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by disown 6y ago
> He refined it to, (rough quote), "Changes to your behavior and actions are the product" That's true of all media. Doesn't matter if you pay for it or not. Even netflix. Even this post. What is the "documentary&
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by disown 6y ago
I wonder who is behind the "social dilemma" propaganda/advertising campaign. "Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24468533
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by disown 6y ago
The evangelical hype around rust is quite something. Not only does rust save companies, it saves lives. Check in next week to see if it can stop hair loss.
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by disown 6y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535241 Also, there are like 10 bbc posts on the frontpage right now. It's starting to look like spam.
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by disown 6y ago
> The ICIJ and ProPublica consistently put out the highest quality investigative journalism, exposing injustices committed by some of the biggest institutions in the world. Blows mainstream media out the water. ICIJ is the mainstream of
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by disown 6y ago
> The course used to be in Java, but switched to Python two years ago. Why? Are they all comfortable with the english language? Why not find a french language PL and teach them that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
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by disown 6y ago
> A teenager I am close with What? Close how? > would like to become a computer engineer. Get good grades and go to college? These "ASK HN" posts are starting to feel so artificial and forced.
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by disown 6y ago
Sometimes HN seems like just a bunch of old people lying to themselves about how great getting old is. "Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?" https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by disown 6y ago
> A related trick for predicting the future; things that everyone is worried about are likely to get solved. Not really. It's because people get used to the fear. So we need a new fear to keep the population in check. Look at HIV. I
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by disown 6y ago
The wonders of subcontracting. It would have been even better if the 5th hitman hired the 1st hitman to create a loop.
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by disown 6y ago
> Taxing CO2 is literally the last thing “the financial elites” want - it’s a policy that’s been pushed by scientists and economists for decades but never gained political traction due to an intense lobbying campaign from the oil and gas
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Also to cause fear and panic to unite the population against a common enemy. Fear is the fundamental basis of government and control.
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by disown 6y ago
> that also ignores that Hussein was a brutal Tyrant who had used Weapons of Mass destruction (Chemical Weapons including Mustard Gas and Nerve Agents) as part of a genocide against the Kurds. And who supplied those weapons of mass dest
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by disown 6y ago
Isn't this true for any source of distraction? What about a baseball or a book or a dvd or anything? The presence of a distraction reduces cognitive capacity? Other than superficially padding their "researchers'" resume,
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by disown 6y ago
One way is to see which animals have self-awareness or have a sense of self. But that test is difficult because we can only rely upon our human-biased perspective and hence any test we developed will be skewed towards our way of thinking&#x
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by disown 6y ago
He gets hate for the same reason he gets love. Because he doesn't toe the state history propaganda line we are all spoonfed. That doesn't mean he isn't biased. After all history is interpreted propaganda. But he does point ou
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by disown 6y ago
Because reliable and proof are not the same concepts and one is not needed for the other. Proof is logical certainty for all time ( in the past, present and future ). Reliability is not. Reliability doesn't require mathematical proof -
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by disown 6y ago
That's an argument against hyperconnection rather than free speech. Also, disinformation campaigns in the "West" have always existed. It's not anything new. And the only way to fight disinformation is with free speech. F
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by disown 6y ago
> Can you provide a citation? I've spent five minutes on Google and all results indicate the opposite, that the title "founder" holds no legal meaning or standing. It's called registering your company? It varies from
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> What's impressive to me is that YouTube Recommendation are so ... stale. There isn't any more "depth" to recommendations anymore. Right now it's the same recommendations over and over again. Lots of celebrity,
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> It is a particularly weird opinion to hold in the wake of the most recent challenge to its continuity -- the Brexit fiasco, with the EU having maintained a united front for more than 4 years, while the UK emerges out of it in a terribl
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by disown 6y ago
> One reason you might be downvoted is because of this false equivalency. We all know the reasons for the downvotes. And funnily enough I predicted "false equivalency", "israel is our ally" or "whataboutism"
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> In my opinion “founder” is not a word someone should be unilaterally conferring upon themselves, but is more meaningfully applied only by others. Simply not true. It is a legal definition with someone leeway at the edge cases. > Lea
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by disown 6y ago
The mythical man month.
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by disown 6y ago
Or maybe the self is an illusion. https://philosophynow.org/issues/97/The_Illusion_of_the_Self
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by disown 6y ago
On whose orders did we do this and why now? Of course... Israel. For all the talk about foreign meddling, we never hear anything about israel. You here endless propaganda about russia, china, etc, but never about israel. I'm sure putin
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by disown 6y ago
> This is painfully obvious and a bunch of people on here are saying "STFU" unless you have proof of their intentions, which is a stupid argument given the history and current efforts to "extend". It's even more
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Of course it's part propaganda, but it's also a result of history. Our borders were expanding for nearly 200 years and in the process we gained unimaginable amount of resources and land. For a long time, you could really get land
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by disown 6y ago
Every time Bill Gates comes up in the news, you should realize it is PR. Just like his website is something his PR team created. The thing about PR is that it works. Look at all the comments fawning over and idolizing Gates in this thread.
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by disown 6y ago
> Not trying to take any particular sides, just trying to make a point that your country of origin can have an impact on what you learn (and perhaps also that this article is a little US-focussed). That not only applies to location ( nat

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