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by drak0n1c 7y ago
That's already in practice - there are dozens of competing think tanks that churn out pretty deep critiques of legislation before it comes up for a vote. Whether for better or worse instead of the legislation being edited accordingly t
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Even with a fully private corporate-owned media industry, banning political advertisement can very well not be politically neutral. If the most dominant media (visible above-the-fold by default on phones, computers, TV) predominately favors
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
I used a WeWork credit to work remotely while in Tokyo around a year ago, and the place was packed. Every common seat was filled and I even felt like I was getting in the way because of how often people were going around me to banter or tal
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
During one of the sudden logouts on Costco's website yesterday there was a complete stranger's email address prefilled in the login screen. Disconcerting, but at least there was no password.
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Helping the elite caste of an incredibly authoritarian country preserve its financial power can very well end up harming millions of people over the long run.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Another news story today is the lawsuit against the "Devin Nunes' Cow/Mother" Twitter accounts run by anonymous DNC personnel. In each of these incidents the "disinformation" label is used by partisan officials
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
I know many of you are dismayed, but there is a silver lining of ecological benefits. Studies show that relatively inaccessible beaches and wilderness (whether public or private) have healthier ecosystems and less litter. For example, even
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
There are ecological benefits. Studies show that relatively inaccessible private and public beaches and wilderness have healthier ecosystems and less litter. For example, even just regular trampling of sandy beaches impacts the local food c
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Minds change over time. Back before the USSR disbanded and their decades of various problems were revealed, there were a sizable number in the US with some sympathies with the Soviet Union (if not for its then-governance, there was at least
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Even in the best markets for job-seekers such policies are not without downsides. In every city in America small long-running mom & pop and ethnic restaurants and shops are closing down in favor of two types of places that can afford to
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
This is the next iteration of natural selection - another item in the long line of complex and sometimes not so complex ways of monopolizing attention from the other sex.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Cancel culture also affects everyday people who belong to friend groups, workplaces, schools, and families. We just don't hear about it because the cases aren't newsworthy. People get suddenly ignored, ostracized, and bullied for
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Yes, it would be more appropriate if sociologists and public/political scientists took charge and were doing these studies and not economists. Some of these RCTs are only loosely related to solving market questions.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Interesting digression: In Japan there was a recent fad of cleaning toilets with bare hands. A sort of hyper-stoic discipline exercise. It's not as big as western media makes it out to be, the story mainly revolved around a volunteer g
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
There's massive amounts of special interest money being funneled into publications on every side of issues, local and national. That's the reality we have to live with. See Politico's latest reveal of "dark money" a
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That's really unfortunate. If this type of brand-reliant search ranking continues it will only accelerate the centralization of the web toward big entities.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The NYT in the paragraph you quoted vaguely paints the picture that investment is being cut significantly in favor of massive dividend payments. However, if the reality is that it is merely plateauing as you and the parent comment show, the
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
That framing is incredibly negative and obviously communicates it as "near zero" to the passing reader. Vague terminology of "less than projected" is the way they choose to frame it in the first sentence, and "spent
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The portrayal of capital investment being essentially zero is claimed to be misleading in the linked article.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Thank you for providing evidence. That's certainly a much larger capital investment than the NYT has ever made. Why is this downvoted when the parent comment asked for proof?
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Business creation is already unusually low among the youngest generation compared to other generations when they were the same age. I don’t think we should be discouraging them further. https://eig.org/dynamism
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WIRED used to be a very libertarian magazine for most of its existence. It only changed less than 10 years ago.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
That's not a complete picture, Prince Alwaleed owned 4.9% of Twitter as recently as the end of 2016 (the alleged espionage happened before this). It is unknown how much he owns now after his late 2017 detainment, presumably shares were
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
ABC's excuse of the allegations not meeting their journalistic standards at the time doesn't hold up. The evidence against Epstein in 2016 was very solid compared to other accusation stories that ABC granted national coverage.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
I tried to buy my $2.50 Old Spice deodorant in Shanghai. The price tag when translated to dollars was over $8. If you are ever in China, go into a grocery store and look at the aisles. The main reason why American products are priced at 200
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True, population levels are no where near what is required to support cyberpunk living density, let alone multi-planet colonization. Perhaps if reproduction levels really fall off and there is a real lack of families there will eventually b
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Ads sometimes help the underdog much more than they help the already-known incumbent - ads can put them both on equal footing if the volume is reasonable. I've discovered new small family restaurants I never would have noticed if I did
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If an organization lobbies to receive taxpayer funding, or lobbies to change laws and legal rulings, they are political. Whatever else they happen to offer doesn't cover that up.
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For fans/attendees such behavior is not that unusual. Here's a classic video taken by a Red Sox fan wandering through the Yankees Bleachers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwBa3XA3Sl4
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The popular vote difference between candidates sometimes comes within 0-2 million votes. LA County has 10 million people, and there are over 40 other counties that have more than 1 million people. If elections are decided by popular vote, t

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