circles, seeing Facebook mentioned anywhere near video games is met with repulsion. Blizzard's choice to
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by Chardok 9y ago
Too right; it may help being able to just provide the answers, but homework made up a small percentage compared to the actual exams, which of course were done without any notes and were simple enough not to need a calculator. It may be diff
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by Chardok 9y ago
"The CIA even sabotaged a planned series of documentaries about their predecessor, the OSS, by having assets at CBS develop a rival production to muscle the smaller studio out of the market. Once this was achieved, the Agency pulled th
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by Chardok 9y ago
Since its entertainment, I can hardly think that "scared" would be an appropriate reaction to take anyways. Some good things to take from this article though: 1. The integrity of writing and original scripts are being altered to f
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by Chardok 9y ago
Looking at the broader scope of things, it seems to be that the idea of Americans filling low paying jobs directly competes with the relatively small pay these foreign workers are getting. The question is, are these businesses being artific
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by Chardok 10y ago
Feel like I am very far from the target audience of this article, especially as they start the article with "$2400" being somewhat reasonable for a dog. Sad to see all of these animals rotting in shelters while people spend that
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by Chardok 10y ago
He addresses this as that AI would be a poor hunter-gatherer, but is actually quite good already at specialized low thought jobs, and there are enough of those out there to cause some economic instability. Furthermore, AI doesn't have
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by Chardok 10y ago
Bingo. Just follow the money and see who profits from cannabis being illegal. 1. Can't put a patent on it and can literally grow it in your backyard - pharmaceutical industry is going to lose a large chunk of cash inflow from anti-naus
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by Chardok 10y ago
I agree with your points and wanted to add some more as to why I am wary in looking in a new Nintendo console. 1. Wii and the Wii U especially never truly lived up to their potentials. They release small minigames (Nintendo Wolrd is a good