cryoshon

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by cryoshon 11y ago
Don't bring up the Eisenhower administration, it isn't relevant. It's also quite foolish to try to evaluate people in a vacuum... would you extend the same privilege to a member of a criminal gang or jihadi group? No. https:
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by cryoshon 11y ago
In reality, the software engineers that work for the above are the goons of the bad guys, and we cannot allow them to continue their work as it is detrimental to our interests. Any amount of perspective informs them that what they are doing
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Not trusting the government because they have a perpetually anti-freedom mindset is completely fair. Are we supposed to take their every action as piecemeal and then be constantly surprised when they do the wrong thing? They don't just
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by cryoshon 11y ago
What about Palantir, then? Very hard to suggest they aren't supporting the police state. It's unquestionable that the tech sector is directly culpable for supporting the cops and the politicians to spy on us... to affirm otherwise
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Cool. Let's see some convictions for the leaders and middle managers, and reparations for the victims. Oh wait, we won't, because it's America. Be glad that the toxic sludge didn't sicken you, citizen.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yes. The clothes and demeanor of the bourgeois class are a prerequisite for utilizing their resources. This ensures that power networks remain tight, and closed to the chance of social mobility most of the time.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
So uh... the author claims he got paid $500 for this extended ad hominem attack. How do I get someone to pay me that much for better quality content?
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I would leave my simplified response at: income inequality prevents creation of startups and is generally bad for society. We don't want more income inequality at the end of the day. Our wildest dream is not to have a world in which ev
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Why isn’t the U.S. counting meat producers’ climate emissions?(grist.org)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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What powers Facebook and Google's AI – and how computers could mimic brains(theconversation.com)
4 points by cryoshon 11y ago|1 comments
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AI Algorithm Learns Human Handwriting(herox.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I agree with the article that a general problem of our society is a lack of teaching thinking and analysis skills. As someone with a background in philosophy, philosophical tutelage can't really begin until someone is at a college age
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For a Better Society, Teach Philosophy in High Schools(huffingtonpost.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|1 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Wouldn't work. Gotta justify getting your grants by being able to point to previously published work. Plus, everyone can tell who did what-- if not exactly who, then one of a small (5-10) group of people who are likely in the same geog
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yeah, I dunno if it was worth all the billions, but the Greenway is really beautiful and ties the entire city core together with a beautiful grassland. They even had some Burning-Man mini gathering on the Greenway this summer, and that defi
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Most conversations about working fewer hours are really conversations about how much the personal resources of workers can be drawn upon without providing extra pay before there are negative productivity consequences. This article ties in d
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Around the world, dissatisfaction and pessimism on economy(pewresearch.org)
1 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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Janet Yellen declares victory while workers drown(salon.com)
1 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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Study Finds the Poorest Americans Die Younger Than the Poorest Costa Ricans(theatlantic.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
People are concerned about egregious opulence while others are barely middling along or are impoverished; there is currently no other configuration in which income inequality exists. The other stuff is a distraction until that isn't th
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How to Survive Late Capitalism as a Worker(cryoshon.co)
13 points by cryoshon 11y ago|1 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Ah, but we still disagree on the point that economic inequality inevitably worsens a society, and a decrease in inequality does not correspond to a decrease in the ability for people to make startups. I think this is a philosophical disagre
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From ‘Roots’ to DNA Kits: The Quest for African-American Identity(aeon.co)
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After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine(theintercept.com)
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Highlights from the all-new periodic table of elements(theguardian.com)
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US stock markets open with worst performance since 2008(theguardian.com)
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Is Hive-Mind Possible with Humans?(aeon.co)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
For the record, Ayn Rand wouldn't support the kind of capitalism we have right now: she was very much against crony capitalism, and very much in favor of workers being able to live comfortably if they were willing to sell their labor i
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I'll admit that I read PG's piece coincidentally when it was just posted and formed my article shortly after, but I'd have been writing something else ("thinkpiece") around that period of time anyway if I hadn'
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Ah, I was being lighthearted with that word choice, and I don't have any axe to grind with PG personally. An alternative which captures the same sentiment without any negative connotations would be "maestro" "majordomo&q

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