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by gertef 10y ago
What are your investments that aren't speculations?
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by gertef 10y ago
Yes, a completely fair game for either "games of chance", or "games of robots skill". That's great for your poker-playing bot, but not for human endeavors (except bot programming). Ether can provide some measure of
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by gertef 10y ago
They'll work fine for the purpose of extracting ether (== money) from unsuspecting rubes.
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That line of thinking is pragmatically equivalent to "let whoever spams the most win"
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You can't blindly assert that Maoist China was not Euro style and modern China is Euro style, and also claim that Maoist China has nothing to do with modern China's economy. There's a near-direct line from Maoist China to mod
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by gertef 10y ago
It would level the playing field for all businesses. Incorporating outside the US wouldn't help the companies get access to US markets
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by gertef 10y ago
Indonesian people weren't buying Europe's products and reaping the benefits of the London smog, modern US/European/Japanese people are enjoying the benefits of modern exploitative labor in Indonesia. What gives you the i
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by gertef 10y ago
Almost no one is opposed to globalization, per se. We are opposed to globalization that drags down worldwide avearge income, and traps people in subsistence lifestyles, paying people 5cents of every $ of value they create, and then boasting
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by gertef 10y ago
Yes, that's the lie the corporate execs tell. People lured into a trap would rather live in the trap than die. It's not impossible, for Apple with $XX Billion in profit hiding in tax shelters, to pay better than subsistence wages
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by gertef 10y ago
The Black community has been waiting to talk candidly about slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, unfair incarceration, and more, for 200 years. When will you be ready to talk about something beyond "let's keep looking for reasons to bla
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by gertef 10y ago
Stop blaming Black people for White people ignoring them. Black people know that "Black Dads Matter", but White people keep stealing them. http://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/
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by gertef 10y ago
Yes, lets talk about IQ and culture, and how centuries of slavery, oppression, and theft create adverse health conditions that lower IQ. It's much easier to develop a "culture" of education when the government doesn't de
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by gertef 10y ago
Yes, cyclists take the sidewalk, but not cyclists who go fast.
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A motorcycle/scooter isn't a major theft risk, because its big/heavy enough to resist theft on its own (and has front and back wheel locks and motion-activated siren alarm)
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Momentum matters as much as speed. Suppose you are doing 35mph on a bike the road and you get sideswiped by a car doing 35mph. The direct impact is negligible, but now you've got angular momentum that is going to send you into another
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by gertef 10y ago
http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by gertef 10y ago
The Intercepts' bias is in unfair credibility-undermining attacks. Being anti-everything is a cute gimmick, but not great news. It's still narrative-first, not evidence-first.
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by gertef 10y ago
Isofar as "left" and "right" have meaning, globalism is right, not left. A "left" globalism would be an international workers/labor movement, which Economist does not support.
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propublica.org It's hard to call them "news", but they do important research and expose
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by gertef 10y ago
I suspect that Chomsky was taking a swipe at aleged money-grubbing readers, but I agree. It's refreshing to read their advertising charter. http://aboutus.ft.com/corporate-information/ft-company/adver... (Yes
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by gertef 10y ago
FT (Financial Times) is the best news organization in the English-speaking world at the moment, in the realm of mainstream topics that catch the whole world's interest. (There are lots of important niche areas that FT ignores.) It is e
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The Taliban was a response (and therefore inspired and motivated by) the mujahideen, no? So if there were no extremist mujahideen, there'd be no extremist Taliban response.
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by gertef 10y ago
The article goes on for many paragraphs after the end you saw. I think your browser/add-ons are incompatible withthe website.
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If Amazon handed out my data to third party, that would be being an asshole
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Amazon doesn't use telepathy. You can inspect the network traffic on your router and the contents of its local storage.
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It's certainly not equivalent. "Third-party doctrine" is extremely bad law that ignores the notion of private relationship. The law even recognizes some notions of private conversations (with your lawyer, and with your doctor
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by gertef 10y ago
The reality is that anything you do for the first time is fun, and then gets boring.
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It's been shown that a biker wearing a helmet makes car drivers more reckless.
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Old-fashioned romance is a financial agreement. "marrying for love" is a modern innovation, not necessarily a good one.
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by gertef 10y ago
> A parent is going to leave their 2 year old playing with a loaded gun Perfect accidentally correct typo. You meant "NOT going to", but your intent was wrong: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk&#x2F

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