lxwang

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by lxwang 7y ago
If the new media is an inevitable byproduct of the digital era simply existing, which is how things look to me, it still makes sense to follow things back to the root cause. How many examples are there of successful media organizations that
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by lxwang 7y ago
One reason people refuse vaccination is that they are worried the vaccines are secretly an attempt to sterilize undesirable segments of the population. For example, see what happened with the tetanus vaccine in Kenya in 2014. https:/&
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by lxwang 7y ago
It surprised me too, and it's unclear what their basis is for saying this. This WHO page [1] on measles statistics claims a 60% increase for the Americas. Maybe the BBC interpreted a <100% increase as a decrease, or maybe I'm m
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by lxwang 7y ago
Abolishing patents is radical enough to begin with, so why stop there? If everyone had UBI and free healthcare to cover the material costs of living, is it really so implausible that people who were interested in looking for apples that cur
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by lxwang 7y ago
Because businesses donate more money to politicians than you do.
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by lxwang 7y ago
If everyone just buys tanks, eventually they'll have no choice but to change the regulations.
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by lxwang 12y ago
The most famous example is the DES S-boxes, where the NSA made a change that nobody else understood - until years later, when it was discovered that they had made the algorithm more secure against cryptanalysis techniques that had just been
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by lxwang 13y ago
>blindly support the actions of whichever leader bears your label No, rather than being the worst, that avoids saying pretty much anything of substance about the political world at all. If the leaders are well-chosen and accurately label
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by lxwang 13y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by lxwang 13y ago
And what of it? The internet and cheap worldwide shipping/travel have made it easy to work around a lot of laws whose jurisdiction is limited by geography. A system where you can use gmail, google+, youtube, etc and be subject to Googl
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by lxwang 14y ago
Nice theory, but you don't want to marry someone who doesn't behave like a 10 year old, you want to marry the person you love.
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by lxwang 14y ago
If you are seriously worried about that, it's a huge sign you're not committed. Tiny resale value is preferable here.
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by lxwang 14y ago
It's better if everyone in society can agree on the same signal to use. Otherwise it's too hard to verify.
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by lxwang 14y ago
Yeah, if you're lucky enough to never have to teach, pass quals, take classes of your own, etc. In reality, research takes up less than 30% of your average day.