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by mrleiter 8y ago
Yes, correct.
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Farming is harsh and without subsidies even more farms would go bankrupt. Prices for goods are low, manufacturing cost is high, margins are ridiculously low. Add the fact that maintaining a farm is hard work, both physically and mentally. I
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by mrleiter 8y ago
On a smaller scale, that is, like michaelt pointed out, party of every government that has authoritarian figures in it. When you reel the people around you with fear, you will get inaccurate information. That is one of the reasons why, if y
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Inside the Hunt for the World’s Most Dangerous Terrorist(politico.com)
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Sole cycle (2015)(newyorker.com)
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This is really fun, I love it. One could devise a whole game around that. Define functions that give you coordinates on a sphere (in this case, the earth), where X (e.g. the "treasure") is hidden. Then plot the functions, make k s
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by mrleiter 8y ago
Before Charlie Brooker started producing Black Mirror, he already was a highly observant critic of society and media. At one point he produced a generic news snippet of an unspecified event, where he pointed out all the standard videoshots
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I literally hate the art world(thewhitepube.co.uk)
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Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Arrested for Financial Violations(bloomberg.com)
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Exactly. I was referring to formal education. And I didn't mean that a higher degree leads to better choices. But it does reduce the possibility of being manipulated through fake news. And while talking about education, we should also
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No, there are some less educated people who share the same views as me. But it is no secret that the degree of education correlates strongly with certain political views. And the people currently in power in America certainly know that and
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This is a classic example of shifting the blame. Yes, he admits that facebook spent too much time trying to minimise the problem. And indeed they did. But it's not only the misinformation that is the problem, facebook itself is at the
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Ask HN: What is one mistake you learned most from?
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The motion itself [1] has zero reference to the Mueller investigation. It is in fact about Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2242b, which is states that "Whoever [...] knowingly persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any individual who has not
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by mrleiter 8y ago
The government filed a motion to seal a criminal complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia. [1] Such a motion, according to Local Rule 49B in this district [2] lays forth that such a motion shall include (1) A statement as to why sealin
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Facebook to create independent oversight group to review content appeals(theverge.com)
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Chapter 7 (liquidation) or Chapter 11 (restructuring) of Title 11 U.S.C. are possible options.
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Pablo Rodas-Martini on the significance of those findings: "Wow! This scientific finding is huge. It rewrites the Younger Dryas: it explains the melting of ice sheets, the pouring of meltwater into the Atlantic, the disruption of the o
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Compelled Decryption and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination(papers.ssrn.com)
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When it comes to taxation, a central sovereign measure, every member has to agree. Although the EU itself is something sui generis (or colloqually supranational), certain areas demand unanimous votes, especially those that are inherent to a
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It‘s interesting to note, albeit probably being irrelevant here, that both Sweden and Denmark are not in the monetary union (Euro) and have certain priviliges in certain areas of EU law (like the UK has).
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Relevant paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00964
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A mathematical model for the effect on fake news(github.com)
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Gwern's List of Open Questions(gwern.net)
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How to model fake news(arxiv.org)
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Tokyo garden loses fortune because ticket seller was scared to charge foreigners(theguardian.com)
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Merkel to Give Up CDU Party Leadership in Dramatic Move(bloomberg.com)
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Ben Hunt pointedly said in his recent article [0]: "With Saudi Arabia, the ubiquitous private information was that Saudi Arabia is a thug state and their Crown Prince MBS is a wannabe Bond villain. But no one acted AS IF they knew this
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Regarding your stupid complaint (2011)(lettersofnote.com)
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by mrleiter 8y ago
True! Never thought about that. Indeed conflicting.

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