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by blfr 5y ago
Easier lobbying for increased immigration, H-1B visas, and other "necessary" sources of (easily exploited) labour to avoid rising wages.
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Things the Establishment Got Wrong About Covid-19(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
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by blfr 5y ago
That's true but doesn't entirely deny the value of a VPN. For example, using a VPN protects your privacy with the endpoints you connect to: Facebook or even some random forum administrators only see your VPN address and don't
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by blfr 5y ago
Clothing has become almost “too cheap to meter” and we have things pretty good now when it comes to food yet people seem to be poorly dressed and obese. Many other technological and social improvements also feel hollow to me for that re
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by blfr 5y ago
SSH is great and full-featured, and mosh uses it for the initial connection, but try mosh if you haven't. I did years ago and never looked back. It reconnects immediately over any connection and works so well you can miss 15% packet lo
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by blfr 5y ago
I'm more worried about appearing than disappearing messages and wish there was a spoiler/nsfw tag for them so that recipient's device only displays messages (and especially attached images) after a tap or some other deliberat
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by blfr 5y ago
Simple and easy are not the same. It is simple if not always easy.
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by blfr 5y ago
The facts didn't change. Only the narrative did.
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by blfr 5y ago
It's not mathematics and, unlike in the atomic era, they're not becoming useful.
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by blfr 5y ago
I don't think John von Neumann would be particularly impressed by fusion reactors that don't really work after decades in development or papers with thousands of authors out of CERN.
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by blfr 5y ago
This works for obvious cases like cheating. Kinda like the legal system. This won't work for political speech and we knew this. Most legal systems are set up to avoid having courts judge political speech in most cases. Even then it wil
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by blfr 5y ago
I assumed you would know since you're interested in the subject. In general, the whole colonization of the west was a fairly understaffed affair. For example, the French and Indian War involved well under 100 thousand combatants, maybe
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by blfr 5y ago
Then you have the problem of bias in human reviewers. I don't think you can solve the problem of censorship with just a few more hires.
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by blfr 5y ago
Quite the opposite. It's extremely fashionable nowadays. There are countless books on slavery, Indian genocide, and related subjects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project However, American imperialism si
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by blfr 5y ago
Communists didn't invent genocides, prisons, concentration camp, slavery, or forced labour. But they do hold the world record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
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by blfr 5y ago
Russian power has been oppressive since long before communism but it was communists who managed to turn that oppression into full fledged genocide machine killing 20 million people in USSR alone with further tens of millions going though th
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by blfr 5y ago
> What is the reason people lose the ability to appropriately parse and manage themselves in the context of sex? Its centrality to a billion year old process of sexual selection and reproduction.
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by blfr 5y ago
> polish government is breaking polish law, in particular the constitution This is either not true or impossible to tell because Polish constitution was really poorly written with very many issues being delegated to lower acts. The Const
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by blfr 5y ago
Ah yes, the efficiency of the free market. Schools in California are government-run, zoned, and compulsory. A complete opposite of the free market.
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by blfr 5y ago
I use Linux, discuss political ideas on private, members-only forums, and share memes over Signal. This is an excellent setup... if you want to have conversations with your fellow computer janitors. This is no way to connect to other people
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by blfr 5y ago
In the first experiment, researchers sought to observe how parents would interact with their children (in this case, 3-year-olds) after the parents were asked to describe times in which they had recently experienced scarcity. A control gro
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by blfr 5y ago
That's exactly how it works, just without VoLTE and VoWiFi.
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by blfr 5y ago
> Turns out AT&T operate on a whitelist system [1] ( What ? ) with a list [2] of phones. Sort of surprised but also not so surprised coming from an US Mobile Carrier. Pretty sure all carriers in Poland operate on a white list of phon
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by blfr 5y ago
> Reality: most end users make fully rationale [sic] decisions to optimize their time and energy to get their work done. Not true in my experience. Most end users act in ways that are both less secure and less convenient than they could.
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by blfr 5y ago
In an ideal world, maybe. In the real world it means treating a study on 31 American undergrads as scripture (the studies that failed to replicate its result go unpublished), regulation based on a study sponsored by the regulated, or a diet
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by blfr 5y ago
Scientism has become the state religion and companies are paying for indulgences. At least they made it open access. At first I thought they bought out the entire issue so that people couldn't read it.
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by blfr 5y ago
In the US, legal adults between the ages of 18 and 21 can decide to join the Army, travel to exotic lands and die there. The same adults are not trusted to make the decision of buying and drinking beer. They're trusted to join the Ar
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by blfr 5y ago
There are more good films than ever being made now - including comedies Could you give a few examples?
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by blfr 5y ago
I've read another story about his IRA that I cannot find now and he started with his PayPal shares, then used proceeds from that for Facebook and other investments for which he's famous. This was not a public/stock investment
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by blfr 5y ago
There is very little innovation going on in general. It's kinda like measuring if chance encounters in retirement homes lead to more kids. The main problem is not that people don't spend enough time around each other. For a meanin

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