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by m0zg 5y ago
A modest proposal: if you're going to do it, and have the political wherewithal to push it through, do it in _your own_ county/city, then wait for 5 years or so to see the effects. I.e. if Hollywood wants to "defund the polic
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Man, as much as I'd like to see it, it really cracks me up when people think this has a snowball's chance in hell of happening. Google and FB are _required_ to win elections now, have been since 2012. This golden population contro
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Here's why FB is in no danger until at least 2024: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-furious-zuckerbe... . Don't hold your breath on this, at all. It's all for sale, and Zuck is buying
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Mandatory sheltering, mandatory substance abuse treatment, work requirement. I'm sure state government can provide sufficient jobs - the number of the homeless is not that huge (yet) in absolute terms. I'd also argue that shelter
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Same exact thing is happening in Seattle as we speak. They are buying hotels and converting them to permanent housing and, get this, do not require that you don't take drugs or look for a job if you live there. How the fuck are people
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Why has this obvious solution taken 3 months and a boat tour from a startup CEO to implement? Do not elect incompetent mouth breathers into local governments, folks. When such people run unopposed (or when all the alternatives suck about as
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Having an established social circle leads to greater life satisfaction - you don't need a study to know that. And that's the main thing churches provide.
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It was a shit song anyway. This one is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_T54wg9KI . No "Brandon" just straight facts, expertly delivered from the standpoint of working poor. YT is still trying to figure out
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You can already see how Google/FB PR shills are trying to narrow down the fallout in the press (and on this site) by pretending this is only (or mostly) about kids' privacy, whereas the real story is rather severely anticompetitiv
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He does. Berkshire owns a ton of Apple (114 billion dollars worth) and some other tech/pharma companies. But hey, if you think insider trading is so wonderful and ethical, let's make it "fine" for everyone and abolish st
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by m0zg 5y ago
Twitter threads on this are rather eye opening, if folks haven't seen them, check them out. If this shit is proven in court (and if the judge doesn't hold a large position in defendants, as the case may be), Google / FB could
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Something I intend to check on with my doctor, thanks for caring enough to provide references. Who knows, maybe I had covid and didn't even know.
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He's much better off now. A genius grade trader. It's a goddamn miracle. Warren Buffet doesn't even come close to such prowess. What's funny is everyone knows these are pretty damning facts that are not good for the coun
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> I started losing a lot of sleep, and I got a lot of headaches and back pain. I got a lot of "brain fog": inability to concentrate or make decisions. I started forgetting words and names and losing the thread of a con
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Guess who writes the laws? People who are neck deep in insider trading to the point where the speaker of the House outperforms some of the best performing hedge funds. Don't hold your breath on this one. And the law would need to be si
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by m0zg 5y ago
Buttigieg should have been on that boat. But, as has become a custom lately, he's MIA, just like VP is MIA at the border. Not the worst outcome though - he could also be actively harmful like, say, Mayorkas.
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by m0zg 5y ago
United States spends $3.8T+ (yes, _trillion_) on "healthcare", up from about $1.2T in year 2000. If you think people who own Congress will allow this overloaded apple cart to be even slightly upset, let alone destroyed, you'r
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by m0zg 5y ago
China is in a _much_ different place than the USSR was: for one thing hundreds of thousands of Chinese have advanced degrees from Western universities. A lot of them have industrial experience as well (as well as probably copies of trade se
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If anything, I'd say prices would get even crazier. Pfizer alone has almost a hundred lobbyists on payroll in DC.
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And now they don't have health insurance because they can't afford it, and even if they do have it, their deductable is often larger than the entire premium used to be. Whoop-te-do, wonderful government "progress". Just
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by m0zg 5y ago
Precisely. A billion ways to get things wrong, and if you get it wrong it doesn't work. And the info to get it to work is unlikely to be in the patents. You have to have folks who worked with this stuff before, which is difficult, but
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And thanks to all that effort the Chinese now likely have all the blueprints. The only reason why they still don't have EUV is because this stuff is difficult to bring up even if you have all the documentation - screw something up even
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> Allowing employers to control health care is not a good idea. Not that I disagree, but I'd like to point out that you're effectively advocating for all other employers to "cut" healthcare as well. As someone who pay
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For comparison, a decently trained human male can hold approximately 80kg (175lb) per hand (350lb total) fairly easily without any assists such as straps, and without using hook grip. With hook grip or straps, the strength of your back is t
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IIRC one of the main advantages of LiFePo4 batteries is that they can't "explode" under the normal circumstances. And if they buy batteries in China anyway, then why not buy from China as well? I'd understand 20-30% prem
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Looked them up and for LiFePo4 batteries they seem to charge several times the eBay prices. What could they possibly be offering at that premium, given that it's almost certain they don't make the batteries themselves?
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It's a double whammy on "smart" people, actually. They are usually conditioned by their "academic success" that they are only allowed to have "smart" ideas. So "smart" people tend to play it real
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This is pissing into the wind. There's nothing any "machine learning pioneer" can do about marketing, and this is marketing. And it's all right. People are beginning to catch on that we won't have "thinking rob
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Ban insider trading in Congress as well. Double their salaries, ban all speculative activity, and monitor their inflows/outflows and large property purchases so that no shenanigans occur under the table. It's blindingly obvious co
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There are three things in tension here. 1. It is usually combinatorially impossible to answer all the questions when solving a problem - people just choose some random walk over the problem space and it doesn't always lead to ideal res

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