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by theseatoms 9y ago
Undoubtedly. The left's reaction to DJT has pushed me closer to the Republican party than I could've ever imagined.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Ha. But the bots aren't viewing advertisements, which is what matters to shareholders.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
What will happen to all those chat logs?
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Sounds like a great way for a state to make itself politically irrelevant at the national level.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Does "bigoted" really apply to a disdain for perceived laziness?
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Just like free trade, yes, a good thing in the aggregate. But many individuals will be displaced, and we should discuss these effects openly and honestly. The last generation wasn't so upfront about the secondary effects of globalizati
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Ah, very nice. Too bad a nice piece of open hardware is going proprietary.
98.
by theseatoms 9y ago
What about water-proofing? That's the best reason I've heard.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
For one it raises the disincentive to go public, likely causing companies to stay private for longer.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Which is more likely, that Mark is experiencing a genuine, and highly publicized, spiritual awakening, or that he's meticulously crafting his public persona based on unprecedented troves of information about modern society?
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by theseatoms 9y ago
The system of federalism is helpful on this front, as it allows a higher degree of self-governance, since policy decisions can be made more locally.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Absolutely. Bannon was an anti-interventionist force within the campaign/admin. But he's gone now, so we might see the WH turn towards neo-conservatism.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Wow. What a joke of a ruling. “Every four years, we suffer through the celebration of democracy (and national nightmare) that is a presidential election,” Brown wrote in her opinion. “And, in the end, one person is selected to occupy our na
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Which is why I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out: https://ivn.us/2017/03/08/breaking-fec-wont-appeal-ruling-de... Of course, we'll eventually have to change the voting system to an autom
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Move fast and break social ties.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Then a lot of news can go away, which is fine. As ad-blocking becomes more popular, this'll happen anyway.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Oh. So Gab and Mastodon are pulling at Twitter from each side. I anticipate that the network effect is too strong. People seem to enjoy the conflict that occurs when swimming in the same pool as their political opponents, despite all the ta
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Prepping is about being prepared for either scenario, or anything in between.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Care to specify which terms?
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Has this already occurred? Has anyone been able to use their phone's location history for their alibi? The data exists. Isn't this what subpoenas are for?
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by theseatoms 9y ago
meme : atom :: culture : physics I agree that it's best to inspect culture from the bottom up rather than the top down. Start with the most granular units. Is anyone here acquainted with the current sociological orthodoxy or is that po
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Not if certain people aren't allowed to privately trade.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
In what world are capitalism and slavery coexistent, even hypothetically? They're opposites. Capitalism is freedom.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Welcome to journalism.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Because the wealthy have more resources to maneuver their assets and income streams, tax policy complexity is a regressive tax.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Hilarious to learn this week that the federal government eats a net loss while subsidizing correlated flood risk.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Economic equilibrium does tend to render most of those types of extrapolative predictions moot.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Great. Then there shouldn't be much controversy.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
You're making Damore's point. Stop selectively lowering the bar and this goes away.
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by theseatoms 9y ago
Sure. And once we adapt to conditions on Planet X, we'll be hardly human.

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