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by tossaccount123 8y ago
you could make a case that millions of people currently suffer genetic diseases they are born with that have the potential to be cured using this technology if it's developed
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
according to MIT innovation has slowed dramatically since the 50's and as a result general productivity growth that has been boosted by technology since the industrial revolution has stagnated https://www.technologyreview.co
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
people have done crazier things for less money Fake your death, get some plastic surgery done, enjoy life with those $200 million dollars
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>How is anything a “status symbol” with over 30%-50% market share in industrialized nations? That's my point, when it came out the marketing around the iPhone was how using apple made you a trendsetter and you were ahead of the curv
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>I wish Apple operated that way, as lowering Apple device price will very likely increase the absolute amount of dollars coming into their back acct. I've always thought they should make a $10,000+ model. iPhones are essentially a s
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
US actually produces the most oil of any country now. I'd like to see someone do the math and see if it would be cheaper to leave the middle east and save money on wars and just subsidize our own oil production to make up the differenc
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
I was more pointing out how either side can hypocritically rationalize things that run counter to their supposed beliefs because they make money off being hypocrites. Nobody thinks they're evil, people can rationalize all sorts of cra
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
basically every claim is sourced as far as I can tell. Schmidt is pretty entrenched with Clinton considering he started a company dedicated to using tech to get her elected, Groundworks https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
It's fascinating how obviously smart people can rationalize their actions. Schmidt and Google claim to be "progressive" but that kind of rationale of "nothing to hide" would mean that every progressive movement woul
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ A good read on Google and Eric Schmidt's relationship with the State Department and federal government in general "There was nothing politically hapless abou
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
There's also the fact that the MSM has made complete asses of themselves over the last few years. Has "Fake News" ever knocked trillions of dollars off the stock market because they ran an unverified story that implied the pr
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
The best you can really do is point them in the right direction and help them when they get stuck, but learning to code really requires motivation that only they can provide
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Germany is currently going through with NordStream 2, a plan that gives billions to Russia. Simultaneously, the US is expected to spend billions protecting Germany and the EU from Russia via NATO. If Russia is really a threat why is Germany
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>Just say that differences are in 99% shaped by environment and you are fine You can find flaws and inconsistencies in their logic easily though. People have no issue with saying that height is genetic for example. Even racially, it&#x27
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Guns, Germs, and Steel is essentially pop science by a guy with next to no expertise in many of the areas he bases his theories on like geography. Germs - Ignores the fact that Europeans were devastated by things like Malaria that many Afri
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Common sense would tell you there's some truth to it. For centuries we killed murderers and rapists and thus removed them from the gene pool. Data shows testosterone levels, which are correlated with violence, have dropped massively ov
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>Negative coverage doesn't make them biased, undeserved negative bias does. Whether it's deserved or not is a debate for elsewhere. That's the point, you can report a bad story about somebody neutrally and just lay out the
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Statistically Fox is the least biased MSM outlet, they are 52% negative towards Trump, compared to over 90% for the others https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/09/... A Harvard s
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>Where does the growth come next though I'm amazed they haven't taken a crack at Google with a search engine in their app. Imagine how valuable combining Facebook's data with the user intent of search? A lot of users would
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
The US didn't have an income tax at all until the 20th century, at least at the federal level
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
It was hyperbole to show the effect of supply and demand More and more I notice how similar software engineers are beginning to sound like the "Made in America" factory workers who said China could never do their job. Never take t
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>To prime your intuition a bit, consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages. You do realize there hasn't been a raise in real wages since the 7
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>However, do you really believe in this concept of a conspiratorial all powerful MSM, that spans the political spectrum and co-ordinates efforts to refute viewpoints Pretty much all the media we see is controlled by a handful of corporat
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>Were we ready for it? No, our brains evolved for millions of years to operate in groups of less than 100. Social media is basically high fructose corn syrup for our dopamine system. Within a span of roughly 20 years the way we live our
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
There's a reason so many people buy up expired domains, it's common to either start a new site with an aged domain or 301 redirect them to your site for the extra boost
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
Except all stats on infant mortality, life expectancy, etc show that's not true. US and Europe have dumped over a trillion dollars in foreign aid to africa alone, 9x more than the Marshall plan post WWII.
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
100 years ago the richest man in the world could die from a simple infection because there were no such thing as antibiotics. People take for granted so many things we have in the modern world, they want some form of utopia right now. Perfe
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>And it works, too. Look at the quality of life in China, compared to India... Or Vietnam. You're basically saying crime pays if you can get away with it. Everybody knows this, the thing is that eventually you can't get away wi
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
lol, our justice system has been a joke for a long time. James Clapper and John Brennan are walking free after violating every American's constitutional rights and then lying to congress about it. Meanwhile Edward Snowden is a wanted c
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by tossaccount123 8y ago
>But if this is just a bargaining chip to be exchanged for a few worthless face-saving trade deal "wins" for this administration, it will be disgrace If letting one person off the hook can benefit all americans through better t

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