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by mhneu 9y ago
Selling psychological data to advertisers is boring, but when you get billionaires and foreign powers involved to elect a would-be autocrat who is degrading American democracy, it suddenly gets a lot of people talking. Yup. It's not a
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by mhneu 9y ago
I like him too. Just be cautious - he's a contributing editor at Reason, which is heavily funded by the Koches and tends to follow their agenda. I wish we had decent smart right-wing voices that weren't co-opted by money from b
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by mhneu 9y ago
Views of how the 'rich' live are vitally important today, when wealth inequality is the central social issue of our time, impacting government, policy, wages, and consumer markets alike. (Piketty). Class mobility is good, of cours
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Higher education in the US has been seen as a way to improve one's lot in life - to climb the class ladder. That's still true. But there was a window in the 1970s-1990s in the US where it was MUCH easier to use college and hard w
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by mhneu 9y ago
Disagree. First, time value of money. The Prius costs $24k that you don't get to invest over the time you're driving. Let's call that $1-2k. Plus, most drivers will pay interest on financing the car. ($1-5k depending on
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by mhneu 9y ago
Question about analog design: how well can projects be transferred amongst engineers? Is the knowledge base relatively similar across individuals, or is it hard for others to modify designs?
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> how war happens Orwell captured one way total war can happen: a powerful small group of people gains control of a propaganda apparatus, and uses control of messaging to divide a country, or turn a country against a demonized minority g
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These Amazon jobs are most useful to think about by comparison. Four decades ago, analogous jobs (manual labor, no college degree) were in the car industry: at Ford and GM. Those jobs were good middle-class jobs with good salaries. On tho
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by mhneu 9y ago
And this one "Fox’s Unfamiliar but Powerful Television Rival: Sinclair" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/business/dealbook/sinclai... And "How a Conservative TV Giant [Sinclair] Is
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by mhneu 9y ago
I think people know, but Sinclair is the emerging threat to American public debate that is controlled by conservative owners. Sinclair requires their local affilate TV stations to run conservative-biased segments. In one case last year Si
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by mhneu 9y ago
"The Supreme Court has noted that the FCC has an expansive mandate to ensure broadcasters operate in the public interest." (National Broadcasting Co. v. U.S., 319 U.S. 190, 219 (1943).) It's like shouting fire in a theater wh
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by mhneu 9y ago
Your guess is also reasonable - the US would have an incentive to keep such 'sources and methods' stuff quiet. But my point was not about Oswald having ties to Russia - he lived there for three years. But imagine the CIA had a le
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by mhneu 9y ago
My guess is that the CIA knew more about Oswald's radicalization then has been previously disclosed. The guy spent three years in Russia, had a Russian wife, and had some contact with Cuba. Almost certainly he had some contact with R
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The most reasonable idea about a conspiracy is that the CIA/FBI knew Oswald had contact with the KGB, were embarrassed they didn't stop Oswald before he acted, and the CIA covered up what they knew about Oswald's Russia/
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by mhneu 9y ago
Bugliosi also wrote a good book on the OJ case that similarly cuts through the fluff and lays out the most plausible theory (that OJ did it).
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Totally agree- Oswald acted alone. The question is now how Oswald got radicalized and whether any organizations were involved. He spent time in Russia and had some contact with Cuba, it seems likely he had some association with Russian or
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by mhneu 9y ago
Great article on this by a Nobel laureate at Harvard: "A Top-Heavy Administration? By DAVID H. HUBEL January 31, 2012 17 In 1958, Stephen Kuffler was invited to come from Johns Hopkins Medical School to Harvard Medical School to become
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by mhneu 9y ago
Professors in science, engineering, health, economics, and finance are wildly underpaid compared to what they could earn in other jobs. Professors take that pay cut for academic freedom, the ability to control their own lives and think inde
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Me too.
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by mhneu 9y ago
The only way you might deny what I said is if you get news only from lying propaganda right wing sources like Breitbart, Limbaugh and Fox. (p.s. proof Fox is propaganda is here, top economics journal: https://kottke.org/17
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by mhneu 9y ago
No one should be allowed to buy Facebook ads that contain lies: Democrat, or Republican, or Russian spy agency. At least not if we want to keep a democracy in the US. Democracy depends on honest public debate.
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Yes, the first thing we need is transparency. There's a bill in Congress now to do that. (But that's not ALL we need. Baby steps first though.) http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/facebo
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by mhneu 9y ago
What? Maybe you missed the stories from David Frum, former GW Bush GOP speechwriter and neocon, in the Atlantic? These are major major articles, critical to American public debate. From Feb 2016: "How to Build an Autocracy The precon
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by mhneu 9y ago
>This is another problem that boils down to short-sighted politicians No, it's worse than that. It's not short-sighted politicians. It's politicians who are purchased by the very wealthy. Politicians who are selected fo
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>There's all kind of post hoc explanations for why this historically contingent organizational structure is really super optimal... but frankly they aren't very convincing. Disagree. The best place for undergrads to get a top-
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No, it's not that you're too thick, it's just that you're right that that only administrators and faculty see the cracks forming. They want to hide these cracks from undergrads. Because undergrads are the main source o
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by mhneu 9y ago
Think of this article as describing the canary in the coal mine. The effect it describes is absolutely real. Universities in the US are facing serious issues. The university system in the US is the envy of the world right now. But US uni
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In the US, more immigration is a no-brainer. It's good for the US economically. https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2017/09/05/the-very... P.s. discussion isn't bad if conducted in
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It's actually even worse than you say... It's not just that failing to acknowledge hate allows racist threats to fester. Failing to acknowledge hate allows outside groups -- whether other countries or the very wealthy -- to infla
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by mhneu 9y ago
Remember how in Josh Green's book on Bannon, Green describes how Bannon and Breitbart specifically targeted young tech employees for divisive propaganda? Bannon saw tech workers as a productive demographic to incite hate in.

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