jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"It's not helped by organizations such as the BBC who report on what happens on Twitter as if it is actually news." Ah. That's a trick used by 'credible news outlets' to promote an ideology when they're su
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
You're not in the minority, you're in the majority. Not that many people actually use Twitter. That you think you are in the minority is a weird cultural phenom - people with the loud voices behaviours signal to us what is 'n
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It's an interesting treatise, but I suggest the author is describing media in general. Tech has only amplified the faults of media: emotionally visceral and passionate (i.e. as opposed to dispassionate or objective) news gets the click
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Well I don't think it's a sarcastic comment, and it's a perfectly valid inquisition.
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"Just like all those other confused teenagers that end up shooting up their highschool and similar." They are related but it would be wrong to equate them. One is an ideological movement with leaders, propaganda, formalized groups
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It is very interesting, given that the US is directly involved in Syria, whereas Denmark is not. It has much to do with how people integrated into Europe v America. Europe is very difficult to integrated into - they are ethnic groups. You
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"It's because they're racist. " Funny, Japan doesn't have a terrorism problem.
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You're probably downvoted because of the difficulty some people have when the facts might possibly contradict their ideological motivations. It's a problem across the political spectrum. Nobody wants to know the truth. They want t
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
+ Luxembourg is not only a tax haven, it's also a major EU capital and EU employees pay no tax. Most 'workers' in Lux live outside the country in France, and drive in every day. Finally, it's 200K people. Brooklyn is 5x
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"as poor kids from the ghetto often have no appreciation of this and simply don't work towards great outcomes" FYI I'm not blaming them, rather indicating that for whatever reason, opportunity is not grasped.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
32% national, 22% municipal and 8% social security = 62%. 20% payroll tax. 24% VAT. That it is 'common' does not mean it is fair. If a company has $100K allocated to pay you, $20K goes to payroll tax. Of $80K remaining, you take h
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"I look at the US and see a system that seems designed to breed crime, poverty and prostitution." While at the same time producing the highest GDP per captia in the world, the most number of people with college education, and lead
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
False. 'Social Mobility' cannot be compared between USA and small Euro nations. 'Social Mobility' within Denmark, a country smaller than Los Angeles, is pretty good. What if you compared 'Social Mobility' acr
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
60% personal income taxes after big payroll tax and 20% VAT? I don't think so.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Making a snap decision about a person based on a 1/2 second assertion. Of course, looks matter. We make such 'snap decisions' all day long. The problem is, absent anything else, that's the entire decision. In the real
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"You're forgetting the other point that the poster made, that your DNA is no more yours than your grandparents', or cousins, or any other ancestor or distant relative that shares bits of their genome with you." No, my DN
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
That's great, but it's your choice. Also - that my DNA is on my sofa does not mean it's being published, sold, and used for purposes beyond my expectations.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Aside from some basic benefits, it mostly encourages people to make judgements about important things ('human relationships') based on the most absolutely material, fleeting and trivial physical elements. Especially given the magn
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
So do porn, gambling, and films like 'Transformers' that literally have no plot.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It doesn't matter. The facts are the facts and the Italian banking system is in big trouble.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Who cares about Tindr. Tindr is the poster boy for lowest common denominator both in the social and technological sense. Ok, maybe Ashley Madison.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" I don't understand this view. If "everybody might have a gun," why are police, who also have guns, more likely to live in fear than anyone else?" Really? It's not hard to understand at all. That you might hav
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Yeah! This. 'Perspective' ... Mini perspective: step away from the desk, do something literally creative. I play my guitar. Major perspective: get the hell out of the city, actually do something on a weekend. Come back - all of a
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Yeah. This. I think that sometimes people that 'more compact code' is what we mean be 'less code' and it's really not. I think the differentiation is at the algorithmic level: it's not algorithm density, it&#x2
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"End-to-end encryption without open-source has no value. " Not quite. It means nobody is going to be able to read your data other than: A) A nefarious Facebook staffer who has hacked their internal systems B) A government entity w
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I have no doubt this is true, but I suggest the story is much more complicated than that.
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"It doesn't make much sense to cite the proportion of black people convicted of a crime by US law enforcement as evidence refuting the claim that the US law enforcement's interaction with people changes according to their rac
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Wait, what do you mean black people are more likely to be pulled over, not because they're black, but because they're more likely to be young and hence more likely to speed?" Speeding or not speeding - African Americans
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"But there could be a racial bias that causes police to be more likely to stop black Americans." Even if this is true (and it's probably true to some extent), by focusing on 'interactions only' we can isolate the de
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The research is almost useless. Different ethnic groups commit crimes at different rates - even if their is bias in apprehension/monitoring. The question they should try to answer is: 'Among interactions with police, how much more

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