travmatt

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   by travmatt 9y ago

   But it is helpful for voter targeting, especially when you pass that information onto republicans who offer to buy it. Also helpful is targeting swing state databases and deleting the voter registrations of people who you think would vote a
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   At this point even Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump concede Russia attacked America, they're only trying to muddy attribution as to who ordered it and why. The only people who don't believe it at this point usually have some motiva
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   It's especially funny considering the argument of the person calling for me to censor my thoughts is the same person crying that conservatives are forced to censor their thoughts.
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   I'm also old enough to remember /r/chimpire and other explicitly racist right wing subreddits who had massive support, well before the rise /r/the_donald. Hell, I even remember discussing the organized stormfront pr
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   Also an excellent resource: https://decentsecurity.com/ , from @SwiftOnSecurity
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   I'm ambivalent. I sense a lot of sanctimonious posturing and more-liberal-than-thou attitude when it comes to Sam Harris, and Klein is hardly the first to equivocate over him.
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   Joe Rogan Experience The Good Fight Rational Security Bombshell Risky Business Waking Up with Sam Harris Conversations with Tyler EconTalk The Ezra Klein Show The Weeds The Tim Ferriss Show Software Engineering Daily Deep State Radio
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   You'd probably like 'The Good Fight' by Yascha Mounk
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   by travmatt 9y ago

   I'd also recommend 'The Righteous Mind' as a solid basis for understanding political thinking.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    Multi party systems tend to favor the most ideologically driven actors in the system. An example of this is Israel. Furthermore, American politics isn't two ideologies. Each party is composed of multiple groups that compete for dominan
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    Advocating angry outbursts and drinking to suppress your problems both seem like terrible recommendations.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    Whoosh
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    It's magical sexism. Everyone agrees in the abstract that sexism must exist, but there are no actual incidents that can be positively attributed to sexism.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    The more disturbing possibility is that he fully understands what's going on.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    The mental gymnastics of motivated reasoning is a wonder to behold.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    Big Tinfoil teamed up with Big Pharma to keep Americans sick for profit. Unbelievable.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    >Second, dating is not a game you can "win." One of my favorite professors ever, a statistics genius with possibly a touch of Aspergers, explained to our class one time how dating is like science. A "failed" experimen
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    As in, RT doesn't allow content that doesn't criticize America to be published.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    I disagree in part, I read lots of code. Typically if I don't know how to solve a problem / use a library, I'll go onto github and search out projects either by their dependencies or structures I know must be present in the c
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    How experienced were you? It was really the first thing I read after beginner type tutorials, and helped me a great deal.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    I'd second Waitzkin, that was an amazing book.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    I'd also add "Reminescences of a Stock Operator", which is older but very good.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    I said it's a false equivalence to present trumps detractors as detractors, and trumps supporters as a neutral party.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    TIL that reporting on the potential conflicts of interest in a sources comments are signs of political hackery.
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    The mayflower meeting happened pretty much as described in the Steele dossier. Seth Abramson made a nice tweet storm summary. There's even pictures of the individuals there in question: https://theintellectualist.co/rep
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    You mean that same dossier of which broad swaths were verified by the intelligence community to have been correct?
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    Case in point: in the Washington Post story regarding Jared Kushners attempts to bypass government oversight of diplomatic negotiations with Russia, both WaPo and NYT both received comments from Kushner confidants alleging these contacts we
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    Do you get paid by Russian state propaganda to censor negative news about Russia and emphasize negative news regarding the United States? If yes, you may be a Russian agent too!
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    >I guess that's why painting him as a russian sympathizer is "in" now. Makes it seem like the leaks even if authentic have some agenda You do realize that Assange signed a commercial tv deal with Russian state propaganda s
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    by travmatt 9y ago

    IIUC, much of American corporate law works like this - be the one to bring us this info, and we'll take it easy on you. They then go harder after the individuals/companies who held out - trying to maximize the prisoners dilemma.