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by ramblerouser 8y ago
France has spent beyond its means on the Neo-liberal "invade the world invite the world" policies of supporting US wars and taking in vast quantities of economic migrants as "refugees". The solution is crystal clear to a
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
>You want fewer delays? You want realtime countdown clocks? CBTC is the answer What crap. For nearly 100 years the subway has been just fine, and after 10-15 years of corruption and mismanagement we're expected to believe the only s
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
The US should ban export of all high tech related IP to China as a national security concern. The wholesale outsourcing of decades worth of our hard earned technological innovation is treasonous. China would never give us access to that kin
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
No, but it does put into question the motivations of people funding the science, and academics are poorly-paid professionals constantly fighting for funding, not gods with uniformly honored moral scruples.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Here's the first hit from a web search for "al gore solyndra" https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1961299 Tldr; The Washington Post attributes most of Al Gore's net worth to investments in taxpa
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
>people flying around the world trying to stop it would not be major drivers of the problem. Thats missing the point. The fact that these people arent willing to sacrifice the slightest convenience for the planet strongly suggests they d
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Have you heard of the term Neo-Liberalism? Lowering living standards for the middle class is part of the plan. Burglary has nothing to do with it.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
So: Your understanding that you can't prove yourself but which you take on faith from a politicized system of academic grants and government loans to fraudulent businesses like Solyndra is "scientific fact" and my skepticism
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Or some rich and powerful people decided to tell you a metior was about to pummel the Earth and you better accept a reduced standard of living while they fly to and from climate conferences in their private jets. If your political beliefs t
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
It pleases me that 4/5 hacker news comments here call out this manipulative establishment propaganda for what it is. "We need to keep talking about how secure the technology is, how secure we want it to be , and how tech and tele
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
So this article is the only thing this poster has ever submitted, which is a bit suspicious in itself, but additionally the account being non-civil in attacking my criticism has basically only commented on this one article. Pretty strange I
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Even if Google and the US military have an agreement not to update images of millitary bases, it's perfectly understandable and doesnt infringe on anyone's rights. I agree this is sensationalism piggybacking on real privacy and go
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Vice is being very sensationalist. There are very real abuses of government power related to 9/11 and the PATRIOT Act, but this is a distraction.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
I know you mean well, but please take a look at the Hackernews guidelines linked at the bottom of the page, specifically the following two passages. >Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a to
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
In Demo IV it's clear that this is intended to be used without correcting previous output. So with a look-ahead of 3 words it outputs the exact opposite of the intended meaning. For this to be practical, the look ahead probably has to
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
I dont think there were fascists fighting the communist revolutionaies in Germany in 1918-1919. The fascist parties arose in the 1920's in response to the communists.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Good catch. Senior Economist for International Affairs in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. So he put a veneer of credibility on the US government's policy of controlling other count
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Does having $100 in your pocket make you "your own bank"? Does it make you "your own security guard"? Real banks could hold deposits in Bitcoin if the regulators controlled by banking interests allowed it, but they dont.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Why doesnt that make sense? They would rather it fail because it threatens their core business, but as long as it looks like it wont, they will invest in it.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
>US government backs it Yes, by putting people in jail who put forward viable alternatives to USD, like Liberty Dollar. And making Bitcoin impossible to use legally as a currency by applying strict capital gains tax reporting requirement
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
If that were the only thing backing the dollar, it would be worth a lot less than it is.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Did you google the "Liberty Dollar"? They arent afraid of new technology they are afraid of losing public trust. Competitors that provide a usable alternative to them are bullied out of existance. Fortunately, Bitcoin's techn
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
I agree Bloomberg knows a lot about it, but the financial industry as a whole would rather Bitcoin die because its a threat to their banking monopoly. Go read the Satoshi whitepaper. The recent buy-in from bloomberg and Goldman et al is jus
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
>Echoing sentiments of mainstream economists Yea, Paul Krugman has been saying "Bitcoin is doomed" since 2012. He'll always be wrong because this is all politically motivated. The banking and political establishment are sc
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
How much money and time goes into hiring more female septic tank cleaners? Garbage men? Construction workers? Truck drivers? If sexism isn't symmetric then feminism isnt about equality.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
>We did eventually find a few great female applicants, but it took a lot of work and a lot of time dedicated specifically to that goal. How is this not sexism? Replace female with male in the above quote and tell me it isnt sexist.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
I totally agree that popular stuff is beneath us techno wizards, but thats not the point of fairtrending. The magic of social media is that corperate executives and media conglomerates don't get to pick what goes to the top. The users
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Fairtrending isn't about recommending stuff you personally are interested in. It's designed to acurately report what is actually popular and not just being promoted by Youtube. I think that went over the head of the people complai
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Have you looked at the front page of youtube after clearing your cookies? Its not more high brow than fairtrending. The point is that media corperations are paying Youtube for placement and Youtube is hiding non-advertiser friendly content.
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by ramblerouser 8y ago
Pewdiepie has the #1 spot on fairtrending and is no where on Youtube's trending. Ellen Degeneres and Jimmy Falon are you Youtube trending but nowhere on fairtrending. "Elitist corperate control over mass media is great because I d

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