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by simorley 5y ago
> However it is obvious why this is all happening. And that is Intel and Qualcomm inhibited growth and squeezed too much profit from the market. It's not that intel and qualcomm have squeezed too much profit, it's that Apple, G
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by simorley 5y ago
> You're coming from the starting position that the elites control and decide most everything. No. Just the systematically important things. Obviously they aren't concerned about every minutiae. > For those of us who don&#x2
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by simorley 5y ago
> I honestly just wish the recommendations were better. Which is sad considering how great youtube recommendations used to be around the time Stripe was launched. Remember when people used to go down the youtube rabbit hole to see where
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by simorley 5y ago
> Money is just a unit of account. Creating more or less of it should not create more resources or products. Actually creating money does create more resources and products and vice versa. It's pretty much the modern economic system
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by simorley 5y ago
> In chess, it's possible to end the game in a draw, so Zermelo's theorem does not apply to it and OPs claim is wrong about chess. Isn't it even assumed that a perfect game of chess is a draw. Once chess is solved, it&#x27
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by simorley 5y ago
> First, how in the world did the Japanese invasion of Manchuria show that the elites weren't caught by surprise by 1929? I mean, you've listed two events, and one came after the other, but that in no way demonstrates that the
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by simorley 5y ago
Beethoven's Ninth was apparently used to set the size of the CD, though there are disputes whether this was actually the case or corporate advertising. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322951358_Shannon_B..
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by simorley 5y ago
> How many rich people, active in the stock market, got caught by surprise by 1929? When I wrote "elites", I wasn't talking about "rich people" in the common sense. I doubt many elites were surprise considering t
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by simorley 5y ago
> The history of vaccines shows a phenomenal success rate. Absolutely. I'm vaccinated against a lot of the terrible diseases. Grateful for it. But the history of vaccines is also littered with missteps and unethical behavior as well
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by simorley 5y ago
Only if the cause is external to the system - like an asteroid. If the cause is internal ( war, shift in global order, etc ) the people with the money are the ones causing it so they aren't surprised at all. Only the ones out of the lo
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by simorley 5y ago
> Is your claim that moderate voices are causing people to not get vaccinated then? I suspect that's the case for the vast majority of the unvaccinated. Do you think most of the unvaccinated people are unvaccinated because of "
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by simorley 5y ago
> I think we have to ask if this won't have a chilling effect on open discussion by moderate voices. That's the point of all censorship. It isn't to censor the truly outrageous wackos spouting nonsense since hardly anyone
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by simorley 5y ago
> Especially sometimes when the most toxic users were also some of the most popular users. If the "toxic" users were the most popular, how do you know you were not the "toxic" one instead? If the community is support
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by simorley 5y ago
> Isn't it a bigger/more important mystery why proto-indo european language was so successful at supplanting the local languages it intermixed with? Language domination tends to stem from conquest and/or domination of the
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by simorley 5y ago
> It's an arbitrary choice made on the foundations of very shaky knowledge. Nothing about down syndrome, autism or gender qualifies as "very shaky knowledge". It's the woman's choice. It's her body and she h
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by simorley 5y ago
Not to mention that if we are going to have a systematic collapse, it will be caused by the elites around the world and no "news" entity will gives us a heads up about it. Remember that Trump was going to collapse the global syste
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by simorley 5y ago
How can you believe in a "computationalist view of metaphysics" when computable numbers make up a tiny insignificant portion of real numbers? Most real numbers are not computable.
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by simorley 5y ago
> However, let's not forget that 50/80 years were dominated by a two-headed fight for world hegemony under the threat of nuclear war and potential apocalypse. Nuclear war? And in that 50/80 years, only one side has ever nu
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by simorley 5y ago
> Zero interest in 'human rights and democracy', lots of interests in oilfields, pipelines, military sales contracts, etc. Is this a shock to anyone? "Human rights and democracy" is the new imperial "white man&#x
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by simorley 5y ago
> But the notion of trans-Atlantic voyages, the Vikings apart, seems shaky to me. Why? The distance between western europe and greenland/north america is rather small. When compared to the vast distances that polynesians have been s
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by simorley 5y ago
> In what way is Matt Levine an influencer? You could argue his job is influencing people. > He’s a salaried columnist for a news organization. In other words, he gets paid to influence people on behalf of a major news publication. I
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by simorley 5y ago
> As someone living blissfully unaware of the struggles people go through in countries with rampant government censorship Where do you live? Because I know of no major country without rampant government censorship. > They want to make
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by simorley 5y ago
> But you still can trust someone's credentials are better than your own and that they are giving you a better judgement than your own. You should also understand that scientists are human and subject to all of human foibles like ra
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by simorley 5y ago
People praise norway for EVs but always fail to mention Norways produces as much oil as saudi arabia on a per capita basis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
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by simorley 5y ago
Apparently FBI agents who escape the FBI also love to do interviews with wired. "Former FBI Agent Answers Body Language Questions From Twitter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9SA25OukyM Wired also has a series w
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by simorley 5y ago
> And I wonder if we in a Western democracy would ever be able to the same (i.e. pop a residential real estate bubble on purpose). We do it all the time. It's called raising the interest rate. When we want to create bubbles, we lowe
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by simorley 5y ago
> Hopefully it'll hit the ocean. I give it about a 70% shot.
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by simorley 5y ago
> Look at all the pro China things they have done. Just because they follow the rules of another nation doesn't make them 'pro China'. Is Apple 'pro-US', 'pro-EU', 'pro-Saudi Arabia', etc? No,
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by simorley 5y ago
It's also an impediment to democracy as it prevents an informed public. Not to mention that the interests of the state and the nation usually aren't aligned. Things like "state secret" imply that the power balance betwee
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by simorley 5y ago
> You're in shock of the attitude that hackers should stay off mainstream commercial platforms and avoid pandering to a generic audience? I'm in shock because you believe 17-25 year olds should be barred from knowledge. > Yo

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