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by Jensson 9mo ago
> I guess I needed to rail against every type of capitalism at the start for you to appreciate my position earlier. No, your position earlier was wrong according to what you are saying here, you said Facebook and Myspace didn't have
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> The extractive profit seeking entities don't "out-compete" they just use their capital in unregulated conditions to strip mine economies and poison capitalism to become sociopathy So they did out-compete them? You saying
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> That's not necessarily reflective of capitalism as an abstract but geo-political reluctance in regulating its very worst excesses. That capitalism needs to be regulated or it results in these toxic outcomes is core to capitalism,
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> Quakers built plenty of capitalistic entities that were primarily interested in profit but cared more for the long term with more of an eye on social and spiritual purpose. And those were replaced by profit seeking enterprises, that is
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> So you are saying I am not an average person because I have the willpower to simply not install the TikTok app or watch short form video on any platform? Yes, since more people use Tiktok than not. The average person is also fat today,
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> The algorithm puts you in control a little bit more. Why not let you choose to get a less addictive algorithm? Older algorithms were less addictive, so its not at all impossible to do this, many users would want this.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
Why is it good that you need self control to not get slop? Its much better if you can just turn that off and relax rather than having to stay alert to avoid certain content that it tries to trick you to serve you more slop. Distancing yours
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> its not necessarily "capitalism". Think about how Myspace was, or early Facebook, that was capitalism but didn't have the same issues. No thats exactly capitalism, capitalism ensures processes gets more and more efficien
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by Jensson 9mo ago
Yeah, Epstein was removed since he didn't have much power compared to country leaders and so on. Even the richest people of the world has very little power compared to an authoritarian country leader.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> The source of most of the corruption I see in the world today is wealth, and specifically wealthy people paying people off to get their own way This is so wrong, its not expensive to bribe politicians so higher taxes wouldn't stop
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by Jensson 9mo ago
That is not the issue, any potato soup recipe would be fine, the issue is that it might fetch values from different recipes and give you an abomination.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
Are you sure about that? Most people don't remember all the math they went through in middle school, typically you go through a ton of concepts including probability and statistics and angles and shapes and so on. You should have learn
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by Jensson 9mo ago
People probably didn't see the other post, but both posts are several paragraphs and posted the same minute. No human would do that. Its also a new account that only posted these two posts.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> Coding is not at all like working a lump of clay unless you’re still writing assembly. Isn't the analogy apt? You can't make a working car using a lump of clay, just a car statue, a lump of clay is already an abstraction of o
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by Jensson 9mo ago
No, you randomly get cancer since cancerous mutations happens randomly. Environment can just affect chance of getting cancer, it doesn't give you cancer directly and there is no way to completely avoid cancer risk. For example even if
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> in 2000 only needed to make something and it was good enough. now you need marketing budget of 10 000$ and skills for that also You needed much more marketing budget in 2000 than today, I think you have that reversed. There is a reason
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> Dramatically improved Jira usage -- better, more descriptive tickets with actionable user stories and clearly expressed requirements. Dramatically improved github PRs. Dramatically improved test coverage. Dramatically improved document
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by Jensson 9mo ago
If its a problem for you, then yeah. If you never get accused of using AI then no.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
You admit it yourself here: > I run a marketing agency. We use Claude, ChatGPT, Ahrefs, Semrush. Same tools as everyone else. Same access to the same APIs. Since you use it for your job of course you use it for this blog, and that will m
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> Given the consistency and speed of flags though, I don't think #2 is just "organic" flagging. Thousands of people view these very quickly once they hit the frontpage, its enough 0.1% of those are willing to flag to see c
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> My view is that these are essentially the same group. "Not wanting to see politics" is itself just a partisan view in favor of whatever the Status Quo currently is. So if you're going through and flagging articles descri
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by Jensson 9mo ago
The presidential candidates the democrats presented. Trump didn't win this election, democrats lost it by not offering a candidate people wanted to vote for.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history. the success rate after fascists were elected was 0%. Ergo Trump isn't fascist since he already was elected and democracy removed him once before. Otherwise they hav
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by Jensson 9mo ago
British pounds were the global reserve currency, then when they took too much debt it stopped and it was very bad for them. People will stop using your currency as a reserve currency if you abuse it too much.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
Drought doesn't mean "abnormally dry" though, it means lack of rain resulting in water shortage. And California has had a lot of water shortages.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
> If it was just for ads they wouldn't even bother announcing it as a "feature", they'd just do it. Its a feature for advertisers, and investors also wanna know. Did you think you are the customer?
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> I'm not sure where you've gotten this information, because it's completely untrue. For example, he made a quite famous offer to the southern states on September 22, 1862 That offer was not to the confederacy, he refused
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> Most of the realpolitik of “states rights” is really about wielding tyrannical power locally. I thought it was so states could knowingly house illegal aliens or illegal drug businesses without doing anything. Normally states wouldn&#x2
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by Jensson 9mo ago
Lincoln refused to negotiate with them, so not sure what you mean. He only accepted unconditional surrender by them. The southern states tried to negotiate with Lincoln before the war broke out but he refused and never budged on that.
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by Jensson 9mo ago
Women got their rights without a large group of violent female terrorists threatening violence, so you are wrong. Feminism has been the most successful liberating movement in history and it happened basically without any bloodshed.

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