Super_Jambo

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by Super_Jambo 3y ago
Ban advertising supported information sources. If people want information they need to pay for it in order that the information serves them not the people with a budget for manipulation. You could I suppose allow adverts where the informati
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by Super_Jambo 3y ago
America's varied policing systems seem to be wildly worse than average for the developed west.
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by Super_Jambo 3y ago
My theory on this is that intelligence, language and culture are surrounded by very high local maxima and we only got over the hump and down into our minima by incredibly slim chance. So our original evolutionary advantages were persistance
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by Super_Jambo 3y ago
“the most ridiculous concept I have ever seen on these fora”. for some context I suspect this forum was the same place that gave us: "Natural Selection needs a new alien, like a Scorpian that hovars without flapping."
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by Super_Jambo 3y ago
As with anything complex there will be a lot of reasons. I think Saddams decision to sell oil denominated in Euros was probably influential. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeur...
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by Super_Jambo 3y ago
This is exactly it. We already have foreign state actors & profit maximizing corporate actors working against the average western citizens interest. They're already doing their level best to exploit those foolish and credulous to b
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by Super_Jambo 3y ago
If Kagi adds ads I'll leave it.
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
quantity has a quality all of it's own.
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
I'm really hoping the other predictions in Neil Gaiman's System Shock aren't also coming true. But I suspect they will... For the big ones I have it as 3/6 already. (Not detailing em to avoid spoilers :))
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Much easier for that consolidation to come about when those doing it are near the exit chute from the money printer.
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Aren't ya'll subsidizing the crap out of corn? This seems kinda "we tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" to me.
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Being able to create money out of thin air doesn't actually create the associated claim on value that the money represents. So you're looking at this in terms of how you interact with money in the existing system. But all else bei
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Sounds good, at my current kagi usage I barely topped 1k search in the highest month so far. Since I'll transfer to legacy professional I'll get 1k free so that's all good. Tempting to get a 1 year sub but then the limiting o
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Hah but then the right wing of the party took over because of the lefts poor electoral performance...
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Is that earners by PAYE or including dividends and capital gains. Because if it's just top PAYE owners you're missing out all the truly rich people who're tax efficient.
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Past performance may not be indicative of future results. Especially when you're predicting 80 odd years into the future.
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Are you sure it draws 40w or outputs 40w? I'd have thought to cut denim you'd need a laser outputting 40w?
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
>How exactly does sexism (or lack thereof) signal confidence? I think the argument they're making is that in a sexist culture all men will present with more confidence due to the belief that women are lesser. So the average woman wi
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
The title should be neoliberalism or free-market fundamentalists. There's nothing inherent in the private ownership of capital that stops regulations which force markets to be competitive. And the article isn't even really arguing
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
thank you!
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by Super_Jambo 4y ago
Outsourcing your moral decisions to the legal system seems a lot more dubious to me. I don't think you can claim a coherent moral philosophy when the morality of an action depends on the legal jurisdiction you happen to be standing in.
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
But monopolies are good for us and all regulation of companies is bad. Might be worth telling Matt Stoller about this. https://mattstoller.substack.com/
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
Even if you can construct a morally acceptable edge case it should still be illegal. In these extreme edge cases the people on the ground can be expected to break the law and break out the thumb screws. After all if you're willing to t
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
Spotify is too.
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
Humans must be using a language model for image recognition when reading though. Otherwise things like failing to spot the the is a duplicate word wouldn't happen so often.
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
I would attribute it to democracy. It's very hard to sell war to an electorate unless you can persuade them you're the 'good guys'. Which is harder to sell when you're openly butchering thousands of people.
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
I'm a big fan of Anathem but never made it through Cryptonomicon despite a few attempts. So I don't think this is necessarily true.
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
Yup, in the UK the local butcher started selling flour in clear plastic bags with a hand written sticker on it. I guess they had an existing relationship with flour wholesale to make their pie pastry and just re-bagged it in house.
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
America which claims global tax jurisdiction may have slightly different results.
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by Super_Jambo 5y ago
I suspect Bezos would have a more nuanced view.

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