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How Trump Allies Work the Refs in Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
5 points by erentz 6y ago|0 comments
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by erentz 6y ago
Plus the point about lifespan, the nuclear plant doesn’t need to be replaced in 25 years. You get twice the lifespan for the same cost.
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There has clearly developed a kind of “cancel culture-culture” that people are now turning into their latest grift.
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Does it? Example of what you mean? Note it appears a majority of Facebooks top ten posts are from right wing sources. [1] This is not me suggesting a bias on the part of FB, but it‘s a clear data point against the now common talking point t
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by erentz 6y ago
Do note that “potential” was added by me when I edited title because the original didn’t fit. I tried to come up with something appropriate but you shouldn’t comment off my title.
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Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias(buzzfeednews.com)
388 points by erentz 6y ago|388 comments
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Volume was up something like 30x the day before the announcement. Clear insider trading on a massive scale occurred.
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Talking about economic response to the pandemic here.
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The dollar index is 50% or more Euro and there’s been a big shift there, probably driven by the fact that the EU appears to be making progress towards a fiscal union - in the mean time supporting (hopefully) a rescue package that transfers
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Value of dollar may remain fairly stable relative to other currencies but not necessarily to assets and commodities.
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A Primer to Big Tech’s Antitrust Hearing: They’re (Almost) All Guilty(wired.com)
1 points by erentz 6y ago|0 comments
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On concrete policies along these lines many poll in the majority. They don’t get implemented not because the American people are against them (they’re often for them) but because powerful interests are against them. (Corporations and some p
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by erentz 6y ago
The change from CPI to “Chained CPI” back in the 90s (?) has been a bit of a con IMO. It was designed to reduce the amount of inflation reported. Making it the official inflation metric used for social security meant that SS cost of living
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by erentz 6y ago
Legit curious about the down voting. If we're going to allow news like this to be posted, then what about my comment is not adding facts or to the conversation? Is it because of this line: "If this chills you and you don't wa
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by erentz 6y ago
This has been going on for a while. It started with using unidentified units at the DC protests. Then the clearing of protestors for the photo op. Now they're roaming the streets in unmarked rentals in Portland abducting people. This i
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by erentz 6y ago
Let me adjust it: You don’t propose a solution but I infer, given the context of what I said, that you want to prevent people from being able to say things, and maybe given the context of this case prevent people sending letters asking for
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The lawyer
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Greg Doucette on Twitter is a good place to start.
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We’ve wrapped fiber around ground wire in the past. Though here they’re doing it around the conductor. Also their robot is an advancement and pretty cool. But when I’ve worked in the power industry in the past the guys who had experimented
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by erentz 6y ago
You don’t propose a solution but you seem to imply, given the context of what I said, that you want to prevent people from being able to say things, and maybe given the context of this case prevent people sending letters asking for honorary
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by erentz 6y ago
It doesn’t make sense and is wrong. Kind of like the Westboro Baptist church protesting funerals is wrong. Not sure there’s anything to really do about it in a free society though. All the talk about cancel culture doesn’t seem to propose a
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by erentz 6y ago
Chomsky is consistent in his defense of free speech. It’s funny anyone would be upset with him since he is someone who has effectively been cancelled by mainstream media over the decades for his views of topics such as Palestine it US imper
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Did you read the letter? If not go read it. They’re essentially making a complaint to the manager of their society. Their criticisms are there and public. They’re within their right to do so. The society considered and rejected the merits o
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Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info to Help Find Out Who's a Citizen(npr.org)
35 points by erentz 6y ago|50 comments
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Media sure seems to spend a lot of time navel gazing lately. Any random group of five people or random bunch of twitter users criticizing an “intellectual” or pointing out the hypocrisy of an opinion columnist now seems to rise to the most
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by erentz 6y ago
It does suck that it’s like this in an industry where you have a lot of non-neurotypical people though. People who are very good and capable but on the spectrum, or shy and reclusive, who really can’t do the networking and conference scene
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by erentz 6y ago
It was made the clearest to me when I interviewed a colleague who had left to another company and two years later was interviewing to return. I knew he knew everything and had the skills for the job because, well, I know him, I’d worked wit
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Even last year she tried to get Eli Valley cancelled. She’s very much a hypocrite that wants to be able to criticize, and try to damage other people, but cry foul whenever she faces any criticism back. Even in this letter she is complaining
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by erentz 6y ago
You’re right. As jascode suggests I think you took a stricter definition of “required” than I intended. We have pension plans buying private equity which should never happen. We have had them selling volatility because they’re desperate to
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by erentz 6y ago
Not buying directly yet. But they do now accept equities as collateral. And they are buying all the bonds of zombie companies which in effect props up the equities of those companies.

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