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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I did that for a while until I became completely disillusioned with them. They're in the pocket of corporations and the White House (they actually suppress news if the WH doesn't like it). Find a more progressive outlet than them
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
This is called our "Extended Deterrence". We also had nukes in South Korea for some time. Some of our NATO allies of course have their own weapons (UK, France). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_and_we
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I suddenly feel like I'm back in the Bush administration. Can we get our permanent code orange alerts back? The biggest threats to nuclear peace at the moment are India/Pakistan, Israel, the United States, and Russia. I'd lik
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Child concentration camps run a lot smoother on Office 365, now on Azure! EDIT: Anyone that collaborates with ICE from this point forward is complicit. In a just world, collaborators, ICE officers, and high officials would be tried in the I
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
It's a sign of nascent change that springs from the grassroots. The only way we'll know for sure is if organizers appear and begin to succeed. In the context of the child separation policy, some of my colleagues asked what can be
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Harvard sets itself up to always increase it's influence with business and national leaders. Every decision they make should be seen through that lens. That means that they'll attempt to induct meritorious freshmen, but will also
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I think this may be true may be not, but it's a distraction. People are fighting over Harvard's admissions process because it's one of the few relatively sure pathways to exit poverty (or maintain wealth) and become a "s
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Let's not get carried away. Canada and many if not all of the nations of the EU have a similar capability. The US justice system sucks, let's not endow it with special "uniqueness". However, I am happy that corporate cri
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Robert Paxton's five stages of fascism, a classic read: http://pryan2.kingsfaculty.ca/pryan/assets/File/Paxton's%205...
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
For what it's worth, I don't know what YouTube's actual constraints look like, but it doesn't seem implausible that they might still be open to reencoding their top 10k video. After a billion views, you might get some su
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Hard braking was discussed in a news article I have read some time ago about Uber specifically. Your attitude is not helpful. The list you linked does not include Uber though it does include many others. Thanks for the link. EDIT: I'm
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
1. Tax Amazon, great in its own right regardless of the reason. 2. How do you provide for people without money? 3. Deserve your re-election by serving the poor and vulnerable at the expense of mind-blowing historically unprecedented wealth
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
This would be academic if someone hadn't actually died. I don't know the numbers, but I'm fairly sure that just tanked the self-driving stats pretty hard. EDIT: Also, consider what avoiding "hard braking", which was
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
There's a very reasonable proposal right here that would do it: https://berniesanders.com/medicareforall/ It could happen in a few years. Something to look forward to. :)
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
It would be much easier to countenance arguments that self driving cars will save us all if humans weren't such good drivers. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit... In Massa
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
The stock market also grows typically above GDP growth as well (in the short term). https://www.quora.com/How-can-the-stock-market-grow-faster-t... EDIT: Unless people actually sold their stocks instead of holding in which
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Yes and no. I agree 100% for podcasts. However, while Youtube and Netflix are encouraging more producers they retain veto power on their platforms. This is key. In the case of Netflix, it's obvious they only host what they want on thei
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Media consolidation infographic from 2011. Back then, six companies controlled 90% of the market. I wonder where we're at now? http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
The policy is less about fairness to funds and more about fairness to the rest of the taxpayers (comprising >99% of the population).
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Was going to say much the same thing, thank you. You said it much better.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
That's an excellent point.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I was thinking about this and looked into some of the research. We're not quite there yet though. However, if we do have a practical way of doing it, I think it would be best if we use volatile renewables like solar and wind and store
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Yea, I think the 48 hr sleep deprivation is not applicable to most people. The task also is a kind of "vigilance" task. I don't know if it applies to any kind of productive thinking. They also studied chronic sleep deprivatio
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I would say FB was celebrated by liberals, not by leftists. CA is a media project of the liberal media, not the leftist media. I've been very skeptical that CA had a large impact when FB's ad categories are so often blatantly wron
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
You won't get honest and really critical press without removing capitalist (i.e. non-democratic) ownership of the press. Making it so that the journalists own the company rather than some billionaire overlord would be a marked improvem
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
My first reaction was to be shocked. The NYT? Advocating for the death of a major corporation? What's in it for them? My guess is they've sensed the national mood is shifting. If something isn't done, then people will start t
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
The revolution is going to happen for stupid reasons, just like Louis XVI was executed after cooperating (mostly) with the revolutionaries for years. American politics and news takes are a form of heightened collective idiocy that leaves me
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Experienced photographers (not me unfortunately) know lots of tricks to get people to look good. A popular one to hide double chins is to move your head forward by about a centimeter or two, but facing the camera so it can't see the an
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Heh, the United States of Github got invaded and occupied. http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-oval-office-2013-9
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
A pay solution disadvantages anyone poor or unable to access funds from your plan. There's no reason a company can't just jack up the prices because they failed to create a decent system for performing mass deletions.

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