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by eutropia 6y ago
I couldn’t get past the first several paragraphs because the article drips with smug superiority by adopting the trope of being above it all and “blaming both sides”. It claims that it was going to explain why the US regime has failed, but
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This spams your browser history something fierce. Can that be optional?
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Remember: the thing about neoliberalism is that it ain't new, and it ain't liberal. NYT follows the narrative supportive of the corporate agenda writ large, not because of an active choice about what it does write about, but becau
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Turns out we just needed stronger magnetic fields: https://cfs.energy/ Materials science delivered an order of magnitude more powerful magnetic field in the form of better superconducting ribbons. Add in molten salt blanke
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Propaganda is to Democracy as the cudgel and boot is to Autocracy
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I mean, it's not "just" propaganda; but that is a possibility that certainty muddies the waters and would benefit people wanting the topic underdiscussed. Though generally I just refer to these people as Reptilians.
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Globalist is a commonly used dog-whistle to talk about Jews which itself lacks a clear and useful definition. Neoliberal has a clear definition. "Top 1% of the 1%" has a clear meaning. "Globalist" does not. "Glob
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I didn't read the story.
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I am very interested in policy, but I do not watch the news. Why? Because it contains no actionable information that changes my decisions: I'm still going to vote in every election, I'm still going to research the candidates when
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A certain Noam Chomsky quote comes to mind: "If you want to stop terrorism: stop participating in it"
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I think that this is a natural consequence of organizing your economy around "Capital" instead of people. A fascinating alternative has been proposed by Yanis Varoufakis in which financial markets are eliminated, but labor and com
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Cooking will kill parasites/microbes but won't necessarily denature the poisonous byproducts of their metabolism. Irradiating as close to time of butchery minimizes the amount of time the critters can excrete their grossness into
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by eutropia 6y ago
At first I was like: "There's no freakin' way" But then, sure enough wolfram alpha: 100,000,000,000,000 carbon atoms is ~0.167 nano mols. Or ~2 nanograms of carbon. Dang.
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I think this post has inspired me to improve the specificity of why something I see in the code is bad. It's not always possible, because if I'm discovering the results of $SPECIFIC_REASON after the fact, often the context for wh
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Phosphine found exactly in the "habitable temperature" cloud range unexplainable by all current abiotic models, which meshes up with other observations of "unknown absorbers" in the same cloud range, which researchers ha
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In the same period from 1970 to 2016, human population went from 3.7 billion to 7.4 billion.
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Solution: Hire 10,000 people to vet the feedback and funnel it into the org. Those people vet 6-7 feedback per hour, or 18-21 if you keep the operation running 24/7. But that would cut into the Profit from the Money Printing Machine.
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I think you and author have different connotations of white supremacy. It seems to me as though you are thinking Skinheads, KKK, etc. In typical equity/inclusivity language, the breadth of White Supremacy goes a lot farther. It'
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Being dropped to the #What_Is_New section is confusing, because I was expecting a landing page with a hero image, and instead had context-less comparison numbers. Maybe update the url to not include the section?
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This is why healthcare benefits shouldn't be tied with employment. IMO, that's the biggest thing contractors are missing out on by not being traditional employees. It's not like being an employee in the US gives you much mo
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This is a side note, but: I tried to install newpipe (by first installing F Droid), and Google prevented my pixel 3 from doing so because I am a user of Advanced Protection Program. The OS has application permissions for apps: why is a feat
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Raping a 4-year-old girl is pretty dehumanizing for the victim. I think of an absurdly long sentence as a way of conveying how abhorrent the justice system finds that behavior.
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The group was a "Camerata"! There was a great talk at Rubyconf 2019 by Jessica Kerr about groups like this all over history who move their respective fields forward much faster than their contemporaries. She draws parallels to Jo
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Correct. Trees act as a buffer, to soak up and delay the carbon from releasing into the atmosphere until the tree decays. But it can't hurt to buy some time for us to have better approaches to permanently removing carbon from the natu
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I don't think there's a way to tastefully draw a parallel between thousands of pigs being suffocated out of convenience and unarmed civilians being murdered by the police... But all I can think of right now is "I can't b
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Easy to say 3 months later. Can't wait for these same folks to ask us to roll the dice next time.
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There are reasonable people who also can give you the "general realization that the common narrative doesn't necessarily reflect the entire reality", I would point to Noam Chomsky as a source of that very same wisdom but with
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I'm very troubled by conspiracy theories like this, but I have no idea what I can do to help the situation. It feels a bit like deprogramming people formerly in an abusive cult environment: can it really only be done one at a time? Is
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If extrapolated literally, 6.6 million US citizens think it's not a terrible idea to inject bleach to fight coronavirus. Explains the more than doubling of poison control center calls after those reckless comments..
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Evaluating Adversarial Robustness for Deep Neural Network Interpretability(arxiv.org)
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