CyanBird

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by CyanBird 5y ago
> lies, damn lies and statistics The first hard data that existed from global warming came from Exxon and a small team of scientists on the 70's or so, when they attached temperature sensors to a couple oil tankers and measured the
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> If there were far fewer people less carbon would be used/extracted. 1 American releases the same amount of co2 as ten people in Benin, let alone the amount of trash and general consumption This is not about the "amount of peo
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Yep, yep Wherever happens the planet will continue, same can't be said for modern human civilization on said new climatic landscape, wheat, corn, and other plants staple foods just didn't exist back then and heck knows if we'
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Yeah, it works very, very well, the basis of modern international trade networks It sadly has externalities such as compounding benefits of manufacturing, or the inherent nature of anarchism on international relations which as the model of
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by CyanBird 5y ago
You ought read the article rather than post your own mindless prejudices and mental cliches Hackernews styles itself of thoughtful discussion
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I completely fail to see what's the issue with what OP said, care to explain? It is completely accurate, algorithms are built by people whom live inmersed on their own temporary and geographically atomized cultures, just look at modern
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> I suspect you're right, this stuff isn't top-down. But it is, thats where Bernays enters on the picture with Manufacture of Desire and Manufacture of Consent through Propaganda and Mass Media imprints > “The conscious and
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They are a monopsony rather than a monopoly Joan Robinson studied labor and monopsony, her books are very illuminating for anyone interested
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> Collective bargaining takes away my right to bargain for myself But it doesn't, you can choose to not be part of the union
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These people are just inherently creative, just look at hearthstone which was a prototype "quickly made" by Brode and friends while inside Blizz They could easily create large IPs and games if they so desired/needed, after al
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> I think one big reasons why RTS are having trouble is, that loosing in an RTS, as a new player, can be one of the worst experiences in gaming Famously one of the Default Taunts on Age Of Empires 2[0] is *You played for two hours to die
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> is really the only major threat Soil degradation, ocean acidification, basic resource scarcity (running out of copper or phosphates for example) Others which come to mind that are "fixable" through technology vs psycho-cultur
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Asteroid, meteor, meteorite, aerolite I'd like to know if someone else knows other variations Asteroid: rock in space Meteor: asteroid in atmosphere (falling generally) Meteorite: meteor which touched ground Aerolite: rock in atmospher
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Ahh yes, Facebook has finally ascended and become Zombo.com, their final form
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Given that Israel already called a "new type of terrorism" when an ice cream company didn't feel comfortable working on the country anymore, then I'd say that we are not far from that at all
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"Meta verse" to me, includes some type of discussion, a "verse", but these days Facebook as a website does not have much "worthy" discussion going on at all, if anything to me this rebrand reads as "metasp
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When it comes to it, I would generally discourage from doing it, Le Monde Diplomatique is just heads and shoulders above the Economist on both breath of reporting as well as scope and coverage They also have Spanish and English editions bes
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Heavily disagree Le Monde Diplomatique or Voltaire Network are just infinitely better for acquiring a better macro perspective of the world, if anything Economist is just renowned for bounding the scope of debate
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HN does not welcome low value comments
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"Chaotic good" doesn't mean "Chaotic nice"
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You are seeing these issues because the piece is based on motivated reasoning The author has more than a few other pieces which helped push the US into invading Iraq back on 2003 And these are the same old tactics which were used to foment
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Rather the other way around, China is rushing to import Spyware from the western companies for their own use https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/oracle-social-media-surv...
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Just dont add the slant to the questions next time, it is just ...... not even unnecessary, it is counterproductive for you and everyone, to the other person is just as irritating as what I did to you with the previous reply + smiley Or alt
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Why delete the reply? It is an accurate angle, albeit inflamatory, after all that was the outcome of the Buffet bet vs HedgeFunds regarding the ROI of index funds But yeah, not sure if id say that they make money through luck "alone&
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> this attitude is a mental pretzel more akin to ideology than fact. Of course that's the case, because you are baking your own misleading slant into questions and then wondering why the output of the questioning process is not sati
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> They don't eat, sleep, debate, propose, or discuss. They just slam 24/7. Why are you attributing what they say, to what the media says they said? AOC didn't write that headline, a news editor did, for the explicit purp
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> Is this merely a neologism used to describe a phenomenon that was old before Cicero lost his head? Yep it is Only now there's reduced geographic friction from it, so the waves can get larger quicker, "social media deterritori
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This is the correct take, but, to do that is more difficult and "overall less markateable" to the public These areas where child labor is still a thing, they are generally backwaters where there is no sanitation let alone large sc
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It is But that doesn't make it untrue
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> It sucks up so much data straight to the Chinese government Do you have a source for this? At least in the case of the US all user data by law must remain in the country, wouldn't surprise me if the same happened on the entirety o

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