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by cowpig 6y ago
The idea that asking someone to provide their name and phone number (where they can enter anything they want) is going to somehow aid terror investigations seems naive at best, and more likely disingenuous.
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by cowpig 6y ago
If I'm understanding the article correctly, a very tiny piece of graphene can pick up a very tiny amount of energy from the random jiggles at the atomic scale. Presumably, those jiggles are always going to be there, unless somehow eart
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by cowpig 6y ago
I've been on a bit of a roman history binge lately, fueled by the discovery of Mike Duncan's podcast, "The History of Rome" so I'm going to tell the story I understood from that here for context: In his telling, the
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by cowpig 6y ago
A simple law that I think would solve a lot of the perverse incentives that exist in platform economies: Make it illegal to compete on your own platform. Amazon would no longer be allowed to sell products on Amazon. Google would no longer b
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by cowpig 6y ago
Does your figure include people who couldn't get medical attention because the health system is completely overwhelmed? Is it possible there are other issues you're not aware of, and that the people who spend their lives studying
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by cowpig 6y ago
> It's pretty rational for someone to understand that and make personal choices... No, it's not; it's arrogant. All of the epidemiologists and experts seem to think otherwise. What do you know that they don't? So far
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by cowpig 6y ago
The wealth tax is aimed at the billionaire class. That class paid less than the working class in taxes last year[1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...
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by cowpig 6y ago
What's your source for this? edit: in case it sounds accusatory I want to clarify: your statement is totally plausible to me, I just want to learn about where you got the information (and learn more myself)
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by cowpig 6y ago
I agree with both those statements, but I don't agree with your preemptive ad hominem attack against people who disagree with you.
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by cowpig 6y ago
Maybe edit this to remove the last statement?
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by cowpig 6y ago
Yeah... using Breitbart as an example was really unconvincing. I recently spent an hour of my life trying to convince an acquaintance that a video she found on breitbart claiming the "Frontline Doctors of America" were fighting to
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by cowpig 6y ago
Aren't they the farthest possible thing? There is literally one entity (Facebook) controlling the supply (human beings with dopamine addictions).
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by cowpig 6y ago
I have a different interpretation, and mine has more to do with the naturally monopolistic nature of these platform economies, coupled with a legislature that has lost its teeth (turned into massaging fingers, maybe!) when it comes to econo
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by cowpig 6y ago
3) Isn't a system in which monopolistic business practices make sense a fundamentally broken one? 4) Shouldn't we, as members of a democratic system of government, be concerned that this has become the case? And express that conce
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by cowpig 6y ago
You like it in the myopic sense of the word. In the way you like a big cake that sits in front of you, even if eating that cake is going to be bad for your health. Google's monopolistic business practices are the same: they are conveni
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by cowpig 6y ago
The thing you're linking to is a phenomenon specific to the Sinclair Broadcast Group[0], a partisan media organization that is actively attempting to undermine local journalism in the US and replace it with neo-conservative propaganda.
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by cowpig 6y ago
Here are some more sources: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter... https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-wuhan-writers-life-... https://www.nytimes.com/
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by cowpig 6y ago
always interested to learn about other misinformation machines, but your comment lacks sources
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by cowpig 6y ago
This article is really interesting, but I think an important part of this that it didn't discuss is misinformation. The Chinese[1] and Russian[2] governments are known to be engaging in misinformation at a scale never seen before, and
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Keep Your Identity Small (2009)(paulgraham.com)
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by cowpig 6y ago
> Housing costs are not up because of Airbnb, they are up because of government regulation. [citation needed]
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by cowpig 6y ago
I really can't stand statements like this. There is more than one dimension in American culture or politics. There are two political parties. That doesn't mean there are two groups, nor two orthodoxies. To try to compress American
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by cowpig 6y ago
Upvoted for sharing that article. However, I think your comment would have been more impactful if you coolly made your point and linked to the WaPo article for further reading instead of using that inflammatory tone and language.
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by cowpig 6y ago
I was much more skeptical of this alleged culture war when reading this article than I am now that I've read the HN comments section.
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by cowpig 6y ago
My reading of the article, or at least the second half, is that there's a sort of culture war going on in which "old media" and "new media", journalists and SV, "grey" and "blue". I was more skep
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by cowpig 6y ago
My experience in trying to raise capital is pretty similar to the author's, and I'm a white guy. However, I don't think that detracts from her point. If the system were more meritocratic, the demographics of people being fund
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by cowpig 6y ago
I think the comment you replied to was probably framed from different perspectives: Parent assumes "we should do what is best for the common good" Your reply assumes "we should do whatever best protects individual liberties&q
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by cowpig 6y ago
> Facebook should be trusted to draw the line on Facebook. Facebook can draw the line in some cases, but should certainly not be trusted
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by cowpig 6y ago
Your question implies a false equivalence between forum moderation and a state-controlled propaganda machine.
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by cowpig 6y ago
> If payments regulation worked like that, Stripe and PayPal and Venmo and Apple Pay wouldn’t exist. I don't know how much of the complex regulatory barriers to the payments industry are designed by industry insiders with an explici

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