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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
As another comment pointed out, the small countries vs US Network effects excuse doesn't really fare well when you look at the successful startup environment of Israel. The USA is perfectly aware of this dynamic because faced with Tik
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
than to chase the lotto ticket in a rigged game That's just a strawman. We're not talking about winning the lottery. This is about whether you improve your outcome by participating in the workforce in some meaningful way. From
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
It's not a useful model for life, but it's a useful perception to convey to your constituents. "You're being held back by a system that works against you! Send me to Washington, and I'll fix it!" Wash, rinse,
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
The fact that the master degrees claim was made without specifying what degrees those masters were in is telling.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Hard work and good decisions may not always lead to a better life. But not working and bad decisions will usually lead to poor outcomes.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Apart from the CFAA issue, it seems strange that you can't regulate access patterns to your own web site in order to prevent mass scraping of user data.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
For its part, hiQ uses the data for products that analyze employee skills or alert employers when they could be looking for a new job. Interesting that they've made a business out of this. I've always maintained to my colleague
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
is getting in the way of progress I find irony in that this statement in the title isn't actually a fact.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Yeah, a lot of electrons were sacrificed to ramble on about very little.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Notice how when you present the facts, people get really quiet. No, "Wow, I checked out the source and you appear to be right. I'm going to have to re-think these issues." So much for intellectual integrity.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
It's being downvoted exactly for the reason that this topic is important. Too many people are hopelessly trapped in their narrative bubbles and unable to calmly evaluate arguments against what they've been taught to believe.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
It's all part and parcel of the same problem. The default media narrative bubble leans heavily to the left. People trapped in that bubble are overly confident in what they believe. They aren't often exposed to arguments and data
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Actually, nobody makes the debt smaller. They monkey with the deficit, but the debt continues to grow. But your original claim is a naive talking point based upon who happened to be President at the time. Often, the Congress has a lot mor
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I agree with you in a lot of ways, although my problem with the center is: When Democrats want to blow out the budget by spending $10 trillion and then centrist Republicans say, "Okay, we'll do $5 trillion", there's nowh
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Unfortunately? This is exactly why living in the default media bubble is such a problem. The COVID lab leak coverup was the normal state of affairs. It wasn't an outlier. We saw all last year as the media stood in front of looting, r
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I started writing out all the tit-for-tat responses, then I remembered that this topic is about media narrative bubbles. I already know all of your claims because I watch broadcast news programs here and there. I see the news reports on Go
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
that happens regularly It happens in a token way in infrequent and extreme circumstances. But there's nothing even remotely comparable to the fact that Donald Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter, that numerous internet powers
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
From the Arstechnica article: In 2017, Christel Dahlskjaer—who was, at the time, head of Freenode staff—created a corporation, Freenode Ltd., which she immediately sold to Lee. Sounds like some money exchanged hands.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
to the extent of sympathizing with an attack on the electoral vote count The Left thought it was hilarious when Trump's Secret Service moved him to the bunker when violent protesters were threatening to breach the security of the Whi
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
If you want to counteract the narrative bubbles that you're operating in, you need to work hardest to counteract the one that is the default. If you're like most Americans, you're probably immersed in left-leaning thought.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Censorship means state power is deployed to silence speech Since when? You're attempting to give default context to a word that has none. Somehow, api, I doubt that you'd be attempting that redefinition if Facebook, Twitter, et
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Interesting. So how much did Lee pay for Freenode? Did that all go to Christel Dahlskjaer?
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Isn't it amazing how they can make such confident recommendations about these dietary issues without having the data (real data, not some bs study) to back it up? They end up reversing themselves over and over, utterly destroying soci
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
For decades, we were told that the food pyramid was the ideal healthy diet and that dietary fat was the enemy. It was all bullshit. Eggs are healthy, eggs are unhealthy, eggs are really unhealthy, eggs are healthy, eggs are really healthy.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
4. Excludes motor vehicle manufacturers, manufacturer of motor vehicle equipment, or motor vehicle dealers and medical devices or a digital electronic product or embedded software found in medical settings. For all the bravado about stand
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
The worst part of all this is the needless destruction of a lot of Science’s social capital. Society is not going to solve any of its big problems if Science is viewed as just another source of political rhetoric.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Yep. I know of at least five stroke or adverse heart events in my social circle or one hop out, all had been vaccinated recently. Like you, I maintain that it’s still a lesser risk than COVID... but there seems to be a lot of media/pol
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I wonder how many other coroners ruled a case of myocarditis to not have been caused by a recent COVID infection because other coroners had not been willing to make the association either?
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Social media interactions are like daily Black Swan events to most people. The scale of the interactions is just not intuitive enough for them to process in a healthy way. I’m optimistic that eventually, society can learn to deal with it,
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
You ever notice how “libertarian gone wild” examples are always fiction? Movies, video games, etc... while collectivism gone wild’s real-world failures are everywhere to be seen in even recent history? USSR, China, Venezuela, North Korea,

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