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by olefoo 8y ago
This has already been done. cf. The "Bernie Bros" accounts that were harassing democrat women.
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by olefoo 8y ago
You just caused me to have a flashback. Waiting for dogpile results was such a pain.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Hubris and an unshakable belief in Ayn Rand... http://evonomics.com/the-ceo-of-sears-jon-haidt/
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by olefoo 8y ago
> by negating the fungibility of money, undermines its usefulness. I wonder how you could model that. And as a corollary, how to monitor the effect in the real world?
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by olefoo 8y ago
There are a number of confounding factors, class and education for instance. It can be hard to be rational about large amounts of money especially if most of your socialization around finances comes from advertising that explicitly pushes a
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by olefoo 8y ago
This is a pretty fascinating article even though it is frustratingly superficial. It seems like there are a bunch of different threads here that would benefit from exploration; the behavioral economics thread; the anthropology thread, the c
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by olefoo 8y ago
Ah CFML. Lucee is the descendant of an open source replacement for the ColdFusion templating language. Mura CMS runs on Lucee https://www.getmura.com/ It's definitely not the usual HN web building community though. Les
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by olefoo 8y ago
This appears to be part of the broader effort to make citizenship conditional for many more Americans. The current state of that effort allows for ethnically disparate impacts ( latino populations were less likely to be born in a hospital,
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by olefoo 8y ago
if it's only the transition _to_ a supersonic regime that generates a shockwave, then it wouldn't be out of character for carriers to get a variance allowing for "acceleration zones" which could be within 20 minutes flig
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by olefoo 8y ago
Our society is much more complex and populous than Rome was at that time. Sure the idle rich could and did vacate but it's hard and expensive to move the massive investment in social infrastructure that any organisation that feels a ne
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by olefoo 8y ago
If poverty is no excuse for breaking the rules then wealth should not be either... But that is not how it works in a land where a bunch of bankers can break all of the rules of sound lending and then demand that the government relieve them
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by olefoo 8y ago
Moores law is well and truly dead. That's one design cycle == 10x improvement. So not unreasonable within the context of the history of the industry. The proof will be in the product when it ships.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Given that the Republican party has allowed people who openly support ethnic cleansing and racial division to be part of the party. I'm pretty comfortable with being part of the opposition to that agenda.
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by olefoo 8y ago
I do not think that @jack will have an easy time of it in the months to come. Whatever he does will cause someone to enter into frothing ragegasms directed at him and the company. Yet, it's clear that twitter cannot maintain it's
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by olefoo 8y ago
This is the natural evolution of the privatized prison. To treat an ever growing segment of the population in a carceral manner in ways large and small. Degrees of citizenship is now a thing in America. You can be graded on your credit, you
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by olefoo 8y ago
It is a tactic common to abusers to cut victims ties to the outside world. Here we see the same psychological dynamic at work at the level of nations.
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by olefoo 8y ago
There was a brief post-war era where that was the case. But that era ended in 1973 [1] 1. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
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by olefoo 8y ago
Keeping a private army fed, equipped and healthy is a hard problem; especially if you cannot rely on the large scale infrastructure systems that provide all of the advanced technology, effective medical care and civil order we take for gran
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by olefoo 8y ago
The thing is; there won't be a "the Event" there will only be a long emergency and it's already in progress. Systems won't fail all at once and new temporary systems will be built as things change. But if these fool
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by olefoo 8y ago
> every video that confirms their worldview will be seen as totally legit, every video contradicting it will be "fake" Yes, this has been true for quite some time already since even innocuous footage can be made to lie with cr
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by olefoo 8y ago
I'm not sure that most people fall for it every time; I think the problem is that many people prefer the fake version. They may know it's fake, but the lie that serves their prejudices is preferable to a truth that disadvantages t
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by olefoo 8y ago
The City of London is a notorious tax-haven and seems to have created a bubble of jurisdictional exemption around itself.
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by olefoo 8y ago
I suspect it will be quite confusing for a while; but once people have been cheated a few times because of faked video it will become something else. We will all start picking up on peoples kinematics and timing. There is an opportunity for
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by olefoo 8y ago
If you have access to access to victim credit card accounts you could probably datamine the least likely to notice accounts. CC used at a bar 5 nights a week? Charge on.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Any UBI program that doesn't take basic living expenses ( housing, healthcare, bandwidth, food ) into account is just a fancy detour for the money to go back into the pockets of the ownership class rather than creating lasting wealth f
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by olefoo 8y ago
Making the assumption that someone operating at his level plans most of his public actions in relation to some strategy... What would be a plausible purpose for publicly embarrassing himself like this?
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by olefoo 8y ago
Your reading comprehension is as evolved as your attitude.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Fair-trade, ethically sourced, carbon-neutral consumer product. Guaranteed by a public-benefit corporation. Bonus: Now on the blockchain!
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by olefoo 8y ago
> to date has not been forensically examined by any government agency Given that the FBI has examined it and has forensic images of it's disks. This statement is false. Most likely if any of these cases move to trial, the FBI's
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by olefoo 8y ago
I'm pretty sure some of the people involved in IOTA are going to wind up living in a commune and wearing identical tracksuits. I do find it interesting how personally invested many people on this site are in the success of Elon Musks v

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