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by M_Grey 10y ago
...Who also made and make lots of money. I don't think that anyone is disputing that absolute scumbags can stay in power if they make people money, but Uber... loses... money.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You still haven't explained why it's dangerous to make this prediction, you've just disagreed with it.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Compare the average <$1000 fridge/freezer combo, with a Sub Zero model. My mother has one she's kept running for over 25 years... Meanwhile my cheap apartment-scale fridge was made with chewing gum and hope.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's actually the series in which he makes the observation I was paraphrasing. I found that show pretty entertaining actually, and oddly satisfying. Edit: I think it might have been the stand mixer episode. I also strongly recommend
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well, the NYT has a weekly circulation of about half a million, and Limbaugh gets a weekly audience of 20 million. As to who clicks through a google link to their site? I don't know. I don't think that's anything like "c
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by M_Grey 10y ago
He has about twenty million weekly listeners.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well that, and a home appliance doesn't cost 1/7th of your annual budget anymore. Some things were built to last because to justify the expense, they had to last. James May (unusually) made a very good point that the "good
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by M_Grey 10y ago
In the most polite and urbane way possible, he's calling them toxic; in a world full of pretty toxic people and practices, he's calling them out. Until this moment I wasn't sold on the idea that Uber was going to actually die
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by M_Grey 10y ago
>the more voices the better Remember that the next time you try to hear your own voice in a stadium. It's an old trick to say, "I want to hear what you all have to say... at once." Then smile as people drown each other out
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's just not even close to being true, for at least half of the country. You're not controlling anything if an order of magnitude more people listen to Rush Limbaugh than read your paper. For a huge section of society, the NYT
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Realistically speaking, when would you say the NYT last controlled the political narrative? I would argue that it's not a recent loss of control, so implying that this is a case of sour grapes strikes me as unlikely to come close to th
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by M_Grey 10y ago
When was the last time the NYT was the king of anything? Rush Limbaugh and his type have been dominating for a couple of decades now.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I see... your description reminds me of how I thought about physics when I was 9. I was big on the "wonder" of it, light on the math and the science. I can see how enthusiasm and ignorance would be a potent combination, without an
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm not missing the point, I'm contesting it and asking for some evidence of this extremely subtle creep from a place like /r/TheDonald to a place like /r/AskScience.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
People who believe in things like Pizzagate are firmly in the 50% I was talking about (to be charitable), and more realistically are part of an extreme base. The degree to which that kind of thing is the result of shilling on Reddit, or jus
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That was always and is universally true, and is in fact one of the basic facts of Chans... and why it appeals mostly to the very young. Chans mostly reflect the teenagers who are their majority users... a lot of style, occasionally a litt
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by M_Grey 10y ago
In theory that would work, but in practice that kind of thing dies within 1 minute because, "It's not seeking an objective explanation" or is a "Loaded question". More often than not, in subreddits like that, you ge
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by M_Grey 10y ago
He didn't argue anything, he asked for evidence to support a claim, which is totally reasonable, unlike your reply.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Just because someone takes offense at a statement, doesn't make that statement an insult. I'm sure that Richard Nixon despised being called a liar, doesn't mean that he wasn't a liar or that it was an insult. Sometimes a
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's actually the definition of childish disregard and lack of empathy to be amused by, or indifferent to the suffering of animals. It's not uncommon, but it's the sign of a basic failing of character and cognition.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'd be interested if you could find some posts in AskScience that were remotely successful, which you could reasonably argue were made by shills.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It probably depends on what your subreddits are. For me, it's Science, Space, Askscience, ELI5, and Aww.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's not an "untreated lawn", that's a garbage dump; I don't think anyone is defending that.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Potentially, sure, and if you're in an underground group like Anonymous you might want to expect more of the "insanely difficult" types because you represent a high value target. As we've seen some recent elections thoug
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It can be insanely difficult, but at the same time, does it matter? If what someone has to offer is that pathetic, I don't honestly care who or what they are; life is too short for that.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Shilling is not magic. There is an intersection between the following: Most people are average, read: thick. Shills inevitably target broad groups, because it's not cost-effective to do so in thousands of tiny communities. You can&#x27
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by M_Grey 10y ago
This isn't a matter of "overcoming the laws of physics"... what's being conjectured in the article may or may not be a physical reality.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Just run under the assumption that all information is subject to intentional and unintentional bias, and requires careful analysis. It's a safe assumption most of the time, and you need to form that habit of thinking anyway. To be hone
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Do you think this is a function of marketing, or genuine ignorance as to what can be accomplished? (Or both?)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yes, but it's a well-defined problem with known solution. As complexity goes, it's not exactly the n-body problem in an exact numerical simulation.

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