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by anewdirection 6y ago
That still gives us a 100 million years or so. Even our best drilling/mining tech is quite inefficient thankfully. The result of burning that energy on the surface will hit us way sooner.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
We have helped liberate countries seeking democracy before. Was that just political cover, or would we help HK if they reached out? Who, if anyone, should be 'world police'?
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by anewdirection 6y ago
It would in some ways. Brain-drain from germany post ww2 decimated their hopes to rebuild, and exponentally accellerated our space, military, and energy sectors in ways that still influence US military dominance. I do, however agree, that t
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by anewdirection 6y ago
It is literally a symbol of having more money than you care about. The cost IS the feature. This is just ad copy.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
It switches sides every 15-25 years, as youd notice, surely. Parties have little in common with what they were even 20 years ago.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Why? Thats the whole problem.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
So censoring hitler online means less police violence? Please do show me the data. Baseless nationalism is just as unwelcome from any country as it is fron the USA. Stop it.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Newspapers are curated and responsible for what they publish.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Which neither Twitter nor Trump posess in great margin.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
'Are held' and 'can be done' are obscenely different to conflate them.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
I am as annoyed by all the feelings getting hurt as you are, but this guy is directing a sizeable amount of money in some backward intra-nationalist way, which only slows down progress, even if it is 'only perception'. It is open
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by anewdirection 6y ago
So when 'fact checkers' end up with a right-wing bias will that still seem prudent? History is full of people in power, expanding their powers only to see their opposition use them more effectively against them.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Privately owned areas are still often public (as opposed to publicly owned) spaces in the physical relam. While the digital is indeed different, you seem overly dismissive of this fact by omission and unnessarry capitolization.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
HN has many employees of faang companies as users. Some paid to be here. You can work the rest out yourself.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
After the 50th one, the novelty wears off and it just smells desprate. Don't do, or reward, this bs.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
I often hear it stated as "We disliked Hillary so much, we voted for someone worse".
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by anewdirection 6y ago
In the USA, anything seen from a public space, including the air, the street/sidewalk, even aimed at your yard, is legal. In most cases you can even film on someones private property if there is easement. There are exceptions, but rare
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Lots of things are celebrated in the media that are not quite true. While in some areas, on some days, renewables are outpacing polluters, their power peaks and wanes at different rates than demand. Coal is still the baseload energy generat
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by anewdirection 6y ago
The retoric that china had 'better response' is strong there. Again, like tin square, that is public and more or less ceded ground. Even if that was not the case, why would they not want more control over the conversation?
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Bingo. Its one of their biggest infosec ops. The rest are 'power users' and moderaters selling influence to the highest bidder. Its actually quite insidious.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
I too have noticed the big 3 search engines serving more *eddit links than usual. And without retyping the url, (old.) the comments are hidden anyway so they are effectively a shade worse than useless.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Isn't that lifestyle its own addiction? Maybe we shoud distinguish and not conflate some things. 1. Addiction (self-reinforing habit with negative outcomes) 2. Addictive activity (self-reinforcing habit) 3. Engauging in an activity kno
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by anewdirection 6y ago
At what point do we assert what we have known for years; that aggregted metadata is by its nature unethically privacy-invasive, and detrimental to human rights?
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by anewdirection 6y ago
Not so much the law, but how it has been crafted to apply online, and the sheer amount of malicious compliance by Google et al.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
I think making them optional or auditable would be a start.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
And yet adult contact is down overall, sex workers cannot communicate online anymore, and covid is seen as a 'nothingburger' by half the people I meet reguardless of political leanings. Never underestimate a good disinfo wave. Hel
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by anewdirection 6y ago
If buying a heated butter knife is "risk-taking" I am in the wrong timeline. Seriously, just say sales. This is a textbook marketing study.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
1. You yourself are muddling facts, and 2. the left wing seems to parrot it as well. The fact is, there was some some oddness between china and the WHO, be it influence, manipulated data or just the appearance of such, it is still not ignor
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by anewdirection 6y ago
It was from using vit-e oil as the base liquid, found exclusively in one individuals homemade THC carts (although others are suspected as having the same mistake). The media really dropped the ball on tht one.
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by anewdirection 6y ago
If childhood taight me anything, the minimum is just 2 buttons. Forward, reverse-left. Simple, usually effective, and maddenly oversimplified. I think I liked the one that only sent forward more, but it of course required a track. People fo

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