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by body12 7y ago
The number of men in the US aged 18-30 reporting no sex in the previous year has almost tripled since 2010 [1]. It seems there are economic or cultural factors at play besides not well-crafting their messages or showering enough. [1] https
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by body12 7y ago
Forget the media, ask the former Federal Reserve president who literally wrote that "if the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect t
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by body12 7y ago
The 1860s when the Irish in NYC refused to fight for their new country, killing over 100 people and ethnically cleansing most of Manhattan? Or a few years later when two different subgroups of Irish killed another 100 of each other in the s
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by body12 7y ago
Reduce wealth inequality through industrial and fiscal policy, don't stuff cities full of millions of culturally distant immigrants (distant from both each other and the existing population), encourage integration and patriotism instea
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by body12 7y ago
The car thing is another big one. Almost every car, truck, or SUV made in the past few years has a cellular connection, either for tracking purposes or infotainment. A determined attacker could probably just shut down 10-20% of cars in the
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by body12 7y ago
If your cities immediately turn into "tribal warzones" when they lose utilities, you've definitely made some governance failures well before the cyberattack.
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by body12 7y ago
It can also be illegal when VCs do it: "Pricing below your own costs is...a violation of the law [if] it is part of a strategy to eliminate competitors, and when that strategy has a dangerous probability of creating a monopoly for the
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by body12 7y ago
I would love to know the organizers' opinion on whether these various uses of AWS "accelerate oil and gas extraction," i.e. whether they would be allowed on AWS: -The engineering of drill bits or other equipment that could be
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by body12 7y ago
"There's no cloud: it's just someone else's computer (and it's run by people who hate your guts)"
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by body12 7y ago
Google Search has gotten worse in the past few years in my opinion. It seems biased towards newly published content and content from the top 100 sites or so. Before it felt like you were grepping the internet, but now it feels like you&#x27
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by body12 7y ago
6. Pretty much everything about AMP: forcing sites to conform to a standard they created in order to show up in search, a standard that doesn't let sites control their UX or interactivity (then, just showing Google hosted caches by def
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by body12 7y ago
NYT and other legacy newspapers depend on traffic from Facebook and Google to continue existing and are threatened by things like AMP and new media in general. If newspapers demonstrate that they can change public opinion about the tech com
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by body12 7y ago
Perhaps, the NRA has been already declared a domestic terrorist organization by San Francisco. I think everyone wants to avoid TSA agents questioning passengers when the last time they had sexual intercourse was and pulling out a taser and
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by body12 7y ago
This is a little comforting, but I doubt the secret rulebook is going to cover everyone's concerns.
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by body12 7y ago
We need to start thinking ahead about who is going to run the federal agencies and "tobacco truth" type organizations funded by the billions of damages from the inevitable settlements, to avoid regulatory capture.
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by body12 7y ago
To avoid this: Firefox with uBlock Origin and resist fingerprinting setting on. Use private mode whenever you don't need logins. Bonus: Use a $3/mo VPN to dodge your ISP's tracking (xandr.com and weep) or just use Tor Browser
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by body12 7y ago
How are precise reading logs of websites that help people learn about and treat mental health conditions not "mental-health information"? "Subject A traveled from a house (maybe not his house, you see, it's de-identifi
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by body12 7y ago
Yes, every mouse movement, unsubmitted form input, scroll, highlight, and so on. This stuff can also be used to fingerprint you. LiveSession, Inspectlet, UXCam are competitors. uBlock Origin on Firefox can be configured to block these.
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by body12 7y ago
It's amusing that now the (to me, fairly natural) "strangely gratifying...withholding of details and delaying of pleasure" is portrayed as "[casting] off the imaginative constraints of mass culture", when the genera