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by sprafa 10y ago
There's been studies showing people who watch Fox are uninformed. I actually think they're half decent this election cycle, completely unlike the Pravda they were for Iraq/GWB, but they publish more misconceptions and lies th
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by sprafa 10y ago
There's been studies showing people who watch Fox are more uninformed
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by sprafa 10y ago
What worries me about the EO is how incompetent it was, and his running excuse that terrorists would just jump into planes to fly to the US if they heard about it first! That's nuts and it's the beggining of an excuse for him to d
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by sprafa 10y ago
If you account for all the money that's gone into Products that have no real human value, and add on top the fact that the companies making them avoid taxes like the devil, we begin to see the scale of the tragedy.
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by sprafa 10y ago
You say one thing then demonstrate evidence of the opposite, there was plenty of media attention on Obama's order.
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by sprafa 10y ago
this is a purely emotional appeal with no basis in fact. There were plenty of people and media attention on Obama's move and its geopolitical nature of locking Trump into the Cuban reapproach.
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by sprafa 10y ago
My current understanding is the vaccine doctor story was a cover for the fact that Bin Laden was brought in trough a walk-in. But that's Seymour Hersh' story so who knows.
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by sprafa 10y ago
a good analysis. Would be great to take a look at how much of the cost saving is actually reduced interaction with externalities that are now costed out or left to the final-service-provider instead of the "platform.
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by sprafa 10y ago
I mentioned this to John Carmack over twitter once. He ignored me, I was an early dk2 owner and was close to having panic attacks in the beggining. I later learned that it had partially triggered PTSD in me (it came from another cause entir
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by sprafa 10y ago
You test it, like anything else. The problem with economics is there's not enough data! And the data we have keeps pointing out flaws in our theories
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by sprafa 10y ago
Controlled experiments (by behavioural psychologists) could probably do very well
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by sprafa 10y ago
The fact there is no alternative doesn't mean we should use something that we know barely works. This is exactly the problem with economism
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Amazon Go and the future of work(app.simplenote.com)
1 points by sprafa 10y ago|0 comments
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The Computer Is the Problem: Amazon Go and the Future of Work(app.simplenote.com)
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by sprafa 10y ago
No it wouldn't fit their definition. Take into account that this is a legislative or a policy position Id like to see. I'm not defending this as a way of helping closed source; I'm thinking of it as a way to put an end to the
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by sprafa 10y ago
Ok well I agree with you. That's a very good point. And I'd like him to have even more sucess. I think closed source software is a terrible, terrible problem for non-programmer workers. Productivity gains from the Computer Revolut
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by sprafa 10y ago
We live under a capitalist system that is driven by the profit motive, and the idea that you can have an "agnostic" system for software, separate from the rest of society, seems like a fantasy to me. Anything that can't be su
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by sprafa 10y ago
You can't run someone else's code, unless you have paid them first. And no one you share the code to can do it either, unless they paid the original author of the code.
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by sprafa 10y ago
The problem with this is incentives. Without the profit motive, and without revolutionary support programs like the ones Stallman imagines, people simply have got to pay rent somehow. And FOSS, as Stallman describes it, does not pay rent. S
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by sprafa 10y ago
essentially brilliant. I've been thinking more and more about how Stallman has blocked perhaps the only effective way to make companies make more open-source software: allow DRM to work properly with open-source code. That is, the main
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by sprafa 10y ago
Adults are easily manipulated.
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Ask HN: Secure alternatives to Dropbox?
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by sprafa 10y ago
those two things are directly related. People need to stop being blind about the fact that yes, there will be mass unemployment soon.
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by sprafa 10y ago
One of its main architects (a Nixon aide( has admitted that the War on Drugs was made up to attack subversive elements in the US, like the Black Panthers and the hippies. The idea was never about drugs, just control.
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by sprafa 10y ago
It's curious how people like McLuhan and Lippman and Bernays are hardly ever discussed, even though they hold the keys to understanding what's going on.
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by sprafa 10y ago
He's right tho. Although I do suspect Russian envolvement, there's been no hard evidence so far. Nothing like the loan given to the National Front in France anyway.
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by sprafa 10y ago
When Trump is finished with the US you'll understand why people are panicking.
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by sprafa 10y ago
Human psychology is easily manipulated, and you're seeing that happen right now. Whoever controls the information controls the masses. The Internet is being weaponised by every major large interest in the World - nation states, big oil
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by sprafa 10y ago
Speech is already controlled by corporate interests, you're just not noticing it because the claims are its done "to fit your preferences". Whether that's true or not, or really is it to fit your preferences or to keep y
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by sprafa 10y ago
Yes, this was what led me to now look for an alternative to WhatsApp.

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