tehjoker

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721.
by tehjoker 2y ago
The idea is supposed to be that bitcoin is decorrelated from the stock market to be a store of value.
722.
by tehjoker 2y ago
bitcoin tracks the stock market
723.
by tehjoker 2y ago
link? very good of him to speak out against genocide
724.
by tehjoker 2y ago
i guess relations between pg and thiel have soured
725.
by tehjoker 2y ago
DPRK has been described as ad block for your life, but even under communism to have a consumer economy a limited number of regulated ads can be useful so ppl know products exist, but not this brand combat to the death oversaturation.
726.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Don't praise them in the resignation letter. Say something sharp and critical.
727.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Resigning sends a signal to the people under you and outside the organization that fighting back is ok. Staying sends the message that things are ok enough.
728.
by tehjoker 2y ago
If you vote for the wrong people (i.e. people that want a more humane society), the billionaires will simply coup the government. Remember: they own the things that keep society running, so they have real power. We run the things that they
729.
by tehjoker 2y ago
I for one advocate NATO using vibe coded lowest-bidder technology. It will make the world a safer place.
730.
by tehjoker 2y ago
It's kinda crazy how the researchers suggest that we should use this research to make soldiers feel more comfortable with killing when I would characterize nearly every current use of force by western forces as aggression, or in the be
731.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Hats and sunscreen exist.
732.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Whatever gets the budget increased in their view. FBI has long been a political operation too, e.g. COINTELPRO.
733.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Makes sense, this is a lawless reactionary attack on the republic. Their purpose is to put capital ever more firmly in charge. That means attacking workers.
734.
by tehjoker 2y ago
It depends on the situation, but when you have a disagreement with someone, for example of a different political tendency about serious issues, if they acknowledge my perspective and don't just talk past me, I'm more likely to eng
735.
by tehjoker 2y ago
I think the particular method probably pales in comparison to the fact that the US simply had so much more money and resources. The UK is an island nation that lost its empire and was playing second fiddle.
736.
by tehjoker 2y ago
There are exceptions, but this phenomenon is well documented. I would also ask if you really think these two pieces are really representative of the opinion in the mass media, which I would barely characterize Smith as. https://w
737.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Lebanon is the way it is because the United States and Israel continuously sabotage its government to align with their interests.
738.
by tehjoker 2y ago
In the "west" currently, you are not allowed to publish anything looking favorably "east" in a serious way on mainstream networks. You have to call everything a "dictatorship". You are (maybe not anymore soon?)
739.
by tehjoker 2y ago
I wonder if the improvements in semantic search have changed that at all. For a big company though, you might need a pretty beefy setup to perform the initial indexing.
740.
by tehjoker 2y ago
The alternative is obvious: a single democratic state and the end of ethnosupremacy.
741.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Didn't the US put in a trade agreement that crushed the Japanese economy by overvaluing its currency?
742.
by tehjoker 2y ago
This is far too generous a story. While true in certain basic respects, it is a process of capitalists changing products to favor their own interests over users in a mature market. It is a process that begins with the promise of individual
743.
by tehjoker 2y ago
Tell that to the people funding kill bot technology.
744.
by tehjoker 2y ago
I think this is kind of misunderstanding scifi a bit. You're right it was designed to be entertaining, but the kernel of it is that they take some existing trend and extrapolate it into the future. Do that enough times, and some of the
745.
by tehjoker 2y ago
if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you. the us government has a very definite consistent policy trajectory. only culture war issues sort of sometimes wobble. usually republicans shake things up and democrats cement in the changes.
746.
by tehjoker 2y ago
The Chinese stock market is flat while their GDP rises because their economy is not based around the stock market. US economic management is entirely based around pumping the stock market.
747.
by tehjoker 2y ago
You don't need to draw a precise line, just one where things over the line are clearly undesirable, like billboards on roadways, TV commercials, etc. There are some countries with virtually no advertising. People who visit the DPRK com
748.
by tehjoker 2y ago
some are worse than others, or at least, the consequences of the world hegemon teaching jingoistic history has really terrible results for all of humanity. one can envision an ideal world where the most powerful countries both emphasized a
749.
by tehjoker 2y ago
when was the last time we didn't hear about private companies getting hacked lmao they're terrible!!
750.
by tehjoker 2y ago
im okay with data being hosted for free or cheap by the government and not being price gouged for access to public data

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