john_brown_body

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Why Jeffrey Epstein Loved Evolutionary Psychology(theoutline.com)
3 points by john_brown_body 7y ago|0 comments
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
It's not "masquerading as unbiased news reporting", it's a longform magazine essay. Of course the writer, who has been covering this story for years, is going to bring his own perspective to framing the story and explori
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
Is this really a thoughtful or useful comment? It's a completely unsubstantiated smear of the writer because you don't agree with his take on the case.
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
I know the following concept is absolutely foreign to most people in tech, who would gladly take seed funding from Unit 751, but if you're accepting millions of dollars in donations and investments you actually do have a basic moral re
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
Either Ito failed to do even a minimal amount of due diligence on a person he accepted millions of dollars from, or he did and then didn't care. Either way, it's a catastrophic failure of judgment. He ought to resign immediately.
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The video game industry is inherently conservative(theoutline.com)
1 points by john_brown_body 7y ago|0 comments
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
It's relevant to the political problem of defeating their opposition, sure, but not relevant to the merits of the policy. It's also fairly obvious - rich people think they're better humans than poor people and don't want
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
Who knows or cares? Overcoming the opposition of wealthy, cloistered local elites is an important political problem, but the specific nature of their opposition isn't relevant to the policy issue or the public interest.
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
No, this does not resolve the issue at all. The problem is not that police are accessing Ring footage against the will of the owners, the problem is that Ring users are complicit in constructing a surveillance panopticon that affects every
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Amazon Is Coaching Cops on How to Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant(vice.com)
4 points by john_brown_body 7y ago|2 comments
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
A focus on the mediums through which these shooters express their views misses the forest for the trees, which is that this is fundamentally a political problem. There is an ascendant political ideology in the United States, and in the West
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
The conquistadors and colonists were generally adventurers from impoverished regions of their home countries, engaged in extremely arduous military and quasi-military expeditions thousands of miles from home, so using them as a counter-exam
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by john_brown_body 7y ago
Instead of a non-profit, it should simply be nationalized and run as a utility. This not only eliminates the "tax on transactions", it would also transfer Visa's enormous power to structure markets (by cutting entities out of