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by neaden 7y ago
It's important to remember that Toys R Us was basically fine as a company, and was murdered by vulture capitalists who looted it. https://theweek.com/articles/761124/how-vulture-capitalists-...
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by neaden 7y ago
Even the ones in the article, I think most people would assume it was a problem with a legitimate printer rather than realizing it was a counterfeit.
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by neaden 7y ago
They also would have called you crazy for saying you wanted to turn lead into gold with alchemy. Fact is, most of the time the people who say something can't be done are right.
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by neaden 7y ago
"Users do not need to look for videos of children to end up watching them. The platform can lead them there through a progression of recommendations. So a user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of women who become c
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by neaden 7y ago
Saying that something is subjective is not the same as saying it is propaganda, which is what you originally stated.
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by neaden 7y ago
Sales tax in the US is a local thing, some states have 0, some about 10%. Then cities or other local bodies can have a sales tax on top of that.
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by neaden 8y ago
The first "(pizzagate is real)" second "Q is legit. Don't trust the media." the second is followed with him defending the Q conspiracy in the comments, the first all the replies have pretty much been deleted.
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The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming(slate.com)
2 points by neaden 8y ago|0 comments
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by neaden 8y ago
I think having what essentially would be small robot controlled fire-bombs flying through the skies would be a tough sell. Even if you managed to make them as safe as possible it's not exactly the kind of thing people would be eager to
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by neaden 8y ago
Psychiatry today strikes me as being in a similar place as Infectious Disease before germ theory. We can describe symptoms, we can group them together, and we can come up with cures that sometimes work but without knowing if we are talking
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by neaden 8y ago
I don't think so no. I think in health there is just a lot of pressure to come to an answer (does this medicine hurt or help) and to have a justification for that lawsuit for regulators and attorneys.
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by neaden 8y ago
There aren't is the thing. There are widely used standards, but they don't actually have any real basis. Fisher I believe is the one who popularized it but it was for specific circumstances and he acknowledged that it was just a c
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by neaden 8y ago
I think Serdar Argic is possibly the earliest example of a kind of troll that is being discussed in this article, someone who drops in to new places when they are discussing something even tangential to their hobbyhorse and dropping in thei
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by neaden 8y ago
I've been thinking of this, especially in light with the tragedy in Christchurch today. I think this view is fundamentally mistaken in two important ways. The first is that as I said, when we pretend to be something we become it. When
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by neaden 8y ago
I think that type has mostly gone away/become the third. People "ironically" posting racism seem to all just be flat out racists now. As Kurt Vonnegut said “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pr
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by neaden 8y ago
I think right now there are three main kinds of internet trolls in things like this. First would be the government sponsored ones who tend to post in unison or have some theme. These seem to mainly be Chinese and Russian. Second are the fre
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by neaden 8y ago
But doesn't the government have a responsibility to help ensure jobs are available to it's citizens? That there is a food supply that is stable and won't collapse with disruptions? That you have the industry to make tanks and
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by neaden 8y ago
Alternate title: Regulators Move to Ease Pre-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street.
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by neaden 8y ago
I just don't believe that he actually means any of this. Facebook's actions over the years do not indicate that Mark Zuckerberg cares about the privacy of his users.
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by neaden 8y ago
Knowing all the allegations that surface against people these days, it's pretty chilling to think about all the stuff like this that was just swept under the rug or condoned for centuries.
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by neaden 8y ago
They still vote, or fail to vaccinate their children.
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by neaden 8y ago
1. The law isn't involved in this, this is Youtube changing things. 2. The law gets involved with factual stuff all the time. You can't sell pills and make certain claims about their health effects, you can't print a newspape
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by neaden 8y ago
Why do you think that people will automatically listen to the most relevant, clear, researched, reliable, unbiased voice? Lots of people end up listening to loud, angry, biased voices that say a lot of bullshit. We see this with things like
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by neaden 8y ago
Doesn't that make it worse? They paid him money and didn't really get anything out if it means he just scammed someone else.
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by neaden 8y ago
I'm reminded of a blog post about Facebook's "X years ago today" feature that has shown people pictures of dead children or other relatives, burned out houses, car accidents, and other memories that the algorithm chipper
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by neaden 8y ago
This seems a bit silly. An analysis of British/EU relations that was written 10 years ago is going to be missing some pretty relevant things that have happened since then for instance.
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by neaden 8y ago
ICE as an organization was created in 2003, many people literally want to abolish it. The equivalence you are trying to draw here in no way exists.
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Amazon’s Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone into Cops(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by neaden 8y ago|0 comments
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by neaden 8y ago
Basically Tolkien never could come up with a good way to have orcs with metaphysics he liked. He didn't believe a free willed being could be inherently evil, so at times he wrote that orcs had no free will and just did what Sauron want
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by neaden 8y ago
Well no one died on Elephant Island so I guess that.

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