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by koboll 6y ago
It almost seems more onerous, because "vote" requires less of a commitment, arguably, than "join"
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by koboll 6y ago
Once you get Internet access, legitimate cargo cultism probably fades quite quickly. Why revere John Frum when Jeff Bezos lets you buy in one click?
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by koboll 6y ago
I don't really understand the argument here. How is sunsetting Answers related to mismanagement? Seems like Answers, as cool and interesting and funny as it was, was probably not a major revenue driver or even loss leader anymore for Y
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by koboll 6y ago
Or, honestly, simple anxiety. I went through a year of severe anxiety where I honestly thought I was suffering extreme cardiac and maybe neurological symptoms. It turned out to be all psychosomatic. There are so many markers of similarity b
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by koboll 6y ago
I'm afraid of death. Very afraid. I'm pretty sure we're just meat sacks and when my heart stops beating that'll be the end of all that I am, and that scares the shit out of me. Calling what I feel about death "fear&
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by koboll 6y ago
This is hilarious on a meta level. Like, it's funny that a marketing team could be so detached and misanthropic as to think people would find this funny.
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by koboll 6y ago
>There hasn't been a replacement thus far that has taken hold. The replacement is social media. Is it a good replacement? Absolutely not.
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by koboll 6y ago
It's like the officially-supported Svelte equivalent of Next/Gatsby/Nuxt/etc.
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by koboll 6y ago
To reiterate, AWS provided this evidence in its court filings when it was sued by Parler. Pages and pages of email records where AWS customer service reps sent Parler specific posts that violated AWS's ToS, and Parler's responded
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by koboll 6y ago
>I'm no fan of the content on Parler, but Twitter (who uses AWS) was used for far more organization of illegal activity than Parler was. Parler outright refused to delete posts calling for the mass killing of politicians, even when
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by koboll 6y ago
I think it's even simpler -- liars attracting any degree of press attention won't be able to get away with it. "That picture was Photoshopped" doesn't work as a defense because it's not too difficult for expert
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by koboll 6y ago
Again, Sam very specifically talks about paying for this wealth redistribution by taxing land and capital, rather than printing money.
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by koboll 6y ago
>horses don't create demand, but neither do unemployed humans. What Sam is proposing is massive wealth redistribution by taxing land and capital. Seen any memes referencing $1400 lately? Unemployed humans who are given cash absolute
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by koboll 6y ago
The traditional way to do this would be something like building a domestic search engine and levying steep taxes on foreign ad buys, rather than this bizarre attempt at backhanded protectionism.
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by koboll 6y ago
I'm kinda disappointed that I can't register an emoji handle. No diamond at hands dot kz for me, I suppose.
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by koboll 6y ago
Just leave your devices at home then.
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by koboll 6y ago
>to finance not capital creation, but current consumption I don't understand the distinction here. Capital creation results from meeting the needs of current consumption, no?
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by koboll 6y ago
Seems like a really easy first step would be for Democrats to pass a bill allocating money for the IRS to build a What You Owe API that banks and companies can access. Then every bank on the planet can implement a "Click to pay your ta
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by koboll 6y ago
Huh, so Clubhouse is explicitly breaking Apple's rules. Surely Apple knows this, but is allowing it because... it's mega-popular? What's the point of having rules if clawing your way to popularity by leveraging their violatio
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by koboll 6y ago
It's odd to read this, since so much of my money is parked in index funds, probably for decades, simply because stocks are more likely to perform well over the long term than other asset classes. I guess this can be read as an outgrowt
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by koboll 6y ago
Interesting. I'd like to read more. Any good books on this?
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by koboll 6y ago
Personally, the reason I avoid red meat is tail risk. I want to reduce the odds that I die abruptly because of cancer or heart disease. How great I look/feel takes a backseat to ensuring I live 60-70 more years, rather than 20-30 more.
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by koboll 6y ago
So... which food additive's trade group is quietly paying scientists to point blame elsewhere right now? I'd prefer not to find out fifty years after the fact.
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by koboll 6y ago
From 1960 to 1985 the top marginal tax rate crashed from 90% to 30%. And then of course there's the demise of private sector unions, the effects of computerization, etc. Arguably, it was always a natural law, but the 1970s were an infl
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by koboll 6y ago
If bitcoin is a currency, then the prices of things in bitcoin have fallen over time. What cost 40,000 BTC a decade ago now costs 1 BTC. But bitcoin is more of an asset than a currency, so speaking of it in terms of inflation / deflati
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by koboll 6y ago
>In the review, Mr Waymouth alleged: "I paid upfront for a legal assessment of my case. "But what I got was just the information I sent them, reworded and sent back to me." That does kind of sound like a scam to me.
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by koboll 6y ago
>So far I haven't met a user who asked for ads By voting with their feet in favor of free ad-supported services, they are essentially asking for ads. Perhaps this will change in the future. Twitter is said to be experimenting with o
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by koboll 6y ago
Disinformation is a subset of dissent. Holocaust denial is, no doubt, a dissent from the societally agreed-upon set of facts. It is also disinformation, in the service of racism, and so I don't want anyone spewing it using any platform
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by koboll 6y ago
More likely churning credit card points.
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by koboll 6y ago
Where are you seeing that?

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