nr2x

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1. 601.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   More people are punished for being born poor - lead paint, air pollution, and crumbling schools don’t exactly lend themselves to upward mobility.
2. 602.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   Free community college was in build back better, 49 republicans and Joe Manchin killed it.
3. 603.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   Exactly, this is pure PR the headline should be “Government Fulfills Terms of Loans it Failed to Meet”
4. 604.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   Can we get a look at Putins teeth?
5. 605.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   Ugh, don’t remind me…I loved Vine, and find TikTok awful
6. 606.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   Began with Gingrich
7. 607.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   Good point but look at the fate of community broadband. That’s a battle being fought, and often lost, in statehouses.
8. 608.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   Facebook is mentioned 19 times, Fox News once, and talk radio zero. This is a very techno deterministic argument that utterly fails to acknowledge the main source of misinformation and division is boring old tech like cable news and radio.
9. 609.▲
   by nr2x 5y ago

   It’s the same type of supply chain issues faced in minerals extraction.
10. 610.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    I assure you this is real.
11. 611.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    "HN is very anti-crypto" Minor correction: "HN is full of people who understand the actual math and implementation of blockchain technologies, business models being tested, and have seen more than a few 'revolutionary&#x
12. 612.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    I once heard a disturbing ghost story: Certain tech company was building a training set of faces. Hired a contractor in $poor_region. Contractor asks if eyes need to be open in photos. Doesn't sound right to $tech_employee. Asks why ex
13. 613.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    I was the first person to accept bitcoin payment for a certain class of goods (not illegal, just don't want to out myself) - so yes, I'm aware of the pizza transaction and have friends who retired off of BTC. That doesn't me
14. 614.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    Fairly confident we’ll get fusion before we use a “blockchain” to buy a loaf of bread.
15. 615.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    Yup, as an American living in UK for a bit it was very confusing to be required to sign up for numerous government schemes.
16. 616.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    There's a scale for it, we've quantified the lack of satire! --- The celebrity-persona parasocial identification scale (CPI) is designed to measure how media consumers develop identification with celebrities or popular fictional c
17. 617.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    I enjoy my job, I also get paid to do it. If being a twitter troll is both a past time and road to riches for Elon I think it’s just win-win for somebody who seems to need attention and wealth.
18. 618.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    It’s almost like he has a history of using Twitter to manipulate rubes for his own financial gain and has the SEC receipts to back it up.
19. 619.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    Reddit also has perennial problems with jailbait, fappening, and the like. Instagram is the social app of choice for celebrities and influencers. It’s all garbage or gold depending on how you self curate, this is true of all platforms going
20. 620.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    “Buy & Sell Private Data, While Preserving Privacy” I’ll sell you as much urandom data as you can buy buddy. Very private stuff, no link to anything.
21. 621.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    This will right the ship no doubt.
22. 622.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    And this is why you can buy a 55” television for $35 on sale.
23. 623.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    I also remember altavista and the like and how bad they were. When google came on the scene it was a total game changer.
24. 624.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    You just invented pre-Google Yahoo!
25. 625.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    Free to impart and to receive. The government can’t choose what I hear, but I have a right to listen to what I want.
26. 626.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    I don’t see why anybody holding stock in an Elon Co. would want him running his mouth with potentially fewer restrictions?
27. 627.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    Great read, thanks.
28. 628.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    Feels weird to be happy about that, but great to know.
29. 629.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    “Zoo” “gull” “er”
30. 630.▲
    by nr2x 5y ago

    This and the destruction of world heritage sites in Ukraine, Syria, and elsewhere may not be classical “war crimes”, but the destruction of our shared history, culture, and artifacts is a crime against all. These computers may not be ancien