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by freen 7y ago
I wonder, how has that worked in the past? Beyond that, what's the rate of return relative to any other investment we might have made with $2 trillion? For comparison, what would it cost to eradicate hunger? Estimated at about $30 bill
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by freen 7y ago
Congratulations, you've invented taxes. In all seriousness, that is precisely what government is intended to do: take a portion of the private surplus and apply it to the public interest, thus increasing total productivity.
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by freen 7y ago
Unless you are very careful, machine learning is the process of projecting the biases of yesterday into the predictions of today.
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by freen 7y ago
Facebook is the slow motion, global scale, online equivalent of the Fyre Festival for our whole society.
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by freen 7y ago
FYI, they only ask for a government issued ID. My fishing license is one of those. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by freen 7y ago
KYC is only to prevent banking fraud, i.e. money laundering. The SEC is the Securities and Exchange Comission, who govern banking, the trade of financial securities (stocks, bonds), etc. These data brokers do not handle your money, and ther
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by freen 7y ago
I wonder if any of the information they have about me is copyrighted? If they are storing content that belongs to me, do I have DMCA takedown rights?
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by freen 7y ago
It’s like the “Aristocrats” joke, but instead the punchline is “capitalism!”
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by freen 7y ago
I recently read almost exactly this talking point earlier today, about Exxon’s lies. Almost word for word. 1) that’s weird. 2) we make trade off choices all of the time, it’s what society does. However, when one side argues that the trade
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by freen 7y ago
Other people can choose to enable evil: it's their moral failure.
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by freen 7y ago
About the same number of people live in public housing in NYC as Wyoming. Either land area matters or people matter. Choose.
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by freen 7y ago
The cloud is just someone else's computer. Why do you insist on treating internet companies as if they were nation states?
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by freen 7y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by freen 7y ago
Because you are incorrectly interpreting it: it's not we must protect the world from bad ideas, it's that no one has a responsibility to host ideas that they disagree with. I don't have to host Nazi speech and you are free to
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by freen 7y ago
Are you a free speech absolutist at your own house party? Really? You'd allow a Nazi to spout propaganda at your family and guests? Why should anyone else have to host them on their private platforms?
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by freen 7y ago
They can, and they have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
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by freen 7y ago
Could be cool to combine with an accelerometer and have an accurate keyboard with no moving parts and without multitouch. Could be quite rugged.
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by freen 7y ago
This sounds like the perfect infrastructure for a trusted, encrypted P2P mesh network.
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by freen 7y ago
You are assuming they will retain imap functionality. Ask the xmpp/jabber folks about hangouts.
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by freen 7y ago
The failure mode of clever is asshole.
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by freen 8y ago
The IRS audits low/middle income folks overwhelmingly more than rich folks. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/3/18292741/irs-tax... I doubt it’s because of either the magnitude or harm
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by freen 8y ago
Con artists and criminals think everyone is corrupt. If you know someone who thinks everyone is corrupt, or self serving, well... that’s one way people rationalize their own unethical behavior. The meaner you are, the more assholes you meet
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by freen 8y ago
I would not be surprised if some particularly damaging scandals for one or more of the sponsoring congress members suddenly came to light.
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by freen 8y ago
How expensive do tolls have to be to fund roads?
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by freen 8y ago
How much do governments care about health outcomes?
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by freen 8y ago
You want consequence free speech? You seek to limit my ability to react to what someone has said? You want to force me to host nazi comments on my blog? You want to force me, personally, to provide a platform for hate and bigotry and not c
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by freen 8y ago
"However, the victim and their family or friends may force a confession from the alleged criminal in any way they please." Who is doing the forcing? Is it the state? If so, then I agree with you. If it isn't the state, with a
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by freen 8y ago
One is keen on using state power: lawsuits and the office of the president. The other simply uses speech in response. You seem to think that critical speech should be less protected that bigoted speech. I’m baffled by that position.
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by freen 8y ago
The current internet, at least the powers that be, won’t forget and will easily de-anonymize the current crop of edgelords.
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by freen 8y ago
Conservatives are keen on using the power of the state to limit speech. And you are apparently keen on using state power to limit my ability to react to the speech of others.

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