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by sgregnt 5y ago
I dont understand where does your claim come from that the users were already readers of the blog before seeing it on Facebook. It says in the article that once facebook promotions were gone, people were not able to find the content, so mu
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by sgregnt 5y ago
That's my interpretation of this paragraph: > ... from scores of long-time fans who were under the mistaken impression that we had ceased all operations years ago > ...When we ask them what caused the assumption of our demise, th
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Interesting, if you had more follower on facebook than any on other social media, and turns out, these are the core followers that are not abandoning you after you left facebook. Wouldn't that suggest that Facebook algorithms actually
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by sgregnt 5y ago
> In a setting where the supply of new housing is already limited by other factors – whether land-use policy or the capacity of existing infrastructure or sheer physical limits on construction – rent regulation will have little or no a
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Can you share which fields are these?
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by sgregnt 5y ago
That reminds me of telegrass [1], which is highly organized place on telegram to order cannabis (not sure about other drugs though) shipment in Israel (cannabis is illegal in Israel). At some point telegraass had more than 200k members, whi
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by sgregnt 5y ago
My opinion is that exams are counter productive. Why do we need the exams? If a person is not knowledgeable it's not the university problem it's the employer problem, it's on the employer to find out that the person does not
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by sgregnt 5y ago
I wonder how much did overworke contribute towards saving lives?
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by sgregnt 5y ago
This comment is very biased, who are you to speak for all facebook users? For one thing, Facebook allows me to stay connected with my family in another country. I'm infinity grateful to it for that, and I'm ready to exchange getti
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by sgregnt 6y ago
If whatever actions turn a non government entity into something inefficient, then the entity wont survive for long and will go out of business (or at least that's the hope of a competitive free market economy)
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by sgregnt 6y ago
Because the extremists sort-of hold the civil population as their hostages.
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by sgregnt 6y ago
Noam Chomsky has an agenda himself, I would not use him as a factual reference for any such perceived bias.
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by sgregnt 6y ago
This is tangential to RH, but nevertheless related issue: For many years now I was wondering how exectly the ETF work and whether when I buy an ETF I can be 100% sure the issuer can follow through on their obligations? What mechanism are th
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by sgregnt 6y ago
This is tangential to RH, but nevertheless I think it's a related issue: For many years now I was wondering how exectly the ETF work and whether when I buy an ETF I can be 100% sure the issuer can follow through on their obligations? W
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by sgregnt 6y ago
This is tangential to RH, but never the less related issue: For many years now I was wondering how exectly the ETF work and whether when I buy an ETF I can be 100% sure the issuer can follow through on their obligations? What mechanism are
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by sgregnt 6y ago
Not sure about either way. One thing did look interesting to me: the messages when trying to buy/ short the stock on Schwab looked strange. This might be indicative that they did not have a suitable system in place to interfere with th
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by sgregnt 6y ago
It's not just Robingood! I'm on Schwab and they blocked trading with GME this morning (didn't try it but SELL might still be open)
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by sgregnt 6y ago
It's not just Robinhood, I'm on Schwab and they blocked trading GME this morning (didn't try it but SELL might still be open)
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by sgregnt 6y ago
It's not just Robinhood, I'm on Schwab and they blocked the GME stock from teading this morning (probably sell is till open)
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by sgregnt 6y ago
Having free speech is bad, but not having it is even worse. Limiting free speech is a slippery slope once you start it hard to stop it. Suppose what could have happened if there were no free speach but bad actors in the government or in bi
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by sgregnt 6y ago
I wonder how accurate is your statement and does it contributes to an informed conversation? Anecdotal. There are tens of millions of GOP voters, I have many friends that support GOP, non of them is a fasict.
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by sgregnt 6y ago
Just dont have some bad actors in otherwise a peaceful demonstration bro
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by sgregnt 6y ago
My feeling is that from the business point of view the big tech do want regulation, the infrastructure needed to moderate contents will carb competition and cement their leader role. The thing is that the leadership of these companies feels
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by sgregnt 6y ago
The goal might be to deter and project power on lesser military capable nations than Russia or China (e.g. nations in Africa)
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by sgregnt 6y ago
Can you elaborate? Who are "we", does this refer to some scientific community studying these things?
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by sgregnt 6y ago
What is the standard deviation on these plots? It is such a pity that standard deviation is not shown, it could add so much more to the plots.
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by sgregnt 7y ago
I think to make a solid argument one way or another, one needs also to take into account medical and scientific opinion regarding the number of people that are going to die in the longer run because of economy stagnation.
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by sgregnt 7y ago
Coundn't agree more, my understanding is that this podcast if primarely about deeper philosophical questions. And that's exactly what makes this podcast interesting to me! Technical details, on one subject or the other, are easie
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by sgregnt 7y ago
Compared to USA Germany is a relatively poor, so it doesn't work, you see.
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by sgregnt 7y ago
No this is one of the most verified facts. The privacy agreements of gmail, facebook and what not, serve like a poll for this: if you use the service you agree to this. Majority of people use Gmail, Facebook, etc. So this is not anecdotal.

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