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by jd115 5y ago
It's called freedom. I don't think anyone would have it any other way.
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by jd115 5y ago
Just curious - do you also think 90% of people are a serious concern?
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by jd115 5y ago
This is the main problem I've always had with the evidence-based scientific approach. Just because all of your data points show the same thing, doesn't make that thing true. This just goes counter to all logic. How is 122 ANYTHING
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by jd115 5y ago
LOLz well done, selling happy faces to the most cynical crowd on the internet :D Look at these comments! My oh-my. Seriously though, good piece - if a bit shallow. It's a good start. People need to hear this. Cynicism is the only evil
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by jd115 5y ago
Oh, but this isn't for the Russian people! It's for the so called "oligarchs" and their families who - surprise - don't actually live in Russia! They like America and western Europe much better. And if you don'
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by jd115 5y ago
The timing of this is not accidental and Facebook is not acting on its own accord here. This is a move by the Russian mafia/state to make it easier to evade the imminent cut-off from SWIFT and global financial networks.
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by jd115 5y ago
I have personally reported this (and related "tracker" accounts) for disinformation multiple times, so for one, I am glad to see it suspended. Despite the innocent sounding name, it's not just "coverage of the trial&quot
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by jd115 5y ago
Adorable. You've never actually been on the receiving end of communism, have you? Seems like you just enjoy prescribing it and bashing what actually works (as all communists do). You stole my words verbatim. As all communists do (steal
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by jd115 5y ago
Quite the contrary. I have now lived half my life under a communist regime and half under a capitalist one. Let me be abundantly clear: I far prefer the latter. I like where it is, and I like where it's headed. I NEVER want to hear abo
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by jd115 5y ago
Yes, yes we were.. and it's the last place we want to find ourselves again.
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by jd115 5y ago
Life. Right? Is Life a bad word? No. It's a beautiful word. Does it contain the good, the bad and the ugly? Of course. Is Capitalism a bad word? No. It's a beautiful idea, and it works significantly better than anything else human
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Xenobots(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by jd115 5y ago|0 comments
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by jd115 5y ago
This is a start: https://www.voanews.com/a/australian-government-vows-to-unma...
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by jd115 5y ago
No, the difference is that social media has been very successfully weaponised, by the nation-state/mafia syndicates which communism gave birth to. So successfully, in fact, that it has made traditional warfare practically obsolete. The
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by jd115 5y ago
When a company (like Facebook) or a nation state (like Russia) is deeply dysfunctional and it has for a very long time been ruled by only one person, it is in fact fairly reasonable to conclude that the root problem is, at present, that one
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by jd115 5y ago
Facebook's legal troubles are certainly not imaginary. They are actual, they are ongoing, they are overwhelming and there's more and more coming out all the time. Zuck and Thiel themselves are named as defendents on multiple very
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by jd115 5y ago
While this is a trend across the board since the pandemic, for Facebook it is particularly troublesome because it's deeper rooted than at other companies. On an almost daily basis it is becoming more and more public knowledge that Face
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by jd115 5y ago
Whoever has been teaching everyone that the only way to make money is to "solve a problem" really needs to stop with this nonsense already.
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by jd115 5y ago
1) This is universal. Everything understands this. I'd argue adult humans actually have the least developed (or, more accurately, the most diluted) understanding of this. 2) Irrelevant. You know everything you need to know at any given
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by jd115 5y ago
Yes, great point - but this is only because the animals we domesticate have been brainwashed by us humans into feeling (almost, but never quite) as inadequate as we do.
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by jd115 5y ago
This is because humans are the only living thing which feels inadequate enough to ask questions. No other creature feels like it lacks knowledge. And yes, I'll take it a step further: the reason science glorifies questions is because s
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Mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs. Facebook in Delaware(twitter.com)
379 points by jd115 5y ago|113 comments
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by jd115 5y ago
I bet you not one of those model citizens would say a word if you slip a few hundred euro in their pocket before crossing that road on red.
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by jd115 5y ago
"Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired" Really?? What kind of submissive pussies work in a place that? You talk to me like that you'll be collecting your teeth from the floor - I don't care if your name is jeff o
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by jd115 5y ago
You seem to have some romantic notions about laws and government that are utterly divorced from reality. Not because reality is flawed, but because those ideals are flawed at their core.
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by jd115 5y ago
No. The reason people don't have anonymity is that people don't want anonymity (or, rather, want the benefits of non-anonymity). It's easy to point fingers at large-scale evil-doers, but none of those exist in a vacuum, do th
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by jd115 5y ago
Ah, poor poor people... If only they had more info / data streams.
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by jd115 5y ago
I don't know about Twitter, but HN font (or colours, or spacing, I don't know) has always given me headaches. And I almost never have headaches otherwise.
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by jd115 5y ago
Hey! Did I just get some downvotes from Goldman junkies? Ahahahaha That's adorable.
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by jd115 5y ago
I interviewed for a software engineering position with Goldman once (in London). The process spanned several weeks of phone interviews with people in the UK and US (I lost track of the count), followed by a full day of back-to-back intervie

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