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by esja 6y ago
It reminds me a lot of the "New Economy" discussions my programmer colleagues were having in mid-to-late 1999 about CSCO and the rest. One guy persuaded his grandmother to sell out of bonds and buy tech stocks. That ended badly.
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by esja 6y ago
And what sort of rates will you pay on those loans? Quite a bit more than 2%, I would imagine. And what happens to those loans if the price of Bitcoin falls dramatically, as it has done quite frequently?
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by esja 6y ago
Is there a reason you believe Bitcoin has value, aside from "other people believe it has value"?
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by esja 6y ago
And it seems many of those students have ended up in the social media departments of those large corporations, because they "understand" social media "better than older people". Meanwhile some senior managers must be ask
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by esja 6y ago
"Parlor [sic] was only used for hate" What does this mean exactly? All the content on Parler was hateful? Or something else?
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by esja 6y ago
By that standard Twitter should be in a lot of trouble as well. And probably Facebook too.
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by esja 6y ago
I don't think your system gets you to the result you want. Most people are like Grandma, just on different topics. The extreme but possible endgame for your system is everyone stuck in clusters of one, because they've banned every
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by esja 6y ago
The original "shoeshine boy" story featured Joe Kennedy (as the speculator), father of JFK.
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by esja 6y ago
I've just dug a hole in my back garden, and created 21 million tiny slices of air that now occupy that space. It took work to dig this hole, so it definitely has value. And I'm only digging one hole, ever, I promise. I've als
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by esja 6y ago
Grouping by user rather than by content has a major weakness. Grandma can be lovely 99% of the time and a horrible racist the other 1%.
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by esja 6y ago
Many people who seem on paper to be highly educated are merely highly indoctrinated.
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by esja 6y ago
No, but I would need to see evidence, not just your opinion that such evidence exists. Same as for electoral fraud.
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by esja 6y ago
I have heard this theory stated, but where is the actual evidence that this was the plan and their actions were aligned to that? So far I've only seen people asserting that this was the plan, rather than showing actual evidence linking
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by esja 6y ago
Legally, but not necessarily morally.
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by esja 6y ago
That's a fair position to take. We just have different definitions of what constitutes a coup. I certainly agree politics is way too corrupt and the constant lawfare is harmful.
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by esja 6y ago
I am asking for rational explanations and evidence for the original claim that this was an attempted coup (something I have experience with sadly). Evidence and logic are valued here. You are accusing me of whitewashing sedition (I am not),
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by esja 6y ago
That's an interesting and reasonable perspective. If you stretch the definition of a coup to include totally incoherent, incompetent, ineffectual raging that could never actually achieve the outcome, it could qualify. But it still feel
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by esja 6y ago
Do you have evidence that was their intent? And how exactly could they have succeeded, and kept Trump in power?
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by esja 6y ago
Are you saying their plan was to attack those senators and representatives, in order to gain and keep power? What evidence do you have for this?
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by esja 6y ago
A coup requires that power is taken illegally (usually violently), and held. Are you saying this rabble of idiots were intending to take power somehow (what power?), just by occupying a building? How could this have ended with them (or even
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by esja 6y ago
Genuine request as I've seem this framing a lot and cannot understand it: Can you point to the specific things that occurred which you believe were part of an attempted coup, and why you believe they were?
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by esja 6y ago
4chan is almost certainly less toxic than Twitter at the societal level. And due to its design (anonymity etc) it may also be less toxic to the average individual participant, in terms of emotional/psychological harm.
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by esja 6y ago
Are you saying you think this was a failed coup? On what basis? It looks nothing like the coups I'm familiar with.
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by esja 6y ago
We must be nearing the point where companies decide it's better not to have a Twitter presence.
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by esja 6y ago
Ok, if there are very reasonable answers, perhaps you can point to them?
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by esja 6y ago
Western countries (and particularly the US) have been conducting similar research for years. Despite imposing bans and other restrictions on their own soil, they may want the option to continue doing this in less regulated places, e.g. Chin
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by esja 6y ago
Can you explain how that evolutionary path led to the virus becoming better adapted to humans than it is to bats, and can you explain how all the samples we have ever found, from the very beginning of this outbreak, are uniquely adapted to
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by esja 6y ago
There is a large amount of circumstantial evidence that the virus was leaked from the same lab which had been involved in gain of function research on exactly these viruses (specifically to make them more infectious to humans). Direct evide
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by esja 6y ago
Can you explain how this virus became (instantly) better adapted to humans than it is to bats? https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06199
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by esja 6y ago
Then can you explain how this virus became (instantly) better adapted to humans than it is to bats? https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06199

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