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by adamsea 6y ago
There is a lot to criticize about the Obama Administration. Including the illegal and immoral drone strikes. But is Obama still President? No. I’m criticizing Trump because we are talking about now . My apologies - I did assume you were Am
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by adamsea 6y ago
Ok downvoters: If Trump isn’t an authoritarian, tell me what he is. Because he obviously doesn’t believe in our system of democratic elections.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> From around 1920-1970, we had progress on issues of representation, race, and gender, but otherwise, political behavior gradually drifted towards the Nash equilibrium. 1970-2020, progress mostly stopped, Um if nothing else a LOT in the
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by adamsea 6y ago
> My experience is that the stance the Democrats take is the opposite of the stance the Republicans take, and vice-versa. If one party flips on an issue, the other almost immediately flops. I’m sorry but that is way too reductive. For on
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by adamsea 6y ago
> The harder part is gaming our media. If attackers can help direct where voters vote with $$$, that's a cheap attack too. Let’s be real that’s basically a part of politics. That’s not an issue with elections per se. Plus it’s clear
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by adamsea 6y ago
I see what you’re doing - you point out someone else’s flaws but avoid the matter at hand and under discussion. Shame on you; you should be ashamed of yourself.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Um he incited the mob in the first place and his message also praised the mob; he’s a liar and manipulator and this isn’t a time to pretend that his second grade wordplay-cleverness deniability double language actually fools anyone. He’s th
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by adamsea 6y ago
I can’t believe this didn’t even break into the top five on HN. Can someone explain what I’m missing?
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by adamsea 6y ago
IMHO we need government regulation around social media. They’re publishers, in some new and novel form. Right now no social media company will get serious about targeted propaganda because it would cut into their profits. But regulation can
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by adamsea 6y ago
Baloney. First, two wrongs don’t make a right. Anyone in support of this seditious and violent behavior should be ashamed. Second, you have it backwards. Trump IS an authoritian - if today isn’t proof of that to you then I don’t know what t
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by adamsea 6y ago
So confused. The argument is simple. Something of value requires effort to create. That effort is called labor. One way we quantify the value created by the labor of people is with money. I think the argument can be boiled down to, “What is
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I know what happens to the producers and owners of those plants who fail to provide safe environment and products, or who commited fraud and got caught, Um it is the government that catches them and punishes them? I had a difficult ti
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by adamsea 6y ago
This. At the bottom is someone doing work, i.e. labor. Capital is a force multiplier of labor, so to speak, and also capital is originally created by labor.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Why do you only ask about fallible unions? Why not fallible corporations? My point is simple. These are all human institutions. They're not "problems" with "solutions". And, to answer your second question, I belie
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by adamsea 6y ago
Where does technology come from? Labor. The labor of knowledge workers , which is what software engineers are called by economists ...
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yes that can occur. Lots of things can and do occur. If we think unions are bad because they do bad things under certain circumstances then that should also apply to corporations, no? Worker exploitation, ignoring externalities and such? So
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I'm not sure what more you are entitled to. Entitled? Who's talking about entitled ? I thought we were talking about negotiation and leverage , since, you know, corporations are all about money and profit . Is there so
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Don't think we've ever seen Hollywood in the modern era without unions, so not sure how you can claim it's "undeniable" the industry is better off. We basically have no clue if it's better off or not. Um i
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by adamsea 6y ago
tl;dr I think the tech industry doesn't like to be criticized. That's a good point about renewable energy sources. I'd still argue it's reasonable to assume that ML will consume more power as use-cases for it grow (i.e.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Why not both? BTW what exactly do cops police what consenting adults do with each other these days? Honest question.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Birds Fell Out of the Sky in Southwest; Now We Know Why(juancole.com)
2 points by adamsea 6y ago|1 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
Lets spend that spy plane money on mental health professionals and stuff that actually helps people and lets us not use the police for everything all the time. AKA "Defund the police."
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by adamsea 6y ago
Not sure why folks are defensive? The article is mainly informational. TFA: "What does this mean for the future of AI research? Things may not be as bleak as they look. The cost of training might come down as more efficient training me
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by adamsea 6y ago
The irony is many companies would benefit from this in terms of productivity, employee retention, morale, etc — but the culture is such that it’s a heavy lift at this moment to do this.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Excellent summary. And to make it worse the police were poorly trained and did a number of dangerous things: - After the shooting it was over 30 MINUTES until an ambulance came for Breonna Taylor. What the fuck's up with that? It see
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by adamsea 6y ago
TFA: “ Evidence suggests that added sugars, particularly those in sweetened beverages, may contribute to obesity and weight gain, which are linked to higher rates of chronic health conditions like heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, the scie
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Louisville Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Will Be Fired(nytimes.com)
20 points by adamsea 6y ago|11 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
Love it. We’re downvoting being outraged about racism now, huh? Is that it?
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by adamsea 6y ago
I mean it’s either good science or it isn’t.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good point. That said, lots of things are hard :). Which I don’t think you’re necessarily disagreeing with.

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