Gargoyle

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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Why do I "need" to trust the government to make the right decisions? What I "need" to do is keep a very close eye on government and demand that they be able to justify their decisions.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I am serious in that there is far too much potential public benefit in that data to keep it locked in the hands of a private corporation. In my personal opinion, it's the worst wealth inequality issue we face, as will become more and m
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Capitalist individualism will ultimately fail too. Nothing lasts forever.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Just imagine the public good to be found in Google's data. And Facebook's data. This data should all be turned over to the public so we can all benefit, ASAP. This is one of those rare topics where I can make a Modest Proposal s
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Hmmm. I'm a huge Woody Allen fan, but even so I'd have to say most of Annie Hall's value lies in its cultural impact. It's far from Allen's best work, but it is among his most accessible and most popular, which did
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
There's attitude enough on all sides here, that's pretty clear to me as a disinterested outsider.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Could have been an Exeloo, made by a company out of New Zealand. A guy I used to know was their US rep for a while, got a few installed in some subway systems in the US. I lost track of him and his toilet ventures, I wonder if they're
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
This is where you start training neural nets to recognize tree types and small-scale terrain configurations from google earth data. ;-)
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Well then adjust it to having enough evidence to mark it as cleared. If you can't accept that police will often know who committed a murder without having sufficient evidence, you're denying the messiness of the real world.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Knowing who the murderer was and having enough evidence to arrest the murderer are two different things.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
In 80-90% of real-life murders, there's no mystery who did it. It's all just basic evidence collection then move on. TV shows are of course centered around cases where the ID of the murderer is harder to prove. That's just b
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
We used them for a film festival I helped run almost 10 years ago now. We were a pretty shoestring operation at the time and needed to get our cut of the money from the first few days' sales to fund an event at the end of the festival
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I suspect that passage is more about wealth inequality.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I have this giant text file of things I come across that triggered a line of thinking. Mostly the purpose is for me to revisit it from time to time to remind myself of ideas worth considering a bit more. Anyway, one of the entries I come b
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
>>We need to fundamentally change how humans live on this planet If anyone wonders why some resist accepting climate change as a fact, the above statement gets to a big piece of the underlying puzzle. I strongly suspect that if cli
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
The existence of ways to work around a problem doesn't mean there isn't an actual problem.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
It's also the market rate in the affected cities. You begin to see the nature of the problem.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Or have a doctor tell you to stop engaging in risky sexual activity? It's self-destructive behavior just like overeating.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Accredited investors are no better at weeding out frauds, they just can generally afford to lose the money. There's a shocking level of fraud successfully targeted at "sophisticated" investors every year. Most of it just does
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Can you specifically name the content in a given government report that has convinced you this event took place?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
It didn't say anything about ignoring Russia. That's something you're attempting to attach to it.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Where has this conversation been shut down?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
> But neither have anything to do with Democrats. That's just not true. Democrats have been pushing the narrative that "Russian hackers" are undermining America, and pushing it quite aggressively. So it's completely
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
We're about 1000 miles from being able to say they even attempted anything. That's the point here.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Putin isn't involved in this story, so he's not the actual topic.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
It's just a pointless question to ask if middle class families can live in the city limits (an arbitrary border) in my opinion. The better question is do middle class families have to live as far away from their jobs in LA as they do i
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
LA is a MUCH bigger city than San Francisco, especially in terms of geography. I'm not sure an meaningful comparison can be made as a result. There are certainly areas of LA at least as big as the total area of SF where middle class fa
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Much of the city of Los Angeles is rent-stabilized, meaning rent can only increase up to 3.5% a year as long as the tenant stays there. But when the move out, the rent can reset to market rates. I just moved out of a place in Studio City, p
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
How often do people change who the vote for based on news? People make their decisions about voting and stick to them. 99.99% of the news that could change their vote is then rationalized away.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
The timing of the release of this document, at the same time as the announcement of sanctions on Russia for the hacking, can't be overlooked. It's quite reasonable to assume the release of this report was intended to create the im

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