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by shard972 10y ago
> If you read Dylan Matthews' investigation [1] a major takeaway is that the foundation's impact comes primarily from influencing corporations and governments. For example, to make AIDS drugs cheaper they convinced the manufact
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by shard972 10y ago
> Seriously, can you provide references to back up some of this? How about Jake Tapper of CNN describing one of the events described in the emails about a question being leaked to the clinton campaign as "Journalistically it’s horri
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by shard972 10y ago
I mean, those are talking points but it doesn't change the fact geopolitics is more complicated then "Putin invaded Ukraine"
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by shard972 10y ago
> Every politician has public and private positions. That's just how politics works. So you agree that she is trying to create an alternative reality for private purposes?
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by shard972 10y ago
This is the crux of what is going on in politics now. You can't simply trust your instincts when there is so much work going into manipulating those instincts.
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by shard972 10y ago
> He's a candidate, but has held precisely zero public offices thus far. I'm not sure why that's a bad thing?
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by shard972 10y ago
> Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. So you think it was fine for the current head of the DNC to leak questions from CNN to hillary during the primary? And you think it's fine for the under se
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by shard972 10y ago
> Is there something really damaging in Wikileak emails? The most damaging thing at the moment would have to be the attempted bribery from the under secretary to the FBI. Even in their excuse they are kind of admitting they attempted to
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by shard972 10y ago
> We're in the middle of some crazy propaganda war right now, and it's been this way for quite a while. It became completely transparent when the Podesta e-mails were released mere minutes after Trump's videos regarding po
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by shard972 10y ago
> For your statement to be valid, you'd have to prove that there is a considerable amount of information missing and is only available via conservative media. That is not the standard for bias, and the fact you make your standard &q
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by shard972 10y ago
Has he ever addressed his comments?
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by shard972 10y ago
Then they should have called it the Affordable insurance act.
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by shard972 10y ago
> The only way Theranos could be analogous to Musk is if he had got up on that stage in Guadalajara and said "we have a Mars rocket ready to go, we've tested it extensively, it works, we'll begin commercial flight soon, th
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by shard972 10y ago
I think the point though is how far away is that from Musk?
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by shard972 10y ago
Maybe that's what yahoo should do to get out of their short term problem at the moment, hire another female CEO to get some hype back in the company.
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by shard972 10y ago
The problem is that they are in a position where they need more moderation in order to enforce their community standards which are not being met.
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by shard972 10y ago
> It's really unfortunate that so many people aren't interested in learning Ember. I just started an internal IT tool in Rails and Ember and I'm really enjoying the simplicity of it. What probably killed it for me is when
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by shard972 10y ago
Seems completely reasonable to me. If people in the technology industry cannot move forward with society then they should be left behind.
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by shard972 10y ago
> Can you explain this further? I struggle to see how you get from "a lot of competition" to "de-facto net neutrality", and how that would continue indefinitely. Well to paint it as an extreme, if there was so much co
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by shard972 10y ago
> I just think that they try to make the correct ones with the best of intentions and fail. There is a saying that goes "the path to hell is paved with good intentions".
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by shard972 10y ago
I feel like we are getting to a scary place in society when you can spin funding a successful lawsuit into suppressing free speech. I mean if Tiel was pouring millions after millions into failing lawsuits that just aim to drain whatever mon
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by shard972 10y ago
but look at the bright side, you get to sit at the front of the bus!
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by shard972 10y ago
I grew up in NSW where cyclists were not allowed to ride on the footpath (even though nobody uses them on the central coast) and I always made sure to overtake using another lane or if the cyclist had his own clearance on the side to ride i
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by shard972 10y ago
> - You don't have a right to drive at 70 km/h! It's the upper bound! Sure that's fine but when 1 lane is going 70 and another 30 for whatever reason you have an objectively more dangerous situation. You can't ju
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by shard972 10y ago
As a driver it's the main reason I refuse to ride a bike, I don't want to die. Even here in perth that is generally trying to help bike riders I just don't see how it's safe to ride around at 20-30km when the speed limit
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by shard972 10y ago
> It's entirely possible that Snowden is an ongoing CIA op to discredit their rival NSA as part of a turf war. It's a shame that snowden's CIA background isn't talked about very often.
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by shard972 10y ago
> Ditching FTTP for FTTN while increasing in price This claim is very misleading when you consider that FTTP NBN's price was never properly realized. In their last progress report they were over budget and behind schedule despite hi
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by shard972 10y ago
> The ABC here in Australia As an Australian, aside from their news which last I checked doesn't get the same kind of views as the private companies I would disagree. Maybe the parents enjoy ABC1 or whatever plays kids shows all day
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by shard972 10y ago
I thought this is what ancaps always say, that government allows companies an avenue to protect themselves from competition?
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by shard972 10y ago
Well this is the same president who had his officials caught red handed a couple years ago planning a false flag on themselves to start a war in syria. Not the craziest thing to say he would setup a coup against himself.

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