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by jiscariot 4y ago
You have lots of things such as pensions, social security that have embedded growth obligations. Like a ponzi-scheme, everything is cool, so long as you grow the number of people paying in. Instead of reevaluating the economic foundations o
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Seems to me the US and Dutch societies have moved even further apart when it comes to social trust/social capital. e.g. Fukuyama's warned the US about in 1992's "Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity&q
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So it's actually capitalism at fault--not the publishers rewriting the original texts? Interesting take.
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The lesson is you want to own the platform. Because then you get to brand the META/GOOG ad opt-in "tracking" and yours "enhanced digital experience".
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Much of this is new. Governments have taken much heed to anything that could be construed as having "disparate impact", and are running a reverse broken-windows experiment on the ground. When in the past did we decide we were goin
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And when you own the platform like Apple, you get to call Facebook/Google ads "tracking" and Apple ads "enriched digital experience".
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by jiscariot 4y ago
My favorite part of Apple podcasts is going to Library | Shows and then having all the show icons rearrange themselves every-time I'm about to click the one I want (as they update). Only been happening for like 5+ years.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
The other thing the Western media bemoans and digs on is Japan's birth rate. That they have aging populations, yet haven't taken drastic immigration measures we saw in 2015 in Germany under Merkle, or Sweden. Measures that have cr
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Title of this should really be coder/influencer/marketer/guru TILs the alias command exists.
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If this was done in 2022, it'd be written in javascript and funded from attention-seeking ad tech revenue, so perhaps we did?
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He was the #2 donor behind Soros to Democratic candidates. It's not every day that the number two gets indicted for a multi-billion dollar fraud. It is good to see questions around influence arise.
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National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) does a pretty good job. It compiles the stats through interviewing victims of crime, so they aren't coming from enforcement branches.
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My understanding is those "usage rates" are uniform only if we look at "used in last year", but ignore "used in last week" metrics where they diverge (according to Bureau of Justice Statistics). SSC did a prett
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When we use phrases like "generational trauma" being passed down, we end up misleading a lot of people on how genetics work. This phrase is often used in a political context, and to my knowledge there is not a good scientific foun
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Yes, but Minnesotans actually have a higher % of German heritage than Scandinavian.
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Exactly. They've got great investigative journalism when focused on direct competitors, who they assure us are all peddlers of misinformation. It's also laughable to watch them do the daily Meta hit piece, pretending they're
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It could be a story about mushroom cultivation or mid-century architecture, and NPR would find a way to make it about disparate impact in the black community. The game I play now, is I'll listen until they start in on identity politics
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Apple calls this "personalized ads" when they do it, and "tracking" when FB does. They're the good guys(TM), so it must be true. It is no wonder why Zuck wants to own a platform.
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I read much of this a while back and really enjoyed the section on "pirate law". http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo...
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I'm right there with you. When he starts writing about Phaedrus, everything goes south in the book. He's talking about quality while needlessly adjusting his tappets every five minutes, then throwing shade at John. Treating every
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I was always under the impression the innovative part of TM's "service" is taking the bad wrap/reputation hit that comes along with extracting more money for venues, artists and (or course) themselves. So essentially bei
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It is pretty amazing that Apple gets to pull the "we're the good guys" while their market is affluent people able to spend 1k+ on hardware. They call their ad-tech "user tailored experience" and label FB's as &
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The NYT writing FB hit pieces every week for the last three years, hasn't helped that perception.
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What about the EU contributions to the web stack, like requiring every website on the internet forcing an accept cookies mouse click?
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Just think of the dividend they could pay if they admitted they are an advertising company, instead of distracting people with the carousel of "innovation".
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Agreed. He's milked this cow for a decade and now wants to pivot in to being one of the good guys (TM), and show us cool new things about decentralized computing, by ignoring all the projects out there 10 years in.
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"God save the Queen" is a beautiful song and anthem. I know it wouldn't be kosher, given that it uses the same underlying music, but "My country 'tis of thee" would be ten times better the US anthem than the &q
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Makes me wondering how many of those thread replies are part of the same campaign. Some are so insanely praiseworthy of the venture. This also reminds me just how atrocious the reddit UI is.
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US officials also have the strong incentives to muddy the waters for lab-leak. I mean, if true, we likely funded it since Fauci's NIH was giving millions in grant money to Daszak/EcoHealth Alliance, which was studying bat corona v
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Agreed--there is potential in seven years, fallout from this will be dubbed as racially-targetted, predatory lending, and it would be difficult to argue with. Prior to the 2008 housing crisis Bush made big push for home-ownership ("own

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