selfishgene

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by selfishgene 6y ago
Much of government spending is an illicit use of taxpayer's money. So what's the disconnect?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
... because divided you are conquered.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Wonder if this would increase the risk of cancer in the process.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
There's a lot more to come out on this part of the story in the coming year.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Over time they will probably start requesting a lot more information ... basically anything that the IRS would find useful is in play here. It probably makes sense to start out by not asking for too much data in order not to scare people fo
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by selfishgene 6y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6539070/ Why the downvotes?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
If you're serious about data integrity and want to keep the archives offline, consider using dvdisaster to burn to Blu-Ray disks. Always remember that tools like PAR are of limited system if the filesystem becomes corrupt. Also worth m
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by selfishgene 6y ago
It's the increase in leptin that drives satiety under keto diet: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3244537/#:~:tex... . Healthy weight is also a lot more complicated than just one hormone. Tau
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Backdoor for law enforcement?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Thanks ... the web page made it sound like they might only be open sourcing certain components of the tool.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
If flying on Mr. Epstein's private jet called the Lolita Express down to his private island in the Caribbean called "Pedophile Isle" counts as "elite," then maybe so: https://slate.com/technology&#
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Is this project completely open source or is the code for some of its key components being held back?
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Lua would have been a nice to embed as the scripting language for Autohotkey.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
This is helpful for news articles: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome For research journal articles, just search Google for sci-hub to find the latest domain name for Alexandra Elbakyan's paywall
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Wonder if the news of Chen's arrest is "heartbreaking" to MIT president Rafael Reif: https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/06/27/mit-president-c... Apparently when he's not busy prov
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Benjamin Netanyahu was apparently an MIT graduate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu One wonders then if Rafael Reif, who forbade any pro-Palestinian activism that was deemed too "anti-Israel"
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by selfishgene 6y ago
https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/10/31/what-is-social-cooli...
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by selfishgene 6y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/13/20692415/jeffrey-epstein-... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets... So apparently Frank was one of the sug
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Maybe MIT president Rafael Reif could contribute some talent from the Media Lab for this project ... along with some gifts delivered courtesy of Epstein's fellating chick Neri Oxman! I'm sure the Crown Prince could use a little mo
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Nice to see Aaron Swartz' legacy live on in the recent recommendation of a former Department of Homeland Security director: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/07/31/universities...
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by selfishgene 6y ago
This article on WBUR's website hits the nail on the head: The crux of it is that MIT refused to disavow any kind of trespassing charge. ( https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/01/15/swartz-attorney-ortiz )
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by selfishgene 6y ago
With "rules," people are just sheep grazing under the vigilant watch of surveillance capitalism. Decentralization + filters which are either trained by machine learning or appointed by the community that the forum serves (rather t
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Maybe a better idea is to ask the customer to destroy the product on video so that faking dissatisfaction with the product is discouraged. Yes, this creates waste, but it would help to realign incentives between buyers and sellers.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
By absorbing it they just pass it along to the consumer. Unfortunately this will make a lot of people more sloppy shoppers and the next step will be to limit the percentage of purchased goods that can be returned which will play right into
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by selfishgene 6y ago
What is the best open-source equivalent of this? TeXmacs does not run in the browser.
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Maybe the Matrix project will eventually offer something like this: https://matrix.org/bridges/
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by selfishgene 6y ago
Excellent points ... I would also point out though that a lot of the money donated represents wealth that they "earned" through fancy international corporate tax avoidance schemes that are taught to students at business schools li
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by selfishgene 6y ago
... or the elites in other societies like French novelist Gabriel Matzneff, who wrote about how much he enjoyed sexually molesting multiple 8 year-old boys in bed at the same time during his trips to the Philippines. Instead of de-platformi
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by selfishgene 6y ago
The issue here is not whether Sunstein's being centrist, but whether he's making sense at all. Who are the experts who get to decide what counts as a "falsehood"? For example, how many of us really know the details about
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by selfishgene 6y ago
There is no such thing as a completely non-political government "professional" in a position of leadership where their decisions have the potential to impact people's lives in different ways. For example, Fauci's decis

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