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by alexc05 8y ago
Remember that Reddit is also a website with a global footprint. Many other places in the world find the near constant mass shootings abhorrent, feel the US’ obsession with the AR-15 is an abusive relationship, and that the arguments around
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by alexc05 8y ago
Here's hoping saner among the electorate heads prevail and "life" winds up meaning 2 years (or hell... 47 more days)
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by alexc05 8y ago
I think the thing that gets me most about his argument is the ignorance of nefarious actors and monopolies. It isn’t reasonable to say "free market, they’ll go out of business" if real people need to suffer while they do that. Loo
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by alexc05 8y ago
... and now he’s on this "all taxation is theft" stuff. Calling the government a thief. It’s so myopic... but we have people who take this stuff literally and they’re incredibly damaging to society.
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by alexc05 8y ago
I really reject his founding principle around the value of efficiency. The efficiency he declares as better appears to be in the axis of production of wealth and takes no consideration for the distribution of that wealth. The idea that ever
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by alexc05 8y ago
Palmer Luckey is a MAGA troll who donated at least $10k to pay people to "shitpost" during the 2016 election. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/23/oculus-ri... Why would anyone ta
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by alexc05 8y ago
"Investing" people who graduate from university earn more than people who don’t. Skills and thinking patterns developed in studying any advanced degree generalize to other pursuits. It doesn’t matter that the critical thinking ski
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by alexc05 8y ago
The buried lede here being that the US Defense Department is spending on & developing cutting edge AI technologies. What do they have that they're not telling the public about?
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by alexc05 8y ago
I was thinking that it sounded a bit high but OK for a 1 year contract, but when I read the article turns out it's over 2 years. At $88k per year that's totally fair.
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by alexc05 8y ago
I'm pretty much a microsoft fanboy but - We had a batch of surface devices at the office and they all had massive battery issues. Like that scary thing where it starts to expand and bend the metal. I think we had to mail it back to th
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by alexc05 8y ago
None of those references are primary sources or peer reviewed. I've also personally never heard of "the incomer". I feel like I'd prefer to take those claims with a grain of salt. It feels like a lot of work to try a
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by alexc05 8y ago
Ummm... given the global manipulation of political opinion by Russia this is a minimum required step. Brexit, Trump, other massive global destabilization has been delivered by using Twitter to artificially amplify destructive voices. Save t
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by alexc05 8y ago
But what are the damages? The calculable damages are likely the cost differences between Airbnb and hotel for the proportion of time you spend in travel. So maybe a few hundred to a few thousand over a few years? I’d think the cost of the l
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by alexc05 8y ago
Aren't TESLA's patents all openly available anyways? https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-y... I mean maybe some research espionage might steal a technology from them before they pa
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by alexc05 8y ago
Oh no... now that it is legal, a number of the publicly traded cannabis companies will be able to actually start selling the product they’ve been stockpiling over the last year. Everything we’ve seen for estimates is that even then, we’re o
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by alexc05 8y ago
What have you tried so far? Doom VFR Edition? Skyrim VR? VR porn? VR’s hype is easily justified.
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by alexc05 9y ago
... And the people responsible for the last 30 years of (and ongoing) denial will never be held to account. Devastating that these people have sold the world.
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by alexc05 9y ago
US National Safety Council estimated that there were 40,100 fatal car crashes in 2017 https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/02/15/nationa...
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by alexc05 9y ago
> Be sure to remind youtube of their power and responsibility after tragedy strikes. To be clear - they aren't actually responsible for an active shooter showing up on campus. It sounds like you're saying they could have some r
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by alexc05 9y ago
As far as I know, Toronto Canada is still in the running.
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by alexc05 9y ago
spam
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by alexc05 9y ago
Under the guidelines of the Clean Water Act by the EPA, silver iodide is considered a hazardous substance, a priority pollutant, and as a toxic pollutant.(10) Some industries have learned this all too well. .
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by alexc05 9y ago
He starts off with a straw man. The argument "It isn't a hack" requires people arguing that it was a hack. But actually the reporting is fairly clear that they didn't hack the data. The whole thing reeks of obfuscation
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by alexc05 9y ago
Cambridge Analytica CEO is filmed saying they would send "Ukrainian girls" around a political candidate's house to get them embroiled in a sex scandal - or set up a bribery situation to publish it on the internet. How they ge
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by alexc05 9y ago
The problem with a decentralized network is that bad actors with disproportionate resources can flood the system. Consider Russia & Cambridge Analytica - they would put hundreds and thousands of people on creating propaganda. There is n
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by alexc05 9y ago
I wonder if this is why they axed all of their "firearms sales" https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/21/reddit-bans-communities-... The social site has updated its policies to ban the trade
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by alexc05 9y ago
Amazon does that with games in that they're offering the lumberyard game engine (a fork of crytek) for free as long as you use AWS. Amazon ALSO makes Amazon basics branded knock off of the popular physical items in store. There's
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by alexc05 9y ago
The title is a totally unreleated to the article as a whole. Really felt like a waste of my time to click on it. Is there really so much value to wasting our time?
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by alexc05 9y ago
The first ~5 paragraphs about physical height? Why not write about his skin color or gender and see how that flies? Sorry for the language here - but fuck this article. The point is lost right out of the gates. In the age of "donglegat
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by alexc05 9y ago
I think the author said it in the article: Optimize for promotion. Work from day 1 to game the metrics. If it helps your metrics, do it, if it doesn't approach with caution. If you start that from day 1 you'd be 2 years ahead of t

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