losteric

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by losteric 9y ago
Google cannot become our only source of truth, but should we eliminate it as a source of truth? What about other search engines? Social media shares? What happens when a journalist publishes an article based on offline investigation, do
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Energy is the bottleneck. Lasers don't provide that much kinetic energy... so you're either briefly firing a powerful laser or continuously firing a small laser. The other energy cost is movement, I don't know how often the s
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> most of finance has accepted that cryto currencies are the future [citation needed]
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For mindful meditation, that's not necessarily a bad thing... just focus on catching the thoughts and letting them go. I have a highly productive ADD so a voice recorder really helped with this step (record the idea to clear my mind).
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Just curious, but why not email/sms? Everyone with a Facebook account has an email address and phone.
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Which one? They looked rhetorical to me.
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"Fake news" is a symptom of consumer ignorance, and beneficial for facilitating monopolization.
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by losteric 9y ago
It's the other way around. Fake news is selective ignorance that distracts from the cancer eating away at our formerly-educated electorate.
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I don't see how "fake news" relates to media monopolization. It's just a fallacious outright rejection of unpleasant news. In fact, Trump just stated he supports Sinclair's monopolization.
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Lately I've been thinking about economics from an ecology perspective. I think the "other side" of the problem is consolidation and deregulation of the banking industry. Stagnating markets look like farms, clear-cut native ec
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Sinclair does not report on anything. Local TV stations do their own journalism, but Sinclair owns the station and can order the local broadcasters to read scripts. Those topics are likely the only ones with concrete evidence.
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> Many of us have been pounding this drum for a long time, including Trump himself. Can you cite that? It sounds like prime material for Reddit's /r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/
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Why do you think Europe will collapse because their native reproductive rate is going down? What do you think about Japan?
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Right, because they switched to the American version of crony capitalism.
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Consumerist capitalism is "realistic"? That's laughable. It's popular, but the cargo cult of capitalism has humanity blindly sprinting towards ecological collapse. Socially-strong European nations are the most likely to
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The corporate argument is that advertising pays for the content while consumers pay for distribution. So the Netflix equivalent is your ISP price (distribution) + Netflix subscription (content). In practice, media consolidation is just shaf
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It does depend on the sport, but for basketball they could replay interesting plays, talk about players, theorize strategy, broadcast in-stadium fillers, or just show the team talking.
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I remember moving to FB when my mom joined MySpace... I've since straight up quit social media, but I know folks that moved on to IG/Snap so they could broadcast content they didn't want certain social groups to see via FB. O
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Or maybe they hired an animator as their UI designer.
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You're describing individual personality shortfalls, not problems intrinsic to the role. > In the best case, they do split work, delegate, mentor, and lead meetings, but always end up doing the business critical or challenging piece
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Never mind, they updated the post. As of my post the first few examples had some type annotations in the form `methodName(varName: type, ...)`, which I assumed was TS. All the examples are plain ES6 now.
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FYI, the examples are partially written in Typescript not ES6... so they should look foreign.
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True.... though I bucket that under my last grouping, because I think there's a conspiracy attacking the legitimacy and experience of scientists. If the public mistrusts doctors and vaccines, they're more likely to distrust climat
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Think?
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Libel: a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression The "Uranium One conspiracy theory" was a libelous attack on a political candidate. That attack is a prime example of
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America has three types of "conspiracy theorists" * Logically consistent in niche fields that could be verified if more information was public (Room 641A); these should really just be called "theories" * Harmless garbage
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whoops, you're right! I mixed up my rovers, I was thinking about opportunity
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It's all fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Every institution is under attacked. Traditional media, entertainment, scientists, police, democratic representatives, intelligence agencies... now our digitally-dependent society is realizing we
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Individual or company bias? Does Google discriminated between their customers? I can't recall any political groups complaining Google wouldn't take their money.
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It's top speed is 0.09 mph... and it frequently stops for samples, technical issues (computer glitches, wheel performance, etc), or simply to stay alive (solar panels supplement the RTG; in the winter it must remain on terrain pointing

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