abrahamepton

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by abrahamepton 2y ago
If it looks like a Nazi salute and is done by a Nazi to honor another Nazi while adoring Nazis cheer, why do I care that you think it’s not Nazi?
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by abrahamepton 2y ago
You can’t name one single lie. If so, please do.
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by abrahamepton 2y ago
Assuming that the age field is the only thing being used for determining payouts is really wildly naive. If you wanted to game SSA, this would be the dumbest and easiest-to-catch way to do it. Your other garbage about how frontline worker e
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by abrahamepton 3y ago
http://flow.epton.org - inspired by note taking in high school debate (“flowing”), the idea is to better represent a debate by breaking it up into topics and exchanges and visualizing it to make it easy to consume and evaluate.
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by abrahamepton 4y ago
Not only does that not make sense…it doesn’t make sense! Why would unpayable ransoms be higher? And my argument is that in fact, “open[ing] up the ease of payment” enables a new form of monetizing activity, so it is a new incentive because
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by abrahamepton 4y ago
BTC here is synecdoche for all crypto. Silly crypto flavor of the day X doesn’t avoid the ransomware problem at all.
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by abrahamepton 4y ago
So you don’t disagree that extortionists use crypto to monetize their illegal activity at scale.
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by abrahamepton 4y ago
Huh? The argument is that they commit crimes and receive ransoms in BTC that they can then convert to USD, EUR. This is a new incentive to commit crimes that simply didn’t exist before; wire transfers and the like are not a good substitute,
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by abrahamepton 4y ago
These expectations go both ways: it used to be that most jobs were stable, long-lasting and well paid. I live in a 100 year old house in Seattle whose first occupants were an immigrant janitor and his homemaker wife. Today most of our neigh
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by abrahamepton 4y ago
Yeah. I've been on those sidewalks too. "People are passed out, possibly dead" is...hyperbolic. It's a real issue, I grant you, but there's a looot of hyperbole. It's not that bad, except in a few specific corn
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by abrahamepton 4y ago
Lol. I live in Seattle, with a kid, on a block with tons of kids, in a neighborhood with tons of kids. It's fine. Seriously. It's great, actually. WTF are you talking about.
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
This is so f’ing stupid, and in that way perfectly epitomizes what’s so broken about crypto. Nobody wants to run their own bank, which ALSO means nobody wants to use Jim’s shady internet bank or their buddy’s bank or their mom’s bank or or
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
> Or perhaps it's a matter of personal principle. Personal conscience and conviction used to be held sacred in the US ... to the point that conscientious objectors wouldn't be forced to fight in wars It's a great argument,
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
I don’t understand why it matters what Haugen believes - whether in “no encryption” or space fairies or whatever - instead of what she proved, which is the profoundly amoral and dishonest nature of the company.
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
Mounk is famous for writing exactly this piece, over and over again, with only the names changed. As long as the person getting “canceled” is in some way conservative, Yascha Mounk (and Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi) will be there to write thi
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
Having worked at a media outlet, it's not particularly credible that they "ignored" it. Maybe some of them did. But if the Washington Post and Buzzfeed (who are also, uh, media sources themselves) FOIA'ed 3200 pages of F
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
Just read that and...there's nothing. Fauci's one of the most prominent people on the planet, dealing with one of the worst pandemics in recent human history, so I'd honestly expect his emails to contain way more interesting
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
Was it massive? My impression was that it was exactly what you'd expect - basically a nothingburger, a few interesting tidbits, most of the sensational stuff was taken out of context and/or already known and/or flatly misrepr
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
Yep, I have! Homelessness is a profound and society-wide problem, with no easy answers unless you consider "spend way more money, build way more housing" an easy answer (which I do). Until we do those things, it should be no surpr
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
Muckraking implies at least a casual desire to stick to the facts, which is entirely absent from Sinclair-owned stations.
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
That piece, and KOMO's larger project, are toxic right-wing propaganda. Please don't consider that a reliable source.
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
There's a great book on ~roughly this topic - Ghettoside, by Jill Leovy. The thesis is that police in some cities (her work is in LA, but I lived in Chicago for a while and the idea transfers seamlessly) do an abysmal job of solving ho
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
There are serious, devastating critiques of Bitcoin. There are no serious rebuttals to those critiques, but plenty of people "involved in the industry" are making a lot of money from BTC, so it's no surprise they've conv
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
It’s a pretty silly argument. Maps, android, gmail, translate, docs, mapreduce, kubernetes, tensorflow come to mind off the top of my head. Honestly it’s a stupid contention. Apple’s awesome but the list of “great” things they’ve done is wh
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by abrahamepton 5y ago
Here you go; fits 4 kids easily and is electric so you won’t smell bad: https://bunchbike.com/products/the-original-electric-cargo-b...
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by abrahamepton 6y ago
This is pretty damn incoherent. > the core reason for cryptocurrencies; escaping inflation and control Maybe in a whitepaper. In the real world, it's mostly about speculation and enabling crime. > Law and order stands on the back
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by abrahamepton 7y ago
I've worked at Google and a newspaper (Chicago Tribune). I can guarantee you that a room full of Google SWEs could not start producing an edition of the Trib one day later, though they could absolutely put words into articles. There&#x
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by abrahamepton 7y ago
The premise is not, even remotely, "humans can't be trusted to talk to one another" but rather, "humans have spent our entire existence as a species talking to each other in a different way than we have begun to in the l
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by abrahamepton 7y ago
No, the notion is more like "the Internet enables a fundamentally different kind of communication than we've grown up with, and we should rethink our assumptions accordingly." It's just not like other kinds of human comm
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Multiple senior members of a Presidential campaign have either pled guilty or been convicted of serious felonies, and you think the ones to blame are the FBI? I mean I think the FBI has a lot to answer for, here and on plenty of other issue

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