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by rndmize 8y ago
> We once envisioned the internet as a place of revolutionarily open discourse, where any idea under the sun could get posted somewhere and read, no matter how crazy or bad it seemed, with the worst ridiculed and dismissed, but still abl
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by rndmize 8y ago
> "Overhauling transportation systems" to reduce emissions — including expanding electric car manufacturing, building "charging stations everywhere," and expanding high-speed rail to "a scale where air travel sto
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California abandons $77B high-speed rail plan(axios.com)
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by rndmize 8y ago
There's a decent amount in the middle, but it's not as well known and will never hit the front page - 3 second memes are easier to process and upvote. https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/ https:&#x
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by rndmize 8y ago
Nothing in either article you linked says anything about passing information to US companies.
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by rndmize 8y ago
I'm actually not sure the nebulousness of the original Leave plan is the problem - if it was, I'd expect significant changes in where people stand on the issue, or fear of the No Deal option, which doesn't seem to be the case
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by rndmize 8y ago
You misunderstand - it's not an excuse. I simply expect that in the next 50 years, autonomous weapons will be developed, by someone - the only question is who. The potential value it too great for it not to happen. Consider, for exampl
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by rndmize 8y ago
Use of force is a separate problem from the development of weapons. I don't really have a problem with startups doing weapons development - someone is going to do it, and I have a hard time seeing how the world would be better if China
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by rndmize 8y ago
The oldest millennials are in their mid 30s, with the youngest being early/mid 20s depending on your definition. Further, I know plenty of early 30s millenials that continue to rent instead of buy for a variety of reasons.
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by rndmize 8y ago
I'm in my early 30s now, and while I agree with some points in the article (no interest in competitive, minimal interest in twitch-reliant anything) I've still been able to find a few games a year that really capture me. 2018 - Su
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The antidote to civilizational collapse(economist.com)
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by rndmize 8y ago
I have a hard time finding a single statement in your comment I agree with. > The power of monopolies and indeed of corporations in general is directly tied to the power of the State. That's a big claim with zero evidence. It would
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Ram accelerator(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rndmize 8y ago
> Stealing IP will happen, no matter what treaties and governments try to do. For poor countries it is a path they just don't have the luxury of giving up. I feel like this misses the point. I don't expect people to complain mu
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by rndmize 8y ago
> So, when people would say things to the group like “the other team raped us because our mid kept jungling,” I would attempt to reflect back more appropriate language by saying back to them “so you’re saying your team lost because you w
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by rndmize 8y ago
Things are actually even worse than you describe. There's been constant action to restrict the use of class-action lawsuits and move towards arbitration instead. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-consumers-arb
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This Burrito Includes an Arbitration Clause(currentaffairs.org)
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by rndmize 8y ago
It's not really whatboutism. The point to be made is this is not an Amazon problem, it's a systemic problem. Amazon seems to be getting more attention in recent years because of their size, but to me that just feels like picking o
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by rndmize 8y ago
https://www.currentaffairs.org/ I didn't realize how many years I'd been looking for a serious, entertaining, well-written leftist perspective on news and the world until I ran across this magazine.
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by rndmize 8y ago
This sounds exactly right to me. In discussions with a religious friend of mine some years ago, I noticed that she had a tendency to conflate law and morality, when they really have nothing to do with each other. Further, she seemed to thin
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by rndmize 8y ago
13 million in lobbying over five years to prevent more efficient tax filing for an entire nation and protect your business model. Sounds like an amazing deal for a company with 5 billion in revenue. I'm consistently amazed at just how
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by rndmize 8y ago
I saw a headline a few weeks ago that American fast food had spread to <location> half a decade or a decade ago, and now obesity rates were way up in the past few years. There shouldn't be anything surprising about this - fast fo
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by rndmize 8y ago
> But not strongly enough, apparently, to get that statement any higher than the fourth paragraph of your comment. Which tells me you're more interesting in flogging the bad game and its developers than you are in instances of actua
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by rndmize 8y ago
Other means of launching would be massive infrastructure projects, have huge power requirements, or simply might not be practical with current technology (as with a space elevator). I would guess that the most practical would be some sort o
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by rndmize 8y ago
What part of this is "can't"? No one wants to spend the money, end of story.
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“Human fingerprint” on California's blistering heat wave(axios.com)
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Dangerous heat wave won't let up across U.S(axios.com)
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Scorching, long-duration heat wave to roast much of U.S(axios.com)
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by rndmize 8y ago
Your statement is worthless without context. The US has never had more than a 68% labor participation rate. To say that 37% of the US is unemployed, without qualifying that that percentage includes anyone over 16 (students, retirees, stay a
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by rndmize 8y ago
Disappointing but unsurprising. There's little to be done at the moment aside from contacting your assemblyman/state senator and making yourself heard. I would expect, generally, that if a company is going to spend tens of billion

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