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   by dispossess 9y ago

   > If two volunteer data science students who are barely out of their teens can figure out how to hang out Twitter’s bad-actor bots, why doesn’t Twitter do the same? Because the cost to the kids for a false positive is 0. The cost to Twit
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   by dispossess 11y ago

   Babel-17 and Empire Star are both excellent and were the first things of his I read. I've tried to read Triton, Stars in My Pocket, Dhalgren, Nova, and Fall of the Towers and every single one of them has failed to gain or keep my inter
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   by dispossess 11y ago

   I'd argue that a primary misfeature of the US system, crony capitalism, is actually the result of socialism. Crony capitalism only works if you have enough government spending and control to make that sort of corruption profitable.
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   by dispossess 11y ago

   So if I read the linked story correctly, the Amazon bro brigade called in the patriarchy to destroy Seattle for the real natives. They are also responsible for an increase in prostitution and associated drug crimes. Hate crimes are somehow