nickalaso

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by nickalaso 6y ago
And this post has been flagged too, presumably by some group that is sharing the link internally, targeting the spread of this information as if it was a threat to them. There has to be some sociological phenomenon that explains these kinds
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by nickalaso 6y ago
Being a little bit pedantic here, but isn't all evidence, for something that can't be proven mathematically or definitionally, circumstantial?
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by nickalaso 6y ago
Many users ARE stupid and lazy, though certainly not all. But when you create a platform that incentives lazy dumb behavior from both your consumers and your content creators, you end up having a platform with mostly lazy dumb content that
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by nickalaso 6y ago
There have been rumors it was Venus related on twitter for a few days now. Journalists got the release early and several of them tweeted out hints. But I guess we will find out for sure on the 14th.
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by nickalaso 6y ago
I live in a studio apartment with high rent, with a half mile walk from my office. I did this on purpose so I wouldn’t have to commute. Now I am spending high rent for a small space. My company keeps stating that we will have to return to t
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by nickalaso 6y ago
You still would amass capital. Guns, food, persons, other resources. The destruction of fiat currency wouldn't prevent the accumulation of valuable goods/commodities.
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by nickalaso 6y ago
Which has been the case since almost the inception of the country, as it is a direct consequence of the First-past-the-post voting system that the US government has implemented.
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by nickalaso 6y ago
No offense, but I personally hate it when someone online mentions the existence of scientific research supporting their position, and then doesn't post a link to said research. I'm personally interested in reading the papers you m
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by nickalaso 6y ago
I've always felt that conspiracy theorists provide a certain value to the internet. They are almost the vaccine itself to misinformation. The foreign pathogen that teaches the body to defend itself from a worse foe. If you can't u
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by nickalaso 6y ago
We can and should fight back, this makes the job of the surveillance state harder. But my concern is, that I think the problem will eventually get much worse than it is today. I believe that eventually this kind of surveillance will be run
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by nickalaso 6y ago
The response to the coronavirus has been many orders of magnitude more strict than the response to the flu. All this while be less than an order of magnitude as deadly, probably 3X-4X. This is why I think it is perfectly valid to compare it
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by nickalaso 6y ago
Misinformation is different from censorship. I would personally rather have to sort through misinfo myself, rather than run the risk of having truthful information hidden from me.
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by nickalaso 6y ago
The problem on Reddit is the problem of all social media. HN is better simply because it is too small to be targeted by the bigger more well funded PR campaigns. Also, it probably helps that this community is not particularly demographicall
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by nickalaso 6y ago
So to follow your argument to its logical conclusion. Are you fine with dying today? We want to live when life is good, because life is good. If you are enjoying your life today, and want to keep living because of it, then you are going to