jariel

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by jariel 6y ago
'Success' in life is something completely different from 'success' in academia. The later probably requires one to be quite intelligent, the former, not necessarily, it'd be just one of many advantages. Throw in the
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by jariel 6y ago
The problem here is that Google is a monopoly. It's like if there were a single supermarket chain and they refused to carry a product. Oh well. Customers don't really like it, but in the grand scheme the supermarket doesn't c
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by jariel 6y ago
No because HN it not including content.
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This is not a Google Project, it's an Alphabet 'Moonshot' designed to maybe shake things up, create a market, discover new solutions/opportunities/induce investment with a very high risk profile and no obviously com
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, but that's besides the point. 40M Aussies will 'discover' very materially how to use all those other search engines. Also - I think this is an interesting experiment in news and power. Google should be very, very afraid
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I really hope they do - because people no matter what, 40 million people will immediately learn how to use a different search engine, and irrespective of how they like the results, the fact is the 'mono consciousness' will have be
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by jariel 6y ago
This has many shades of potential pettiness. First, it has nothing to do with MBAs. And of course we don't really know how budgets are allocated? That they might have just bought their iPads as part of the purchase cycle whereas '
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by jariel 6y ago
Except a small group of people have all the swords.
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by jariel 6y ago
"It is up to Elastic to come up with a business model that works, not blame others if it is not. " This comment kind of implies there is this 'free and fair market' that just magically rewards better products etc.. Mostl
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by jariel 6y ago
??? If there are people, plotting violence, even from a Mosque, then you ask them to leave or arrest them, right? That's legit. Just like if people are attacking Capitol Hill, or even plotting to - you arrest them. Why? Because it&#x27
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by jariel 6y ago
Well, starting with the fact that there was 80M dead in Europe and the entire country was flattened (it's real in Germany, not just something we see on documentaries). So 'that banned group' are not just some bumpkins. But al
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by jariel 6y ago
Because the insurrection on capitol hill provides the cover of legitimacy for people to act in a manner that also may be very inconsistent and politicized. Jeff Bezos owns news publications, he has a worldview and likes to flaunt it to some
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by jariel 6y ago
There is way, way too much room for political manoeuvring here - we should all be scared. Facebook is used to coordinate literal genocide. [1] And so AWS everyone is cool with that? I get that Parler was being used to do something 'vio
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by jariel 6y ago
'Practical' would to buy it from a 'farmer'. The entire premise of this is 'hipster tech' - or - a very long term vision and investment towards making something like actually practical at some scale, which may
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by jariel 6y ago
It's definitely 'real lettuce' this is not a 'lettuce substitute' so I'm doubtful that the skepticism is around 'taste', and I seriously doubt anyone would be able to tell the difference by tasting an
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by jariel 6y ago
It's almost there. If it looked a little bit less cumbersome, if there was a speaker/mic scenario to get out of the fact people cant hear you and you can't hear them, it they could make the 'dome' a little more all
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by jariel 6y ago
This is thinks is not the way to look at it. The reason people are hard-up is not because of the lack of labour, but because of the distribution of surpluses. There was never a need for child labour anywhere. It might have been 'needed
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by jariel 6y ago
It would not have happened without the Printing Press, Television, Radio, AK47s designed in Russia and Made in China, the Suez Canal or Saudi Oil either. Of all possible contentious issues with respect to the Arab Spring uprising (and there
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by jariel 6y ago
"blasphemy - which by definition doesn't attack anyone" There is a difference of course, but religious affiliation is absolutely a 'protected category' in most places and it's a very nuanced thing to say '
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"All of a sudden some superpowers just yell freedom in your face" This is completely false. The Arab spring was not incited by the West. It was well underway long before the West was even paying close attention. In Tunisia, the We
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by jariel 6y ago
There are literally words you can say in so called 'Western Liberal' countries that can get you arrested or charged with hate speech. Those are our version of 'Blasphemy' laws. It's basically very disrespectful what
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If John Candy were alive he would make the perfect headliner for a comedy of fools about this.
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by jariel 6y ago
To your first para: Lying, in the context of FB posts etc. is not illegal, so To your second post: Companies have no incentive to honour your rights, and as a side note, they will pursue their personal, petty squabbles to their own ends. Go
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Ok, well it seems you have a lot of faith in the clarity of some of those Constitutional scenarios, which I guess is good.
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There is no 'conspiracy theory' in the clear and obvious observation of an insurrection on Capitol Hill wherein many attempted to thwart the Jan 6 validation of votes. Despite Dragon's decent response, it is far from clear wh
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"If a President shall not have been chosen before ..." "If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify ...” So Biden will not have been 'chosen' or did not 'qualify&#
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Answer the question: 'Who would be President on Jan 20?' - if the vote to approve the electoral results on Jan 6th were not completed - or - if the results provided by the states were 'rejected' by a congressional vote.
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Obviously there wouldn't be '2 Presidents' by any reasonable application of a set of very clear rules. But those rules are not clear. One camp would believe, that Biden won a fair election, as stated by the DOJ, Homeland Secu
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by jariel 6y ago
"Was it a "violent take over"? Not a chance" Sure it was. This is how a 'coup' works - the objective is not to 'take control of the country' by force, but of the political system. If that violent mob
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It doesn't matter who you engage with. If 10% of Americans are convinced that QAnon is behind the scenes running the show, and they believe that, and act on it in a variety of ways, then it's a huge problem. I suggest with the ele

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