igammarays

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by igammarays 6y ago
Pure unfounded speculation. The Russians and Chinese have a huge advantage over American intelligence agencies just by the simple fact that there are far more English-speaking Russians/Chinese than there are Russian-speaking Americans.
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Wealth may not be a zero-sum game, but when millions of people are struggling to pay rent, that line of argument doesn't matter.
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by igammarays 6y ago
So what if it's not a zero-sum game? You're missing the point. Most people don't care if billionaires make more money. However the REAL problem is the fact that the bottom 90% are struggling to fulfill their basic needs, with
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by igammarays 6y ago
I feel like an idiot reading these kinds of posts. If this is a “simple” stack, then I’ll be jiggered. Why do you need a “control plane” like ZeroTier? What problem does it solve? Certainly not a problem I've ever had. And I have a rea
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by igammarays 6y ago
Fantastic idea? This is AI snake-oil. If this guy literally thought he could build an auto-meta-analyses that could magically prescribe the right OTC to fix your pain based on a few button clicks, he's trying to play God.
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by igammarays 6y ago
It's a billion times easier (and cheaper) to block a social media site than boycott a Wall St firm.
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by igammarays 6y ago
That linked video is refuting a completely different claim by a different person. When counting votes, numbers should never go down.
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by igammarays 6y ago
Suppressing their views doesn't change their beliefs either. It only increases their feeling of being oppressed.
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There are some convincing arguments made by data scientists examining time-series data. Most of the results are suppressed from Google, if you try searching "Lynda McLaughlin from the Data Integrity Group" you can find more info u
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A lie is intentional. If a person legitimately believes the election was fraudulent, even if it was not, it's not a lie. It's a mistaken belief. Calling the other side liars is precisely the kind of polarizing rhetoric that can un
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by igammarays 6y ago
Whack-a-mole. Users will move to decentralized platforms or other providers in no time. In the past 72 hours alone, more than 25 million new users from around the world joined Telegram, an app built by Russians.
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I absolutely agree that those who advocated for violent acts should be investigated and punished. Go after those authors on Parler. But shutting down an entire platform, which is used by lots of other people who are NOT violent, on the basi
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> festering a community of terrorists This is what it feels like to live in a country like China, where if you criticize the government, or question the dominant narrative, or call for regime change, you are called a "terrorist&quot
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None of the top comments here address the most obvious reason for homelessness (for those without addiction/mental issues): the ridiculous of cost of housing in the West. I moved from Toronto, Canada to Kiev, Ukraine last year. There&#
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by igammarays 6y ago
What was that about decentralized systems being immune to censorship again?
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It's interesting that we are beginning to realize the paradoxical nature of "free speech". It's unfortunate that free speech cannibalizes itself . Since there are other powers with significant influence who can enforce
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Usually a book recommendation that I know jives with their interests or I bring up an old argument I had with them and show how time has lent evidence for/against me.
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Long letters are not dead. I have a short list of old friends whom I communicate via the infrequent long email only. These are old acquaintances with whom I have no regular business with, and they have moved far away in life, so short texti
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by igammarays 6y ago
> there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. Except there’s not. Where is the Notre Dame of our time? The Mozart (who was well recognized in his time)? Who can be compared in our time to the sheer talent of Michelange
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No! He is defending the impetus of artists to use beauty as a motivator for their works. He is not diminishing the subjective variations in different cultural beauties, or claiming only one kind of beauty exists. The problem is that mod
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I once worked as a software engineer at a YC startup which claimed to provide some kind of an “enhanced credit report” for landlords to check their prospective tenants. Millions of people had used their software. When I checked their codeba
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If the job is indeed necessary to bulk produce a household necessity like soap, then that’s not what is defined as a “bullshit job” by Graeber. Producing soap, no matter how boring, is not a bullshit job. He’s talking about jobs that litera
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The businesses willing to spend tens or hundreds of thousands dollars for these bullshit jobs to be done are usually massive faceless corporations where the incentives are far more complicated than you think - and many of them are fed by th
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by igammarays 6y ago
Thank you. I tend to agree with de Maistre. What is striking about Russia (and Ukraine) is that the general public is far more intellectual than the American public. Two real stories to illustrate my point: If I walk into a random bar it&#x
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I see the "content collapse" as a reversion to the historical norm - for most of human history, the majority of people were illiterate and uneducated, and understood little about global affairs. There was a "thinking class&qu
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Because according to a woke worldview, there is no such thing as insanity.
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Using GDP to measure Russian significance is like trying to measure American significance by counting the number of hotdogs consumed - it doesn't matter. Results are what matters. For the amount that Russia spends on its military, it i
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Even if Rowling is currently getting torn to pieces, and Obama is not making the front page every day, they leave behind a legacy in history and culture. What they say matters , even to their enemies, as the Rowling case shows.
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I found this out the hard way (that the social status of computer scientists outside of the Valley is nearly zero) in my late twenties, when I was starting to look to get married. I'm now changing careers. I realized that women (and so
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by igammarays 6y ago
As a researcher too, I understand exactly what you are saying. I prefer DevonThink[1] to Zotero for searching and organizing over tens of GB of data with tens of millions of words. Works with the native Mac filesystem, so you don't hav

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