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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
When it learns through reinforcement that the best treatment for tachycardia is smashing the patient's skull in.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Or the opposite. The ramp-up period (4-8 weeks before the brain rebalances its chemistry in response to the drug) is hell, and cessation of the drug (or running out without access to a pharmacy) causes near-total loss of cognitive ability f
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Being embarrassed isn't the same thing as telling someone they should be embarrassed.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Yeah, I mean I see this article as a not-so-subtle middle finger to computer science elitists, so I don't think backlash was unexpected (on the contrary, welcomed). React itself represents a shift in webdev thought where, instead of de
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Good artists borrow...
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
The name is just part of the conspiracy-laced aesthetic of the alt-right in the spirit of QAnon and InfoWars. As for where Peterson fits: he's the father figure of the alt-right. His rhetoric is slightly more palatable to the main stre
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Isn't that kind of irrelevant though since asbestos is only a problem when it's airborne? I mean the whole thing with baby powder is that it's practically designed to be aerosolized.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
It's the other way around, actually. Private ISPs cannot survive without statutes that prevent the establishment of municipal ISPs. Like all utilities, Internet traffic has a very low per-unit cost, making it unviable to turn a meaning
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
> By this token... This would be like NYC building a road exclusively for Uber and Lyft, who can then charge you whatever for access via their transport. NYC loses because it then becomes dependent on ride sharing companies to justify it
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
That's entirely the point and I wouldn't be surprised if this person were a Comcast lobbyist. The goal is to have the public enthusiastically absorb the cost of infrastructure, then introduce inefficiencies designed to sour the pu
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
I'm kind of shocked that you'd openly admit to this kind of behavior. You're lobbying for the public to foot the bill for public infrastructure to be used solely by private entities, then intentionally introducing inefficienc
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Privatization has been a disaster for US broadband. I'd love to know which local governments you're talking about, especially considering that all cases of corruption I've heard center around bribes from private capital to in
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Americans love slavery and will justify it to themselves any way they can.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
Really? I find it to be the exact opposite. I budget much better when I can see what I'm spending money on rather than how much cash I have on-hand.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
...just the gatekeepers?
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
All stock markets are glorified gambling.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
That's really beside the point and the people at The Guardian know that anything under their masthead is ultimately going to affect brand perception.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
There's not much nuance here; the "difficulty" aspects of proof-of-work are one of the core features of Bitcoin.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
I don't view those statements as racist or sexist, but I do think that calling a technology racist and sexist by citing a few white male benefactors is incredibly lazy and ultimately damaging to the goal of bringing equality to all.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
From a socialist lense, this article reads like a neoliberal greatest hits piece: * Conflating anarchism and libertarianism * Calling a technology racist and sexist * Russiophobia * A full-throated support of big banks and the privacy right
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
glances at Facebook timeline well... maybe that won't be so bad afterall.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
It's not the tactics that people are critical of.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
> And if there is an oversupply of employees with those skill levels, then they can choose from the pool based on the market rate. This is pretty standard economic theory. Right, and part of the point of all this rhetoric is the fact tha
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
> provide just enough wages and internal services to allow their employees to live a healthy life The fact that this is a novel concept is terrifying.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
I'm not sure how easy that would be since you're dealing with ASAR (just a binary encoding but definitely not as easy as modifying plain JS files) and code signing.
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
By using "significant numbers" alone, you're vulnerable to coordinated information suppression efforts (by state actors, for example).
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
I think the use of "trustworthiness" is misleading. Really it's more "how likely is this person to accurately flag an article that matches Facebook's internal definition of fake news." That would mean that your
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
With how many bits of precision?
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
For Americans, reducing income disparity, which in turn would allow more money to flow within the US. For foreign employees, ending a program of indentured servitude that dangles the prospect of citizenship in front of them while providing
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by rmrfrmrf 8y ago
I'd like to add that part of the factor that's driving down wages is the fact that workers from countries with cheap/subsidized higher-level education can get a bachelor's degree for under $5000 (total), meaning that a s

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