jMyles

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by jMyles 3y ago
Sure they have - they very family under discussion. Just because they have attempted to foist a polite fiction that it is a 737 variant doesn't mean that it actually is. It's a new single-aisle transport with several serious prob
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by jMyles 3y ago
> If there is a constitutional right to absolutely 100% friction free access to information then what happens to all the barriers the government has erected to access covid, Trump, Russia and other "disinformation" progressive
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by jMyles 3y ago
Exactly - I'm sure it's much more the latter than the former. I think everybody on earth wants regulation, in the literal sense of a mechanism to achieve regularity. It gets tricky when that (sometimes difficult) task is handed t
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by jMyles 3y ago
> There isn't time in life to become expert on every last thing, nor is it economically efficient for people to do so. One needn't be an expert to open the Seafood Watch app and check if the fish they're about to buy is co
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by jMyles 3y ago
Even those requirements need to be underpinned by clear evidence of a sterilizing effect of the vaccine in question. (And I'm curious: by your logic, do you support re-adoption of the oral polio vaccine? Some interesting developments:
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by jMyles 3y ago
...of... course. Particularly following the shoddy rollouts of the past few years, and the Gruber and Krause resignations, and the general limelight shown on VRBPAC and the FDA processes, it's pretty obvious that coercive uptake creat
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by jMyles 3y ago
...this response rings so deeply and reverberating hollow to me. You can't just presume that "regulation" is magically removing the externalities of your consumption, particularly given that the data show so convincingly that
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by jMyles 3y ago
...pretty sure that was the joke.
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by jMyles 3y ago
Your critique... strikes me as hostile and reactionary (and you are fingering others as rightwing?). > The "founders" of this appear to be a single crank I presume the "single crank" to whom you refer here is the auth
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by jMyles 3y ago
I admit, I hadn't looked at it in a while, and it has become much busier / flashier. But I don't immediately see anything that I'm able to identify as rightwing conspiracy nonsense - to what are you referring? (The foun
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by jMyles 3y ago
I mostly mean lockdowns, which were a spectacular failure - they caused both a delay in endemic equilibrium in the low-risk tier and also an increase in household transmission, which put the high-risk tier at increased likelihood of contrac
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by jMyles 3y ago
It's true. People reliably confess to crimes they did not commit. It's just another dead canary in the cages of our justice system.
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by jMyles 3y ago
"Trust the science", a refrain we of course heard over and over again used to justify questionable (and often coincidentally highly profitable) interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, is already a contradiction in terms. The e
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by jMyles 3y ago
One of the things that "innocent until proven guilty" needs to mean is that pre-trial confinement is sufficiently comfortable, safe, and accommodating so as not to be confused for punishment, deterrence, or any other outcome of a
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by jMyles 3y ago
> musicians make most of their money nowadays from touring and selling merchandise at shows Be reminded that this is - and has always been - the mainstream model of the lineages of what have come to be called "traditional" and
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by jMyles 3y ago
> leveraging state backed violence to deter the things they don’t want I just want to say: I really appreciate the stark terms in which you've put this. The thing that has come to be called "intellectual property" is actu
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by jMyles 3y ago
This blog post is starting to seem evergreen. https://web.archive.org/web/20210522003136/https://blog.nucy...
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by jMyles 3y ago
I think it depends in large part on how the moving parts interact. If the emergence of automata and internet creatures also means that people can spend more of their time doing what makes them happy, and if people doing that results in amaz
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by jMyles 3y ago
I meant something softer and simpler, like power structures which somehow convince learning machines to avert their gaze when media from a forbidden domain appears. That just doesn't seem like the direction of the internet to me. As fo
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by jMyles 3y ago
I don't know... I seem to go back-and-forth on the larger property question throughout my life. But I certainly think that the casting the act of copying bytes from one medium to another as "theft" is propagandistic and disho
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by jMyles 3y ago
> do you play bluegrass as your main gig or as a side hustle? Main gig, although of course the sands are shifting rapidly with regard to what that means, for precisely the reasons this conversation is so stimulating. > Your new album
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by jMyles 3y ago
You are using the word "theft" in a way which does not describe conduct that is actually theft. Not all of us participate in the form of thought control that has been euphemistically pushed as "intellectual property."
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by jMyles 3y ago
Is that boundary something that the internet is likely to be able to recognize or enforce though? In 100 years? In 500? What are we building for here?
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by jMyles 3y ago
> fidelity et all have all the dollars. if there's a fork, they will probably own 51pct alone. you will be asking about THEIR fork. I have read this comment five times, and I simply cannot make heads or tails of it. What is "T
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by jMyles 3y ago
Agreed - I think the little cryptographer in all of us regards this as a sad day. It's going to take real courage to leave the economic systems of predation and extraction behind. Whether or not you think crypto is likely to be a large
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by jMyles 3y ago
The world's foremost money launderer is a fund provider for several ETFs, eg: https://www.justetf.com/en/etf-profile.html?isin=IE00B4X9L53...
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by jMyles 3y ago
Where is this movement being mobilized? I really hope my child (now 8) can live an adulthood free of the ridiculous notion that knowledge can be owned.
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I've never understood the use case for them.
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by jMyles 3y ago
> try getting a coherent one out of The Little Mermaid. It is possible to do just this, and to make a terrific and nurturing film out of it. See Ponyo.
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by jMyles 3y ago
Bahaha... oh man... I'm imagining this comment being read in the voice and cadence of standup comedy.

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