jumpman500

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by jumpman500 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0
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by jumpman500 8y ago
Fake news isn't a threat to democracy. People have lied about shit and given false narratives for all time. An uneducated or easily influenced population is a risk to democracy. There is no easy fix for old and uneducated people, we
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by jumpman500 8y ago
> McFarland induced investors to entrust him with tens of millions of dollars by fraudulently inflating key operational, financial metrics and successes of his companies, as well as his own personal success – including by giving investor
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by jumpman500 8y ago
Directly selling to anyone independently is almost impossible if you haven't networked appropriately or have substantially impressive qualifications. Lots of the bigger corporations (in America at least) have a select list of approved
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by jumpman500 8y ago
I think both yours and Jaruzels points are good. But... > If there were a better way to find the results that users are actually looking for, then Bing and Google would be working their assess off to find it. I don't think we should
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by jumpman500 8y ago
Imagine if a majority of children actually participated in these athletic programs. Committed to physical fitness, had social lives with teammates and didn't have health problems because they were over weight. Oh wait. Basically every
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by jumpman500 8y ago
My hot take is that ~50 years of wage stagnation makes a country bitter. Especially when you see how well it correlates with international trade being liberalized. The people have a reason to be pissed. I'm in favor of free trade, b
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by jumpman500 8y ago
Are you implying that government funds that media? Or that people need to be told what they should enjoy?
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by jumpman500 8y ago
What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Anything else out there? Reddit is really losing its appeal to me with th
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by jumpman500 8y ago
Sometimes tools are good enough that they don't need to change. People still use hammers and nails, even though we have awesome power tools and many different types of skrews. Coherency and ease of use are very important factors when
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by jumpman500 8y ago
I hate the implication of this, that social media is so important to free speech that the companies that run it should try to achieve equal representation of political ideas. Create a new platform or find a different method to reach people
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by jumpman500 9y ago
Kinda agree. I can at least see how dating apps lock people in; most apps require a Facebook account. However, I also think there's a lot of reasons to not want to be instantly connected to everyone you know on Facebook. Annoying inv
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by jumpman500 9y ago
Yea but that's also a reason to leave. I know one of the main reasons I stopped using Facebook for photos was because I didn't want my Mom and extended family looking at the parties I went to at college.
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by jumpman500 9y ago
I don't know. Once you get your photos off of Facebook I think you can leave really easily. You can still message all your important friends through sms or your chosen chat app. Snapchat exists as an alternative for casual photo sha
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by jumpman500 9y ago
I mean we can already call this abuse kind of. What if I meant to search for 'nerf gun', 'water gun', 'air gun', 'bb gun' or 'glue gun'? It doesn't seem like google thought much about
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by jumpman500 9y ago
Well I'm commenting on the internet Verdex_3. I'm not going to take the time to write out a bunch of interesting statistical examples for you. I wasn't trying to say it's easy to make statistics interesting. Was only t
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by jumpman500 9y ago
What? You can make easily make basic statistic and probability about real problems and interesting. Talk about sports. Talk about risks of the stock market and financial planning. Talk about politics/polling. Talk about gambling&#x2
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by jumpman500 9y ago
I would be happy to deal with more paywalls. Anytime there is an ad free version of an app I'll buy it. I've even started paying for most of the newspapers I regular. I think we could see a huge improvement in online content qu
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by jumpman500 9y ago
You're just describing political positions you disagree with. Nothing you said is disproportionately midwestern. I'd need to see polls to believe that they hold these positions. Midwest has been pretty purple in many of the past
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by jumpman500 9y ago
I wouldn't want to personally decide or have a government which decides limits on wealth. I just hope one day American culture will be driven more by compassion, kindness and duty to common a good, rather than endless accumulation of m
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by jumpman500 9y ago
> It's very natural, and very logical. Being natural and logical doesn't make it moral or ethical. I think you're only kidding yourself if you believe that people deserve that much money and power. > How about folks who
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by jumpman500 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that Christopher Tolkien still owns the rights to The Silmarilion and has not sold off movie rights yet. That's why the hobbit movies didn't reference it. He was not a fan of the movies.
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by jumpman500 10y ago
Groundbreaking. Do good regulations but not the pointless ones. I'll be sure to inform my Congress representative.
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by jumpman500 10y ago
Well an argument you could make is taxing investments makes people less likely to save. Our GDP is basically all comprised of consumption so if a person substituted a consumption good over an investment good could cause a decrease in growth