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by blancheneige 8y ago
correct. they're just overpriced sleeping bags.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
>At least if we're talking about hostile nation-state sponsored bot networks and influence campaigns. typical mumbo-jumbo of ominous sounding buzzwords that hinge on nothing but a laughable DHS report and the same intelligence agenc
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by blancheneige 8y ago
See this strikes me as very representative of the whole misunderstanding surrounding his policies (whether intentional or not). You seem to conflate his intention of reducing the influx of immigrants with some kind of intrinsic xenophopbia
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by blancheneige 8y ago
Right, if only that's all they were doing. Just innocent verbatim reporting and clear contextual analysis instead of ludicrous and deliberate mischaracterizations of every single one of his talking points. How many times have I read ab
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by blancheneige 8y ago
I think establishment outlets is a better characterization than "right wing". think of CNN and Fox News as two vectors with left and right components, but both conveniently adding up to a net upward direction (just look how excite
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by blancheneige 8y ago
>free advertising you mean 24/7 attempts at character assasination?
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by blancheneige 8y ago
> Particle physics is better off than ever. yeah but at what cost? how many more billions of taxpayer money need to be poured into this only to further push the theoretical constraints of our parameter space?
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by blancheneige 8y ago
this has to be edgy atheists' worst nightmare.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
if you are a EU citizen you do not have to donate. your contribution is automatic whether you've asked for it not.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
there are places here that will let you vote for the president of the united states without requiring proof that you are a US citizen. what do you expect.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
for anyone curious about the 1719 financial crisis mentioned in the first paragraph, I recommend this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEVmQZ1QfM or read about John Law's system: http://www.mshi
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by blancheneige 8y ago
my favorite by far was the very first thread on the Snowden revelations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830633 comment by comment you could sense the earth shattering awareness slowly setting in, or how the HN crowd
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by blancheneige 8y ago
> You're comparing unrelated "standards". The case isn't about the health and well-being of social networks (...) That's a little too convenient. Neither cases are about "well-being" of social networks
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by blancheneige 8y ago
so nothing can be done about bots posting near instant and often off-topic responses to every single one of Trump's tweet? not that it bothers me the slightest, but I find it to be a concerning case of double standard given all the all
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by blancheneige 8y ago
I can't claim I'm familiar with the CIS. That said, I'm surprised there aren't some readily accessible official statistics on the matter. You'd think that's something the US census bureau or some other departme
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by blancheneige 8y ago
see my comment above. the job market these people are supposedly propping up is going to get wiped out by automation in a few decades, thus only exacerbating the problem.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
well, that seems to be a bit of an asymmetrical argument. sure, less taxpayers means less tax revenue. but that's only because the work force has been partly replaced by automation, with all the implied savings. you have think about wh
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by blancheneige 8y ago
https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrant-and-Native-Hous... >In 2012, 51 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) reported that they used at least one welfare program during the year, comp
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by blancheneige 8y ago
what's the matter with a shrinking population? we keep hearing how automation is going to put so many people out of work anyway. a lower economic throughput isn't dramatic if the population gets proportionally smaller. not to ment
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by blancheneige 8y ago
supposed to be a bonding experience where you get to show your true commitment. the whole paraphernalia is usually lost on everyone
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by blancheneige 8y ago
I think the HN crowd would be baffled by the shit we had to do for pledging. Not at S&B mind you, another ivy equivalent.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
we're not talking about mainstream media here. ;)
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by blancheneige 8y ago
Seen differently, you may also notice that liberal discourse can only thrive under censorship.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
>conspiracy theories about the Mueller investigation Surely you meant the actual conspiracy theory Mueller is investigating?
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by blancheneige 8y ago
you seem to be tacitly implying that better outcomes will come from those government subsidized endeavors rather than the revolution happening in the same field from the private sector. if that's your claim it's a ludicrous one. m
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by blancheneige 8y ago
what you are referring to are the top 1% of researchers in their fields from whom you constantly hear about. the other 99% which account for the majority of grant money just keeps peddling nonsense for a living just so you can hear about th
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by blancheneige 8y ago
ultimately the same people as in literally not the same people? the one with a vision to improve and unleash a global network from its inception at DARPA or CERN vs those who made the choice to work on sending pointless rovers in outer spac
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by blancheneige 8y ago
as a physics PhD who spent 5 five years working with top cosmologists from around the world, I think I can provide a good answer: "studying the universe" today amounts to endlessly churning out rehashed fairy tale theories on arxi
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by blancheneige 8y ago
not sure what point you where trying to make with this analogy. hierarchies are an emergent property of every self-assembling structure -- we all started from the same unicellular organisms after all.
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by blancheneige 8y ago
homelessness is the societal manifestation of the lower end of the bell curve. period. anyone who's interacted with homeless people knows this. yes there are exceptions, and no they do not make up the bulk of the distribution. putting

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