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by bezmenov 6y ago
> The firm’s research also found that social media news consumers skewed young — 48% of those who mostly used social media for news were between 18 and 29, for example. They also tended to have lower levels of formal education, as only 2
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Yes, it’s just a variation of don’t confuse the map for the territory , or the more general, don’t confuse the model for reality .
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Is the EU more or less cohesive than 5 years ago? 10 years ago? What's the trend?
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72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political influence(pewresearch.org)
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~5 floors is as high as you can go before needing an elevator.
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A greater shock for many is the complete lack of footpaths/sidewalks virtually anywhere outside of commercial districts or inner-most metros. The idea of walking anywhere is insane. To get from a typical suburb to the nearest business
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by bezmenov 6y ago
The worst part of visiting Japan is it spoils your enjoyment of every other destination thereafter.
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by bezmenov 6y ago
The issue is that the residential density of suburbia (the vast majority of Australia, Canada, NZ and the US) precludes mixed use zoning.
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New York Times plans to name Meredith Levien as new CEO(bloomberg.com)
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by bezmenov 6y ago
For those curious about Quantum computing, an excellent starting point: https://quantum.country/qcvc
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It's the selective enforcement of such clauses which a causing a stir.
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You're still overlooking the absolute scale. How many customers did peak, monopolistic AOL have? How many collective human hours are spent within the walled gardens of Facebook and Twitter daily?
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It's disingenuous to compare the relative reach of AOL in the 90s to that of Twitter and Facebook in 2020. In absolute terms, both Twitter and Facebook dominate contemporary discourse at a scale far surpassing any company prior.
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Rich belongs to the small class of industry speakers who are both insightful and nondull. Do yourself a favour if you haven't and indulge in the full presentation.
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> Can someone who thinks for themself arrive at "typical views"? If yes, then thinking for yourself does not imply anything about the views one holds. Can someone flipping a non-biased coin 50 times have heads come up every fli
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If all of your beliefs line up into neat little bundles, you should be suspicious because they’re prepackaged and put together. The vast majority of society have prescribed views, that is their views are derived from their group identity. W
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If all your views line up with the mainstream you’re most definitely not thinking for yourself though. Thiel in fact suggests a question framed in way to force people to think for themselves: > What important truth do very few people agr
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Cancel culture invariably effects the poor and powerless to a greater extent. The poor are shackled to their next pay check, the truely powerful cannot be cancelled.
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It’s usually 3–4 months of training to be a fully qualified flight attendant. Surely a pilot is already well-versed in 90% of that training material. A week or two training may be all that’s required.
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It's embedded in the human psyche. Thousands a day will step over a street beggar to begrudgingly buy a barely palatable coffee from the kiosk they're sitting beside.
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You need a substantial amount of capital to make the short position more profitable than $100k to begin with.
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> People usually refer to the bombing of Cambodia as if it had been unprovoked, secretive U.S. action. The fact is that we were bombing North Vietnamese troops that had invaded Cambodia, that were killing many Americans from these sanctu
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Instagram adds “Mute White People” sticker to stories(twitter.com)
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> Such is the power of the Narrative Fallacy — the backward-looking mental tripwire that causes us to attribute a linear and discernable cause-and-effect chain to our knowledge of the past. https://fs.blog/2016/04&#x
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It becomes really interesting once the other side of that bet can be crowdfunded. Someone with half a million to squander already has the means to disperse of others. Whereas an enemy of the people may have 10,000 detractors, who while othe
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They’re minutes away from dropping below two nines looking at Issues, Pull Requests, Projects . Other services look comparably unreliable.
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> In general, the victim of a struggle session was forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until he or she confessed. Struggle sessions were often held at the workplace o