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by whybroke 10y ago
A bonus to post truth politics is that you get to execute people for things they didn't do. And given the cozy relationship between the president elect and Putin, I would say Snowden's Russian residence is on shaky ground.
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What was the impact of facebook and the nature and intensity of fake news four years ago vs now? If the difference is even slightly significant, it could well explain part of the phenomenon. And one does need to explain why such large perce
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Evil ideas need to be analyzed and refuted absolutely. Their adherents should write them up in depth and place them on the web so that they can be discussed widely and in depth and, if erroneous, be refuted. It's hard to see how 140 ch
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by whybroke 10y ago
Yes this is the challenge. And worsening that challenge is the fact that knowledgeable people tend to be utterly un-interested in endlessly discussing discredited, unsubstantiated or nonsensical theories, only to find the listener is simply
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by whybroke 10y ago
I suppose those candidates are either simple minded or have cynically spotted a 'previously ignored voting group'. Heaven forbid one of them end up in the white house.
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by whybroke 10y ago
> ...Anti vaxers... Well actually that too is a right-wing thing. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2015/09/20/donald...
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by whybroke 10y ago
I think you have the backwards: the right's instance that there is no evidence is the unreasonable position. Of course one might insist it's a conspiracy by the Director of National intelligence but that just makes the claim even
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by whybroke 10y ago
Including three tweets in a hour just yesterday strongly condemning the NYT for simply repeating his goal of nuclearizing Japan and S Korea eg [1] [1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/79783222980005068...
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by whybroke 10y ago
Here is an example of the exact reason Trump voters are so mysterious: Nonsensical beliefs and faulty reasoning are deprecated (and ideally not represented at all) in any well informed clear thinking venue. Here that manifests, quite sensib
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If you run the hospital poorly enough, that's exactly what happens.
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Such caution to avoid misdiagnosing death is probably good. Too bad we put up with a worse than 4% error rate when applying the death penalty.
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by whybroke 10y ago
Stands for: ambitious. Against: crystal clear.
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by whybroke 10y ago
> damned if they do, damned if they don't The level of damnation differs significantly. Having a human team being accused of bias (possible falsely) and pressured by politicians to change puts them in the same category as the NYT, t
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by whybroke 10y ago
Do reasonable people argue that Clinton is a satanist who enjoys spirit cooking? But they should not censor posts under any circumstances, even that one. The problem is the way stories trend and the order in which the feed is presented. The
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by whybroke 10y ago
Particularly intersting is the 'inactive voter status' band along the cotton belt (a region of African Americans in the southern sates where the voting rights act was recently repealed). Yet no such searches in KS, CO, NE, WY etc.
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by whybroke 10y ago
Along with a sign-up form on his web site for 'volunteers' to drive over into 'suspicious' neighborhoods in blue counties. And the mere threat of intimidation will be enough to keep people home googling instead of voting
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by whybroke 10y ago
>the last thing I'd like to see in Hacker News. I can't imagine how HN is ever going to beat back the flood of Trump cranks that Thiel's donation opened up. Sanity had be nicely increasing for a good year there. But as I p
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by whybroke 10y ago
>Remember the server sending out emails Interesting 'fact' to cite. How many emails did that server send again?
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by whybroke 10y ago
Too bad housing prices are viewed as a completely uncontrollable force of nature beyond any human ability to tame. Too bad a supossedly endless stream off ideas and innovation apparently can't possible solve it. Otherwise the chief dri
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by whybroke 10y ago
>Sounds like 're-opening' to me. Why are we now shoehorning the real world in to TV speak?
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by whybroke 10y ago
>I don't understand why there's so many people in the comments defending non-competes They are the large number of libertarians who believe all regulation is bad under all circumstances. Mental contortions follow to justify it
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by whybroke 10y ago
Consider also how much of payroll goes directly through you or your employee to rent or mortgage in the areas where software talent lives and you can see why the bootstrapping startups that caused the the tech revolution in the first place
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by whybroke 10y ago
You have just described the mortgage deduction.
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by whybroke 10y ago
>people are now going around downvoting my other comments The group who back the archetype of incivility are smashing a system that was meant to facilitate reasoned discourse? What a surprise. Perhaps the recent flood of such behavior is
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by whybroke 10y ago
So pointing out unambiguously[1] bad behavior is wrong because communists murdered people. wow. [1] unambiguous = something you would not want done to your mother
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by whybroke 10y ago
A conspicuous and large campaign contribution by a key figure associated with this site sure won't encourage women or minorities in tech either. But it sure seems to have attracted a flurry of disturbing posts (eg my grandparent and si
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by whybroke 10y ago
Ironically, an implication of your words is that a state owned video sharing site would not only adhere to the 1st amendment much better but would also serve consumer interest in a more balanced way.
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Prediction: There will come a time in the not so distant future when even 140 characters will be beyond the alt-right's attention span.
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I did not say Ma Bell was good for the economy. And certainly not that it should have remained intact. I point out that had it been an unregulated monopoly, it have been worse.
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Your point is completely accurate and critical to follow up on in a considered way. In the real world anyway. But unfortunately, since Thiel has invited HN to go full /pol/ the answer you're gonna get is that it's a 400l

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