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Can't speak for this particular application but just off the top of my head you could use NLP to aggregate news based on more complex queries. Instead of saying "grab the most popular article" you could say something like &qu
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While the printing press helped spread the bible, it also helped spread around revolutionary ideas like Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres which greatly influenced thinkers like Giordano Bruno, who in turn printed
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Very interesting. I wonder about the relationship between the advent of the Gutenberg press and the Inquisition which began shortly after.
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Your ideas strongly relate to the message of the late Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa Society and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here are just a couple quotes that your post made me think of: >Humanity is
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People --> government --> central bank --> money --> people... This is 2015, why do we need so many middle men and such an inefficient closed source volatile paper based system? How about letting the people issue their own money
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>So the problem isn't one of scale, which is already huge. It's one of distribution. "The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it." -Sitting Bull
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The explicit goals of our sociopolitical economy as stated in the 1913 Federal Reserve Act are (paraphrased) as follows: 1. Maximum employment 2. Stable prices 3. Moderate interest rates I'd say all of these should be reevaluated, most
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>The only problem with this is how this is impossible to scale to proper levels in the US. This is obviously false when you consider the simple fact that there already exists a renewable surplus of food water and shelter in the US. There
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Alan Watts did a great bit back in the day about money as an information network and how basic income is necessary for automation: >And one of the reasons that our technology is impeded and prevented from feeding the world properly is th
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No
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On the contrary, it is the elimination of poverty which lowers the birth rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic-economic_paradox
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We've definitely got the space and the resources. The demographic-economic paradox shows that solving the problem of overpopulation is simply a matter of distributing the renewable surplus we have of food water and shelter to the close
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Solar is not cost effective on the scale of dollars. That doesn't mean it's not cost effective though. The dollar is a debt-based system which means when something is bought with a dollar that thing is assumed to be owned and loan
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>Money can be counted and comes in standard unit sizes >There is nothing "rulerlike" about money. rulers have standard unit sizes which can be counted
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>Jacques Ellul observes in Propaganda: When dialogue begins, propaganda ends. His theme, that propaganda is not this or that ideology but rather the action and coexistence of all media at once, explains why propaganda is environmental an
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>Money is not a measure of value, it is used as a store of value and a way of transmitting value, but it has no intrinsic value. This seems self contradictory. How can a piece of paper be used to "store value" but have no intri
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There already exists a renewable surplus of the basic physiological needs (food, water, shelter) to accommodate all humanity, yet it almost 50% of the global population struggles to obtain. So in that sense, there is an artificial scarcity
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Jon Oliver did a great bit on privatization of education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lyURyVz7k
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Whether they want to collaborate or not is trivial. What is important is that they possess the information and tools for easy dragnet surveillance in the first place. Moving towards more distributed network tech like Mesh Networks is the on
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Such trouble would not be so feasible if it weren't for the centralized nature of commercial ISPs and big tech (Facebook, Google, Apple) in general and their collaboration with the government. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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For an interesting historical analysis on the subconscious effects of evolving media check out the Gutenberg Galaxy by McLuhan. While your Cadigan quote suggests TV induces schizophrenia, McLuhan asks the same question in regards to literac
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>The discarnate TV user lives in a world between fantasy and dream, and is in a typically hypnotic state, which is the ultimate form and level of participation. >The inner trip is not the sole prerogative of the LSD traveler; it’s the
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If you have any programming experience you can hook into AlchemyAPI's machine learning services. You can make 1000 api calls per day for free. https://github.com/AlchemyAPI
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Buckminster Fuller was a pioneer of affordable and efficient housing engineering who began his career shortly after the Great Depression. In his 1980 book Grunch of Giants, he makes the prescient observations of the cyclical failure and sub
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The electric medium of the internet as an extension of the brain is a concept which Marshall McLuhan analyzed back in the 1960s. You might be interested in some of the things he wrote: >My main theme is the extension of the nervous syste
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>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and e
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>The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. -John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went
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Yes it is, and that's where the prison corporation cashes in.
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Both agencies targeted him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr .
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Gentrification is the buying and renovating of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by wealthier individuals, which in effect increases property values and displaces low-income families and small businesses "When rich

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