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by cgmg 9y ago
South American (Venezuelan) here. This is not true. Blaming US foreign policy for all or even most of South America's failures is silly and a common tactic of demagogues, with no basis in reality, to deflect from bad domestic policy.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why do you think that's relevant? In any case, the same point would apply in the other direction.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why not?
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by cgmg 9y ago
"Inelastic demand, information asymmetry, and principal-agency make it difficult for markets to..." The order of causation here is wrong. Many of those problems exist because the market for healthcare is vastly inefficient in th
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by cgmg 9y ago
What you're saying is you don't have a proper response, and therefore choose to disparage the comment in some imaginary meta-context. Buzzfeed? Seriously? Who cares what Buzzfeed thinks?
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by cgmg 9y ago
It's not a "silly coincidence." "Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: Sleep because the opium extracted from them is a sedative, and death because of the common blood-red color of the red p
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by cgmg 9y ago
> clone Being genetically identical is not equivalent to having same memories and experiences. Such things are not stored in DNA.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> All of which is to say that I think we've solved some violence with sheer wealth, some with fear of the state, and perhaps very little with our "better angels". I think moral standards, at large, have certainly improved.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> There is a lot Facebook can do, but they are not, because they are lazy. Therefore they contract it out rather than automate it? Your comment makes no sense.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Do you want to forcibly prevent others from engaging in anonymous discussion? Have you given any thought to the implications of that?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Then leave Facebook and encourage others to do the same, rather than forcing your views on them.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Then it is not "entirely" Facebook's fault, as you suggested. Such hyperbole obscures rather than illuminates truth. Do you have any empirical evidence to back this "pandemic" claim of yours? Or is that just a feeli
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by cgmg 9y ago
Facebook is not a publisher like the New York Times is, and it's very disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> People got sick before the great flu pandemic of 1912, therefore the flu was not responsible for the 1912 flu pandemic. That's not the right analogy. This is closer to what you said: Human epidemics are entirely the fault of the
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by cgmg 9y ago
That's not what you said. What you said was > The crazies finding each other and organizing is entire FB's fault. If it is entirely Facebook's fault, how come this phenomenon predates Facebook and exists outside of it?
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by cgmg 9y ago
That's not what the comment said. Here is the conversation: Original comment: You can hire lots of humans to work at a normal pace and give them psychological counseling, and spend so much on their salaries that you'll go out of b
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by cgmg 9y ago
Are you being sarcastic? Sometimes it's hard to tell online.
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by cgmg 9y ago
You make some good points. It's curious to see people attacking Facebook so vehemently, as if using it were somehow obligatory. I don't see much appeal in Facebook myself, but I don't feel the need to force my views on others
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Basically, Facebook should be taxed for the externalities they create like fake news All economic activity produces externalities, positive and negative. That doesn't mean we should increase taxes and subsidies on everything.
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by cgmg 9y ago
That analogy makes no sense to me. Can you clarify what you mean by this?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Then you should not fucking be in the business at all! You seem to be venting incoherently. How does that follow from the statement you're replying to, at all?
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by cgmg 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Why do you say whitelists don't work in a decentralized context?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why? What if the ordinance is bad?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> You mean yes, you don't understand social interactions at all? Do you derive emotional satisfaction from putting words into other people's mouths? > I mean, you haven't asked _me_ anything, you asked some other user.
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by cgmg 9y ago
This is why I asked you to clarify. Answer the question.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Except once the common needs were satisfied, the system ran into stagnation. You are vastly understating the magnitude of the USSR's problems. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921–22 https:
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by cgmg 9y ago
>Hopefully SF's measure has more teeth. Why?
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by cgmg 9y ago
>That doesn't work when you (or your small community) face thousands or millions of spammers or abusive users. Umm... yes it does. That's precisely the role of a whitelist.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Are you claiming most of that shortage is from physical constraints?
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by cgmg 9y ago
>Again, for me this is a feature, not a bug. And for some people, it isn't. The point of decentralisation is that you can opt-in to centralized systems if you want to. The converse is not true.

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