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by balozi 6y ago
Your mind is playing tricks on you, my dear. The biggest problem in addiction is the rationalization.
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by balozi 6y ago
Alcohol is not any better.
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by balozi 6y ago
Why all the competing narratives? We can actually measure power produced and where the gaps occurred. Seems to me like this is a simple case where facts can be verified and corrective actions deployed. Political spin will not keep anyone wa
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by balozi 6y ago
Sports is content. Sports provide relatively low-cost, widely available and reliably engaging content. Fill the timeslots, sell more ads.
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by balozi 6y ago
Are you still working from home if you are working in your apartment located exactly where your office used to be?
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by balozi 6y ago
That's like fleeing CentOS for Oracle Linux.
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by balozi 6y ago
Predictably the problem here is a centralized education system. Break up or decentralize the school system. Make the decision making hyperlocal. Anytime you centralize power, crazy power-hungry people will try to capture it.
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by balozi 6y ago
I hope this is not laying the groundwork for developed nations to ship their plastic waste to Africa. China won't take the waste anymore so now we ship it to Kenya, to make paving bricks.
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by balozi 6y ago
History isn't what it used to be. Recent events suggest that Internet Archive too will cease to be as soon as it's content becomes politically or ideologically unpalatable. Enjoy it while you have it, don't count on it being
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by balozi 6y ago
You have to wonder, why would the hedgies pay her that kind of money for speaking engagements while she was still a civilian? Did they foresee that she would be their regulator in the near future?
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by balozi 6y ago
Well... they will start by redefining "market manipulation" to encompass all activity they now consider disruptive (also suitably redefined). This is America today.
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by balozi 6y ago
This thing is bigger than Robinhood. Watch for the misdirection.
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by balozi 6y ago
Whether any part of this story holds water can be debated by others. I don't know any of these people or their dealings, but a more interesting question comes to mind; if I were a powerful mogul (or two) and facing a litany of unsavor
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by balozi 6y ago
I for one expect this initiative to be thoroughly misused in pursuit of elitist ideological and political objectives. Keeping record is the most basic function of journalism. Without that, then what's the point?
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by balozi 6y ago
Not only will it be used as you describe, other far more nefarious upgrades or "enhancements" will be added on. It's not enough to identify the kids at the protest, now you can even send retribution their way from the comfort
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by balozi 6y ago
Maybe AWS was right, maybe they were wrong. Ditto Parler. All I know is that there is now a mental shift in our orgs where our cloud and infrastructure providers are now considered potential significant hostiles.
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by balozi 6y ago
There is already a vast shadow economy up and running in Asia, Europe and North America where crypto is king. That trade is not going back to the Dollar.
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by balozi 6y ago
I am very curious what Apple employees think about all the slave labor and child labor accusations. Do you think its fake news from haters? Is it all exaggerated? Is it some sort of misunderstanding? Is is just unsubstantiated rumors? Is it
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by balozi 6y ago
What exactly is a "police-style handset"? Definitions are important because soon we'll have journalist breathlessly writing about people arrested with police-style communication gear, military-style radios, and assault radios
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by balozi 6y ago
Consider the application of technosolutionism as described to other modern spheres, example climate change, where the economic stakes are extremely high for the ordinary citizen.
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by balozi 6y ago
Well...its our black-book now. Seriously, how is this not doxing? Or is there public interest in revealing private phone numbers. And I not objecting because I am on that list.
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by balozi 6y ago
Some mainstream media outlets seem to be going out of their way to spin a softer narrative on-behalf of Whatsapp/FB. They seem to believe that users may be too stupid to understand Facebook's moves and subsequent public relations.
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by balozi 6y ago
Free speech to hate speech, now 'harmful' speech, and discomforting speech will be probably next step. But that slippery slope is just a fallacy.
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by balozi 6y ago
Now the BuzzFeed article can be cited by other journalists/opinion writers and politicians when they weave the case for banning Y or Z. That's the same path that transformed run-of-the-mill rifles into scary "assault weapons.
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by balozi 6y ago
The last two paragraphs seem strangely familiar. Almost like I have read it somewhere else before.
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by balozi 6y ago
These social products are being marketed like tobacco cigarettes of old. Start by targeting kids with addictive and polluting products. Add the vaunted "network effect" and they'll find quitting ain't easy. Finally add &
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by balozi 6y ago
Nuance. An argument in favor of free markets in housing does not negate the need for tenant rights.
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by balozi 6y ago
Watch for propaganda in support of a cause.
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by balozi 6y ago
By now people can purchase negative Covid PCR test results at many international airports, sometimes for as little as $0.50. Entrepreneurial spirit is hard to tame.
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by balozi 6y ago
And even if we knew, we can never talk about it.

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