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by mhneu 8y ago
Wow. If this was a sting that implicates Russia in paying for assassinating the journalist -- wow.
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by mhneu 8y ago
Great that he is alive. But if this was a sting, it's not a good move by Ukraine/Kiev. It's just going to help future disinformation by the Putin regime. I wonder what their intended goal was? >John Schindler @20committ
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by mhneu 8y ago
https://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articles/bill_russell_once_le... Charles Barkley: "Bill Russell called me one time… He says, “Charles Barkley.” I said, “Yes, sir, Mr. Russell.” “You grew up in Alabama. Right?”
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by mhneu 8y ago
But holding cars to the same mechanical rigors as airplanes would make them neigh unaffordable for most That's why most states have an emissions test (to address the negative externality that individual drivers don't feel a cost
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by mhneu 8y ago
Share cites of your writing?
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by mhneu 8y ago
It is ludicrous that Theranos' punishment for all their fraud was merely paying a fine. We need to resume prosecuting the individuals who commit white collar crimes. Otherwise, getting caught committing crime just gets budgeted into
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by mhneu 8y ago
Fewer low-skilled immigrants in those countries compared to the US, is the usual explanation given. The Economist loves to talk about this topic. One recent example: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/0
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by mhneu 8y ago
Replacement level fertility is by definition non-exponential (or if you prefer, has an exponent of 1.) A reasonable number of macroeconomists would be ok with replacement-level fertility. The economics get really bad when the birth rate f
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by mhneu 8y ago
For decades, the US birth rate has been held up by immigration. American values have been to regard the country as a nation of immigrants, who not only act as a source of youthful workers, but also have more kids than Americans who have be
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by mhneu 8y ago
Yes, that was about how disinformation gets into public debate and into the media. Carry on. Seems like the physics discussion above is addressing the science questions you had. Edit to add: because of the alliance in the US between billio
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by mhneu 8y ago
As you provide links remember that a prominent argument used by climate-change-deniers is this heavier than air fake argument. https://www.ourcivilisation.com/ozone/king.htm Some history here https://books.
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by mhneu 8y ago
Remember as you read these arguments that the wide consensus of scientists is that CFCs cause ozone breakdown. And the only reason there is any disagreement at all is because billionaires and corporations pay for disinformation. They ampli
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by mhneu 8y ago
Probably opposite: browsing during the day means people are blowing off their jobs to use HN.
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by mhneu 8y ago
You’re a little off here. The Chickenshit Club (that is, federal prosecutors in the last ten years) means that big company management can get away with white collar crime, paying other peoples’ money to make charges go away.[1] Workers or
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by mhneu 8y ago
The problem is how many of our smart people go into marketing and persuasion. Not clear if that is good for our economy... or society.
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by mhneu 8y ago
Yes. So much of our economy is driven by marketing. Many of the smartest young people in our economy used to go to Wall Street, now many get MBAs and go into marketing. Same thing with Google, Facebook - marketing and advertising control
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by mhneu 8y ago
You've characterized the problems well. And yes this is a core problem for python - startup time and import processing is limiting in a lot more cases than just CLI tools. And yes the design of the language makes it hard or possibly
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by mhneu 8y ago
I would characterize Python's weaknesses differently. Startup time is a problem for Python. But concurrency is much more complex than you state: threading is not the only or best concurrency model for many applications. And certainly
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by mhneu 8y ago
It's an argument about (1) longterm thinking, not the short term thinking that a totally unregulated market leads to, and (2) avoiding hidden subsidies of national chains due to the way we budget for infrastructure (governments subsidi
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by mhneu 8y ago
Yes, exactly. There is both a social and an economic argument here. Strong Towns mostly makes the economic argument. The economic argument in this case is: when the market selects for the lowest price at the present time, without taking i
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by mhneu 9y ago
> the US is at little risk of "destruction" Propaganda can destroy democracies. (And in most or all autocracies, propaganda is central to the regime's power) Social media, and private data, and disclosure of private email
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by mhneu 9y ago
One other comment for non-lawyers here: When two companies negotiate a contract, typically what happens is this. One team of lawyers drafts the contract. They send it to the other lawyers. Both business teams consult their lawyers, and t
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by mhneu 9y ago
Truth. Compartmentalizing complexity is key
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by mhneu 9y ago
If I understand correctly, the cellular companies do some hairy, hairy manipulations of TCP in order to preserve data connections across cell towers. Do we need a better protocol for cell data and would this improve throughput and latency?
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by mhneu 9y ago
Monopoly control, or near-monopoly-control, of many markets is hurting consumers and average citizens at the expense of a small number of CEOs. Some good thinking on this: In context of amazon https://newrepublic.com/article
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by mhneu 9y ago
Rule of law is a really good thing in most societies.
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by mhneu 9y ago
Yes. There are two separate issues here, I think. 1. When corporations "negotiate" with consumers, this is an abuse of the legal system. Contract law was conceived for situations where both parties have at least some amount of n
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by mhneu 9y ago
The most important question is about "informed consent". Yes, users consented to giving data to facebook. But they did so via a convoluted click-through legal agreement, which almost no one reads, and which denies Facebook access
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by mhneu 9y ago
Eh. We should want innovation - to "let a thousand flowers bloom". But when companies start getting so big they are a detriment to society in some way, we should regulate them. We let train and oil companies do their thing in th
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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (Bruce Schneier on “surveillance capitalism”)(schneier.com)
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