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by aazaa 7y ago
I've seen some online cheering Stallman's resignation from MIT. I suspect they'll also be cheering about this resignation as well. But this is nothing to cheer about. Regardless of what low regard the man might be held as a p
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Last week, Motherboard published the full email thread in which Stallman wrote that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims in his campaign of trafficking were “entirely willing." Stallman also argued abou
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by aazaa 7y ago
Was this his only MIT affiliation?
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by aazaa 7y ago
> I would also like to clarify that in some headlines, including this Daily Beast one, Stallman is said to have defended Epstein, which is not technically true. Rather, Stallman was defending Marvin Minsky. I directly emailed and correct
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by aazaa 7y ago
An unusual (and worrying) part about this incident is how drones are being used, not with an explicit military goal in mind, but rather for the purpose of economic strangulation. Like terrorist operatives, drones are relatively cheap and ex
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by aazaa 7y ago
This reminds me of a certain line of discussion about WWI. The leaders of the countries involved looked to the last war for clues on how to fight the next one. Except in the case of WWI, mechanization and the fruits of the industrial revolu
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by aazaa 7y ago
Germany has profited immensely from the use of the euro in foreign trade. Had it kept the Deutschmark, German exports would be by some esteems 25% more expensive than they are now, given the strong fiscal position of the country. Germany is
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by aazaa 7y ago
How so? The Libra proposal kept its value constant with respect to a basket of currencies.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations” What a bizarre statement. Providing for security is also inherent to sovereignty of nations, but private security firms flourish. It's a
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Man being fired brings emotional support clown to meeting(nypost.com)
15 points by aazaa 7y ago|3 comments
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Income Share Agreement(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aazaa 7y ago
I can't help but consider the wider background of this story. Across the country, high schools have been cutting shop classes. Administrators push 4-year college as the only viable option. Anything else is increasingly viewed as irresp
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by aazaa 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. > It is clear what Mozilla needs to do: Mozilla can and should revert the change and allow users to easily opt-in. And to select or enter the DoH provider instead of defaulting to Cloudflare. Buried lede is
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by aazaa 7y ago
> "Amazingly, a vehicle had plainly [been] visible on a Google Earth satellite photo of the area since 2007, but apparently no-one had noticed it until 2019," according to the report. This sounds like a job for machine learning
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by aazaa 7y ago
Doesn't mention a very important factor: the amount of stuff Americans own. All that stuff needs to get put somewhere. Over the decades, Americans have decided that it goes into garages (pushing parked cars out onto the street) and bed
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by aazaa 7y ago
> “We have to worry about all the people who are detained right now,” said Servine. “Where will they end up?” Along those lines, what's the plan for dealing with the inmates from other prisons that this legislation will make ineligi
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by aazaa 7y ago
> DoH means that Firefox will concentrate all DNS traffic on Cloudflare, and they send traffic from all their users to one entity. Why does DoH necessarily mean that Cloudflare will be handling the traffic? The article barrels right to t
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by aazaa 7y ago
Buzzwords aplenty, but not one word about what this does for patients. Count me skeptical.
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by aazaa 7y ago
I'd take issue on two points. First, "wallets' don't exist in the Bitcoin protocol. Second, the tool being used is not sophisticated enough to list the inputs and outputs, giving the false impression that something unusu
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by aazaa 7y ago
The thesis seems to go something like this: UBI eliminates the last bargaining chip the masses have - labor. Without workers, there can be no strikes. With everyone dependent on the UBI for livelihood, nobody could afford to oppose the syst
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by aazaa 7y ago
> California and the rest of the Southwest should be abandoning places like California City, IMO, not building them up. Maybe, but history has repeatedly followed a different path. Southwestern desert cities find a way to get water. How
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Although areas of California City have not developed as expected, California City has grown from 3,200 people in 1985 to over 14,000 in 2018. Cerro Coso Community College closed escrow on 22 acres (8.9 ha) in the heart of California Ci
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Barhydt said that Facebook had considered all the options, including Bitcoin’s scaling solution, the Lighting Network. Would be interesting to know what it would take Facebook to reconsider Lightning. The technology has been advancing
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Despite the Myers-Briggs test being rejected by mainstream science, people like him are leading its online resurgence. This claim pops up throughout the article, but without evidence. What would be an example of an unambiguous scientif
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by aazaa 7y ago
No evidence presented other than easily faked screenshot. Crowd goes wild. Pass. At a minimum, an independent link to image and the URL for the image on the Post's website should be easily found. Neither are.
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Visby Lenses(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> "Starting today, we're launching Tesla Insurance, a competitively priced insurance offering designed to provide Tesla owners with up to 20 percent lower rates, and in some cases as much as 30 percent," Tesla announced on
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by aazaa 7y ago
In a nutshell: 1. interest rates on government bonds, perceived as the safest asset class, have fallen to historic lows, even below zero in many countries 2. pension funds' expected rate of returns have barely budged since the 1970s (7
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by aazaa 7y ago
This store has changed a lot. A friend and I visited the Fry's on Lawrence Expressway back in the late 80's. Across the street from WeirdStuff. I'd never seen anything like the selection of stuff. We bought several 256-bit me
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by aazaa 7y ago
I find the most important part about reading a book to be what happens before I start. Specifically, the process I use to select what to read. We're given a very small amount of time in life, and reading a meaty book, especially non-fi

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