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by crassus 13y ago
They should tell just a few trustworthy people (a la Glenn Greenwald) about a hard-to-find canary, so that the government can't easily pressure them into not using it.
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by crassus 13y ago
The bureaucracy has its own species of logic.
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by crassus 13y ago
As a conservative who hides his political beliefs in the tech sector, while my coworkers freely swap progressive political articles over the company's email lists, I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Cook. If the government prohibits workp
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by crassus 13y ago
Here's the original talk for anyone that prefers original content to the "journalist telephone" game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A
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Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call(nytimes.com)
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Infrastructure spending - size doesn't matter(themoneyillusion.com)
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Singapore health care; what’s not to like?(themoneyillusion.com)
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The Bay Area's One Percenters(nationalreview.com)
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Bitcoin is money. Bitcoin is a bubble.(unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com)
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by crassus 13y ago
See Moldbug's excellent essay "Bitcoin is money, Bitcoin is a bubble" [1] [1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/04/bitcoin...
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This Robot Barista Promises a Perfect Cup of Coffee(theatlantic.com)
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by crassus 13y ago
Ah yes. I need to listen to authority and ignore the fact that observed data are falling out the bottom side of their models' 95% confidence intervals. This is how science is done in the modern age.
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by crassus 13y ago
Hacker News has climate change "denialists" because climate models are terrible at predicting global temperature[1][2]. Once scientists gain the ability to make accurate predictions, more logic-minded hackers will go along. Hacker
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by crassus 13y ago
What if competence is learned in the work force? Basic income decreases the competence of a civilization as a whole.
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by crassus 13y ago
Personally I can't imagine working 60 hours a week to pay taxes for someone else staying home and playing World of Warcraft
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Liberal bias in Social Psychology(psychologytoday.com)
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by crassus 13y ago
This is a great first step. But realistically they can only move so fast with FDA regulation increasing your iteration cycle time on therapies to 10 years. Our biomedical regulatory regime is extremely risk averse. If we had a regime where
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by crassus 13y ago
The American ideology sees itself as a template for how the rest of the world should be, so in that respect it is universalist. It contrasts with philosophies like Hinduism or Confuscianism, which are specific creeds for a specific people.
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by crassus 13y ago
The Western powers have left behind chaotic anarchy over much of two continents. I don't think it is due to some sinister purpose. Rather, I see it as a side effect of naive do-gooderism.
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by crassus 13y ago
Patriotism is a force that opposes fragmentation. A wise governor carefully considers his people's self-identity. Self-identity can be managed. Do they view themselves as Americans first, and Irish second? That is good. It is a recipe
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by crassus 13y ago
I do not believe Afghanistan can remain one country unless outsiders keep the balance of power through direct intervention or heavy arms subsidies. My reasoning is that they were still fighting a civil war when the USA invaded.
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by crassus 13y ago
> "What shines through is that you believe in segregating ethnicities because they just can't live peacefully together." Some can, some can't. I do think that Democracy is more sensitive to national separatism than ot
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by crassus 13y ago
Culture is fractal. For the first division, Northern Africa and subsaharan Africa are very different entities with very different histories. Northern Africa has been part of the great Roman and Muslim empires and has long traditions of law,
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by crassus 13y ago
Westerners, and Americans in particular, are very bad at understanding nationalism. This prevents them from understanding the failure of post-colonialism. Throughout Africa and the Middle East we see countries with straight borders that use
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First Genetic Evidence That Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA(medium.com)
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by crassus 13y ago
What happens when we have universal basic income guarantees + WoW? That's going to be the most depressing world of all time.
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by crassus 13y ago
Was literacy a human right before humans invented the first written languages? What about the first few thousand years afterwards, where it was a technique used only by specialists and the materials to write were very expensive?
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by crassus 13y ago
"Rights" are the repackaging of religion for the secular age[1]. I know this is controversial because it is heretical , but consider the correspondence. Rights have no physical existence, only a social existence. Rights only matt
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by crassus 13y ago
I'm sorry, which were the atheist nations participating in the 30 years' war?
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by crassus 13y ago
They'd be dead within the year without some hefty political backing. The FDA does not play nice with novelty, ask any biomedical startup founder.

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