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by timtas 9y ago
> If wasting electricity becomes such a big problem for the society as misuse of personal data already is, sure, let's introduce regulations on that, too. Sure, what could go wrong there? Regulator, "We're going to need to
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by timtas 9y ago
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has a lot of interesting things to say about this: Why it's so Hard to Sit Down and Study/Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFmQ5waavJY How to Always Achieve Your Goals - N
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by timtas 9y ago
Last week I heard an interesting interview [1] of Antony Sammeroff, author of a free e-book titled Procrastination Annihilation. [2] I hesitate to recommend to you yet another anti-procrastination technique. Most of them are probably gimmic
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by timtas 9y ago
“One hour of flight time available per tank of gasoline” So like what, $70 round trip commute? Hmm.
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by timtas 9y ago
> safeguards against the services going “rogue” Safeguards...LOL. We’re not even permitted to ask what they deem to be secret. Congress has fully abdicated any oversight, notwithstanding the occasional theatrical performance. Frankly, th
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by timtas 9y ago
I have more ISP choices than grocery store choices.
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WaPo and NYT can be counted on to amplify every rush to war and every expansion of the suveylance state. This is where the assumption of accuracy turn insidious.
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by timtas 9y ago
Ah for the days of 100 million Americans passively accepting Cronkite’s “the way it is” — night after night trusting him to distill the “grand consensus” of the ruling class into a common mythology, a great uniting groupthink. What a comfor
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by timtas 9y ago
Having recently endured a few horrific interview processes, I considered writing an article titled, “No, I Won’t Run Your Fake Work Gauntlet.” Take home assignments, coding as performance art, timed puzzle solving, obscure technical questio
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by timtas 9y ago
For a decent chunk of time maybe 1/4 of all internet users thought AOL was the internet.
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Throughout history, the moment anti-trust enters the picture is the exact moment the supposed monopolist begins its natural collapse.
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Boy was that ever vague, considering drone bombing all over Pakistan and Yemen clipping a few hundred civilians cleared the "not stupid shit" bar.
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by timtas 9y ago
At a Facebook office in Austin I saw a poster, "Move Fast and Make Things." I assumed it to be a transitional state to "Move Fast and Don't Screw Up or You're So Fired"
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To those who desperately want free markets proven inherently unjust, Piketty is a prophet. But he's a false prophet. He's pretty much a hack of a social scientist. "We find evidence of pervasive errors of historical fact, opa
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by timtas 11y ago
It's like a doctor who opens up your gut to remove your appendix, but it turns out he doesn't know what an appendix looks like and has never performed surgery before. The distinction between stupidity and malice has kind of disapp
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by timtas 11y ago
Not quite no one. Certainly applicants themselves are privy to the details of cases they themselves bring. I guess applicants are always agencies of the executive branch. Is that where it stops? I wonder, do FBI agents discuss details of it
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by timtas 11y ago
Interesting background. Thanks. Here's my question. Exactly who outside of the court itself knows what it does? That is, what entities are privy to it's docket, rulings and the details of it's proceedings?
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by timtas 11y ago
> The new amici...will not represent specific clients. Let's be clear. These are friends of the court, not any kind of advocates. They work for the court. They are not adversaries to the executive. What, for example, will happen if
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by timtas 11y ago
Possibilities 2 through 4, while theoretically possible, are highly unlikely based on fairly basic observation of human nature and how secret power operates. And because it's all secret, we're entitled to make the most ungenerous
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by timtas 11y ago
By "rich" I assume you mean the teachers unions. [1] So long as the state appropriates and controls a vast share of resources all the people will vie for a share of it. They will find innumerable innovations. Those who have the me
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by timtas 11y ago
The author notices the divergence, but he doesn't seem to notice that a new pattern has emerged. Forty years of smooth increase has morphed into to something like a roller coaster. He looks past these chronic spasms to see a secular sh
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by timtas 11y ago
This is not a new argument. It certainly goes back even before conservative Russell Kirk's 1957 classic, The Inhumane Businessman [1]. It seems to me quite obvious a that the waning of liberal [2] education is a bad thing. But these fa
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by timtas 11y ago
The author is on the right track, but he fails to form a serviceable thesis. You should never exchange cash for services if you follow his thesis strictly. My ten year relationship with my own awesome dentist falsifies this thesis. To find
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by timtas 11y ago
I think it's official, we moderns owe an apology to medieval barbers and conjurers.
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Yet another reason why I've stopped using plural pronouns to refer to the state at any level.
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Desiring to wear the halo of the physical sciences, the social sciences have chosen poorly suited methods. Unfortunately, great contributions to the epistemology of social sciences have been ignored from Menger's "Investigations i
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Anarcho-Capitalist, Right Wing? Not really. All them I know are hard core peacenicks who want to end the drug war and Wall Street bailouts. They're more Nader than Cheney.
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Um no. Read my post again s l o w e r. Love me some Bastiat!
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by timtas 11y ago
> Are you replying to me? Sorry, yes HN apparently has a limit to nesting of replies, so I cannot reply directly. I'm sure that replying a level up is bad etiquette, so this is the last time I will do it. I will leave it at this. My
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Because something is in fact provided, be it by the government or the market, does not in the least confer to me a right. If it does, then I have no idea what you mean by "right." The fact that I can rely on the existence of high-

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